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‘You F****** Scumbag’: Bill O’Reilly Unloads on ‘Arrogant’ Airline Employee: ‘You’re Gonna Lose Your Job’
https://slaynews.com ^ | April 19, 2022 | David Hawkins

Posted on 04/20/2022 5:48:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

Edited on 04/20/2022 6:16:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

O’Reilly was outraged because his flight to the Turks and Caicos was apparently delayed at JFK airport for five hours, without much information given to the passengers.

The former Fox News host can be heard saying in the video, “What you’re gonna do…it’s three hours late…No, no, no, You’re gonna find out,” while jabbing his finger at the airline employee.


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To: maro

if he was actually the big deal he thinks he is he would b flying private.


101 posted on 04/20/2022 6:59:35 AM PDT by prov1813man (Don't blame democrat voters. There weren't enough of them to matter.)
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To: apillar

He said that he was the most powerful person in the country except the President in an interview before he was fired.


102 posted on 04/20/2022 7:01:43 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Maybe... But the fact is a LOT of employees job goes to their heads and they begin to be as, or more arrogant than the slugs. I’m sorry to say, but I’m all for calling some a dog scumbag if they have an attitude with me brought on by their own nastyness. I see that crap just about daily!!


103 posted on 04/20/2022 7:02:58 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: Salamander

Pardon me, I was unclear.
There seems to be a consensus among commenters on this thread that employees of a company must not be held responsible for the consequences of that company’s policies.
With that I do not agree.
Please correct me with my thanks!


104 posted on 04/20/2022 7:06:32 AM PDT by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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To: Red Badger

What a dick


105 posted on 04/20/2022 7:08:13 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Thank you. Necessary to be made clear.


106 posted on 04/20/2022 7:09:21 AM PDT by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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To: Red Badger
In 2015, Pamela Geller promoted a contest in which she asked contestants to draw pictures of the Mohammed, the founder of Islam--a courageous act that could have gotten her killed. One would think that a conservative like O'Reilly would have praised her for her courage in standing up for free speech, but instead, he attacked Pamela for doing this and then started a poll on his website asking readers to express whether or not they agreed with him. But as FR noted, he never released the results of the poll--the only one of his polls in which he never released the results. It is to be assumed that the respondents overwhelmingly sided with Pamela.

To justify not releasing the poll results, O'Reilly claimed that too many "right-wingers" responded, skewing the results. However, he was broadcasting to a conservative audience, so he should have expected these results.

107 posted on 04/20/2022 7:11:18 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: 1Old Pro

I travelled a lot in business and hated when that happened. At the one hour delay point you could go grab a hotel room and relax, get a good night’s sleep. But no, they keep stringing you along, hour by hour. It is absolutely infuriating.


108 posted on 04/20/2022 7:11:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Liberty is an antecedent of government, not a benefit from government” ~ Clarence Thomas)
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To: Kickaha

google images of Judea. Lots of trees there right now, probably even more 2000 years ago.


109 posted on 04/20/2022 7:13:28 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Alberta's Child
True. The customer-facing employees who go the extra mile should always be applauded. Also, you can bring out those traits by being respectful and nice to these employees in the first place.

There's a common saying "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and some clients take that too much to heart. The reality is that a rude and nasty approach usually has the opposite effect. If you are polite and emphasize with the employee, while still being persistent, they will often go that extra mile to take care of you.

A few years back, I brought a large party to a restaurant (about 20 people) and due to staffing, the restaurant only had one waitress to assign to our table. She obviously had her hands full keeping up with all the drinks and other requests and some of those with me muttered that I ought to complain to the manager.

Not only did I not complain but I tipped her and wrote a nice letter to the restaurant praising her (while subtly hinting they should put more waitstaff on). I ended up getting a gift certificate for a dinner for two and next time we got that same waitress, she remembered and went out of her way for us the whole night.

110 posted on 04/20/2022 7:13:40 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (1.02 million active users now on Truth Social)
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To: Red Badger

Ever the class act


111 posted on 04/20/2022 7:20:10 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Red Badger

I had to change planes once when the Captain announced to the passengers that a widow in the cockpit was leaking air and whistling and he wasn’t gonna listen to it all the way to Puerto Rico.

THANK YOU CAPTAIN for the explanation and NO, I don’t want to fly in a plane with a faulty window in the cockpit! I think that ALL the windows in a pressurized aircraft be 100% sealed. TYVM.


112 posted on 04/20/2022 7:22:07 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger

The comments here reflect my opinion also on Bill O’Reilly.

Wonder how that speaking tour President Trump did with him went?

Did anyone here go?


113 posted on 04/20/2022 7:25:03 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Red Badger

There is zero reasons why the waiting/delayed passengers can’t get a REASON for the delay and frequent UPDATES.

Its common courtesy.

The bolts holding an engine on were loose. We are working on this by stuffing toothpicks in the stripped out holes and as soon as the glue dries we can be on our way. /s


114 posted on 04/20/2022 7:26:39 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: KingLudd

He is and so are airline employees.


115 posted on 04/20/2022 7:29:35 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I think the point being....You just can’t head to the bar. Or go anywhere.

No idea when flight is rescheduled. It could leave in 20 minutes. Or 4 hours. Or whenever.


116 posted on 04/20/2022 7:36:28 AM PDT by saleman
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To: MayflowerMadam; Salamander

““I wasn’t even aware he was gone from there.”

Sexual harassment. Many years ago. No loss.”

Nothing like getting a $32,000,000 payday for inappropriate e-mails. Legal analyst Liz Wiehl knew she hit the lottery.

Wish someone would send me some bad emails!!!


117 posted on 04/20/2022 7:40:00 AM PDT by utax
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To: BDParrish

Most of them have very limited power.

Personally, I hate seeing people who are working long hours in sad jobs getting savaged by “disgruntled customers” when all they want to do is make some money and go home and feed their kids.

Maybe it’s different where you are but I see people [generally the usual suspects] treating service personnel like trash.

I hate that.


118 posted on 04/20/2022 7:44:33 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: prov1813man

maybe between his payouts and his exwife and their kids he has no money left!


119 posted on 04/20/2022 7:44:53 AM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: SamAdams76
It is not the job of the ramp agents to explain why a flight is delayed. They have no control or input to the decisions made. It's like yelling at a waitress for the restaurant being short-staffed.

I fully agree, however there is sometimes more to the story than meets the eye. Years ago, I was flying in the jump seat of a United Airlines A320 as part of my job (I didn’t work for United, though - I worked for the airport). A friend and colleague of mine was the captain of the flight. As we were sitting in the cockpit preparing for the flight, he was informed that an inbound flight with a large number of passengers connecting with ours was delayed leaving their departure airport.

The decision was made to delay our departure to wait for them, even though that would mean delaying our flight well over an hour (I think it was nearly an hour and a half if I remember correctly). So, at that point everyone from the flight crew to the gate agents knew that we would be delayed and exactly how long we would be delayed. However, the captain told the gate agents to roll out the delay news to the waiting passengers in 15-minute increments. They first announced a 15 minute delay, and then kept announcing extensions of that delay about every 15 minutes. Also, it was a long time ago, so I don’t remember for sure, but I think I remember them giving the reason for the delay as “air traffic control delays.” That’s a commonly-used excuse, by the way, and was in this case a stretching of the truth if not an outright lie. I don’t remember why the connecting flight we were waiting for was delayed, but our flight certainly wasn’t delayed because of that. Also, “air traffic delays” is a meaningless term, and when given as an excuse is almost always false, unless there is a ground stop for some reason. There are delays that frequently occur due to congestion and inefficiencies at certain airports, but they aren’t the fault of ATC, and those delays are already built-in to airline schedules. Often, they’re caused by the airlines themselves when they schedule a bank of flights that is too large for the airport to efficiently handle all at once.

It was a pretty eye-opening experience, and I’ve noticed a few times since then, when I was just a run of the mill passenger, delayed flights where the airline seemed to do something similar (though not being behind the scenes in those cases, I had no way to know for sure). I do know that my experience was not an isolated incident; airlines do sometimes roll out bad news in small chunks, rather than just leveling with the passengers from the start, and when that happens all of the airline employees involved know about it, even though some of them have no control over the situation.

120 posted on 04/20/2022 7:47:20 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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