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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if he was actually the big deal he thinks he is he would b flying private.
He said that he was the most powerful person in the country except the President in an interview before he was fired.
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!!
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!
What a dick
Thank you. Necessary to be made clear.
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.
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.
google images of Judea. Lots of trees there right now, probably even more 2000 years ago.
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.
Ever the class act
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.
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?
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
He is and so are airline employees.
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.
““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!!!
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.
maybe between his payouts and his exwife and their kids he has no money left!
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.
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