After reading this, my only thought was: “Get another job, you bunch of whiners.”
There are choices in life. You folks CHOSE this, it wasn’t foisted on you. Damn, I HATE listening to crap like that.
My job occasionally sucks, as it does right now. But nobody is holding a gun to my head to do it.
After reading this, I have 2 thoughts. Working with the public should be a requirement for every senior in high school, just to give a sense of what it’s like to have to wait on people. And I have a funny feeling if you were not paid until the wheels were off the ground you would be whining too.
It was a poor article based on the thoughts of a few attendants.
It does appear to be true about being upgraded to first class if you are well dressed. I've had it happen to me twice and each time I was wearing a business suit. Never when I was in shorts and sandals. They don't seem to want to upgrade beach bums to first class.
All of which is why they they don’t get paid that much and have to wait for wheels up to punch in their time cards.
All institutions have cultures. Some of them are poisonous and when that happens to a business or corporation, they are not long for this world. Sounds like the poison airlines need some competition to help them out of business.