Posted on 12/06/2019 1:10:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A 79-year-old former Delta Air Lines flight attendant is suing the airline after being fired over accusations that she swiped a carton of milk and other on-flight goods.
Ida Gomez Llanos, who worked for the company for 57 years, claims she was the victim of a smear campaign orchestrated by envious colleagues who wanted her gone because of her seniority and whopping $250,000 salary.
The lawsuit, filed this month in a Los Angeles court, claims she was “harassed” and “bullied,” and that the spreading of lies led to her being penalized and eventually terminated.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Llanos told the Daily Mail. “I’ve been accused of so many things and none were true. I try not to take it personally, but when you get mean about me and start lying, that is a problem.”
Llanos, who was reportedly the highest-ranking flight attendant in Los Angeles and ranked fifth in the country, said she received her first write-up in nearly 60 years in April 2018. She had been accused of stealing a carton of milk, as well as cereal packets and a chocolate bar. Colleagues also claimed Llanos put Bailey’s Irish Cream in her coffee.
‘They want to get rid of the older flight attendants,” she said. “I think they put us on a higher surveillance. It’s because they have to pay us so much because we’ve been there forever and your pay scale goes up each year. I think they can hire four newer flight attendants for what they pay me.”
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I would like flight attendant jobs to be five year contracts. Let them compete for a new contract every five years. I think it is a job that, done well, requires high energy and enthusiasm. Much like being a kindergarten teacher, I think those qualities become awfully difficult to maintain.
They call them “Sky hags.”
She was a 57 year union employee. Trust me, there wasn't that much work going on. She was milking the system.
Scratch that-- cigar.
geez.....if only I knew then to go for the jobs that required no education, no real skills.....union/govt....that's the ticket....
“Believe what you want, its not true.”
It seemed like both times Obama won there was a lot more updating of results during the 9-11 pm period.
Perhaps it is media bias, perhaps it is my memory, perhaps it indicates fraud.
There are young people out there raising families, putting kids through college etc etc. It'[s their turn. Be graceful...Retire.
But would Laz hit it?
She should just stay gone. Now she can travel...
Sympathy? For a millionaire flight attendant?
You must be joking.
Attendants half her age, likely doing more work, earn half her pay. Where’s the sympathy there? Airline Pilots are forced out at age 65. Do you have sympathy for them? Airline passengers are treated like crap. Where’s their sympathy?
There is really no excuse for how our guv puts it’s thumb on the union side of the scale. Just leads to stuff like this. Look to mini and state employee unions and the ridiculous retirement benefits will bankrupt all the mere private sector workers.
the union collects from the workers...and “donates” to the politicians ....doncha know?
Funny, I never see women like her working on the Asian airlines that I fly on, nor the Middle East based airlines.
Europe airlines...I guess they like the American ‘model’.
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