[nwrep]

Wow, all this sounds very petty. I wonder what the real story is...

[Red Badger]

It has happened in other instances and other industries...................😠

[golux]

You spend your entire life learning how to play the system.

When it plays you, BECAUSE YOU STEAL FROM YOUR COMPANY,

you bitch and moan.

At eighty years old and 250K / yr.

Well I wish I were that “smart.”

[Hulka]

Maybe she can’t do her job and Union protects her?
I’ve seen many stewardesses that can’t the job just hanging on.
Saw a short stewardess that couldn’t open the over-head bins, saw another that was so fat she had to walk sideways down the aisle because she couldn’t fit walking straight.
Mid-East airlines, like Emerites have beautiful and nice and competent stewardesses. Singapore Airlines also.
No union protecting them when they age out or get too fat, or get too mean.

[Responsibility2nd]

Wow, all this sounds very petty. I wonder what the real story is...

Read the exceprt. Grandma here correctly spells it out...

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.”

[HamiltonJay]

250k a year for her, or 40k-50k or less for someone new?

I don’t think you really need to figure out much more of the story.....

[billorites]

Coffee, tea or me?

[DarrellZero]

Well no one really knows what the real story is, but...

I imagine it has something to do with a union job that rewards people based solely on seniority, therefore incentivizing her less-well-compensated colleagues to rat her out at the first opportunity.

I also imagine she was really good and dedicated to her job, but $250K to serve peanuts and martinis is a little ridiculous, especially when you’re 79.

[wgmalabama]

The real story is a 80 year old flight attendant making 250K with age discrimination laws and a union. I wouldn’t want grandma in charge during a water landing.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Wow, all this sounds very petty. I wonder what the real story is...”

It sounds like the real story is what she said.
They wanted her gone so they fabricated reason to get rid of her.
Typical corporate BS.
I would think it would be awesome to see someone at her age doing the job, a big loss to lose someone with her experience.