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Long-suffering workers around the world, fed-up with dealing with rude customers, arrogant and sexist bosses are cheered by a couple of stories this morning.
The first concerns an American air steward, Steven Slater, who was so enraged by a stroppy passenger who swore at him on the plane’s arrival at New York after a flight from Pittsburgh, resigned in a most spectacular way by announcing it over the plane’s public address system and then, after grabbing a beer and his luggage, exited via one of the emergency chutes. He was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment and, if convicted, faces up to seven years in jail.
Not only did Slater launch himself out of the plane by means of an emergency chute, he has launched himself into stardom on Facebook as a folk hero among those who have to put up with abuse at work. Tee-shirts are now being sold with ‘Free Steven Slater’ and ‘I Slide ... For Slater’ on them. He will doubtless be interviewed on US talk shows and may well become a television personality earning a lot of money in the process. Of course, he could always fall back on his career as a flight attendant if another airline would risk employing him!
Then there is the young office worker, Jenny, who announced her resignation by emailing her colleagues a photograph of herself holding a white board with the works ‘I Quit!’ written on it.
In revenge to her boss, Spencer, she also circulated a number of graphics telling everyone, among other things, that her boss was sexist, had called her a ‘hot piece of ass’ in a phone call she overheard, had a bad temper, smelly breath and spent most of his time playing a Facebook game.
[This last actually turned out to be a hoax but may inspire others to follow the same path!]
If true, that’s another way of packing in a job and ensuring that you wouldn’t get a decent reference afterwards!
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Long-suffering workers around the world, fed-up with dealing with rude customers, arrogant and sexist bosses are cheered by a couple of stories this morning.
The first concerns an American air steward, Steven Slater, who was so enraged by a stroppy passenger who swore at him on the plane’s arrival at New York after a flight from Pittsburgh, resigned in a most spectacular way by announcing it over the plane’s public address system and then, after grabbing a beer and his luggage, exited via one of the emergency chutes. He was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment and, if convicted, faces up to seven years in jail.
Not only did Slater launch himself out of the plane by means of an emergency chute, he has launched himself into stardom on Facebook as a folk hero among those who have to put up with abuse at work. Tee-shirts are now being sold with ‘Free Steven Slater’ and ‘I Slide ... For Slater’ on them. He will doubtless be interviewed on US talk shows and may well become a television personality earning a lot of money in the process. Of course, he could always fall back on his career as a flight attendant if another airline would risk employing him!
Then there is the young office worker, Jenny, who announced her resignation by emailing her colleagues a photograph of herself holding a white board with the works ‘I Quit!’ written on it.
In revenge to her boss, Spencer, she also circulated a number of graphics telling everyone, among other things, that her boss was sexist, had called her a ‘hot piece of ass’ in a phone call she overheard, had a bad temper, smelly breath and spent most of his time playing a Facebook game.
[This last actually turned out to be a hoax but may inspire others to follow the same path!]
If true, that’s another way of packing in a job and ensuring that you wouldn’t get a decent reference afterwards!
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