The story of Steven Slater, renegade JetBlue flight attendant, is getting a lot of publicity. Rightly so.
Right on Slater.
Didn’t Slater only do what many of us have dreamed of doing? Curse out people who make his work life a living hell and then activate the exit slide and slip away – but not before grabbing a cold beer on his way out.
Not all of us have an actual emergency exit slide in our various lines of work. And with the ever-grim news of the economy, most people are afraid of activating whatever exit strategies are available to them. But Slater had had enough of the morons and bastards he was subjected to and he took the plunge. Beer in hand.
Having spent most of my summer traveling, I predict flight attendants will become this era’s postal workers – without the federal benefits. Too many people on airplanes are horrifying, idiotic, rude and potentially dangerous. The term “going postal” may be replaced by “pulling a Slater.”
But it’s not just air travel that’s snap-worthy. It’s much of American worklife, where the idiots and koolaid drinkers have fallen upward into management, the interaction with customers is boorish and everyone is running scared.
I predict a wave of publicity and a reality show for Slater, America’s newest folk hero.
Couldn’t agree more!!
“Take this job and shove it, I ain’t working here no more…”