Sunday, August 15, 2010

The JetBlue flight attendant saga

By now everybody who reads the news know by now the famous (infamous) blowup of the JetBlue flight attendant who in a fit of rage over a customer blew up in the microphone of the plane took two beers and open the plane shoot to bail out of the plane and also quitting his job. The whole story is still unfolding but up till now he is being hailed as a hero on the internet and elsewhere for his so called stylish and ceremonious exit and quitting his job and telling off his customers.

He has almost become a folk hero who are supporting him due to his thumping up his nose to corporate America and quitting it very loudly and clearly but is that the right thing to do. He has become a folk hero due to the fact that the overwhelming majority will never do what he did nor they have the guts to do it so they secretly admire this act of courage. He may get some time on the news and talk shows but would he be able to work in a corporate environment, which is a highly unlikely scenario since the corporate world does not want the attention of the public and they don’t like the fact of the prospective employee to diss out on the former employer. So unless he fades into the limelight or manages to get his job back, based on my experience he will not be able to get a long shelf life in the corporate world. But you never know.

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