Still Think It's A Cake Walk?

[deano]

F/A Article

 

[fatherabraham]

F/A Article

[post="202600"][/post]​

Eric Heyl is an idiot! Never been a FA but know their duties well. It takes a very special individual to do the job day in and day out as well as Usairways FA's.

I would not last a day w/o losing my job if dealing with public as they do.

Sincerely,
FA

 

[basher]

people may think that a FA is just a server in the sky, but they are there for the safty of out pax

 

[Whatnow?]

Seeing as he's from Pittsburgh, maybe he was rejected during the interview sessions and now he's bitter about it! Get a life! What will the Pittsburgh media report on when U is no longer there? :down:

 

[BostonTerrier]

There is a link to email the author. Sending him my thoughts of his article last night was quite cathartic (to say the least). The only thing more disturbing than his own ignorance is his editor's ignorance.

 

[PSA1979]

There is a link to email the author. Sending him my thoughts of his article last night was quite cathartic (to say the least). The only thing more disturbing than his own ignorance is his editor's ignorance.

[post="202616"][/post]​

Thanks BT, I feel so much better!!! I sent a scathing e-mail and boy do I feel good!!!!!

 

[daybeforecommuter]

As a former U f/a, I can say with utter conviction that the dude pretty much hit the nail on the head. Whether the editor should have allowed the reporters opinion to be printed well, yeah, he should have. The hardest part of the job is dealing with the sh#t thrown your way and most at U are not even very good at that, even when we were making 45 buck an hour. Oh, and tallying up the liquor/food money...2nd grade math. You are valuable in the short term to keep the planes in the air because of federal requirements....Your value in the long term is being shown to you on a day-to-day basis.

 

[Jennyann]

As a former U f/a, I can say with utter conviction that the dude pretty much hit the nail on the head. Whether the editor should have allowed the reporters opinion to be printed well, yeah, he should have. The hardest part of the job is dealing with the sh#t thrown your way and most at U are not even very good at that, even when we were making 45 buck an hour. Oh, and tallying up the liquor/food money...2nd grade math. You are valuable in the short term to keep the planes in the air because of federal requirements....Your value in the long term is being shown to you on a day-to-day basis.

[post="202674"][/post]​

Thats a really Sh---y thing to say, especially now. Guess you better plan on driving this holiday season. :angry: 🙁

 

[Jennyann]

I for one wouldnt want anyone like that working on my flight and treating the passengers badly! Good riddance!!

 

[MarkMyWords]

Someone needs to remind this guy and DaybeforeCommuter of incidents like the UA Sioux City accident where F/A's were credited with saving many lives by helping to prepare the cabin and assiting in the aftermath. Or how about the US accident in CLT where the F/A is credited with saving many lives while putting his in jeopardy until fire and police officials arrived. How about the F/A's that perform lifesaving measures daily to help customers that are choking or having a heart attack? How about the F/A that holds the hand of a scared customer and reassures them that it is just turbulence and everything is fine? HOw about the F/A's that are asked to prepare the cabin for an emergency landing because a gear indication has malfunctioned and they are not sure the gear is down and locked. They have to face the customers with a calm confidence and a brave face to reassure them that it is just a precaution and everything will be fine.

this article reaffirms the ignorance that is out there. That being a Flight Attendant is some fluff job that a trained monkey could do. Meanwhile, when that same person is sitting in a seat with severe chest pains and in need of assistance, who is the first person they are going to look to? The vending machine in the back? The indifferent customer across the aisle?

Flight Attendants have more then earned the respect of many and shouldn't let the ignorance of someone like this reporter insult what you have worked so hard for. Hold your heads high, we know you are much, much more then he thinks.

 

[Us/boston]

I was working a flt to SJU a few months ago and had a pax tell me someone was ill at row 14. I went to check on pax and found him in his seat with no pulse and not breathing. He had urinated in the seat. He was aprox 70 yo. Myself and lodo lifted pax into the isle and were starting cpr when the aed arrived. I put aed on pax and was told to shock pax. After the first shock pax had pulse and started breathing. I checked on pax in few days and after surgery he is alive and well. Maybe in the near future this writers father will be on a flight and a well trained F/A like me and the lodo will not and he will have to spend the holidays missing someone.

 

[Winglet]

The guy's a wet-mouthed twit. Can't wait for the column on pilots being compared to taxi drivers. Or even better . . . how about one why rust-town newpaper hacks are irrelevent.

We'll see soon how irrelevent the FAs are and how they're not worth the meager pay they get now.

What would happen if all the newspaper columnists stop working? Nothing, except we save a lot of trees.

What would happen if the FAs don't show up? Well, maybe we'll see . . . . and then you can read about this newpaper hack demanding that Bush intervene to force them back to work under threat.

 

[700UW]

Bob,

Very well said.

 

[MCORORES]

I second 700UW remarks PB...EXCELLENT!!!!!!

 

[Dog Wonder]

Those poor 'opinion' writers at the Greensburg Tribune-Review. Parroting the we love corporate Amerika company line because any other opinion would bring their modern day Joe McCarthy of a publisher down on them.

Eric Heyl knows he sold his soul. No amount of E mails will convince him it was worth hanging on to. He is no fool, he is a poorly paid prostitute.