Wow, what a story:
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A family with two small kids is flying United from Denver to BWI. The in-flight movie, shown on the drop-down monitors, not the back-of-seat ones, is quite violent. The parents ask the flight attendant if they can get the closest monitor turned off. FA says no. Parents ask if the plane's Captain can do so; no answer. Parents ask for his name so they can talk to him about it later. Parents play games with the kids to keep them from watching the movie and getting scared.
Midway through the flight, they are diverted to O'Hare, where the parents and children are escorted off the plane by police, because the captain felt that their request constituted a threat to his/the plane's safety.
That was two months ago, and United has not apologized yet.
I am rapidly running out of airlines I am willing to fly on. When do we get teleportation again?
That is unconscionable, but not surprising. Flying cars. Who's on that?
Happy Birthday, Tom, and I second the wish for you having something as wonderful as a Scola Smile.
Good for you Burrell. I kind of wish you could coast on your laurels, at least for a little bit.
(Hands msbelle a cudgel. Ducks out of the way)
I want to see police pushing back, too. What an incredible waste of time and resources.
We're troubleshooting an issue, and we've determined that the servers that need to communicate over port 80 can't. Tested two different ways. I asked the developer to test this Monday, but that's neither here or there.
I know that the infrastructure team runs the same tests we did, because I've asked them for sooper sekrit powers. But only the network admins offsite have those. I've been told not to ask them, because it takes a long time. Not even to walk over and tell the liaison this is important. Instead we're not doing anything, because we seem to need infrastructure to tell us to our face they can't do anything else? I'm not sure.
But my head is killing me enough that I wouldn't even drive home, just sleep for a while.
United needs to offer them apology and thousands of dollars in travel vouchers on another airline.
United needs to offer them apology and thousands of dollars in travel vouchers on another airline.
I find it unlikely that United will apologize, because that would involve admitting fault, and they clearly have no intention of doing so. Frankly, I had no idea that the captain had UNLIMITED discretion on an airplane. Aren't there guidelines?
Howdy.
Today's new discovery in the absurdity of this mess and yet more proof that the decision to fire me has already been made, and possibly an end date selected...one of the items with which "there continues to be errors and inaccuracies made" is something that has not been part of my job FOR 8 MONTHS!!!!
one of the items with which "there continues to be errors and inaccuracies made" is something that has not been part of my job FOR 8 MONTHS!!!!
Oh, do point that out, msbelle. Do you have the memo or email in which it was removed from your position? (I see no reason to make this easy for them: they're assholes and deserve to have it shown.)
