United Air forcibly removes passenger on overbooked flight

[BugI02]

LOL, you understand that BugI02 and some of the other airline employees ... [snip]

Unwarranted assumption, counselor. I have never worked for an airline. I did consult for one over twenty years ago, which is where I met my wife (and gained my insight into how things really work)

Perhaps you should use discovery more effectively and emotion less so

 

[Fargo]

Why the hell are a bunch of people on here howling for Uniteds corporate blood with only the 'facts' presented by old media and social media. Have we still not learned that "... if it bleeds, it leads"

Without the footage, is this not "hands up, don't shoot" all over again in microcosm. Did not Obama apologize for a great deal of past American actions? Do you agree that that alone makes these actions wrong? Think outside the box (the courtroom)

United likely (caveat because I don't and likely will never know) apologized to calm the social media ****-storm. An economic decision, just like bumping people to accommodate necessary crew

Are you under the impression that if United's apology is a lie made out of corporate economic greed I or anyone else who gives a crap about honesty will somehow think better of the organization?

 

[Fargo]

Unwarranted assumption, counselor. I have never worked for an airline. I did consult for one over twenty years ago, which is where I met my wife (and gained my insight into how things really work)

Perhaps you should use discovery more effectively and emotion less so

I stand corrected then, airline employees and airline subcontractors. You know, that group of people that receives or has received money from the airlines in return for work. Is that better?

 

[BugI02]

That's a hell of a non-sequtor, I am really unclear what point you were trying to make. Besides, I don't do Facebook or Twitter and I was unaware that I approved of anything on either of them.

I thought by spineless cowards you must be referring to the people who attack United remotely via electronic outrage

 

[Fargo]

14 CFR 121...all of it.

You must have missed your calling since apparently you can find what all of United's lawyers put together can't! You also can apparently read BugI02's mind! Or maybe the lawyers came up to Munoz and said "you know we were required to do this by federal law, maybe we should point that out" and instead he just decided to say we were wrong and apologize?

 

[Fargo]

I thought by spineless cowards you must be referring to the people who attack United remotely via electronic outrage

No, I was referring to spineless coward's who would apologize for the wrongdoing of their employees when their employees had done nothing wrong thereby throwing them under the bus out of corporate greed. You know, what you and tlex have both said is probably United's practice as regards the matter.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

OK, technically tracks suits were the drive by to civility and yoga pants became the car bomb.

Yoga pants were worth it.

 

[Fargo]

Yoga pants were worth it.

But with great power comes great responsibility, and I have just seen way too much gross (pun intended) irresponsibility in the wearing of yoga pants...

 

[BugI02]

Where does the CEO's fiduciary responsibility lie?

 

[Fargo]

Where does the CEO's fiduciary responsibility lie?

His fiduciary duties are primarily directed toward the corp's shareholders.

 

[actaeon277]

Well, I think we're at the WWI trench positions, where neither side gains any ground.



You know
A regular INGO thread.

 

[Fargo]

Well, I think we're at the WWI trench positions, where neither side gains any ground.



You know
A regular INGO thread.

And just when I thought the yoga pants discussion was starting to bear fruit...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Well, I think we're at the WWI trench positions, where neither side gains any ground.



You know
A regular INGO thread.

Do join me.

 

[actaeon277]

Do join me.

Oh, I'm at work bunkered down.
We have a ladle of steel stuck.
600,000 pounds, 150 foot in the air, 2800 or so degrees.
We're, okay, THEY are trying to lower it, without dropping it.

 

[actaeon277]

And just when I thought the yoga pants discussion was starting to bear fruit...

That depends on what's IN the pants.

 

[Fargo]

That depends on what's IN the pants.

Preach it! Saying a prayer for all you guys around that stuff at work. Hope no one gets hurt.

 

[actaeon277]

Preach it! Saying a prayer for all you guys around that stuff at work. Hope no one gets hurt.

They called in one of the few bosses I respect.
But he's surrounded by a bunch, that I don't.

They'll get it down.
That's the easy part.

Making sure it doesn't slip, or come off the hooks is the difficult part.

 

[Fargo]

They called in one of the few bosses I respect.
But he's surrounded by a bunch, that I don't.

They'll get it down.
That's the easy part.

Making sure it doesn't slip, or come off the hooks is the difficult part.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for you steel mill guys. Earlier in life I worked with a good deal of heavy construction equipment but nothing even remotely like the stuff that you guys do. Plus, burns scare the hell out of me.

 

[Fizzerpilot]

Stock is almost $71/share today, and dammit they are booked solid. The SJW crowd has moved on to more important things.

 

[jbombelli]

Do join me.

Don't mind if I do.