This is your flight attendant speaking...FUCK YOU.

[Matt]

I fucking LOVE this guy:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/10...ex.html?hpt=C2

I mean, if you're gonna quit, you may as well QUIT and just have fun with it.

Fuck all of you, I'm swiping this beer, using the emergency shoot because goddammit I've never slid down one, going home, and fucking my partner. You can all just kiss my ass!

[Lisa]

Silly boy! And just below you, too...

http://forums.braindeadradio.com/sho...44&postcount=9

[Matt]

well shit.

[Lisa]

It's okay - for whatever weird reason, our local paper changed that same link to the follow up "next day" story about how he was in bed boinking his boyfriend when the cops showed up.

[Matt]

ANYONE who has ever worked in a customer service related job can empathize with the guy. Far, FAR too many people have simply no idea at all what it's like to have to be cheerful and helpful to complete assholes ALL DAY LONG. To those people, this guy is a hero. I hope that he gets off scott free, lands a book deal and a reality show, and inspires millions of customer service people to go nuts on the assholes.

[Lisa]

Absolutely. When I worked at Lush, I had to throw a woman out of the store one day because she was being verbally abusive to my co-worker and me, calling us "goddamn fucking idiots", telling my co-worker to "shut the fuck up", etc. Finally, I said, "Okay, M'aam, you're done. We're not going to wait on you, and there are four other Lush stores in the NY area who can take your business. Please leave." Long story short, the company ultimately sided with the customer - over an $11 jar of facial cleanser. We didn't get into trouble, but we got the "Tsk tsk - the customer is always right" routine. We were like, awesome - sell out two of your best employees to a woman who stood there and cursed and screamed at us over a lavendar facial scrub. I hated working with the public/customer service.

[Ed Hocken]

As I've always said, the customer is always right....to a point.

[Matt]

I worked in retail/customer service oriented jobs for about 15 years. Believe me, there are many customers who don't realize just HOW CLOSE to death they are.

A very serious, SERIOUS proposal for the US Government:
- Mandatory 1 year service as either a waiter/waitress or a bartender at minimum wage, with tips, to be served either immediately after high school OR immediately after college.
- Mandatory 1 year service in retail immediately after the prior year of service is completed, served at whatever wage you are able to acquire.

The US would be a much better place for everyone.

[Ed Hocken]

HA, I did three months at Noah's bagels and nine months at Fatburger.

My service to the country, IS DONE.

[BillyG]

Not even a full year. At age 16 every kid must work the holiday season in retail. That will make college graduation rates skyrocket.

[Ed Hocken]

I never got to work a holiday season.

I did work as a cashier at my college bookstore. And as such, it was my first experience with repetitive motion disorder.

[BillyG]

My only holiday season at Best Buy I was stuck in the main aisle leading into the media section. I was given racks/carts filled with Dreamcasts, accessories and games. I was told to have them "all fucking gone today so we can put out the Xbox stuff." Mind you, this was day after Thanksgiving and people were only interested in the sales in the paper, and just about nothing else ($2.99 for Episode 1?! WHERE IS IT YOU RETAIL PEON!?) so I spent the whole day being crushed by crowds and explaining to idiots that these cheap Dreamcast games won't work on the new Xbox you bought your kid.

Getting fired from there was the best thing to ever happen to me. When I see like Lowes commercials with perfectly normal adults talking about helping sale carpet or paint or some shit I want to shake them violently and explain how amazing a boring desk job can be.

[I_Cassini]

I was actually a flight attendant for Delta not long after I got out of college. Oh man the stories. Especially working the flights from New York to Florida or vice versa. We called them the nearly dead or newlywed flights.

[Matt]

Not even a full year. At age 16 every kid must work the holiday season in retail. That will make college graduation rates skyrocket.

That's good, but I stand by my assessment that it should be a full year for both.

13th grade: 1 year of retail, including the holiday season and black Friday.
14th grade: 1 year in food service, including Friday and Saturday nights and holidays.

Trust me: as a customer service person, the best customers to deal with are those that have worked/are working in the service industry. They know the score...they know what it's like to deal with customers and put on that phony 'shiny happy' face, regardless of mood. Imagine if EVERYONE had that kind of experience under their belt...I honestly think that the service world would be a much better place for everyone.

Israel has mandatory military service. Am I really that out of line?

[BillyG]

I don't think you're out of line, I just think that one holiday season in a soulless big box store is equal to the other 9 months of the year in its misery and despair.