Going the Extra Mile

I love analogies.

McDonalds makes eight hamburgers, fully intends to sell all eight, but two go unsold. One of the workers goes on break so the manager decides to give serve the worker the hamburgers as a fringe benefit.

Customer walks in screams that "All hamburgers should go to PAYING customers!"

Manager says, "Well, if you showed up a few minutes earlier and ordered a hamburger rather than the McFish, you'd have a hamburger, bub!"

Do you want a first class seat? Pay for one, they'd be more than happy to sell you one. But if you see an employee sitting in first class, don't presume you know why he's there.

I rode in a first class seat from LAX to ATL back in 1998 in full uniform and I can guarantee you that if a passenger riding in coach started complaining about me being in first, I would have lost my marbles. I was on an emergency pass home because my dad just passed away.
 
Well, it's a vicious circle. I think it was said somewhere that less than 13% of the people riding in first class actually booked and purchased a first class seat. I doubt if it's even that high now.
 
Well, nothing's like the old days. Hell, people used to get dressed up in coats and ties to fly. Now, since people are stumbling in wearing their sweats, a ratty old t-shirt, and three day stubble and paying probably about the same amount of money they did back in the glory days....

Anyway, it really depends on the airline and the aircraft what first class is like. Let me tell you, there was a WORLD of difference between first class and coach flying on UAL to and from CDG.

Actually, come to think of it, the service even in coach there was better than you'd get on a domestic flight.

So of course UAL's gonna shut down that profitable base where those FAs were from.:banghead:
 
Remember, we're a culture where Ruth's Chris can throw "Free Steak Day" and people will demand to speak to the manager because there's no A-1 steak sauce and the sides are a la carte.

I just saw a good example of that here at the hotel in Denver. They provide a free hot breakfast which is pretty yummy. You couldn't believe the amount of people complaining because there wasn't Earl Grey tea, fat-free milk and... Turkey sausage!

Geez.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I just saw a good example of that here at the hotel in Denver. They provide a free hot breakfast which is pretty yummy. You couldn't believe the amount of people complaining because there wasn't Earl Grey tea, fat-free milk and... Turkey sausage!
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Just goes to show you that intelligent design is wrong. What just God would design people like that?

Planet of the Apes, man. It's coming. The apes will get smarter, and humans will get dumber as there is no longer natural selection to weed out the stupid. And then those apes figure out how to make weapons, with their natural edge in strength, we're so doomed.
 
tonyw said:
Just goes to show you that intelligent design is wrong. What just God would design people like that?

Planet of the Apes, man. It's coming. The apes will get smarter, and humans will get dumber as there is no longer natural selection to weed out the stupid. And then those apes figure out how to make weapons, with their natural edge in strength, we're so doomed.
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I can't wait for the part when humans go mute. Some people just need to STFU. :)


Mike
 
Van_Hoolio said:
I can't wait for the part when humans go mute. Some people just need to STFU. :)


Mike
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