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Taking a milking machine as your in flight personal item???
A Spirit Airlines employee was filmed last week at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport getting into it with a passenger, accosting her and dropping an F-bomb. The woman probably deserved it?
The check-in agent followed the woman to security. And as the woman advanced in line at the TSA checkpoint, she demanded that the woman show her boarding pass.
The passenger presented the Spirit Airlines mobile app. While showing the boarding pass, the passenger moved forward in line. The check-in agent moved with her, “I want to see the boarding pass!” And the passenger responds, “I will not miss my flight..”
The employee noted the passenger’s details from their boarding pass and then storms off with an “F- you, too.” Wow.
The person taking video of the incident adds, “This Spirit employee is very offended because this lady said something to her,” and “I think she’s taking it a little too far. … I think it’s a little bit of an abuse.”
The only thing to add here is that the “too” suggests that the passenger said the same thing to the employee earlier. The employee claims the passenger had a “filthy mouth.”
So was the employee on a ‘power trip’ as some observers suggest? It really depends on context that we don’t have, from before filming began.
But responding ‘in kind’ to abuse makes it hard to act against only the passenger. The employee might have had the passenger banned for their own abusive behavior – except the need to throw in the expletive back at them loses any high ground.
Cursing someone out may feel good in the moment, but is almost never in your actual interest – whether you’re a passenger or an employee. Taking that shot is likely too costly, and revenge is better served up later. And dropping an F-bomb in front of other passengers? That’s a career-limiting move – even at Spirit Airlines, and even in Florida.