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but won t tell you so i will sharing ideas and notions on being a real human being friday april 14 2017 fly the unfriendly skies with united i m old enough to remember when people actually dressed up to get on an airplane like it was a social event i mean high heels dresses suits ties the whole nine yards now we have people showing up at airports looking at best like they re going to a slumber party at worst many patrons resemble homeless people i m also old enough to remember united airlines advertising campaign slogan fly the friendly skies of united every time i m waiting this is my hopeful image of who i will see when boarding or this an entire crew waiting happily to greet the queen of the universe but that s fantasy we all know that this is how it feels to fly these days sadly or perhaps this image best conveys how your last flight felt i most certainly recall feeling like this in fact recently on a flight from chicago my lion had to ask for a seat change because the man next to him was so large that mike was actually turned out into the aisle which has to be against regulations if not a crime against his aching back thankfully the flight attendant was happy to get him another sadly that sort of help did not come for this united passenger who was dragged from a plane by airport security yep dragged a 60 something year old physician who was buckled into his seat next to his wife on their way home normally i m a rules girl if you have the authority to tell me what to do i ll generally do it without issue so i could argue that the man brought on the altercation because he refused to get off the plane when told however as a pr professional and human being i can t let this go by without commenting in this case the flight was double overbooked yes that s actually a real thing a real business practice the airlines have taken to overbooking every single flight that they send down a runway it started when the price of gas etc was taking big bites out of their bottom lines the airlines started coming up with all sorts of creative ways to help staunch the flow of red ink that s when baggage handling fees went crazy and getting bumped more frequently from flights making a bad situation worse it changed the stressful occasion of flying into something akin to having one s head shaved with a cheese grater it didn t simply go from bad to worse it went from bad to third circle of hellish so back to the elderly man on the plane the airline needed four passengers to give up their seats because ready for it they needed seats to get some of their employees to their connecting flight yep you heard me they needed paying customers to give up their seats so their crew wouldn t be held up from getting where they needed to be thereby causing the cascading effect of other missed flights they offered 800 to any passenger who would give up their seat perhaps that seems reasonable but not to me as far as i m concerned no business worth its salt passes on the pain of operating to a paying customer and the fact that united overbooks flights to the point that they can t get their crews around the country is certainly a problem for them however it should not have been that man s problem but it became a big one three passengers took the proffered 800 but the flight was still short one seat next they randomly selected the seat which was occupied by the doctor when they asked him to get off he refused saying he had patients whom he needed to see in the morning it would also mean that either his wife get off with him or she d have to travel on alone the flight crew got airport security involved when dr passenger refused to get up out of his paid for seat before you could say buckle up boys it s going to be a bumpy ride the man is bloodied dragged down the aisle by his arms while every other passenger has out their cell phones videoing the entire nasty business the poor man ends up in the hospital with some serious injuries can anyone say lawsuit post event the horrified passengers began releasing their videos and the entire situation rightfully went viral i could just imagine their pr person screaming in his head are you freaking kidding me how the hell can i even begin to spin this one he gave it a really good try in fact the ceo of united took to the airwaves and did what you might expect defend his crew for doing what they are supposed to do etc but when the backlash washed over him and united sending their stock prices into a tail spin see what i did there he was busy trying to publicly walk it all back and apologize to no avail now they ve refunded the tickets to all the passengers in an effort to say sorry you had to see that as if that could even help here s my point aside from the one i stated about how stupid it is for any company to think it s right to pass off their operational problems onto a paying customer while so many other businesses seem to have got the wake up call about how customers will not tolerate poor customer service the air lines still act as if we are brainless cattle to be transported to slaughter those who work in the industry complain about how we all act on flights these days how we dress or don t dress to be seen in public how fat we are how demanding we are how totally rude we can be all the while making more money off of customers than they ve ever made as an industry in case you think they d do away with those fees that may have been necessary to keep them afloat during the lean times you d be very wrong instead the fees are still there and getting higher and they ve made the seats smaller stripping away any form of comfort no food is served no in flight entertainment nothing at all the airline industry through their choices has turned it into an us against them scenario with you feeling like a sucker for paying to be abused tempers are short memories are long and no one is happy or satisfied sounds like a brewing recipe for disaster now we can add physical abuse to the list of those things the unfriendly skies will provide at your full cost how very nice of them from now on when i fly instead of taking out flight insurance i think i m going to see if i can get a policy that offers combat pay it seems like it will come in way more handy namaste till next time holly aka she who still flies but posted for your consideration by holly at 4 13 pm 4 share your thoughts with us click here labels absurdities businesses that suck currently customer service life in america things that challenge me travel tuesday april 4 2017 the danger of the cult of personality richard m nixon was president when i was a senior in high school and resigned when i was a freshman in college he is the only president who has resigned it made for a very interesting era at 17 i was not much into politics i hadn t even cast my first political vote but i hated this man absolutely totally just despised him if you had asked my 17 year old self who knew everything there is to know about the world i wouldn t have been able to articulate my reasons the truth is i hated him because everyone else i knew hated him and without understanding group think i too hated the guy i grew up in maryland which is historically democrat in its politics and no one in maryland liked him simply because he was a republican now as an adult i understand that he wasn t a totally bad president he started the end to the viet nam war which should have gained him sainthood status from all of us young people and he was the president who began discussions and relations with china that has shaped world policy since if i knew more about politics i d be able to tell you what other things he did well but i can t just like millions of other americans who couldn t warm up to his cool peculiar and distancing demeanor we just hated him because then along come these two beat reporters from the washington post who dug deep and ferreted out the story of a lifetime theirs is the story that brought down nixon s white house around his ears it s a complicated story as things like this are and too machiavellian for me to explain in this blog essentially it was all about how nixon s senior staff and he decided to bug the democratic national committee headquartered in the iconic watergate building woodstein as they became known caught this break of a lifetime because of their unnamed source known far and wide as deep throat a washington insider this man whose identity was a closely kept secret for over 30 years eventually revealed to be mark felt the assistant director of the fbi gave them the info because washington elite were incensed that the republicans would stoop so low as to break the law spying on and wiretapping the opposition party the resulting book of the entire affair all the president s men became required reading it was all anyone talked about and it launched thousands and thousands of students into journalism majors because of the unprecedented event and the media s power to reveal the truth bernstein and woodward changed journalism and for a long time we were better off because we had reporters and editors who understand that a free society must have a media who is non partisan and continues to day light the truth as a mass communication major i sat through countless hours in class discussing ethics truth these two reporters but with very little frame of reference to the political story if you ve never read it maybe you should it s thick and filled with things that i don t understand even to this day but it sure is fascinating the way watching an accident on the road is compelling at the start of nixon s second term he resigned seven top staffers were indicted and served jail time for their actions since nixon s vp spiro agnew a maryland governor resigned prior because of fraud and tax evasion that left gerald ford as the next president poor guy i remember him as being nice bumbling and basically ineffectual again i could be wrong because i was young and what did i really know however i clearly remember the celebratory feelings around that resignation and just like that a united states president became personae non gratae now years later donald j trump is the president elected despite what the best political pundits and media reported and predicted and just like nixon he is despised by thousands and being protested at every turn he too is a republican his personality is bombastic and large it makes him difficult to like and warm up to he s been in office less than 100 days and daily the coverage is about what he s not done what he s not been able to accomplish the news is filled with political infighting not just between the dems and repubs which one expects but even within the republican party itself while the dems flat out admit like it s a good thing that they plan to oppose him on every thing how bad is it let me put it this way if trump walked on water in front of everyone i m afraid the media headlines would be donald trump fails to swim full disclosure i voted for the man for the soul purpose of not allowing hillary clinton to gain the seat in the oval do i love the man not at all do i think he is the candidate of my lifetime only in how bizarre it all is that he s even the president in the first place but now as an adult and a person who follows politics much closer what concerns me is not the president so much as our reactions to this president i am very concerned about the cult of personality that seems to be the driving force behind news coverage and our behavior are we so shallow that we only want political leaders whose personality we like can the person only be considered a winner if they make us feel all warm and fuzzy seriously would you choose a surgeon that way if i were to tell you that the only surgeon who could possibly save your life had the bedside manner of attila the hun would you pass because you didn t like him my suspicions are that you wouldn t so why would you hate the president because you just can t stand his personality why would you crow with glee when everything he and his staff attempt to do is thwarted by politics why would you hope that our president fail if he fails we all fail yes he s difficult to understand and is totally unorthodox his communication style makes me cringe yes he s a billionaire he walks in rarefied air that most of us can t imagine to be honest so do most of our politicians who are while not billionaires certainly quite wealthy even president obama who everyone loves in terms of his personality is an elite worth many millions but mr obama has a much easier personality that s simple to like in terms of being a good family man and a loving husband and father here s the thing though so is mr trump his children are extremely successful and well regarded his beautiful wife is an immigrant now citizen who was a successful model speaks several languages and is a fabulous mother mr trump has many life long friends who say he is constantly supportive and loyal so in terms of the cult of personality should we dismiss a person simply because we don t think we d like them personally should that be the criterion or should we be making that decision based on their qualifications and accomplishments wouldn t those be a more accurate measure interestingly enough this story has another angle proving that everything in history comes around again a storm is brewing no telling where it will all end it seems as if the trump presidency is in the middle of a wiretap controversy just like nixon s only this time it would be democratic operatives who are playing fast and loose with surveillance of trump staffers and i can t help but wonder where are the woodwards and bernsteins who genuinely care more about reporting the truth instead of being contemptuous of the guy who holds the office are they even there anymore maybe not but the dangerous cult of personality is still very evident namaste till next time holly aka she who is older and hopes wiser 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