And awaaaaaaaaaaaayy he goes!

[ShyWriter]

Fed-Up Flight Attendant Makes Sliding Exit

By ANDY NEWMAN and RAY RIVERA

Published: August 9, 2010

It has been a long time since flight attendant was a glamorous job title. The hours are long. Passengers with feelings of entitlement bump up against new no-frills policies. Babies scream. Security precautions grate but must be enforced. Airlines demand lightning-quick turnarounds, so attendants herd passengers and collect trash with the grim speed of an Indy pit crew. Everyone, it seems, is in a bad mood.

- Photo by Yana Paskova for The New York Times

On Monday, on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport, a JetBlue attendant named Steven Slater decided he had had enough, the authorities said.

After a dispute with a passenger who stood to fetch luggage too soon on a full flight just in from Pittsburgh, Mr. Slater, 38 and a career flight attendant, got on the public-address intercom and let loose a string of invective.

Then, the authorities said, he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career.

On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart. Then he ran to the employee parking lot and drove off, the authorities said.

( Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion...tml?_r=1&hp )

~Shy

[mountaintree16]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38642085/ns/business-careers/

[sho-dan]

Did the Steven Slater go wee wee wee all the way home, Whe-whee, whe-whee!

[YoKenny1]

Reminds me of Bobby Kennedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy