I found this blog looking for horror stories about passengers. I am not in the industry but have been a frequent flyer over my 57 years. I have the utmost respect for the work that flight attendents and those that work in the public arena perform. I certainly expect professional and courteous service and have seldom had any complaint. I have seen how so many people act though – treating attendants rudely with an unrealistic expectation of what their service should be. I applaud Steven Slater and hope he gets great fame (although I doubt that he intended that to occur from his actions). Anything we can do to highlight what goes on in flight from badly behaved passengers so perhaps we can change the expectations. Actually…. we put cameras on school buses to protect kids and drivers, why not on airlines? Could save problems with the courts and legal system. You have a tough job…. hang in there and hope it all works out for you!

It's a two way street,passenger rage and flight attendant rage we need cameras to prove who really is at fault,sometimes it's both the customer and the employee, arrest who is at fault and take them off the plane, whether it's the flight attendant or passenger or both. I,m here to save your ass not kiss it,yea right he's so not right for this job,who would trust their life with this nutcase. Most flight attendants and passengers are fine but some are twisted like this loser,he could of killed someone if that slide hit them,grab two beers run home sleep with his boyfriend tough if someone gets hit with slide, what a loser. How can that be the customers fault? anything we can do to highlight what goes on in flight from badly behaved flight attendants,what if a passenger did this and they were on TV laughing and waving and saying a flight attendant bumped them with a drink cart one time to many without saying they were sorry, I hope he gets great fame,hang in there and hope it all works out for you, my heart goes out to the passenger, this whole incident may cause some well needed positive actions in the customer service industry. Drink cart is light hearted example their have been some very bad cases of flight attendant rage but why go their. Would everyone here be saying all of this if it was a passenger that pulled this stunt, I am laughing cause I think not. Go to jail do not collect fame, court mandated treatment same as passenger. Also if father died and mother sick that should shorten jail time, a little more understanding is in order. This guy is a moron and cant be trusted with customer safety part of job for starters ha ha, I,m kinda of kidding when I say you crew members crack me up. From plane to crew lounge and back to plane they don't let you out into the real world to much. What if flight attendant rob,s a bank are they not going to jail because a passenger treated them bad on a flight, ha ha just trying to keep it light but the things you write are so funny you should read this stuff to passengers instead of movie this is great. My friends and I cant stop laughing at this clown, but come on he makes all flight attendants look bad when you back him and say your their for our safety, very bad judgment please don't say job stress and passengers are to blame for this. P.S. HE SURE LOOKS CREEPY WHEN HE GLOATS OVER ATTENTION, SOMEONE SHOULD SMACK HIM IN THE MOUNTH AND SEND HIM TO JAIL LETS USE THIS FOR EVERYONE TO TREAT EACH OTHER BETTER EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS BOTH NOT MAKE SAD COMMENTS BACKING HIM AND PLAY BLAME GAME , HOW CAN THIS BE THE CUSTOMERS FAULT LETS GET REAL.

I agree.

LOL…lovely post Sara! Haven't we all at sometime wanted to do…well..what is it called now – a Slater?? LOL..years ago, it was called going "postal" – is it called going "slider" now?? 🙂

I absolutely love this post 🙂 (and ofcourse the story of Mr. Slater).