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First Class Airplane Treatment
bertgilbert said:
Just noticed. British Airways, figures. some snoby old lady that think she is better than anybody else because her contry is almost as old as her
sorry, country, excuse my spelling, I am from a new country, one that accept everybody, the best country in the world, Canadabertgilbert said:
bertgilbert said:
Canada's a great place. Love Toronto.. Just don't do like someone I know, who went there a few years ago wearing a USA t-shirt!
Another one for Robert's Urban Myth Thread
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/obnox.htm
Phoney as a $3 hooker in Boca Chica.
From Snopes:
At different times the stories are circulated anew with their details altered. For instance, the story we recorded in 1998 about the racist woman on the British Airways flights out of Johannesburg came back for another round in 2004, this time purporting to be about a white woman on a flight between Saskatoon and Calgary.
We'd like to believe virtue will be rewarded and the patient among us will eventually get the level of service we deserve. However, bitter reality often goes the other way ? it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, hence it's the line jumper and obnoxious passenger who receive special treatment, not us. Legends such as the ones above help to set the world to rights. Even if they never happened, we'd like to think they did and thus gain a measure of comfort from them. Somewhere ? maybe only in the realm of legend ? someone is standing up to horrid people.
Unfortunately, such legends, though they have their uses in helping us feel better about our world, can also prove damaging and hurtful to those tarred by their brush. In 2001, Hubbard Foods of New Zealand, a company that produces breakfast cereal, erred by including the "South African woman seated next to a Black man" legend as a travel story in a children's newsletter inserted in boxes of its product. The tale had been selected for inclusion as an uplifting story imbued with a moral message, and no one thought to check its accuracy.
South Africans living in New Zealand were outraged by it. They saw the leaflet as unfairly painting them as racist, furthering an apartheid-era stereotype that is no longer valid. Hubbard Foods apologized but claimed it was too late and far too expensive to withdraw the boxes from store shelves.
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/obnox.htm
Phoney as a $3 hooker in Boca Chica.
From Snopes:
At different times the stories are circulated anew with their details altered. For instance, the story we recorded in 1998 about the racist woman on the British Airways flights out of Johannesburg came back for another round in 2004, this time purporting to be about a white woman on a flight between Saskatoon and Calgary.
We'd like to believe virtue will be rewarded and the patient among us will eventually get the level of service we deserve. However, bitter reality often goes the other way ? it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, hence it's the line jumper and obnoxious passenger who receive special treatment, not us. Legends such as the ones above help to set the world to rights. Even if they never happened, we'd like to think they did and thus gain a measure of comfort from them. Somewhere ? maybe only in the realm of legend ? someone is standing up to horrid people.
Unfortunately, such legends, though they have their uses in helping us feel better about our world, can also prove damaging and hurtful to those tarred by their brush. In 2001, Hubbard Foods of New Zealand, a company that produces breakfast cereal, erred by including the "South African woman seated next to a Black man" legend as a travel story in a children's newsletter inserted in boxes of its product. The tale had been selected for inclusion as an uplifting story imbued with a moral message, and no one thought to check its accuracy.
South Africans living in New Zealand were outraged by it. They saw the leaflet as unfairly painting them as racist, furthering an apartheid-era stereotype that is no longer valid. Hubbard Foods apologized but claimed it was too late and far too expensive to withdraw the boxes from store shelves.
I didn't have the specifics like Rick, but my BS detector was blasting at high volume when I read this one, regardless of how much of a "feel good" story it may be. It's just not how things work in real-life "customer service", and ESPECIALLY with airlines. The loudest and most obnoxious "squeaky wheels" are invariably the ones that gets their way.