This Exists: Ballsy Flight Attendant Uses Emergency Chute To Quit His Job On Tarmac

by Jon Bershad | 5:31 pm, August 9th, 2010

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It doesn’t matter if you work in the mail room for a soulless corporation or in the quality assurance department for a Fireworks, Ice Cream, and Porn Star Factory, everyone imagines quitting their job from time to time. However, in all of our wildest dreams of escaping the daily grind, I’m sure most people have never imagined doing so in as fantastic a way as Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant who used his plane’s emergency chute to get away from annoying passengers earlier today in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Sure, he may be facing some legal problems for his actions, but he’s sure to be the hero of clock punchers everywhere for years to come.

From the Wall Street Journal:

“JetBlue Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh had taxied to a stop at Terminal 5, Gate C around noon Monday when flight attendant Steven Slater, 38, was struck in the head with luggage that a passenger was trying to unload from an overhead compartment, according to an airport official with knowledge of the incident.

Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, the official said, but the passenger refused. The two argued before the passenger told Slater to ‘f— off’, the official said. The official said that Slater then got on the plane’s PA system and directed that same obscenity at all the passengers and added that he especially meant it for the man who refused to apologize.

Slater is alleged to have then activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, grabbed two beers from the galley, then slid down the chute, the official said.”

Holy crap. All Slater needed to do is wave the American flag over his head and shotgun one of those beers on the way down the chute and he’d probably be the greatest human being who ever lived. The Wall Street Journal goes on to detail how Slater ran through the terminal, hopped in his car, and drove home to Queens where he was soon picked up by police all of which are details that will be used in the later verses of the folk songs we will all sing to our grandchildren about this living legend.

The intrepid reporters over at the New York Times looked up Slater’s MySpace page (Eww, MySpace, really? This is the first uncool thing I’ve heard about this guy) and discovered he’s been a flight attendant since 1990 which is a long time to spend every day telling obnoxious travelers that, no matter how hard they push, that suitcase is not going to fit in the overhead compartment. He was also “chairman of JetBlue’s uniform redesign committee” and “serves on the airline’s in-flight values committee,” a committee whose rules he probably broke today.

So, God speed, Steven Slater. You are an inspiration to us all.

(UPDATE 08/10/10) Watch the report from CBS News Below:

Awesome People, JetBlue, Steven Slater

http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

That’s all I can stands , cause I can’t stands no more !
shootfromthehip

Such a diva move.

That’s why I prefer the old hags on United and American.

At least they’re not all chatty on the PA and they certainly don’t think they’re superstars like the young retard attendants on Jet Blue.
Pablo

Beating alcoholism and substance abuse “one day at a time” has opened up new worlds of opportunity for me, and I am so thankful to those who have guided me along the path to successful living, and given me new wings to fly. See you above the clouds….

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/nycflyer71#ixzz0w9HRMSrP

Uh oh.
felixw

Probably was a set up for a production crew filming a reality show.
ifpff

Where’s cell phone cam footage? That’d be so sick
MichelleF

So, God speed, Steven Slater. You are an inspiration to us all.

Why is he an inspriation to you, Jon? We all feel like this some days, but most of us act professionally and just do our job. I’ll admit I don’t take crap and have told people on the phone they must use a respectful tone with me and not curse, but at the end of the day, I need the job and suck it up! Luckily, most of the time, I love my job.
Paula

I hope they throw the book at this little Queen. I’m sooooooooooooo SICK of swishy, girly, “flight attendants” on American airlines I want to throw up. You NEVER see this on foreign airlines. When they have MALE flight attendants (which is rare), they at least have men who act in a masculine fashion, not like some litte swish queen on hormone therapy.

Fire him. Jail him. Let him pull his swishy fits in prison, where he belongs.
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Here’s King Obama’s new Cojone Consultant .
ifpff

Paula said:
I hope they throw the book at this little Queen. I’m sooooooooooooo SICK of swishy, girly, “flight attendants” on American airlines I want to throw up. You NEVER see this on foreign airlines. When they have MALE flight attendants (which is rare), they at least have men who act in a masculine fashion, not like some litte swish queen on hormone therapy.

Fire him. Jail him. Let him pull his swishy fits in prison, where he belongs.

In Europe, they have better benefits, and more vacation time too. I have to save up my paid vacation hours for in case I get sick. Maybe I’d hate my job less if I actually ever got vacation and didn’t to serve a bunch of uppity pricks on some flight to take theirs.

I wonder if you’ve ever worked in the service industry for any extended period of time, maybe you have, but it sucks in some jobs more than others. People are fucking terrible sometimes. I wouldn’t have done what he did, because I need my job, but I get quite a bit of enjoyment out of this, as well as how mad it made you.
Pablo

Oh. My.

Slater was later arrested at his home in Belle Harbor, Queens by Port Authority officials. Police sources said that when authorities found Slater he seemed to be in the midst having sexual relations.

That, my brother, sounds like a hell of an afternoon. Very liberating, right up until the handcuffs.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Koulouris/600917206 Christopher Koulouris

Which makes us wonder- what set Steven Slater off? Really Steven, what pissed you off that much? Did them wenches not make enough eye contact with you, was it a bumpy flight, that some idiot refused to say sorry to you thus shocking your moral superiority, was it that time of month or was it simply something you’ve been waiting to do all these years…?

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/08/why-did-jet-blues-steven-slater-flip-out/
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Slater starts today at the White House teaching King Obama to man up .
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dee-Eddie/1816249668 Dee Eddie

While I don’t agree with how he quit, I cetainly understand why. When taxing down the runway at Reagan National Airport there was a passenger who did the same thing. The flight attendant told him to sit down and replaced his bags inn the overhead. When we diembarked, the offender was detained. I applauded the flight attendant. Why do some people believe that the rules apply to everyone else but them? THAT is the larger question. Ironically, the flight attendant on Jet Blue didn’t feel he had to play by the rules either. Civility, any one?
http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com DeputyHeadmistress

I was liking this guy right up to the point where he swore at all the other passengers on the plane. What’s inspirational about cussing out an entire airplane of innocent bystanders because of the jerk who accidentally hit you in the head and refused to apologize?
Civility? Where was this guy’s civility? The other passengers didn’t do anything to him and he treated them all with undeserved contempt and rage.

The people who serve as inspirations to me are grown-ups with self-control, a sense of duty, and a level of integrity this man did not display.
Nachi

Great story! Get a grip Deputy. This is obviously over your reach.
Nachi

There are certainly some little boys here with vast problems w their masculinity. Bitter & angry at anything their wilted little minds imagine to not somehow be “manly.” While they themselves have no concept of the definition of the word – other than ignorant and slobbish. They spend their little lives wildly thrashing about, trying to find some testosterone to fill their empty little scrotums. They are Murcuh’s “LITTLE wee-wee guys.” Yup.
http://none pyrope

DeputyHeadmistress said:
I was liking this guy right up to the point where he swore at all the other passengers on the plane. What’s inspirational about cussing out an entire airplane of innocent bystanders because of the jerk who accidentally hit you in the head and refused to apologize?Civility? Where was this guy’s civility? The other passengers didn’t do anything to him and he treated them all with undeserved contempt and rage. The people who serve as inspirations to me are grown-ups with self-control, a sense of duty, and a level of integrity this man did not display.

Kind of like George S. Patton; when you want something to sink in say it loud and dirty. Yeah, not every airline passenger is a twit, but most of ‘em are, and I tend to think Mr. Slater was unleashing 20 years of pent up frustration with all the rude and self-centered idiots, deranged children, etc. he’d had to deal with during his career.

I wish the moron of a passenger could have his mug splattered all over the net and the so-called “news” papers, and that this guy could enjoy a certain amount of anonymity.