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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
So, perhaps, you can explain how someone goes about "thieving and plundering" a numeric code when, hopefully, access to the name attached to it is restricted by the flight attendant's employer.
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I could explain how to steal an identity, but since the information is very readily accessible on the internet, I won't. If you want to know, just look it up, I swear, it's really easy to find. Be warned though, the govt watches websites that have such info and track IP addresses that frequent them. Moving on, by your logic, no identities would ever be stolen, since they should be protected by the government, or institution where an employer isn't involved. Numbers such as SSN, DL, DOB, DOD, military ID, checking acct, savings acct, student ID, so on and so forth are all used in stealing ones identity. Those are ALL numbers that should be protected, and are supposedly so. Yet many many times per day people use those very numbers to wreak havoc on others. Like I said, it's not hard. Passing out an employee number to anyone and everyone would be a bad idea, period. It's the same reason employees don't have their full name on their name tags, (and don't have to tell you their full name). In my experience, they are only required to give you a first name and last initial, or first initial and last name.
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
Until the government starts licensing flight attendants there is probably no point at even attempting to reign-in the bad behavior of these few.
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Who do you think certifies the training the FAs receive? Try the FAA and DOT on for size. They may not have a "license" in the sense of a DL, but their PRIMARY purpose is to ensure passenger safety, as they always say on the announcement, and have been certified by the government to do just that. Anything over that is a luxury, not a requirement, and it is certainly not a "passenger's right" to have a "waitress" on board.
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy Slept Here
bad behavior of these few
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So you admit it is only a few. At least we agree there. I have met more than one FA that is less than happy to be on the A/C, and I think you and I would agree that they should quit and find something else to do. But the fact is that the vast majority of FAs in the world are very pleasant and helpful and in no way try, certainly not intentionally out of spite for the customer, to ruin your day. They know as well as others that the industry relies on passengers buying tickets. Why in the world would they purposefully alienate them?