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Originally Posted by justme
Here's the problem with that logic. First, if he was sleeping on airplanes, he would have needed an airline ID, and an airport security ID. Who do you think paid for that? If he didn't have either, he had to have an escort the whole time, which means AirTran was paying overtime for someone to babysit.
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Not really the case. I'm sure there had to be a background check, but keep in mind he flew back to Atlanta every night. They have full time maintenance on duty. And as long as he was escorted onto the plane, and did not get off, then actually as long as someone has view of the plane, no babysitter needed. It's on the edge, but it's legal since it was set up by the upper management of the airline.
He said somewhere that he was awakened by the moving of the plane. The mechanics were towing from one gate to another and forgot he was on board.
Regardless of all of this, I know that you now understand that there were not 2000 employees laid off. But you still contend that there were some. Again, not true at this point, since the furloughed employees have since been called back. It would have been one thing if they had paid whatever at the same time there were laid off employees, in which case your argument could hold at least some water (though not much with the other posts), but the two didn't happen at the same time. So the bottom line is your entire first post is completely wrong, not just the numbers.