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1. School administrators are total clowns. I’m with the UNITED FA on this.

   United FAs keep me safe and hydrated and fed onboard a flight.

   School admins are total leeches who often don’t know squat about their own profession. Tell me – what is the difference between a 2- and 3-parameter model in item response theory? What are fixed and random effects in the context of hierarchical regression models? They don’t know these things even though they’re central to educational measurement.

   In any case, we all know schools don’t matter, right? It’s the kids and parents who do. High quality empirical literature has shown this.

   Good schools are good because the students’ parents care about education. The teachers and staff are immaterial. this is also why increased funding for poor performing schools does jack squat.

2. Let’s start by reminding each other that misbehavior is the problem, not the backgrounds of the individuals; for instance, most crew members and passengers do not berate each other; they focus on safety, comfort, and getting to where they are going, day in, day out.

3. NUT JOB.

   We in the US have lost all our civility.

   United did the right thing to fire this person that cannot keep within her own hoolahoop. Just do the job.

4. Ginny got what she deserved. Fired.
   Also noteworthy is the name for a female donkey is: Jenny

5. @PENILE — Great teachers still matter, a lot.

   (By the way, I’m honestly shocked that William and Chuck didn’t remove your stuff over at DoC, yet. Maybe you were onto something; like, they each think, individually, that they have the higher percentage of that 175. Clever, clever…)

   (P.P.S., you aren’t @Other Just Saying, are you? He and I were recently ‘shooting the shit’ in different post. If so, again, wow, you sly dog. If not, you keep doing you.)

6. “She says she was off duty and out of uniform and didn’t identify herself as a flight attendant.” If true, then this really is no different than any of us confronting anyone else at an airport over anything. Should that mean you get fired?

   Seems unrelated to the job. It’s not like she was literally a crew member accosting a passenger during the flight. Well, if it were merely an ‘at-will’ employment relationship, then, no need for any discussion, because those employers (usually for worse, not for better), can fire anyone on a whim. However, this is not that situation. United’s crew members are represented by their union, and the union is seeking to protect its member. Seems like normal. Regardless of the members’ personal views, even if abhorrent, this is the type of protection organized labor provides.

   You shouldn’t lose your livelihood because of your deeply held personal views, including political speech outside of work. Let’s say Ginny were instead an evangelical-Christian activist, promoting her wish to restrict all forms of abortion, and as an off-duty, out-of-uniform, member of the traveling public, she confronted a Democratic lawmaker on that topic, in an airport lounge; then, the airline fired her; I’d suspect the union would fight that, too. Try the mental exercise of switching the ‘hat’ of the person; it might do you some good.

7. At the 2024 Democratic National Convetion she strongly opposed the Party’s support for Israel. She wants Hamas de-listed as a terrorist organization (and traffics in Jews/money tropes and reposts material describing “Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen” as the “axis of resistance.”

   Let the record stand that the AFA should completely disassociate themselves from such radical left wing ideology. United was hijacked twice during 9/11 and the AFA does not need its membership hijacked again by an enemy from within with such radical and poisonous views. AFA needs to court people truly interested in the well being of the membership, with a goal towards success of an airline and its employees. Public education is a bureaucratic mess most of us know but much of that is fostered by people like this lady who will have much more time to help out molding the schools into the imagine she wants to create through government. God bless the administrator for helping her find her life path. {;

8. @1990 – somehow she was identified as a United employee. Likely in the social media account where she posted the encounter. If so she has no cover. She is a representative of UA and, as such, she can be fired for behavior that harms their brand.

   You, of all people, should know “freedom of speech” doesn’t apply to private companies and, while most people aren’t jailed for their speech, they can suffer consequences.

   In total she sounds like a liberal wacko and glad to see UA drain the swamp

9. It’s a shame that you chose a video clip that is so much in favour of the FA and not of the superintendent. I can’t imagine feeling comfortable taking a flight and being harassed by someone about my actions on a job. United has a clear policy; I’m glad the FA was fired. Want to work for an airline; keep your views out of social media and the public!

10. A United employee attacking a United customer in a United lounge. Great way to build brand loyalty. And she challenges her termination? As the saying goes, can’t fix stupid.

11. @1990 – “You shouldn’t lose your livelihood because of your deeply held personal views, including political speech outside of work”

    That’s a great description if she’d expressed herself at a school board meeting and even the supermarket.

    But she’s an employee, at her employer’s place of business, accosting them man while he’s a customer – and it’s a clear violation of policy.