Steven Slater, a Jet Blue Flight Attendant decided that on the day he quit the company (and apparently his occupation because I doubt another airline will hire him after his escapade) he would do it in a “huff”! Anyone of us has been in a situation, or had a day, when we felt like we were about to boil over and would liked to have done nothing other than storm out the door and never look back. I can think of many, many reasons why that is not a good idea, not the least of which is that these stories will hang around for a long, long time. And in these days of social media, maybe forever. Mr. Slater’s story will stay with him and he will, unless he does not need to work again, have to recant the story and defend himself, his judgment, and his decision making for many years to come.
I once had a person who was to come to work for me and who was highly anticipated. It was Monday morning, the day he was to arrive on the job. He was being transferred from another facility within the company to the plant where I was ...
