Re: United to flight attendants: Put away your phone or you are fired

Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2024-02-07 09:02, Governor Swill wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 21:38:43 -0700, Gronk <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Alan Browne wrote:
>>>> On 2024-02-05 12:07, micky wrote:
>>>>> In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 5 Feb 2024 08:24:55 -0000 (UTC), 
>>>>> useapen
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Use of a personal electronic device and/or accessories is not 
>>>>>> permitted
>>>>>> while customers are on board the aircraft, with the exception of crew
>>>>>> rest. ... Any crewmember found in violation will be subject to 
>>>>>> performance
>>>>>> discipline up to and including termination," the memo states
>>>>>
>>>>> I have doubts if this is a good idea.  I was on a United AL flight and
>>>>> the flight attendant read on Yahoo News a Breaking News story that our
>>>>> plane was crashing.  She notified the pilot and he took care of it. 
>>>>> What
>>>>> would have happened if she weren't using her phone?
>>>>
>>>> I'd call that an edge case.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd also call that desperate and MADE UP.
>>
>> I'm thinking it was sarcasm.
> 
> Because you're infected with the ability to think.  Others seem immune 
> to it.
> 
> I didn't mean to be sarcastic, actually, just a funny retort to a funny 
> bit by mickey.

It's the sort of desperate and made up thing magats bleat, along
with microchips in mayonaise or Hugo Chavez stealing the election.