Muslim Flight Attendant Refuses to Serve Alcohol- Do Republicans support her?

[MADem]

217. All airlines hire foreign language speakers if they have presence abroad.

Flying to Paris? There are French speakers on the plane--qualified and tested ones, not just ones who took French in HS. Flying to Madrid or Caracas? There are Spanish speakers on the plane. Enroute to Rio? There are Portuguese speakers on the plane. They hire these people so they can communicate with non-English speaking passengers. Often they ARE young, and some are better than others in terms of their ability to function as FAs, but they are all qualified/pass a test of language skill.

And you aren't processing what I am saying.


If you have five or seven FAs on a plane, that "waaah, I can't touch booze" whiner can sit her ass in the galley and spend the flight heating up dinners. Then she can pick up trash at the end of the service. There are enough OTHER people on the aircraft to do the job.

But this woman works on TINY AIRCRAFT where she would often be the ONLY FA. What--you think the airline should put a spare FA in the plane to hand out booze? Reduce the passenger load, pay an extra person, carry dead weight, because she can't touch a beer can?

I don't see why you're making a complex issue out of something that is simple, here. She can't do the job. She is not working for United, so just stow that lame argument-- she's working for shitty little Expressjets, with their teeny tiny planes. There is no "someone else" on most of those planes to do HER job. If SHE doesn't do the work, the work does NOT GET DONE.

And "successful accommodation?" Successful accommodation, my left foot!!!! It could EASILY take three months for the complaint to be acted upon by an airline. The schedules are made month by month. A FA could get screwed over one month, be shoved into shit flights they didn't ask for, think "damn that was just bad luck," and then get screwed over AGAIN the following month, start to realize that it's not bad luck, it's because "Ms. No Beer or Booze" is gumming up the rotation, always getting a slot on the easier, two-person flights (and making that other person do HER work), and at that point, make a complaint.

She can't do the job? She needs to leave. You don't hire a person to type for you who can't type. You don't hire a person to give a massage who refuses to touch a customer. By her quirky, personal decision--not one that is held across Islam by ANY stretch--she has made herself ineligible.

I think she's looking for a Go Away Payday. She's probably sick of the job. I say offer her baggage handling or gate agent, but get her OFF the planes if she can't do the work.