After a delay screwed up our connection and caused us to miss part of our own wedding celebration with family 13 years ago, my wife and I have since always refered to United with the tag line, "United, Go f--- yourself".
I know a lot of airlines are just as bad, but we will forever hold United in the lowest of low esteem. They have absolutely created a company culture of the worst customer service in any situation. They don't even pretend to care.
I flew United recently. I nearly missed one connecting flight due to their incompetence, and then on the way back I actually did miss that connecting flight, again because of their management. That entire flight was a fucking nightmare. Not least because numbered United customer service people just did not give one shit.
Plus, on one of the flights the flight crew spent the entire flight bitching about and mocking customers who were on their flight. They did this in both the area at the end of the plane and in the main cabin (just presumably not within earshot of them). The level of unprofessionalism and just plain arrogance was stunning. That entire flight crew didn’t give one shit. They were surly and dismissive and complacent.
Like you, I will never be flying with them again. Though it sounds like what I went through was nothing compared to what these poor bastards in the linked article endured.
Exactly, I manage customer service a good bit in my job, and I totally get that some customers are impossible to please, but you have to evaluate when it's actually your fault and in those cases do everything you can to make it better.
I'm not sure what their rules are, but if was me, I'd be making it rain food and hotel vouchers at the very least. And acting like you have an ounce of empathy if nothing else, you don't know what someone is missing because of these delays.
Eh, as long as you make it clear they’ll get in trouble if they use them in school, it’s fine. My daughter is 13. Stopping her swearing at this point is a lost cause. So I say ‘fuck’ in front of her. “Fuck you, asshole” is often heard in my car in this town full of terrible drivers and being able to say it when she’s in the car too is quite nice.
Lufthansa is on my list… Left me stranded in an eastern European country with no way to resolve it except telling me to go into town to the office, or call them on the phone… As if I had a sim card that worked in the country and could be on hold for an hour. Had to book a hotel on my own dime and complaints were completely ignored.
I hope that jack Smith had this as part of his strategic plan and knew this was coming. I really want to believe that he actually does have 9 dimensional chess abilities like the media has been reporting, but the media…
I drove through Oregon and that threw me off when I was at the gas pump. What a weird law. Someone must have super fucked up to get that law pushed in the first place lol.
This hotel has been there for a while for visiting employees, paid for by the company. People wanted this option if, for example, you lived in Brazil, wanted to visit the US, but didn’t have any reason to book a business trip because you don’t work with anyone at headquarters. I’m going to guess that most paying guests won’t be reporting for work during their stays, but will be grabbing a solid 3 meals a day, plus snacks.
Note that this is a monoclonal antibody injection and not a vaccine. This means that it will be way more expensive and protection will only last a few months at most. This is still a good thing for that are young and don't mount great immune responses, but an actual vaccine approved for this age group is still needed.
No this drug is actually approved for prevention and not treatment.
It probably would reduce the chance they would get sick and get natural immunity. However a RSV vaccine for infants is hopefully not far off so they can gain immunity that way.
The reenactment is part of a lawsuit by the victims’ families and the wounded that accuses the Broward County deputy assigned to the school, Scot Peterson, of failing in his duty to protect them and their loved ones. Peterson, who was acquitted at a criminal trial in June, has said that because of echoes he could not pinpoint the shooter’s location.
David Brill, the attorney overseeing the reenactment on behalf of the families, did not return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday. He told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that 49 rounds were fired Friday and that the test showed Peterson would have heard the shots and known their location.
Jokes on them if they think I would be “to proud” to just sleep in a conference room, at my desk, etc if the only other option is actually paying them for the privilege of staying there.
I wonder what the rules are, like what would happen if you rent a room and just had a booze fueled rager several nights a week, leaving the room trashed.
Or sublet it out to a third party for more than $100/night as a side hustle.
When I was a kid my parents had The Best of Bill Cosby on record. I wore that vinyl out playing it over and over. I memorized the bits. I bought all the cassettes I could find. I have vague memories of Fat Albert on Saturday morning. And some movie where he played the devil. And The Cosby Show. I wanted to be Bill Cosby when I grew up.
Has any other beloved celebrity fallen as far as Cosby? I mean he was universally considered to be a genuinely nice guy. He was America’s Dad.
Oh yeah, I feel the same way. I grew up on the Himself special. I can recite a lot of the “chocolate cake for breakfast” part from memory I saw it so many times. And I will never, ever watch it again. I hate it because we’ve basically had to abandon a great talent, but it’s necessary. The same with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Put all of their work in a vault, seal it up and let future generations decide how they are to be remembered.
Here’s the thing- if some doctor told Abbott that he could walk again if they used an aborted fetus to harvest the stem cells, he would do it in a heartbeat.
This isn’t about morality because these people have no morals and we can’t forget that.
American are just as bad. A similar thing happened to my wife last month.
She and a bunch of other passengers missed their connecting flights due to the airline’s incompetence. She stood in line for four hours, without food or water, to wait her turn for American to get her on another flight but as she neared the end of the line the staff closed up their desks and said “sorry folks, come back tomorrow” and walked off, leaving her and about 50 other people to basically sleep on the floor and wait for them to re-open five hours later.
No mention of finding them a place to stay, nor providing even a bite to eat. Zip. Nada.
While it’s not quite as bad as what these poor people went through, it’s the same “not my problem; sucks to be you” energy from the airline.
I believe the Department of Transportation actually has fairly strict regulations about this. Report the incident to them; they may be able to point you in the right direction for seeking recourse, even if they don’t get directly involved.
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