r/news • u/Big-Heron4763 • 5d ago

Passenger ordered to pay more than $5,000 in fuel costs after flight diverted due to bad behavior

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/travel/australian-airline-passenger-fine-cost-fuel-intl-hnk/index.html
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u/Ughhhhhh10 5d ago

As an ex flight attendant that got out before covid…. I’ve never been happier

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u/octopop 5d ago

damn, you seriously dodged a bullet. I could not imagine what flight attendants have been going through since COVID started

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u/Asleep_Management900 5d ago

Current flight attendant chiming in. Human beings right now are the worst they have ever been. I think I know why. Imagine if every day all you have to do is turn on a screen, plug it in, and get hours of enjoyment with zero overcoming of any obstacles.

Then you get thrust into the real world. Other people tell you NO. People watch you think through the smallest of tasks and fail, and watch you get frustrated and lash out. I saw a guy pull and pull on a locked overhead bin before shouting at me. I told him 'Did you read the little sign?' He turned, saw that right where the latch was, is indeed a sign, that says "Crew Luggage - LOCKED". This is the real issue. People aren't understanding LIFE. No ability to think through problems because they are never challenged. Turn on the internet, and that's it. When it's ugly, you turn it off. Real people you can't turn off like a screen and so people go from 0 to 100 because they don't know any other way to react or show emotion or overcome the simplest failures. I watch people fail to read the sign on the door that says 'Push Here' and instead they grab the ashtray. You push right where it says PUSH. Not to the left, not to the right, right where it says push here. We are truly getting dumb thanks to social media.

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u/hopefullyrare 5d ago

Therapist chiming in, and I agree with you 100%. Also, I think some people are watching/reading things on their screens that are addictive because they are angering (due to algorithms)…and this is raising their stress levels 24/7. Makes it really easy to snap due to being so constantly dysregulated.

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u/Uncommented-Code 5d ago

Highly recommend usubscribing from subreddits that make you feel enraged on that note.

Not gonna lie, I do enjoy myself some outrage every now and again, à la 'gosh can you believe the audacity of that guy? Or 'geez I'm glad that's not my boyfriend, I'd dump him'.

But I make it a point to go to these subs whenever I remember that they exist and I feel like being angry a little bit. I don't need every third post on my feed to make me angry.

Reading has also helped. It was hard getting back into it again, since phones are so much more instant in their gratification, but as time passes and the more I read, the more pleasant reading becomes again, and the urge to pick up my phone and doomscroll declines.

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u/FrozenYogurt0420 5d ago

You are so right about reading (also unsubscribing from things that make me angry etc)!! The time I was recently able to get back into reading was on a flight where I couldn't scroll on my phone. I loved it and can't wait to read more.

But it's an adjustment, I have to reread a lot and I have to take frequent breaks, whereas years ago I could be engrossed in a book for hours.

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u/whilst 5d ago

Like, and I hate to say it, this thread, and much of reddit. It's so easy to read reddit and think the world is going to hell and everyone's terrible and just get mad about it. And maybe things are getting worse, but we probably don't benefit by seeking out that anger and frustration and pushing that button again and again. We could be reading books.

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u/Asleep_Management900 5d ago

Anger Sells have replaced "Sex Sells"

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u/itchyivy 5d ago

I feel like people have always been this stupid. But i do agree that their emotional control is worse. Speaking as a medical staff 

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u/BeautifulType 5d ago

It’s because of right wing politics not tech

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u/Asleep_Management900 5d ago

Anger Sells, where as Sex used to sell.....