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| Alpha Dog of the Week - Steven Slater | ||||
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As the last day's post topics will confirm, your Cogitamus buddies have jumped on the magnificent bandwagon of bravado that is this story. And we're not alone--other than a tiny chorus of naysayers ("He lost his temper, and that's just sooo unprofessional", etc. etc.), Americans have for the most part been overwhelmingly supportive of Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who embodied the Take-this-job-and-shove-it fantasies that more and more of us are entertaining in our bowed heads these days as stressed-out, underpaid nose meets demanding, understaffed grindstone.
I, for one, have often wondered where the inflatable emergency exit slide was located. Hasn't everyone?
