Comments on: You Can’t Fight City Hall http://thethinpinkline.com/2009/11/25/choose-your-government-battles-carefully/ Four Women For Women Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Donlyn Jones http://thethinpinkline.com/2009/11/25/choose-your-government-battles-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-19741 Donlyn Jones Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:19:57 +0000 http://thethinpinkline.com/?p=3461#comment-19741 This is a great article and so true. I'd like to add to the list of people you just don't want mess with - anyone in an official capacity in the airline travel industry. This includes TSA agents, counter agents, flight attendants, gate agents and the cleaning crew. THEY have the power. If one of these officials tells you to do something - you need to do it. Arguing gets you no where and getting abusive puts you on the NO FLY list. Once you cross the threshold at the airport entrance, you have no rights, Buster! Get over your CEO, I'm the BOSS, Charles In Charge, Arrogantness and strip. You are chattel just like the rest of us. This is a great article and so true. I’d like to add to the list of people you just don’t want mess with – anyone in an official capacity in the airline travel industry. This includes TSA agents, counter agents, flight attendants, gate agents and the cleaning crew.

THEY have the power. If one of these officials tells you to do something – you need to do it. Arguing gets you no where and getting abusive puts you on the NO FLY list.

Once you cross the threshold at the airport entrance, you have no rights, Buster! Get over your CEO, I’m the BOSS, Charles In Charge, Arrogantness and strip. You are chattel just like the rest of us.

]]> By: mac http://thethinpinkline.com/2009/11/25/choose-your-government-battles-carefully/comment-page-1/#comment-19640 mac Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:17:26 +0000 http://thethinpinkline.com/?p=3461#comment-19640 Lois, Happy Thanksgiving and what an interesting piece for us to reflect on. There is alot of truth in what you reported in terms of the real damage bureaucrats with job security can do. I have experienced this personally in my life on multiple fronts. Joe McCarthy in the 50s was an excellent example of how one person can cause misery and how the ramifications for speaking up can ruin an individual and his family. John Henry Faulk had the courage to sue McCarthy and this led to the decline of blacklisting. We do need people to take on "city hall". However, the price for the individual is great. Our country's future is at risk if we let "city hall" always win. In the meantime. I understand completely your brother's position and behavior given his circumstances. Lois,
Happy Thanksgiving and what an interesting piece for us to reflect on. There is alot of truth in what you reported in terms of the real damage bureaucrats with job security can do. I have experienced this personally in my life on multiple fronts.
Joe McCarthy in the 50s was an excellent example of how one person can cause misery and how the ramifications for speaking up can ruin an individual and his family. John Henry Faulk had the courage to sue McCarthy and this led to the decline of blacklisting. We do need people to take on “city hall”. However, the price for the individual is great. Our country’s future is at risk if we let “city hall” always win. In the meantime. I understand completely your brother’s position and behavior given his circumstances.

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