Mar 8th, 2011 at 12:00PM: A Virgin Blue flight attendant has been fired after putting a 17-month-old baby in an overhead compartment as part of a peek-a-boo joke. Passenger Natalie Williamson was on a flight from Fiji to Sydney with her husband and son when the flight attendant put the baby into the overhead bin and locked it for 10 seconds.
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Virgin Blue flight attendant puts baby in overhead bin
Mar 8th, 2011 at 12:00PM: A Virgin Blue flight attendant has been fired after putting a 17-month-old baby in an overhead compartment as part of a peek-a-boo joke. Passenger Natalie Williamson was on a flight from Fiji to Sydney with her husband and son when the flight attendant put the baby into the overhead bin and locked it for 10 seconds.
"I stood up and there were people laughing and then I said 'Get my son out of ...Gun-toting pilot gets gig back
Oct 10th, 2009 at 12:00PM: A gun was fired in the cockpit and so was the pilot. In March 2008, on a flight from Denver to Charlotte, US Airways pilot Jim Langenhahn's gun discharged, an action taken by his employer shortly after. Now that his 18-month disciplinary suspension is over, he's back in training and getting ready to take to the friendly skies. The Associated Press didn't mention whether the current program ...Hyatt's problems increase as chain is boycotted
Sep 25th, 2009 at 2:30PM: The Hyatt hotel chain is facing more trouble after firing nearly 100 housekeepers and replacing them with contract workers. Though a rep for Hyatt has denied that the fired workers were "tricked" into training their replacements and were not given severance, it seems the public isn't buying it.
Union officials at the Boston Taxi Drivers Association have said that the 1700 drivers in the union ...Smut bust at Sweden's airport authority: 7 fired, 1 quit
May 6th, 2009 at 5:00PM: Sweden's airport authority had problems with its computer systems ... caused by porn. An investigation has revealed that LFV Group employees were passing the time on adult websites while at work. Seven have been fired, and one employee quit as a result. Particularly loathsome is the fact that some of these employees accessed at least one website with child pornography.
This behavior was ...Air India fires 10 employees for being fat
Jan 6th, 2009 at 5:05PM: State-run Air India gave 10 air hostesses the boot last week for being "exceptionally overweight." According to Reuters, a medical board in India had declared them "unfit for duty," and they had been grounded for two to three years each. Air India finally decided to cut them off -- and while several of the air hostesses apparently approached the New Delhi High Court about challenging the firings, ...
