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ElGroucho posted:LOL, bye United, it was nice knowing you LOL if you think this will effect their bottom line for more than a couple days.
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Burning_Monk posted:LOL if you think this will effect their bottom line for more than a couple days. I meant I'm not going to use them, on account of valuing my face
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ElGroucho posted:LOL, bye United, it was nice knowing you Hahaha, nope! Not even close. This will be forgotten in week or two only to be brought up in passing the next time they do something stupid. edit: ElGroucho posted:I meant I'm not going to use them, on account of valuing my face Ah, that makes more sense.
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ravenkult posted:Oh okay then they did a good job of it Did I say that? No. Just don't represent the situation as "Lol United employees wanted a vacay." There's enough poo poo to fling at them without falsely representing the situation.
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Apr 10, 2017 18:22
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There's some new lovely thing that an airline did every week, so I doubt United will be impacted. This one is worse than the others for sure, but who can even remember which airline did which lovely thing anymore. They definitely should not have called the police to forcibly solve a logistics problem for them though. If no one wants your $800 coupon, then you offer $800 cash.
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PostNouveau posted:There's some new lovely thing that an airline did every week, so I doubt United will be impacted. This one is worse than the others for sure, but who can even remember which airline did which lovely thing anymore. The 'United breaks guitars' thing is pretty memorable because the song went viral and United took forever to respond, and the stock dropped 10% which was like $180 million dollars. That and the negative PR basically undid millions of dollars that United spends on advertising with a negative image.
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Meanwhile, Virgin America, the only good airline, gets bought out by another airline.
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Blackchamber posted:The 'United breaks guitars' thing is pretty memorable because the song went viral and United took forever to respond, and the stock dropped 10% which was like $180 million dollars. That and the negative PR basically undid millions of dollars that United spends on advertising with a negative image. The stock price thing was just a rumor.
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The hoops some of y'all will jump through to defend lovely companies is amazing.
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Sure he was taken off an airplane and beaten but I think you'll find that the technicality of trespassing that you can see if you squint really hard as well as him being a minor inconvenience justify it and furthermore
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Solice Kirsk posted:I don't know how to feel about this. Dude's a piece of poo poo, but I don't quite know how big of a piece of poo poo. A fairly sizeable piece is what my guts telling me. He's a YouTube comedian doing a skit, so while he is indeed a piece of poo poo it's not for the reasons you were thinking.
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Apr 10, 2017 18:54
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OK, I thought it was weird that a criminal would care if they were being filmed at an ATM since they know no one is ever actually watching them. Or will watch them unless something is reported.
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I think this guy's gonna get a nice settlement as a part of this, and he deserves one, because United is gonna pay whatever they need to pay to make this go away so they don't keep getting pilloried by the public, but I think he'd have an uphill battle if they really wanted to fight it. I'm gonna assume that United will claim that they offered him whatever the law says they must (regardless of whether it is true) and so when he refused to leave, they called the cops. They'll say they didn't want to back down because it sets a bad precedent that if you're "important" enough, you can talk your way out of getting bumped and that it's on the cops if they used excessive force. I watched the video, and there's nothing there that doesn't occur on literally every episode of Cops and happen probably every second of every day across the country when the cops use force. It was force, it was bullshit, but there's no way that meets the legal definition of excessive. It's a PR nightmare for United, it's lovely too, but it's certainly legal.
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No, knowingly making false claims to a court is really a bad idea. There are no laws requiring them to *offer* anything prior to dumping you. Saying "Hey, we need four volunteers to get off the plane, we'll pay the first four people who agree $800 each" is to get people to *voluntarily* be bumped. The law only says that if you get involuntarily bumped, there is compensation the airline is required to give you. quote:and so when he refused to leave, they called the cops. They'll say they didn't want to back down because it sets a bad precedent that if you're "important" enough, you can talk your way out of getting bumped and that it's on the cops if they used excessive force. That would be enormously tone-deaf on their part. This would only be compounded by the fact that they were doing it so a crew could make their next flight. Under those circumstances, you should offer as much as it takes to get your volunteers, because the downside is canceling an entire flight and that's going to cost you *way* more money than saying "Okay, instead of $800 in vouchers, how about $1000 in cash?" quote:I watched the video, and there's nothing there that doesn't occur on literally every episode of Cops and happen probably every second of every day across the country when the cops use force. It was force, it was bullshit, but there's no way that meets the legal definition of excessive. This isn't a matter of an excessive force complaint *against the cops*, so the legal definition of excessive force isn't relevant. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 19:08 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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Whoops. Great timing. https://twitter.com/prweekus/status/842484619744178176
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We Americans have such a love for violence and authority that an airline could probably up its popularity by marketing itself as the one where unruly passengers get regularly assaulted by cops/soldiers. The other passengers could even start chanting USA USA!
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FCKGW posted:Whoops. Great timing. Great timing of almost a month ago?
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Apr 10, 2017 19:14
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United should have just sent their people on a different carrier
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I've seen genuinely serious criminals treated with more respect in the UK than that guy. Insane.
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Kurieg posted:Great timing of almost a month ago? Yes, great timing of United PR to implode after receiving an award for good PR.
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Jippa posted:I've seen genuinely serious criminals treated with more respect in the UK than that guy. Insane. Same in the US. It's a pretty weird situation they pulled off. Even for Chicago PD.
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Phanatic posted:No, knowingly making false claims to a court is really a bad idea. There are no laws requiring them to *offer* anything prior to dumping you. Saying "Hey, we need four volunteers to get off the plane, we'll pay the first four people who agree $800 each" is to get people to *voluntarily* be bumped. The law only says that if you get involuntarily bumped, there is compensation the airline is required to give you. quote:That would be enormously tone-deaf on their part. This would only be compounded by the fact that they were doing it so a crew could make their next flight. Under those circumstances, you should offer as much as it takes to get your volunteers, because the downside is canceling an entire flight and that's going to cost you *way* more money than saying "Okay, instead of $800 in vouchers, how about $1000 in cash?" quote:This isn't a matter of an excessive force complaint *against the cops*, so the legal definition of excessive force isn't relevant.
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I hope United starts beating the poo poo out of random passengers, that way people learn [something]
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Sorry we sold 100 tickets but only have 75 seats. It's time for TRIAL BY COMBAT. Make sure any weapons can be stowed in the overhead bin.
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Saint Freak posted:Sorry we sold 100 tickets but only have 75 seats. It's time for TRIAL BY COMBAT. Make sure any weapons can be stowed in the overhead bin. 
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Wasn't United also the one that took a pr beating because they wouldn't let some girls on with leggings?
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Saint Freak posted:Sorry we sold 100 tickets but only have 75 seats. It's time for TRIAL BY COMBAT. Make sure any weapons can be stowed in the overhead bin. https://twitter.com/Reflog_18/status/851452978104082434
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Phew I was worried it was a white dude. I'm still safe.
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Azhais posted:United should have just sent their people on a different carrier No, it's better to inconvenience your own customers and get bad PR than use the competition!
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Incredible. Force every US police officer to wear a camera 24/7.
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Oh man, that's the good stuff I haven't seen this one here: Tomi Lahren sues for wrongful termination. No matter how it goes, somebody I don't like is going to lose.
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hahaha holy poo poo
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I don't get it. If he was an Asian guy then why didn't he just karate his way out of it? Something isn't adding up with this story... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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trickybiscuits posted:Oh man, that's the good stuff It's true; they really are for 'no lawful terminations (except mine)'.
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verymoldy posted:I often fall from a seated position onto a thing attached to that seat so hard that I visibly injure myself. Obviously, you are black. It appears to be a genetic deficiency as it seems to happen so often to black people - often in police interview rooms.
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Jippa posted:Incredible. Force every US police officer to wear a camera 24/7. It will just fall off/stop working every time.
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spog posted:Obviously, you are black. Weird having it happen to an Asian dude this time.
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