I'm going to guess based on some of the responses here that employee stealing might well be commonplace in the airline industry.
Instead of sticking it to the customer, and screwing the customer over and nickling and diming the customer to death on $25 same-day stand by fees and Northwest charging $15 for an exit row, perhaps the industry should find a way to be more pro-active at self-monitoring and get rid of some of the detritus working and getting paychecks.
To those of you leaving personal insults here towards me, you're pushing me closer to giving far more details directly to the company. I'm going to hope that you folks are recently-hired Express folks and that those of you sending me a plethora of support in private chat are longer term REAL USair employees. At least that's how I'm putting order on this chaos in my mind.
I've let your dirty little secret out of the bag and now someone might do something about it. tsk tsk....now go steal 4 $25 stand by fees out of the cash register when no one's looking because you might really need it when you lose your job for stealing.
First of all, what does this post have to do with the topic of this thread? If you felt this was such an important insight worthy of posting, perhaps it should have been posted on the thread you started entitled "STEALING". Sounds like a cry for attention to me.
Secondly, are you REALLY that troubled by witnessing what appeared to be a f/a (whom you admitted gave you exceptional service) pocketing a few minis, which, you cannot even prove? Seriously?? Man, I wish my life were so perfect and I had so little to worry about that I could take the same holier-than-thou, self-righteous, almighty attitude.
I certainly hope you don't lose sleep over the tens and hundreds of thousands of children dieing of AIDS in Africa, or the genocide and "ethnic cleansing" in numerous lands around the world, or that millions of your fellow Americans can barely make a livable wage while the richest executives continue to reward themselves by lining their own pockets with obscene amounts of money off the hard-working backs of the working class, or the FRIGHTENING direction in which this country is headed ever since George Dubya has been in office...
Rather than posting on this public forum childish comments like: "the responses I'm getting from you all are going to make me go tell on this flight attendant"...why don't you put your efforts to better use by trying to make a difference for a cause that really matters? Since, of course, you live your life to a higher standard than so many of the rest of us, and what you observed is so much worse than anything you've ever done yourself...or at least you'd have us all think.
Make no mistake, myself and many others do not condone stealing, perhaps it is just that we all see there are far more important things to be worried about, and understand there are more useful ways to expend our energy.
