jersey777
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- May 24, 2006
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I was sitting in my jumpseat for landing..I was #6 on the 767-300..and struck up a conversation with the passenger sitting next to me during taxi. She was sitting in 17b which is normally the crew rest seat. After a few minutes of friendly light conversation she asked me if I was the purser and I said no. She then proceeded so tell me that she was upset because she was "reprimanded"...her words... by another flight attendant during the flight. This other flight attendant was the #7 who happened to be sitting directly behind me in her own jumpseat. She then told me that she had a bunch of papers...I'm not sure if they were newspapers or not...and that she had a bad back so instead of placing the papers in the seat pocket in front of he she was throwing them behind her seat. If you are not familiar with this seat then this is equivalent to throwing your papers behind the last seat before the bulkhead...kind of into a no man's land. Appearantly she was told by the #7 not to do this. I found out later that some of the papers were spilling out into the ailse. Now this lady was very nicely dressed and was Executive platinum and was not going off on me but was telling me in a calm manner but I could tell she was very upset. Also..let me say..the #7 was one of the sweetest girls I have ever met. I didn't know her before this flight but I did see that the day before she personally thanked all her passengers in Business class. So her I am in strapped in my jumpseat in front of one of my co-workers listening to a complaint and she was asking me her name! Well....I first tried to tell her to see the purser on her way out but she persisted and then I told her to write a letter if she had an issue. I never gave her the #7's name. I tried to lend a sympathetic ear but I wanted to tell her that she was wrong for not asking for a bag to throw her stuff away and that someone was going to have to clean the plane and dig behind those seats to pick up all her trash. Also...why didn't she just ask the flightt attendant her name and leave me out of it. Anyways...she asked the purser for her name on the way out and he told her the same thing...write a letter to management. I would love to know how a supervisor would have handled this situation. Is she going to get advantage miles out of this? Who knows? I am just curious...what would you have done? If you were a manager...would you support the flight attendants actions as long as they were not rude?