Did the Jet Blue Dude Just Do What Everyone Else Fantasizes About?

Well, I bet that the Jet Blue employee who let a giant slide down so he could tell off a passenger that must have ticked him off, and subsequently hightail it off the plane, but not before grabbing himself a brewskie complements of his (former) employer, didn’t plan on making international headlines yesterday.

Or, who knows, maybe he did. Maybe he had this idea concocted in his head for quite a while that he was fed up and wouldn’t take any more crap from people. Let’s face it, we all have those dramatic job-quitting fantasies. Unless you happen to have a dream job where no one ever pisses you off, makes you feel stupid, or makes you feel like you work for less than you’re worth. In other words, if you have a job that doesn’t exist, you may not have had this fantasy before!

The truth is, while this guy is facing criminal charges, he did exactly what most of us dream of doing when our jobs or someone at them is really rubbing us the wrong way. We all dream of suddenly winning the lottery or getting a windfall of cash, finding out at work, and biding our time til someone irks us and we can tell them off and leave in a dramatic way.

Especially in this economy, where people are stressed to the max at their jobs, taking on the responsibilities of peers and people that have been laid off or let go, because companies simply can’t afford to hire the right amount of people and are understaffed. I’ve heard this story a lot from my friends and family, and yet a lot of my friends and family are also either laid off themselves, or are not having luck finding anything if they’re looking.

There’s no doubt there is a lot of financial stress and pressure on people, both with families to feed and without, because people still aren’t spending money, and until they do start spending like free wheeling consumers again, we will still be suffering with sky high unemployment rates. That, and low morality across the board. Apparently the rich are the only ones holding up the consumer end of the economy now if you believe most reports.

Maybe it’s just a sign of the times. Heck, what this Jet Blue employee did is pretty much something straight out of a movie. Something like “Take This Job and Shove It”, that movie from the eighties!