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🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Jail has been a flight attendant for years. |
0:03.2 | Does long flights to Europe and South America, whether on the plane for 10 hours or more. |
0:07.1 | And it's such close quarters and customers can be so stressed out and get testy and she |
0:13.5 | and her coworkers of course always have to seem calm and courteous. |
0:17.1 | They need to totally control the cabin. |
0:19.4 | And at the same time, give off the solution of being servants. |
0:24.5 | Right. |
0:25.5 | When in reality we're in control. |
0:27.6 | It's stress rolls, she says. |
0:29.5 | It's easy for them to get on each other's nerves. |
0:31.8 | Like with this flight attendant who was Jill's nemesis for a while. |
0:35.1 | She just talked a lot. |
0:37.1 | I think that's what bothered me a lot. |
0:39.0 | So during our downtime, going into the galley sort of getting away from people, it would |
0:43.8 | just be incessant talking. |
0:48.1 | And it drove me nuts. |
0:51.2 | And I think my silence would drive her nuts. |
0:55.9 | So we didn't get along. |
0:57.2 | No question flight attendants snip at each other. |
0:59.9 | If they're in the middle of the aisle with the beverage cart. |
1:03.5 | We have to do it in a way that the passengers don't know what's happening. |
1:09.3 | For example, she would say, can you get me some more coaks from the galley? |
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