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We’re sorry, but if quitting your job garners front page headlines, a Facebook group with 200,000 fans and the knowledge that your impromptu decision has spellbound an entire nation…you can never go back to that same job again.
Someone should tell that to Steven Slater, 38, the now-famous JetBlue flight attendant whose two decade career in the air appeared to crash land on Monday. After a flight from Pittsburgh, Slater went on the PA system to swear at a passenger who had treated him rudely, grabbed a beer and left the plane via the emergency exit.
Amazing. Awesome. Yes.
Is there a better way to go out? We can’t think of one. In a red-hot blaze of glory, Slater became a folk hero for anyone who ever thought of quitting their job in spectacular fashion. Millions have applauded Slater for refusing to take one more second of crap from unappreciative air travelers. The guy could easily go down a legend if he would only stop himself from doing one simple thing…
Are you serious, (AC) Slater? You’re going to compel the attention of the whole world and make perhaps the grandest exit from a job since “Jerry McGuire”…and then want the job back? The same job you hated so much four days ago that you used a plane’s emergency chute to leave?
Slater, you blew it. You had America like puddy in your hands, and you let us slip through your fingers. If you stuck with your outrageous quitting story, you could have a book deal and easily a reality show. Anyone can get one of those.
Now you look like a schmo who realized the error of his ways and has to grovel for forgiveness.
You could have been something, Slater. America was ready to cement you in its consciousness as a patron saint of the working class.
So go ahead. Return to the skies and the job you supposedly can’t live without.
We’ll be here down on the ground waiting for another hero.
