They should have kept upping compensation for a volunteer. They hit the mandatory limit and then said fuckit. It would have been cheaper to fly their crew on a competitors airline if neccesary, thought out of chicago they wouldnt be needed. The crew wasnt working until the next day, and since they waited two hours…

Given that they never upped their offer past 800$ before calling in the goon squad, I’d demand whatever their settlement offer be doubled before backing off taking it to court

Right, but if you offer enough money someone on that plane will take it. They usually start at like $200. Will not do for $200. Or $400. Or $800. Would do for four digits almost always.

It’s not right, but they do stuff like this all the time. They routinely oversell, which I guess is because some number of passengers miss planes for whatever reasons--sometimes because they cancel last minute, sometimes because they don’t make connections, sometimes because they miss planes. I’ve been told (when…

Wouldn’t that be the cops fault though not the airline since they are the ones who dragged him?*

I would guess it’s probably in the fine print of your ticket that they can do this.

From what I read they needed the employees for another flight in St Louis, so it wasn’t the employees being insistent about travelling, it was United.

As a lawyer, I say yes they did.

That’s how I understood it too. An employee of the airline who apparently thought they were more important than paying customers and didn’t want to be inconvenienced. The guy had a really good reason to keep that flight, as a doctor it’s extremely important for him to be able to see his patients as planned. You’d…

My guess is that, at his age, he needs reading glasses and is too vain to wear them.

It wouldn’t exactly be shocking that a guy who needs his morning briefing to be no more than seven bullet points, preferably including some sort of chart or graph, might have some literacy issues.

I’m beginning to get used to seeing/hearing “President Trump” but referring to Melania as FLOTUS? Get those letters out of your mouth you orange shitweasel.

The Trump cannot read conspiracy* may be the best thing that Sam Bee has done. And that is one high fucking bar.

How the hell have we reached the point where the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice is confined to “shit we couldn’t cover today”?

I can’t be the only person to think DJ Khaled’s wife looks a little bit like Rachel Dolezal

He is an expert on the cyber and does not weigh 300 pounds.

And you know fucking nazi princess thinks she is Grace Kelly or some shit. Like, bish, plastic surgery, never having to lift a manicured finger, and a full time glam squad does not a timeless beauty make, ok?

What’s really scary (and really sad) is that this assclown fancies himself as a young JFK, or John Jr. That delusional aspect pisses me off more than anything. That, and he’ll get us all killed.

They probably figure he’s one of “the good ones” until he fucks up and then they can throw him under the bus. It’s really only a win no matter how this goes from their perspective.

The biggest surprise to me about his ascension is just how quiet the neo-Nazi and white-nationalist Trump supporters are about him. Shouldn’t he be their enemy?