Not only this, but my employer actually blocks Google Docs and won’t allow me to install or access any unapproved software. Also no cloud anything (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) or flash drives- all files must be on secure servers.

And Telsa is now worth more than GM, stock prices aren’t a great measure of the intrinsic worth of a company just, what people are willing to pay for it at that moment. UAL’s stock could drop to $1 tomorrow and the company would still be worth billions of dollars.

Shorter version: Buy United stock. It’ll go back up. There’s just not enough competition to have any real impact and the outrage will get refocused elsewhere soon enough, sadly.

This type of response only encourages more idiot to behave this way with companies. The passenger was wrong to stay on the plane after he was asked to leave. Now the company gets punished for and idiot passenger and violent airport security (who are not their employees). Great! This is why America is so F’d right…

I personally do not believe United should be apologizing.

Your understanding of these things is flawed. You are free to believe whatever you would like, but it won’t make it true. This guy also held the same beliefs once too.

I love internet lawyers, there is no legally binding agreement when you pay for a flight, there is an expectation of a service, and if not received an expectation of a refund.

Generally, I agree that the terms of the contract of carriage only allow for a customer to be denied boarding for overbooking, not removal. Overbooking does not fall into any of the categories specified in Rule 21. Furthermore, Rule 5 makes explicit reference to Rule 25, which specifies payments for those denied…

I’m no lawyer, but the agreement between the Airline and the passenger pretty much says they have the “right to remove” a passenger if they violate the agreement - the agreement is vague enough that it includes “disruptive passengers”, they could easily argue he was disruptive.

Nothing you just said was truthful.

Good point. No matter the direction, you should blindly obey authority as they are agents of the state, and the state can supercede the rights it guarantees you at any time.

What rights do you have? At this point, you are trespassing.

they should have just asked nicely. again, and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and…

They’d offered everyone the option of $400, later increased to $800, a new ticket, and a hotel room for the night. That nobody thought this was enough should have been taken as a hint, rather than as some sort of act of war.

While we’re at it, let’s boycott adults who act like four year olds when they don’t get their way. I mean, I agree that United acted despicably and the optics of this are horrible. But at the end of the day it IS their aircraft. if they ask you to leave you don’t have to like it but they have the right to ask you…

Your smear campaign on United makes me wonder what Gawker Media’s parent company’s business interests are. It’s been proven that the leggings incident wasn’t unreasonable since the girls were flying on an employee ticket and there are dress-code rules that come along with the free/heavily discounted ticket. You keep…

The Windows what now?

Part of the growing body of work that shows it costs more to be poor, and more to be black/brown in the U.S. From personal experience, moving just one zip code over makes a huge difference in premiums. In a city like Boston, the difference between zip codes also means the difference between a bad school and an…

Wow....the ol’ gender wage gap argument again. Remind me again why I am not strictly hiring women and saving myself over 20% on my single biggest line item expense?

Shut up and eat your Features. You want puddle lamps in your meers, cause that’s how you get puddle lamps in your meers.