Singapore Girl
May 8, 2015, 7:44 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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May 9, 2015, 12:28 pm
#4
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I have met many SQ Girls and Boys who truly love their jobs.
Personally, I think Hillary was just upset that she constantly had to work in Y and didn't receive a promotion to Leading Stewardess. She seems to confuse SQ's culture with that of QR where the parties are so wild that even the Head of Inflight had to send a very nasty email to the entire cabin crew list serves after a Cabin Senior fell victim to excessive consumption and couldn't even get inside her company-provided residence.
May 9, 2015, 9:39 pm
#6
Join Date: Oct 2012
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Saw this a while ago and was waiting for it to make mainstream media (if the Daily Mail qualifies for that!).
I'm sure there's some truth in it as well as many personal grievances and exaggerations. I wonder how SQ are responding to it.
I'm sure there's some truth in it as well as many personal grievances and exaggerations. I wonder how SQ are responding to it.
May 10, 2015, 4:35 pm
#7
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Planet Earth
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The other impression I get is that her expectations probably did her in.
e.g. Some people think that being famous musician is great, only they don't realize all the downfalls that come with it.
May 10, 2015, 10:21 pm
#8
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: OSL/IAH/ZRH (time, not preference)
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Funny read.
What I liked most is that she - indirectly - perceived Aussies as rude. What I like best about Strine - the open use of invectives and the not shying away from rough terminology - is an insuperable cultural barrier to her.
I also like that the spread the tell-tale stories how much flight attendants made in a far, far past and then reported forwards these tales as facts to the reader. That was golden.
What I liked most is that she - indirectly - perceived Aussies as rude. What I like best about Strine - the open use of invectives and the not shying away from rough terminology - is an insuperable cultural barrier to her.
I also like that the spread the tell-tale stories how much flight attendants made in a far, far past and then reported forwards these tales as facts to the reader. That was golden.
May 11, 2015, 8:08 am
#10
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May 11, 2015, 10:48 am
#11
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May 11, 2015, 6:42 pm
#13
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I couldn't draw the conclusion from her blog that Aussies were rude, if anything the linked daily mail article seemed to imply that .
May 11, 2015, 6:53 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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Probably not when she refers to SIN-SYD. She's seems pointing to another nation. Not Australia. But another big country. The buzzer is particulary popular there and to be pressed instantly after boarding.
May 11, 2015, 7:36 pm
#15
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Shanghai, Singapore
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Posts: 339
Expectations expectations expectations.
So many sign up thinking it's glamorous but get a rude shock when they realize it's anything but that.
At least she's helping other hopefuls by posting this.
So many sign up thinking it's glamorous but get a rude shock when they realize it's anything but that.
At least she's helping other hopefuls by posting this.