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Old Mar 15, 2013 | 4:01 pm
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3544quebec
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Originally Posted by BrianV
While it would've been nice on a short-term scale, as I mentioned in another post in this thread, I don't like rules being broken. As an EXP, generally it's more advantageous for agents to follow rules as they favor me than to use their discretion (i.e. that girl is really hot and she asked first, I'm going to screw this EXP over and help her out).

So if that was the case, I'd have a negative long-term feel about it, that was my point.
Two totally different situations - favoring a hot girl over an EXP disadvantages the EXP. Not making an EXP wait till the last minute for a Y boarding pass that they are obviously going to get anyway disadvantages no-one (except the person who wanted to use your overhead bin space while you are sitting waiting at the podium). I personally feel that rules/laws applied with discretion rather than literal interpretation where there is no crime/no foul is the best way. I would be more likely to be upset as an EXP if the GA made me wait till the last minute for my standby to be cleared when it was obvious long before that it would clear.

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