I'm wondering if a lot of TG workers simply didn't want to be working, but rather enjoying the Songkran holidays, and it ended up showing in the performance of a few of them. I also had a flight over the weekend, and experienced the rudest TG employee I've ever encountered. The problem employee was an FA aboard a flight I was on, and she was going through the cabin handing out arrival forms. One passenger seated at the window was talking to her friend, and when the FA had gone past her by two rows, her friend must have alerted her, and she then asked the FA for the arrival form. The FA snapped back, "I already asked you if needed a form.", which wasn't totally correct as she was just walking through the aisle saying, "arrival forms" every so often, and didn't specifically ask the woman in question. After standing there with a scowl on her face for a few seconds, she finally took a few steps back to give the passenger the form. The flight load was very light, so it wasn't like she had a lot of work to do.
I almost felt like saying something, or putting in a complaint. But it wasn't me who was involved, and I just figured maybe she was having a bad day and it wasn't worth trying to get her in trouble if that was the case.
On a different note, had the worst (or at least one of the worst) TG meals ever. A chicken salad with absolutely awful wilted lettuce, and horrible tasting chicken which was 99% fried coating and 1% meat. It looked so awful I wasn't really even interested in trying it, but did just to confirm it tasted as bad as it looked. Again, I shrugged it off to perhaps being regular workers had the holidays off and someone prepared the food that didn't know what they were doing, or there was a difficulty in getting the proper meal from a supplier.
On the flight with the FA with an attitude, the other FA's were fine, as were the FA's on a second flight I took over the weekend, and the food on that flight was also fine.
I also dined at a restaurant over the weekend and had horrible service, and most all of the workers in the restaurant were too busy throwing water on each other and other playful activities among themselves to even be bothered to do their job. They were screaming, running around the restaurant while the customers just looked on with their mouths open at how the manager could allow such nonsense. So it seems the problems with workers wasn't related only to TG. It was my first, and I think last Songkran I'll spend in Thailand. Maybe I'm just getting too old to have to put up with it all.