Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
The worst example I've seen of this was a very old male purser. He's finally now retired, but he made it very clear to customers which passengers (namely, elderly white men) he thought belonged in "his" premium cabin and treated people accordingly. On TATL and TPAC flights, I would almost hold my breath until I could verify that he wasn't working my flight. FAs have told me stories of how he made very clear to them who he did and did not want to work with.
Since you're from Mpls, I'd guess he was PMNW. I'm pretty sure I encountered him on a DTW-NRT flight in WBC back in the late 90s. That flight was a horror of poor service. He did the bare minimum required to get through his duty hours.