Originally Posted by
Jebby_ca
Ok... even if I take your understanding of what the hashtag applies to... what is his gripe? Clearly, he wasn't looking at getting a free upgrade from Air Canada if he was being sarcastic about his "what a great Olympic partner" remark. What if he was simply stating that 2 days ago, he won gold but now he's seated in 57A on his way home? Who honestly likes sitting in 57A anyway?
His gripe is that he believes he deserves a better seat than 57A. The "
2 days ago" bit is to reinforce that he's an Olympic gold medal winner for Canada flying Canada's official Olympic airline. The sarcasm is that being assigned 57A by Air Canada makes them "
a great Olympic partner."
Now that we've parsed that to death,
it's nevertheless a tweet that absolutely reeks of entitlement and poor judgement.
The other party who has displayed some poor judgement IMHO is AC -- they ran a massive campaign based on the Olympics and should've anticipated that our country would produce a certain number of gold medal winners. They could've understood that doing
a little something for these gold medal winners would've furthered the point of that campaign tremendously.
Put it this way: if RM can play with R space to prevent you from getting an eUp or securing an IKK, they can also ensure that a handful of gold medal winners don't end up in 57A.
Originally Posted by
DoTheBartMan
Figure skating team - 7
Curling mixed doubles - 2
2-man bobsleigh - 2
Ice dance - 2
+ 7 golds with one winner each.
The total is 20 gold medal winners.
Way to be pedantic. I'd argue that AC should do something for all 20 (
or 18).