I'll let this one slide as this anology could be easily defeated under cross-examination
Thanks!
First Class exists to sell First Class tickets, not to reward people who buy lots of Coach tickets
Hey, the airlines invented the term "upgrade," not me. If they would rather give me a percentage rebate on my tickets for volume buying rather than value-added perks like upgrades and mile, I'm all ears...nothing gets my attention like cash
You are a slave to UAL
Truer words were never spoken! And who can blame me for wanting to be a house slave rather than a field slave????
Rudi: You got screwed. I never said it didn't happen.
Now wait one cotton pickin' (rim shot) minute! How come when it happens to Rudi, he's "screwed," but when it happens every day to everyone else, we are being impetuous for demanding service beyond our station?
It is to abolish the feeling of entitlement that some FFs feel.
I said before that this is a semantic trap. Here's why: an entitlement is something that is owed. IMO, I AM by UA policy owed upgrades when I follow the rules (and BTW, the rules NEVER seem to bend for me on things like cert collection, etc
). So in a sense it IS an entitlement. But at the same time, your definition of "entitlement," something that is expected in return for nothing is also true. Nothing is free.
Like all those FAs in FC, all I'm doing is following the rules, flawed though you and I may perceive them to be albeit in different ways.
. Otherwise this thread and the previous ones are just a lot of whining that doesn't solve the issue at hand.
Geez, Jeff, what a buzz-kill! To wit:
"In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world. If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu- lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good."
Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850.