Originally Posted by flyblue
Being aware of all that, I decided to give people (belonging to a certain group) the "benefit of the doubt" and do some "sniffing" before drawing my conclusions (except about lawyers of course. In their case one is allowed to expect the worse).
I totally agree with you flyblue!!!! The thing that is interesting here though is, what part can you sniff???
I don't mind stereotypes, especially crew ones, as they always make me laugh. I love it when I say to people my other half is a skipper and of course
they start making fun of this even bigger stereotype. However they soon change their minds when they realise that we're two people who've been musicians since we can remember, who made a career out of their flying passion in recent years but still remain musicians inside-out....and that's why we got together in the first place. Not a stereotype anymore then!
The same applies to dentists for example (you imagine they take pleasure in making you suffer), good looking pop singers who cannot sing, politicians who try to make themselves rich by making your earnings disappear with more and more taxes, doctors' receptionists who have been trained to be rude, and call centres operators who are called Ali or Singh!!
I believe that like in anything there's a bit of truth, and as for our industry we do have male CC who are very camp and female ones who can only talk about their wedding day and file their nails, pilots who are so ancient they expect you to bow everytime you enter the F/D and those who really have one mistress in every airport. There are also stereotyped passengers who think they can ask us out because they believe that flings and superficial relationships are part of the job!!
Stereotypes are not always bad...ask Branson, he uses them to attract more people to fly with VS!
Besides, some of them can keep pax entertained when the IFE is not working