If it was severe in a 737 or A-320 etc, imagine what it was like in the back of a 757-200 or 300?
There is nothing wimpy about what happens to passengers or flight attendants who are thrown sideways on top of beverage drink carts or are thrown into the ceiling....feet first, one presumes? What we call light-moderate 'code 3' up front in the c0ckpit is worse in the back of many aircraft, near the aft galleys.
Read the article in (US) "Airways" magazine about two or three months ago about what a pilot learned regarding certain cavalier ATC attitudes (among some, but not all) towards many pilot requests which he was expected to learn and apply, when he then became a controller.
His article is titled "Circle of Jerks" : his words, not mine. Y'all remember who we carry around.