I’m a flight attendant. My job is to make sure passengers get from point A to point B as safely as possible, which is why I’ve been trained to handle any number of emergency situations, the kind that airlines don’t want you to think about when you’re in the air. This is why airlines…
Read more Fly Me: It’s 2017, so why are flight attendants still being sexualized?
“YOU HATE SEX, DIRTY DIRTY SEX…” That’s what a stranger tweeted to me out of the blue last year. I remember staring at the computer screen and thinking, what in the world…? Because I like sex. Why did she think I hated sex? Someone else followed up with something about me disliking attractive women. Or…
Read more When it Comes to Flight Attendants, Why is the Media so Sexist?
On Friday nights in Dallas, when I was in high school, I liked to go to free concerts in the West End. My friends and I would dress up, walk around and basically goof off. On one of those nights a good-looking man handed me a rose. He’d bought it on the street from a…
Read more My Uniform Made Me Sick. Could The Same Thing Happen To a Hockey Star?
A couple of weeks ago the New York Times published a story about cats that have hypothyroidism. A few people tweeted the link to me. One person wrote that it reminded him of me and what’s going on with the new uniforms at American Airlines. According to the article, feline hypothyroidism didn’t exist when Dr. Mark…
Dear Ms. Surdek, My name is Heather Poole, but you probably know me better as employee 447110. I’ve been a flight attendant with American for 21 years. I love my job and I’ve always been proud to work for American, so much so that five years ago I wrote about it in my book. It…
Read more Open Letter: Why I won’t wear the American Airlines uniform
After President Bill Clinton stated, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” the world focused on two words, “sexual relations” and what those words meant, exactly, in determining whether Bill Clinton had committed perjury. Paula Jones’ legal team asked Judge Susan Webber Wright to approve a very precise, three-part definition of sexual…
Read more American’s uniform crisis: Airline shirks responsibility as people keep getting sick
Dear Kerry Philipovitch: I’ve been a flight attendant for over 21 years. I’ve loved my job so much that I wrote a bestselling book about it, but that all changed in September when American Airlines rolled out new uniforms for flight attendants and pilots. Now I dread going to work. I don’t know how much longer…
Read more An Open Letter About American Airlines’ Uniform Crisis
