Our subject today is Joanne Wickenden, who seems to have a hard time holding down a job as a flight attendant.
The 23-year-old was fired by Norwegian Air after only three months on the job…for spitting in a passenger’s coffee. The passengers allegedly “said something she didn’t like” on a longhaul flight from Gatwick.
She had previously worked at EasyJet and British Airways and found a way to return to BA. But her second stint at BA did not last. She was fired this week after making “racist” remarks in a Snapchat video while in uniform.
Wickenden had sparked outrage in the short video clip where she made sexual remarks about Nigerian men and the size of their private parts while also mocking their accents.
During the one-minute clip she spoke of how how she was going to deal with passengers on the flight.
Here’s the video:
I’m not sure “racist” is the right word to describe the videos, but they are certainly in incredibly poor taste…especially while wearing her BA uniform. And note that “BBC” here does not mean the British Broadcasting Company…
I Resigned. I Wasn’t Fired!
Wickenden claims she was not fired, she quit…both jobs.
I’d had enough and I didn’t want to fly anymore.
She also claims her colleagues set her up, egging her on to make the video above then secretly saving it and “turning her in” to BA.
If that’s the case, that’s pretty sad…as is caving to peer pressure.
CONCLUSION
Here’s the moral of the story: watch what you say on social media and never make questionable remarks wearing company clothing. The tragedy is not that she got caught having a good laugh, that she lacked the discernment to see the ramifications of her actions. Then again, we’re probably all guilty of that from time to time.
Isn’t there supposed to be psychological test to applicants for flight attendants?
She probably loves bbc
I tend to agree with you that these aren’t “racist remarks” so much as a joke in very poor taste (though I’ve seen the “racism” charge leveled for far less). She’s pretty stupid, though, for a) recording her stunt in her company uniform, and b) thinking she wouldn’t get caught.
I don’t blame her but rather blame our irresponsible government who could not keep our national carrier flying as a result leaves us at the mercy of these foreign airlines
I’m ashamed of this person, as well of any airline who hired her, and any company who will hire her in future. A bet: her new boss will be a bigger racist than she is.
Remember that BA has two completely separate crews, Worldwide and Mixed Fleet, the latter of which are highly underpaid, often very young, and typically low calibre. I worked there as BA cabin crew and can say that this type of FA is sadly very typical.