[HN Gopher] The Sky Thief (2021)
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       The Sky Thief (2021)
        
       Author : kevmo314
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-07-04 06:35 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.rollingstone.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.rollingstone.com)
        
       | KennyBlanken wrote:
       | > But at SeaTac, many ramp agents scraped by. The airport, which
       | is also a local city jurisdiction, made history by passing the
       | nation's first $15 minimum wage in 2013. But the law had
       | loopholes, and while the cashier at the Sbarro inside the
       | terminal was making $15, some ramp agents at Horizon were
       | reportedly making as much as $3 an hour less. (Alaska Air did not
       | answer specific questions about its compensation practices.)
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       | > Russell didn't leave a manifesto. But during his ill-fated
       | flight, without an obvious prompt, he told air-traffic control:
       | "Minimum wage. We'll chalk it up to that." He added, "Maybe that
       | will grease the gears a little bit with the higher-ups."
       | 
       | Don't exploit people in sensitive jobs. Give them a livable wage,
       | health care (including mental health) and rest. Have an HR
       | department that is explicitly told not to fuck people over and
       | make them desperate.
       | 
       | It's a whole lot cheaper than implementing whatever nonsense
       | security procedures these clowns invariably came up with. AI
       | software and more cameras would be my guess.
        
       | koshergweilo wrote:
       | A sad story. I was really hoping that he would figure out how to
       | land.
        
         | nimbius wrote:
         | the sadder part of this story is that absolutely no regulatory
         | or disciplinary action against the airport or airline ever took
         | place. no reforms, no public report, nothing outside a rolling
         | stone obituary.
         | 
         | its almost as if the veil of theatricality surrounding airport
         | security was momentarily left to fall on the ground and, since
         | no one in particular was around to see it, it was hastily
         | dusted off and returned to service.
        
       | trhway wrote:
       | you gotta give it to the suits and government bureaucrats (and
       | that is in a post 9/11 world with all its security theater
       | everywhere):
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       | >At every level -- corporate, airport, and governmental --
       | authorities in this case have emphasized that there were no
       | violations of security procedure, no one to blame, and no clear
       | lapses to reform. SeaTac's Reiter asserted that "what happened on
       | August 10th was not a breakdown of any existing airport
       | protocols." TSA, summarizing its undisclosed investigation,
       | "found Horizon Air and SeaTac International Airport to be in
       | compliance with all security requirements." In the agency's only
       | on-the-record comment to Rolling Stone, TSA spokeswoman Lorie
       | Dankers underscored: "There were no security violations related
       | to this incident."
        
       | Hellbanevil wrote:
        
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