@gatelice
140,000 miles a year. I have opinions about boarding groups and I will share them.
I am standing at gate B14 and the agent has just called boarding group nine. Nine. When I started flying for work there were two groups: people who needed extra time, and everybody else. Then there were four. Then there were zones, then there were groups and zones, and now there…
Somewhere along the way I became a cashier. Nobody interviewed me. Nobody trained me. I just walked into the grocery store and the grocery store handed me a scanner and a small screen that yells at me.
My flight landed at eight in the morning. I have been awake for twenty-two hours. I am standing in a hotel lobby holding a coffee I do not want, and the gentleman at the desk is explaining, with real sympathy, that check-in is at four.