Posted on 02/16/2018 12:49:28 PM PST by Mr.Unique
ALBANY, N.Y. — A New York state employee has been placed on leave after she name-dropped Gov. Andrew Cuomo during an airplane tantrum captured on video.
A spokesperson for the state Council of the Arts on Thursday confirmed it has removed an employee from its office pending an investigation into her conduct in the viral Facebook video, which has garnered more than 1.4 million views since it was posted last week by a Rochester-area woman seated next to her.
The spokesperson, Ronni Reich, did not identify the employee or respond when asked if the woman would be paid while on leave.
Spectrum News identified the woman as Susan Peirez, a $95,000-a-year program director whose name and photo has since been wiped from the state council's website. A voicemail left Thursday at a phone number listed for Peirez was not immediately returned.
In the video, the woman is seen angrily arguing with a Delta attendant aboard a Feb. 6 flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Syracuse.
The video shows the woman claiming she "work(s) for the governor" and insisting on a new seat, complaining that her assignment was next to a "crying baby" in the back of the airplane.
When the flight attendant suggested she board the next flight, the woman asked for worker's name. The attendant dutifully complied, telling the woman her name was Tabitha and providing her employee ID number.
"Thanks, Tabitha," the woman said angrily. "You may not have a job tomorrow."
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This woman deserves to be fired. Frankly if she was arrested and sent to jail it wouldn’t bother me either
One of us might not.
Gee, that makes all the sense in the world. Only an entitled bureaucrat lowlife would stoop that low.
Government officials consider themselves to be aristocrats. They dislike it when the peasants forget this.
The original story didn’t indicate she was an entitled pol
who dropped Cuomo’s name.
Do you know who I am?.............................
Not any more. They took your picture off the website................
No wonder NYS is going broke.
Another entitled democrat, threatening people. Seems this is part of their dna.
“Thanks, Tabitha,” the woman said angrily. “You may not have a job tomorrow.”
PING
That’s like a 20 minute flight right?
Especially one that works for the state Council of the Arts.
Lemme guess. A bureaucratic million dollar agency that caters to aging hippies, snowflakes and other grifters.
She headed up some kind of state arts council. Another state employee who thinks public service means that the public exists to serve them.
Well, it does take a hour to taxi to the runway at JFK.
I called it earlier. Leftist!!!
What I found unique about this story is thee part when the woman with the baby (who was insulted by the state employee) feels kinda sad at what happened to the employee.
Here’s the quote from the woman...
“I feel bad because of it, because I know it’s because I posted that video,” Rundell said.
“A part of me feels like she’s getting what she deserved. And then another part of me just feels bad that it’s happening, because I don’t know her story.”
After what this woman did and said, I is it really that important that you should know her “story”? The govt employee was way way out of line - personally and professionally. She’s learned the hard way that actions have consequences.
The woman with the baby maybe needs to get over her feeling bad about it.
PING
The state employee hadn’t learned jack yet. She’s on what amounts to a paid vacation until the heat dies down or Cuomo decides to cut her loose.
The mother sounds like a good person.
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