OK, I will admit I’m posting this entry in part because the article it references features my wonderful daughter (pictured).

My colleague Barbara Safani compiled this article about the trials and tribulations of being part of an airline flight crew after the incident in which JetBlue flight attendant Stephen Slater decided he’d had enough abuse from passengers and quit his job by sliding down the emergency-exit slide (around the same time as the hoax-but-still-a-good-story video in which the young woman supposedly quit her job via whiteboard).

The stories in Barb’s article illustrate how the frustrations of airline work could provoke a crew member into drastic actions like Slater’s.

My daughter’s situation is a little different because she doesn’t work for an airline but for a private plane owner. I still crack up over her story of “babysitting” expensive caviar for her former boss.

A related posting is this one from Gawker with readers’ most spectacular “I quit” stories.