Delta pulls napkins with phone # request

[BetteDavisEyes]

Delta pulls napkins encouraging passengers to slip their number to their 'plane crush'

"Be a little old school, write down your number and give it to your plane crush. you never know," reads one side of the napkin.

Delta Air Lines is pulling napkins from its flights and the Coca-Cola Co. is apologizing after their attempt to spark romance in the air didn't take off.

In a partnership with Diet Coke, the airline had been distributing drink napkins that encouraged passengers to slip their number to their "plane crush."...

 

[PrairieWind]

It really makes me wonder who signed off on this brilliant idea!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

It really makes me wonder who signed off on this brilliant idea!

An "air"head at Delta

 

[SugarQueen]

Eh, I don’t really see the problem.

 

[IceIce9]

As careful as companies are with that kind of thing I am amazed that this idea ever got off the drawing board.

The company where I work has a mandatory “Harassment in the workplace” training that we are required to complete every year. Writing your name on a napkin would be on the list of things that could be considered sexual harassment.

 

[moonriverfarm]

WHAT is the problem with this? Don't want to participate? Wad your napkin up and put it in the steward's trash can. What people about these days is a comedy skit.

 

[IceIce9]

WHAT is the problem with this? Don't want to participate? Wad your napkin up and put it in the steward's trash can. What people ***** about these days is a comedy skit.

Back in the day, it would have been cute. Now people claim sexual harassment or racial slurs over anything and everything.

I just saw on the news today that Gucci has to apologize because someone thought a sweater looked like blackface.

And a month or two ago people were demonstrating in front of Victoria’s Secret because they didn’t have any plus size models.

A very kind and beloved doctor that worked with our company was fired last year because one of the receptionists claimed he made a sexist remark to her. No one else heard it, and none of the many employees who had worked with him for the ten years he worked for our company could believe that he said anything wrong. They thought the receptionist made it up because she had just been written up because she was late to work every single morning and falsified her time.

She claimed she was late due to “stress” caused by working with this doctor who she then said made a sexual remark.

HR said they weren’t going to punish the doctor since it was her word against his. But they changed their mind and fired him when they got a letter from the receptionist’s lawyer.

 

[Vedder]

I remember slipping a napkin with my number to a guy back in the day. He called. LOL

 

[Piney Woods]

There's a difference between winking at the cute girl or guy in public versus a billion dollar corporation printing napkins promoting hookups. It's an appalling coarseness. I feel like a Victorian man railing against licentious Edwardian behavior and I'm Gen X'r. Sigh.

 

[cherrymeg]

I remember slipping a napkin with my number to a guy back in the day. He called. LOL

That's different. It's weird when a company is encouraging passengers to pass notes to each other when you are stuck in a confined space. Doing it spontaneously is cute. Exchanging numbers with someone you talked to is normal. There is something about it being commercialized that just seems tacky.

 

[yabbyyou]

Delta encouraging predators and some don't see why it's a bad idea. What year is this?