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According to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223501/Apple-accountant-snuck-Delta-flight-utah.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223501/A

by rdtsc 3y ago

According to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223501/Apple-accountant-snuck-Delta-flight-utah.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223501/Apple-acco... the man apparently is an Apple accountant! On one hand that’s pretty creative, thinking outside the box, so to speak. On the other hand the flight looked like it was full, so how did they expect the whole thing would go? Just hog the bathroom the whole flight. Wonder if they will start to mandate some extra checks before boarding. The case high profile enough that some will be compelled to “respond”. Maybe everyone is forced to show their ID before boarding?

cozzyd 3y ago
Apple isn't the richest company on earth because they pay for flights like chumps.
dev-tacular 3y ago
Showing IDs would work, but also training employees not to assume a warning is a glitch would have prevented him from boarding. If they took the time verify that the original person had already scanned their ticket, they would have noticed something was wrong. EDIT: this is assuming that the warning is not routinely ignored (i.e. there's actually a bug in the system and it would slow down boarding time since it happens so frequently.) If that were the case... they should fix their system lol
- rdtsc 3y ago
  It might be a generic "beep" error that a dirty sensor or paper would normally indicate. People get used to false positives quickly and start ignoring them. Maybe it was a different alarm with a distinctive indicate that "I read this fine, but it's a duplicate" and they would stop and start checking the ID.
jldugger 3y ago
> the man apparently is an Apple accountant Formerly, it seems.
- rdtsc 3y ago
  I wonder how quickly companies move to let the employee go after something like this. Do they offer to pay for a lawyer, or just quickly drop them as soon as there is an investigation started. They could probably make a joke about "our accountants know how to think outside the box" but that probably wouldn't go very well at all.
  - jldugger 3y ago
    If that were the case, I expect it would show differently. There was a whole thing in Seattle where someone got into accident that left their passenger dead, they escaped the hospital and headed back to their home country, while their employer kept them on the roster under "administrative leave."

by rdtsc 3y ago

cozzyd 3y ago

Apple isn't the richest company on earth because they pay for flights like chumps.

dev-tacular 3y ago

Showing IDs would work, but also training employees not to assume a warning is a glitch would have prevented him from boarding. If they took the time verify that the original person had already scanned their ticket, they would have noticed something was wrong. EDIT: this is assuming that the warning is not routinely ignored (i.e. there's actually a bug in the system and it would slow down boarding time since it happens so frequently.) If that were the case... they should fix their system lol

rdtsc 3y ago
It might be a generic "beep" error that a dirty sensor or paper would normally indicate. People get used to false positives quickly and start ignoring them. Maybe it was a different alarm with a distinctive indicate that "I read this fine, but it's a duplicate" and they would stop and start checking the ID.

jldugger 3y ago

> the man apparently is an Apple accountant Formerly, it seems.

rdtsc 3y ago
I wonder how quickly companies move to let the employee go after something like this. Do they offer to pay for a lawyer, or just quickly drop them as soon as there is an investigation started. They could probably make a joke about "our accountants know how to think outside the box" but that probably wouldn't go very well at all.
- jldugger 3y ago
  If that were the case, I expect it would show differently. There was a whole thing in Seattle where someone got into accident that left their passenger dead, they escaped the hospital and headed back to their home country, while their employer kept them on the roster under "administrative leave."