Image Credit: Ken Murray/NY Daily News via Getty ImagesUsually when you curse out your clients, depart your place of employment via the emergency exit, and are subsequently arrested, it’s a foregone conclusion that you won’t be coming back to work on Monday. However, it took until last week for JetBlue and Howard Beale-esque flight attendant Steven Slater to officially cut ties.
According to CNN, Slater was let go from the airline and is thus currently unemployed. (UPDATE: For the record, Slater’s publicist tells EW that Slater resigned from his post: “Right now the focus is on getting through the criminal issues. He has officially resigned his job.”) so we ask: Quo vadis, angry dude? There is talk of him hosting a reality show, but I’m not quite sure his zeitgeist-y 15 minutes will last long enough, so he might end up having to take up another working-stiff gig. If he doesn’t mind staying within the flying industry, let me suggest that the airlines might be smart to hire Slater as a “celebrity handler.” That is, whenever someone like Naomi Campbell throws yet another on-board tantrum, there’ll be someone there to yell back at them and/or throw a chicken entree in their lap.
Alternately, he could try to parlay his recognizability into a career in commercials. “To the salesman who won’t offer me 0 percent down payment on this couch: f— you,” he says before grabbing two beers and sliding down to the showroom of Big Bob’s Discount Furniture on Route 80. I’d buy it. What do you think PopWatchers? What should Slater do now?
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Therapy?
He should go away. It’ll help thin the herd of fame whores that seem to be increasing…
I’d forgotten about him already. Does that answer the question?
The Apprentice or Dancing With the Never Weres.
His 15 minutes will be up in 30 seconds. Tick Tock, tick tock.
Join the army. Fight in Afghanistan. Be a real hero.
This imbecile broke federal laws. He needs to go to jail and stay there. Are there seriously people out there that find anything about this cretin entertaining????
more so than you with your wasting jail space for real criminals
And what about the passenger that started all this crap anyway???
I would purposely avoid any company that hired him to exploit his rudeness.
How about die?
Who cares what this guy does? It makes me sick that the media focuses on stories like this one. Interesting story? Sure. But let’s get the story out and then move on, okay? But no. “What will he do next?” WHO CARES? Who is he? Why should anyone care? He had a hissy fit at work–SO WHAT? Why does EW care what he does next? Why does anyone? But hey, we live in the moment here in America. Right now–RIGHT NOW–people know who he is so….LET’S GIVE HIM A TV SHOW!!!
EW should be embarrassed for reporting on this guy, as should all other media outlets. He had his 15 minutes and now they’re gone…or should be. Let’s not give him an extension.
PUBLICIST? He has a publicist? This guy is a moron. 15:01
Slide into an active volcano to match his own explosive behavior. Why reward him with anything else?
Seriously, this has nothing to do with entertainment or anything EW covers. It’s sad this is on here. The editor responsible should be fired immediately. Don’t turn this site into TMZ. Pathetic…
Nearly every news organization, including the New York Times, has reported on this guy, so why say someone at EW should be fired for doing the same? I only hope whatever company you work for is smart enough not to give you any responsibility.
So should EW start reporting on the Afghan war also along with entertainment news? I didn’t read anything on the front page of EW about the Peace Corp volunteer who was killed in Africa.
read something else…I vote they fire you as a reader. Sound ridiculous??? So do you.
He should go away.
Far away.
And never return.
Today, we mourn a great loss with the departure of Mr. Slater. He is, was, and always shall be a beacon of hope for all those pure hearted and clear headed.
He executed nothing but pure class when he threw an infantile fit while working a job on a public flight. His poise and dignity as he bravely deployed the slide and his consideration to the other passengers on the plane (who all had to wait longer on the plane because of his bravery) is that of a true man.
I am so glad to have been blessed with the knowledge of his existence, as it greatly shaped the person I am today. I do not in any way think that his self involved, selfish and inane antics were in any way wrong.
Your eulogy has brought a tear to my eye. Bravo, Scott!