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extracted from a forwarded email.


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>Mr. Dave Paculan
>Airport Services Manager
>EMIRATES
>
>
> Dear Mr. Paculan,
>
> I would like to inform you an incident involving your flight stewardesses
> MS. LOURDES GABRIZ, 239326, and MICHELLE GABRIZ, 379997, who created a scandal at the
> Toni & Guy Salon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ortigas today.
>
> I was having my regular hair treatment when I started hearing Ms. Lourdes Gabriz
> still seated shouting at the receptionist who was apologizing regarding
> a haircutter from the salon - Nelia Cruz who apparently had layered her
> bangs shorter than what she had instructed her to do. In spite of her
> loud voice I tried not to get distracted by her. Around 30 minutes had
> passed still she didn't stop screaming and berating the salon and the
> haircutter saying she was a stewardess of Emirates. Her mother and
> sister Michelle Gabriz tried to pacify her but the more her voice became
> louder saying that paying is no problem, but she is not happy with her hair
> and that she was a flight stewardess of Emirates and her new haircut
> will be hard to manage. A lady (I later found out her name was Merle
> Victorino, Manager of Unilab) who was seated beside me then requested her
> to please keep quiet, because her complaining is bothering everyone in
> the salon. Ms. Gabriz suddenly vented her anger towards Ms. Victorino
> and told her that she should mind her own business. Ms. Victorino had
> patiently explained to her since she had been complaining for quite
> sometime, for sure the management is already aware of her concerns and
> that she had said her piece so what more can the salon do?
> Ms. Gabriz started screaming even louder so management decided to lead
> Ms. Victorino to a private room were she could continue to have her hair
> done in peace. I thought Ms. Gabriz would stop but she continued
> threatening the poor receptionist that she will sue them and said she
> will now call her lawyers - Atty. Arroyo and Atty. Coronel from Tektite.
> She went further and started calling the other client names, saying she
> should get her flat nose fixed. Even if she didn't know the other client.
> I felt Ms. Gabriz was too much so I adviced her to settle her complaints
> quietly with the management. She then shouted and said referring to me
> saying "Sino yang patay gutom na babaeng yan?" I looked at her and
> told her to be careful with her words, her sister Michelle Gabriz
> (379997) suddenly stood up and started pointing her finger to me saying I
> should shut up. I told Michelle she had no right to point her fingers
> towards anyone. Her mom had advice her daughters to be quiet, but when she
> could not control both of them, she went to me showing her daughters'
> Emirates ID cards and saying her daughters were flight attendants of
> Emirates . I just followed the staff's signal to just ignore them.
> Meanwhile Lourdes Gabriz continued shouting invectives at the staff and
> that they were all wh ores . This made their mother stand up and
> requested her daughter - Lourdes to keep quiet. Maybe this embarrassed
> Lourdes so she stood up and went towards the room where Ms. Victorino
> was. I was afraid she might do the other client harm, so I advised my
> hair stylist Paul to call the hotel security to avoid any untoward
> incident. The mother managed to drag her daughter Lourdes out of the
> salon, but you could still hear her screaming in the corridors of the
> hotel shouting "you're all wh ores, mga put@ kayo hindi ko kayo
> babayaran". Meanwhile her sister Michelle stayed and continued with her
> haircut, but continued staring at me in a negative way every time I
> would look through the mirror.
>
> I would like to kindly request your office to call the attention of the
> Gabriz sisters. Their actions and name dropping of the airline will not
> be good for your company. I hope you could request them to write a
> letter of apology most specially to Ms. Nelia Cruz the salon's
> hairdresser. I don't think Nelia or anyone for that matter deserves to
> be called wh ores. I don't think I too deserve to be called "patay gutom"
> and I don't think they have the right advice Ms. Victorino to have her
> nose fixed. I am afraid the Gabriz sisters, most specially Lourdes, might
> suddenly lose her cool with their passengers while in the airplane and
> these would not only embarrass Emirates but us Filipinos. I would advise
> they both go through psychotherapy test and treatment to avoid any
> untoward incident while they are on board the plane.
>
> Thank you for your time in reading my letter.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Mons Romulo Tantoco
> Writer, Philippine Star


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sure, these Emirates FAs are one of the highest paid, if not THE highest paid.. most pampered in the airline industry. heard that they earn around 3K US$/mo. tax-free! with 5-star hotel accommodation  - free! plus food and travel allowances. 

but, does that warrant you to treat others below the pecking order as subhumans?


what sayest thou?

[buddhist punk]

  bwahahahaha!!!!

I'm sorry for laughing out loud, kanda ikot ikot ako dito sa sahig katatawa. I'm not laughing at the victims, I'm laughing at these two bit** wh*res. OMFG! This has got to be the lowest of lows for any Noypi! Haaaay naku, mga tao nga naman, makatikim lang ng konting biyaya, akala mo na kung sinong mga hari at reyna ng Pinas.

First of all, thanks for sharing this OrnijirA, bukod sa entertainment value, nakikita natin ang social structure ng ating bansa ay ganon pa rin, mga mistulang Espanol kuno, ek-ek. But we have to establish kung tutoo nga ang mga pangyayari na ito. Sayang at wala tayong equivalent ng Snopes sa Pinas to verify this. Second, the woman in question may have a mental or emotional problem, like anger management, or some other psychosis. Add to that the stress and problems that go with being an FA sa airlines na yan.

I have a friend who, when she was younger, ay nag-FA din sa Emirates. She had tons of money for a young single girl, was based in Italy and drove around in a flashy, red Ferrari at age 26. But she told me in private how very hard it was to work in this company. Smelly, oily, manyakis arab guys would grab her behind and laugh. On every flight. The FA's cannot complain of sexual harassment, magagalit pa daw ang management sa kanila for not taking it lightly and for not being "culturally sensitive" to the arabo needs. eeek. This is why these FA's always travel around in packs, they must never be alone, dahil kapag na-rape sila, di rin pwede mag-complain. Things could have changed in that company now, but looking at their culture, where women are property, most likely laganap pa rin.

Am not taking this abusive woman's side, just suggesting na masama lang talaga ang combinasyon ng anger management problem at iba't ibang psyshosis niya, with the stress and hazards of her work.

She was having a meltdown, napaka uncontrollable, at hindi siguro kelangan ng security guard, kelangan niya ng psychiatrist. Or maybe a shot of tranquilizers. Normal people would have calmed down after around 5 to 10 minutes. But for her to keep it up for 30 minutes? Wow, meyn, iba na yan.

[Franz]

Maybe that's her way to release work-related stress. Nasobrahan nga lang yata masyado...Well as customers of course we have the right to expect that we should get what we paid for but calling names or hurling invectives is really not a proper way to make a point.

I also have a friend who is an FA in one Mid East Airline and she said its really stressful especially on a long haul flight and you are assigned in the First Class or Business Class cabin. Some of the passengers she said get irritated hearing even small steps or whispers and would go up to the extent of writing a letter to the VP of Human Resources to air such complaints.

This story is quite new to me...Just wondering if Mons Tantoco published this in her weekly column in the broadsheet or not...