Airline Gate Agent Caught Online Shopping While Helping a Customer in Viral Video

An airline worker goes viral for his or her questionable multitasking on the job.

TikTok consumer @triceyb2 shared footage that seemingly exhibits a gate agent on-line purchasing whereas chatting with a buyer. The clip, posted on July 3, has amassed virtually 40,000 views.

“If you on the customer support counter and the agent is purchasing,” the social media consumer wrote within the on-screen caption. 

The video, set to the track  “DO YOUR JOB” by Gator now&later, exhibits the worker looking footwear and purses whereas a passenger stands on the opposite facet of the counter. In the course of the entirety of the 55-second video, the smiling buyer seems unaware of the worker’s on-line exercise. 

Viewers of the viral clip have been left divided within the feedback. Some continued to place the worker on blast.

“Is that what a gate agent’s alleged to be doing,” one viewer requested.

“Now what on this planet,” one other questioned. “I guess she’s having an angle whereas dismissing no matter questions the individual has who’s proper in entrance of her.”

However many others got here to the gate agent’s protection, saying they’re responsible of the identical factor.

“The Nordstrom sale is going on, I don’t blame her,” a commenter wrote.

One other added: “I do that virtually day-after-day. Immediately I ordered some clothes from Zara whereas working, can’t miss a superb sale. So long as she’s doing a superb job and the client seems to be happy, that’s all that issues.”

Some speculated the gate agent was really on job.

“I’m not saying it’s proper.. Nevertheless it seems to be just like the agent is on their worker uniform web site. She may have had it up earlier than the [passenger] walked up,” somebody guessed.

One other viewer had a unique speculation: “She’s telling the woman about her favourite journey footwear and searching up the title and worth for her. That’s service!”

The airline referenced within the Tiktoker’s submit didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

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Earlier this yr, another gate agent went viral for teaching passengers a lesson about patience. 

An Instagram video shared by consumer @miawolferaltor on April 8, which has since been taken down, confirmed an American Airways worker chatting with passengers ready for hours on the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Worldwide Airport in Alabama. As a substitute of letting tensions rise, the gate agent shared some phrases of knowledge about compassion in the case of flight mishaps.

“If you get on my plane, let me inform y’all one thing. Don’t get good with my flight attendants,” she informed the gang. “Be good to them. They’ve a tough day similar to we do.”

She added: “Consider it or not, the identical plane that’s coming, the identical folks on that plane, it’s the identical people who’ve been ready so long as you — or possibly longer. So please y’all, please, I’m asking you, do it for me.”