Thursday, October 24, 2013

Why business travelers drive me nuts

  • We take business calls from rental car shuttle buses. 
  • We take business calls from restroom stalls. 
  • We take business calls going through security lines. 
  • We take business calls when we're boarding planes. 
  • We think our schedule is 10x more important than the other 1000 business travelers in the same airport. 
  • We will use the priority security line even if it's longer than the normal security line. 
  • We can't handle when the little grey TSA bins run out at the beginning of the security line. We expect the TSA to run like a well-oiled machine. Wha?
  • We walk through the airport staring at our phones and wonder why people can't watch where they are going. 
  • We carry one phone for work, one for personal use, an iPad, and a computer. And we wonder why our luggage is so heavy. 
  • Speaking of luggage, we couldn't possibly check our bags. Out of the question. We much prefer to cram them into the puzzles we create every. time. we. board. a. plane. 
  • We cannot believe someone would bring a baby or a kid onto the plane. Don't they know we have important work to do? 
  • We complain and gripe about the internet speed on the plane and we expect to have our VPN and Netflicks and Pandora streaming. Seriously.
  • We've heard the "safety features" speech so many times we could say it from memory. But we would have absolutely no idea how to use any of the safety features if we really had to. 
  • Our phones have an off button?