'We were getting on at Gate 4. I told him we were at Gate 44': Workers trick gloating coworker into missing his flight

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    Font - Posted by u/cattledog222 18 hours ago Coworker gloated about having access to the airport lounge when we didn't. I told him the wrong gate. We work for a national agricultural supply company but I am in a central role while he flies frequently and therefore has lounge access with the airline. We were flying from one city back to our own. He was bragging about it the whole day and when we got to the airport, he wished "us peasants" a nice time in the airport food court "slumming it with th
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    Font - He'd bruise his own tonsils if he could. That kid of bloke. Anyway, our flight nears and he texts through asking what the gate is. The rest of us are walking down the skybridge onto the plane at this point. Now, this airport isn't exactly small. It's actually massive. We were getting on at Gate 4. I told him we were at Gate 44.
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    Font - We're laughing on the plane, imagining this bloke having to run through the terminal to catch it. Next minute, the fg doors on the plane lock and we're getting pushed back. That's when I thought I was fod. He'd complain and the boss would throw the book at me.
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    Font - He texts "hey where are you guys?" and I told him we're taxing down the runway and that we tried holding the plane for him and the bloke just fig explodes. I put my phone on airplane mode and breathe out. When we land, he's blown up my phone and I've got a missed call from my boss.
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    Font - I call my boss back and say I accidentally pushed 4 twice and he just laughed and reckons he would've paid big money to see old mate's meltdown. Anyway, it ruined his day. He had to pay for his own ticket home and now I think my life is in danger. lol. Edit: oh man I've explained this poorly and it's full of typos. Sorry guys. I don't know why he didn't look at the board or his ticket. I don't know why he asked me what gate. He asked and I told him a lie because he's a boorish cu
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    Font - 01 Separate-Ad-9916 17 hr. ago Too lazy to look up at one of the screens all over the airport to find the gate number... he can't blame anyone but himself. 3.0k Influence Opening1841· 17 hr. ago Or look at the screens in the lounge - I smell a bit of BS 936 Reply Share Fefalass 16 hr. ago . 365 Reply Share I have to scroll down too much for this. Lounges are full of screens with the airplane times. Was the coworker blind? Reply Share
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    Font - a1b2c3000 18 hr. ago Gold. Whoops, fat finger "mistake" Also just putting this out there, as someone with airline status..lounges are really NOT that big of a deal. 4800 Reply Share CaissaIRL 17 hr. ago And if you've been to that Lounge before in the past you could probably log into their Wifi. 107 Reply Share
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    Font - SHDrivesOnTrack 15 hr. ago For someone who travels enough to have lounge access you would think they would have the airline app on their phone for the boarding pass, gate # and boarding time. Reply Share 113 _heybuddy_ 12 hr. ago Yeah it even gives notifications, but on the other hand one of my relatives is a Platinum member, he is older and will only get papered everything. Reply Share 12
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    Font - CoderJoe1 18 hr. ago . "What's the problem? You got more time in your fancy lounge." "Relax, you made it home eventually. It's not like it's terminal." "Don't blame me, I sent you the correct gate info twice!" 604 Reply Share
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    Font - MediocreFox. 17 hr. ago Don't sweat it. He has enough points for a flight home. 118 Reply Share
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    Font - ChicagoChurro. 16 hr. ago Who doesn't look up their gate number and relies on someone else to give them that information.. lol 101 Reply Share
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    Font - completedett. 17 hr. ago How is your fault, he didn't know the gate. Everyone should always look up all the information themselves. That was his responsibility. 152 Reply Share
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    Font - Own_Lengthiness_7466 16 hr. ago Might have been safer if you hadn't responded and said later you'd turned your phone off for the flight.... ↑ 16 ↓ Reply Share

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