There are a couple of life lessons that most of us learn when we’re pretty young:

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
Look for the helpers
Nobody likes a tattletale

It hasn’t been a good week for Dr. Angela Peery, but it’s kind of her own fault; she apparently never learned life lesson #3.

According to Google Books, Angela B. Peery is a teacher specialist for the South Carolina Department of Education, adjunct faculty member of the Graduate School of Education at Coastal Carolina University, co-director of the Coastal Area Writing Project, and a former high school English teacher and assistant principal.

Anyway, in September 2023, Peery was apparently on a Delta flight between Louisville and Atlanta. A frequent flyer with the brand, she took to a Facebook group for Delta Diamond Medallion members to brag about how she had tattled on a Delta flight attendant (NSFW warning – adult language).

Wrote my complaint about Joshua, the FA who hid in the galley and was overall shi**y SDF-ATL Wed. (See previous post.) Got a personal call from a Delta customer servie agent and 8500 Skypesos! Winning!

Fast forward to March 2024, when she boasted in the same group about ratting out several FAs who appeared to be using their phones on flights.

This will be the third photo I’ve sent to Delta in two weeks. Three out of four flights, FAs on their devices. This one is clever — hiding it behind the Delta device. ATL-LIT, while headed toward takeoff.

The post apparently caused an uproar, with 172 comments. I can’t see any of the comments because (A) I’m not in that particular FB group and (B) even if I wanted to join it, the group has apparently changed its status to “Secret.” (That means it can’t be seen unless you’re a member of the group or invited to it. Even its group title is hidden.) But I did find one response to her post, that was shared on a Reddit forum. I won’t link the post so the author of the reply can remain anonymous, but their response to Peery was:

Angela Peery – seriously!? I usually don’t call out people by name but you calling out a FA who sitting down on their phone while taxiing is absolutely a crock of @#!%. Did you even consider FA’s might be messaging their family/loved ones saying they miss them, checking on them, can’t wait to see them. The fact that you even posted this just makes me see the worst in people at times. Did these FA’s not meet your needs or the needs of ALL the other passengers during the flight when they could actually perform their role?
To any FA who sees this, thank you for all you do and the time you take away from your loved ones to make my flight experience a great one.

So Peery decided to write an update to her post:

UPDATE: It is against Delta policy to ANY employee to have their personal phone in view while working, even reservation agents. A Delta customer service agent called 4 hours after I sent my email and left a long, apologetic voicemail. She said, “You are 100% corrent, and we thank you for bringing this to our attention.” Fas can only use their Sky Pro (Delta) device in flight and only in airplane mode and at certain times as directly related to safety.
So for those who said I should mind my own business or stop being a Karen, BE AWARE — this is a safety violation and a FIREABLE OFFENSE. Kind of a BIG DEAL. You should NOT see an FA using a personal device EVER unless on crew rest. (This was a 75-minute flight.)
Y’all have fun over in SkyMiles Life, DL apologists!

And kiss my grits!

This all went down in early March. And then a couple of days ago, it started hitting social media big time.

Now, I’ve got a quick story for you. When I was a kid, my father had a problem with some of his teeth. The dentist he used made a huge mistake that caused issues in my dad’s mouth for the rest of his life. My parents contemplated suing this dentist, but they needed another dentist to act as an expert witness in the case. They couldn’t find even one dentist who was willing to say, on record, that this dentist had messed up. Dentists (and, in my experience, most medical professionals – I worked in an allied health profession for decades) stick up for one another.

And the same thing apparently goes for flight attendants.

Granted, being a flight attendant can have its challenges. Getting assigned to flights can be competitive and because there are so many different personalities involved, there can be some backbiting, too. But when push comes to shove, FAs will stand united and if you mess with one (or in this case, three or four, or maybe more) it’s like messing with them all. And word got out about what Dr. Angela Peery did.

Here’s what’s happened in recent days

There are groups by/for FAs on Facebook and Reddit, as well as a Delta subreddit that are absolutely SKEWERING this woman
Peery has written a handful of books that are sold on Amazon, and multiple people have given the books “1 star” reviews. Amazon eventually shut down reviews for her books, unless they had been purchased, but here are a couple of examples of what was being done:
As I mentioned earlier, The Official Delta Diamond Medallion Group group on Facebook disappeared from the public eye. But their admins wrote to the admins (warning: NSFW – adult language) on one on the FA Reddit groups (who then posted it for their members to see).
Peery is getting threats.

Our take on this

Obviously, threats are never an appropriate way to handle any situation. And petty revenge such as giving her books low reviews is pretty childish.

Of course, airlines have rules for reasons. No flight attendant should ever be rude, and if the rule for FAs is to not be using personally devices at certain times, they shouldn’t be doing it.

That being said, taking photographs of FAs (which is also against the rules), ratting FAs out, boasting that you got 8500 Skymiles for doing so, and therefore are “winning!,” is not a good look.

What have we learned?

Remember that life lesson #3: No one likes a tattletale
If you’re going to be a tattletale, boasting about it without some sort of anonymity is just plain STUPID. Having a doctorate apparently doesn’t always mean you’re smart.
Buc-ee’s fan might appreciate this one:

Be careful out there, travel friends.

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