Economics/Class Relations

Airline CEO works a flight attendant shift and is ‘astonished’ at how ‘challenging’ it is

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Woman who lives on a cruise ship for free shares the 4 things she can’t do

Upworthy has covered a few stories about people who decided to live permanently on cruise ships because it’s cheaper than living on land or in a nursing home. These stories have connected with millions because they say a lot about the modern cost of living but are also aspirational.

Christine Kesteloo has become popular on TikTok with over 680,000 followers because she shares what living on a cruise ship is really like. Kesteloo is the wife of the ship’s Staff Chief Engineer, so she gets to live on the boat for free. She only has to pay for alcohol and soda, which she gets for half off.

“I live on a cruise ship for half the year with my husband, and it’s often as glamorous as it sounds,” she told Insider. “After all, I don’t cook, clean, make my bed, do laundry or pay for food.“

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She traveled 3000 miles only to end up at the wrong wedding. They still invited her in for a drink.

Have you ever been excited to be somewhere? Have you ever gotten so caught up in your excitement to be someplace to celebrate with your loved ones that you mistype your location on Uber and end up someplace entirely different? Well, something just like that happened to Arti Mala as well.

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Adam Sandler sends Jennifer Aniston flowers on Mother’s Day even though she doesn’t have kids

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston have starred in three movies together, “Just Go with It” (2011), “Murder Mystery” (2019) and “Murder Mystery 2” (2023), and their chemistry is undeniable. They probably work so well together on screen because they’ve been friends in real life since they were in their 20s.

Aniston revealed their closeness in an anecdote she shared in WSJ Magazine. “Aniston, who does not have children and has spoken openly about her struggles with fertility treatment, says Sandler and his wife [Jackie Sandler] send her flowers every Mother’s Day,” the profile’s author, Ellen Gamerman, writes.

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Airline CEO works a flight attendant shift and is ‘astonished’ at how ‘challenging’ it is

“Sometimes, you need to change perspectives in order to gain new insights!” is not exactly a sentence one might expect to hear from a corporate exec, but it is a philosophy that led Jens Ritter, CEO of German company Lufthansa Airlines, to taking on a shift as a flight attendant.

In a post shared on LinkedIn, Ritter detailed his experience of working as additional cabin crew for a flight heading to Riyadh and Bahrain, taking care of passengers in business class.

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