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Originally Posted by gshase
I fly WWII airplanes for 2 Doctors and they both told me the same thing. That it is hard to say no to someone Famous like Michael Jackson or Kobe. The pilot knew he would be flying in very marginal conditions and could not man up and say you should drive and not take the chance flying. He most likely would have been on Kobe's **** list for not getting them to the game on time.
Dr Conrad Murry would still be practicing Medicine if if he could have stood up to Michael Jackson but did not want to be ousted from the biggest Super Star in the world.
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Agreed and it does not remove the pilot's and Dr. Murry's culpability one single bit.
I have been around enough "famous" people or at least powerful ones and to be honest, every time I have had a conversation with one I walk into the room presuming I am going to walk out without a job....and I am OK with that.
There is the normal considerations you give any senior person or person who employs you, but if at the end of the day if all you do is what you are told to do for money, then you are a prostitute and you may as well get used to being screwed in manners you may not want.
Probably no one knows in the Kobe case exactly what was said, but my bet is that there was no honest, adult conversation by either party...it was either glossed over as a "concern" or just not spoken about.
Sad, but if that is your approach when matters of your life or lives of others are at material risk, then you deserve what you get.
Dennis