Alaska Airlines flight attendant fired for filming ‘inappropriate’ video on board, GoFundMe launched

• A former Alaska Airlines flight attendant has been fired after a video of her went viral.
• She insists the video was harmless and has started a GoFundMe campaign to support it.
• There is now a growing debate about where employers should draw the line when monitoring personal social media content.

And now former An Alaska Airlines flight attendant was recently identified as a San Francisco native Nelly Dialais seeking financial support through a GoFundMe campaign after being fired from her job for posting a viral video on TikTok.

In her own words, The clip is 15 seconds What was filmed at 6am on board a Boeing 737 as it waited two hours for pilots to arrive was simply “a bit of pre-work”. However, perhaps unsurprisingly, the resulting backlash, combined with allegations of violating the airline’s social media policy, led to its swift termination.

Viral Tik Tok

According to reports, Diala was only with him Alaska Airlines For nearly six months, in an ironic turn, she celebrated the end of her probation when she recorded the offensive video. She originally captioned the clip “Ghetto til I die, don’t let the outfit fool you,” but for many viewers, that statement alone was enough to call for her sacking on the grounds of unprofessionalism.

Whether it was the comment, the video, or likely both, the airline took fast and furious action, with Diala later claiming she was fired without having a formal opportunity to defend herself.

In a recent repost of the video, she used the hashtag #discriminationisreal and expressed her frustration over her loss of income as a result of what she views as mere personal expression. Critics have slammed it for poor judgment, while others have argued that the airline’s policies give employees too broad latitude to decide whether content could negatively impact their image. Either way, the end result was the same: Diala found herself out of work almost as quickly as her video went viral.

Personal expression or something worse?

Most airlines maintain strict social media policies that prevent the posting of any content that may harm the brand by their employees. Often, these policies contain open-ended language requiring employees to do this [we’re paraphrasing] “Avoid publishing anything that might reflect negatively on the company.”

Unsurprisingly, Diala insisted that her video was not malicious, explaining that she never associated her “performance” with Alaska Airlines by name. However, it was likely that her uniform and the background of the plane cabin made it difficult to stand up to this defense…

While flight attendant roles typically hold high standards of professionalism compared to similar, and indeed similarly paid, jobs, the jury of public opinion still questions whether the consequences are too dire or entirely justified. Diala’s situation has sparked widespread debate about how far employers should go in policing personal social media content and whether some creative expressions automatically violate professional guidelines.

GoFundMe for Diyala: Slow start

Diala has now turned to GoFundMe in a bid to raise $12,000 to help fund her “thriving lingerie and confectionery business”, which she runs under the names @cakezncake and @figure8.lingerie respectively. Unfortunately, as of mid-January, she has only raised about $180.

Things went from bad to worse for Diala, with the unexpected passing of her two beloved English bulldogs and a difficult personal relationship adding to her difficulties in recent months. However, she confirms that she loved working as a flight attendant and was in good spirits.