An employee working for the airline company JetBlue has come under fire on social media after an image emerged on Twitter of them wearing an ''offensive'' Halloween costume
A Twitter-used with the handle @nats248 posted an image of the employee on the social media platform on October 31. The image showed the unnamed JetBlue worker, wearing a ''homeless vagrant'' costume, which consisted of dirty white overalls, a black beanie hat, a red flannel shirt, and a cardboard sign.
The sign, which has been criticized as racist by some detractors, read: "Homeless. Need help trying to get back home to Puerto Rico or Cuba."
The Spanish-speaking Twitter-user captioned the post: "This was the costume of a Jetblue employee at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, FL. I want to read your opinions."
A number of other Hispanic people appeared to agree that the costume was prejudiced. For instance, @dominopr777 commented: "@JetBlue needs to fire her a** and issue a public apology for her costume because I find it highly offensive and … I personally won’t be flying JetBlue until they issue an apology… [sic]"
This isn't the first time an airport worker has caught flak online, check out this video of a guard handing a passenger a cruel note:Commenting on the situation in a statement delivered to NBC News, JetBlue's manager of corporate communications Derek Dombrowski claimed that the matter was being treated seriously by the corporation.
The spokesman claimed: "In the spirit of Halloween, our crew members are welcome to celebrate in costume, but one crewmember chose a costume that was clearly insensitive and not in line with our costume policy."
Take a look at some of the other reactions to the employee's costume on Twitter:
However, this isn't the first time we've written about an airport controversy. Check out this article we penned about the time that singer Aubrey O'Day claimed a male flight attendant forced to take her top off on an American Airlines flight.
