{"id":36987,"date":"2026-05-03T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=36987"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:30:18","slug":"laid-off-spirit-airlines-employee-finds-comforting-familiar-threat-of-physical-violence-at-new-waffle-house-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/laid-off-spirit-airlines-employee-finds-comforting-familiar-threat-of-physical-violence-at-new-waffle-house-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid-Off Spirit Airlines Employee Finds Comforting, Familiar Threat Of Physical Violence At New Waffle House Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GEORGIA \u2014Following the official permanent grounding of Spirit Airlines last week, former gate agent Jerome Higgins reported that he has successfully transitioned to the graveyard shift at a local Waffle House, citing a desperate need to replace the adrenaline rush of daily, unhinged customer brawls.<\/p>\n<p>According to Higgins, the skill sets required for both positions are nearly identical, noting that the muscle memory developed from working at Spirit Airlines translated seamlessly to fighting off a typical Waffle House customer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried interviewing for a normal customer service job at a bank, but the silence was deafening,&#8221; Higgins told reporters while casually putting on a bulletproof vest before starting his shift. &#8220;Nobody was throwing objects at me, screaming, or being put in a headlock by a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/laid-off-tsa-agent-gets-new-job-aggressively-patting-down-customers-at-walmart-exit\/\">TSA agent<\/a>. I felt completely empty inside. Waffle House is the only employer in the country that offers the exact same high-stakes, hand-to-hand combat work environment I\u2019m used to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waffle House regional manager Todd Clemson praised the recent influx of aviation workers, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spirit-airlines-flights-cancelled-rescue-fares-refunds-stranded-9e6a8268003ef3b75a1a8f37d6f2058b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Spirit Airlines employees<\/a> are already highly trained in hand-to-hand combat.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, Higgins was reportedly feeling a deep, nostalgic peace as two customers ripped off their weaves and began aggressively wrestling in what eventually turned into a 13-person brawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GEORGIA \u2014Following the official permanent grounding of Spirit Airlines last week, former gate agent Jerome Higgins reported that he has successfully transitioned to the graveyard shift at a local Waffle House, citing a desperate need to replace the adrenaline rush of daily, unhinged customer brawls. According to Higgins, the skill sets required for both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,1050,1114],"class_list":["post-36987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-news","tag-airplane","tag-job","tag-rated-pg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}