Boyfriend got up to use restroom on flight but returned to seat as a new staff member for an epic reason

Many people think that the job of a flight attendant is a luxurious one. They get to visit different states and countries, look immaculate all the time and have the brightest smile while greeting the passengers. But flight attendants also have less-appreciated obligations after the flight takes off. One of those is collecting garbage from the passengers. So when the crew on a TUI Airlines flight asked a man to help them with collecting 'rubbish' as a joke, they were not at all expecting a 'yes' in response. A 30-year-old woman named Olivia Power, who goes by @lifewiththemancs on TikTok, filmed her boyfriend Michael taking up a new job role mid-air. 

Power and Michael were traveling back to London's Gatwick Airport from their vacation in Crete, Greece when the 36-year-old man decided to join the flight crew. "The UK and Ireland might have a new staff member by next week. We’ll take free flights as payment, please," the woman hilariously wrote in the caption of her video. The footage showed Michael in the aisle of the flight, wearing disposable gloves and donning an apron along with a neck scarf to mimic the flight staff's uniform. 

He pushed a trolley down the aisle along with a flight attendant. "Anyone with any rubbish?" Michael spoke to his fellow passengers, collecting garbage from them. Other passengers played along and handed him the trash that he stuffed down the trolley he was pushing. Power recorded her boyfriend and giggled along as he inched closer to their seat. The rest of the story behind Michael suddenly becoming a flight attendant was shared by Power in the video, as well as, in an interview with Newsweek.

Power mentioned in the overlay text of the video that Michael had gone to the washroom on the flight. When he didn't return within the next few minutes, Power wondered what was taking him so long until she noticed Michael in a new attire. The flight attendants had jokingly asked him, "You don't want to do the rubbish, do you?" The staff couldn't believe it when Michael promptly agreed to their casual offer and started collecting the garbage from fellow passengers. "I turned around and he was coming down the aisle like that!" Power told the news outlet. People in the comments section of Power's video were gobsmacked as well.

@claire.willis3 joked, "Took me a moment to realize he wasn't the guy behind the attendants and he was the new attendant." @garymckie2 remarked, "Airlines are going to cut staff now and ask passengers to fill in to pass the time." @beccaheywood3 wrote, "I thought he was the guy in red and he was just stuck behind the trolley." @_plsdontbotherme wondered, "I need to know how this happened lol what was the conversation with the flight attendants that he was allowed to be an honorary flight worker." To this comment, Power replied that Michael had taken up the offer as a joke for the time being. @label743 added, "If they removed the extortionate baggage prices, I’d do this to pass the time."

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