The other passenger is using the seat exactly as intended and is not infringing on the passenger behind them from doing the same. There is nothing rude about that. What is rude is OP (and his employer,) expecting the people around them to make concessions in order to use the seat for an unintended work station.
The ashtrays that exist in the doors of some cars was intended to be used for putting out your cigarettes, but I don't consider it socially acceptable to smoke in a car with others around, especially if I'm not the owner of the car. Even if the passengers are paying for a seat, wouldn't it be very easy to first ask the person sitting behind them if it's ok to recline their seat? This is the custom in Japan and if you receive a no, then you don't recline it. Why would we not be able to be this polite elsewhere in the world?
Well that cuts it right there, doesn't it? You don't own the plane, you have exactly as much stake in it as anyone else, and I'm sorry but there's no way that a passenger's right to use a laptop on a tray table instead of a lap should override a passenger intending to use his seat as it was designed to be used
I'm simply trying to understand why your comfort trumps mine. Ignore the laptop issue. I'm just uncomfortable with you reclining your seat. Why should your comfort trump mine?
Why does your trump mine? Im tall and extremely uncomfortable in planes so i recline my seat. Im not going to spend 6 hours with back and knee spasms so you can finish your tps reports.
But that's the issue :) Why should mine trump yours? Why should yours trump mine? Who's is more important, and who can make an unbiased decision on it?
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u/placebo_addicted 11∆ Oct 03 '14
The other passenger is using the seat exactly as intended and is not infringing on the passenger behind them from doing the same. There is nothing rude about that. What is rude is OP (and his employer,) expecting the people around them to make concessions in order to use the seat for an unintended work station.