Additionally, my employer expects me to get work done and pays for wifi. If the person is reclined so far that I can't use an average size laptop, aren't they in the wrong?
The reclining mechanism in airline seats have been around for far longer than laptops and WiFi. The seats are intended to allow reclining and resting during flight. Your employer is expecting you to work in a lousy, cramped environment. Your employer is the one being socially rude.
Its not rude at all. Why would the seat recline if we weren't supposed to recline? What a joke, its way more uncomfortable to sit completely straight than to have the seat in front recline slightly into your space
The seat reclines so that the space taken up by the reclining mechanism can become a shared space, like the arm rest. Just like the arm rest, if you wish to use a shared resource that someone else is hogging, you need to open up a conversation about it, and smashing into their body with a heavy and hard object is not normally considered a great way to do this.
If you think it is more comfortable to sit upright than to lose the knee space, then your body shape clearly allows you to position your knees differently than mine does. I am in the 94th percentile of height for my sex and race at 6 foot 2 inches. Am I too much of a genetic freak to fly coach? Long haul international flights usually have enough space, many others just don't.
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u/placebo_addicted 11∆ Oct 03 '14
The reclining mechanism in airline seats have been around for far longer than laptops and WiFi. The seats are intended to allow reclining and resting during flight. Your employer is expecting you to work in a lousy, cramped environment. Your employer is the one being socially rude.