The flight attendant fired over giving the finger to passengers has been rehired.
Tatiana Kozlenko, a Russian flight attendant for Aeroflot requested her job back after she fired over a photo of a flight attendant giving the middle finger to passengers.
Aeroflot sent a message to the Huffington Post saying that Kozlenko has been rehired.
"Earlier this week after having examined her multiple requests for re-hiring, our Director General Mr. Vitaly Saveliev decided to take her back," Head of International Relations Alexander Lukashin told HuffPost. "We hope our passengers will understand this. Tatiana Kozlenko pleaded guilty and understood that such things are not allowed."
Kozlenko will be placed on a six-month probation period.
According to RT ,the photo of the hand of a flight attendant giving the middle finger to passengers on a jet appeared on Kozlenko's wall on Russian social network Vkontakte in October 2011. The photo was like dozens of times, but Aeroflot wasn't too happy with it. They became aware of the photo when renowned Russian blogger Ilya Varlamoc reposted the photo on Twitter and it was retweeted hundreds of times. As a result, Kozlenko was fired.
Aeroflot's decision received a lot of backlash from Russian twitter users. Many thought the photo was just an innocent joke. "Why do they blame someone for a photo posted on a personal page? This is common office humour. Is it prohibited to joke in Aeroflot?" wrote user @oleg_kozyrev, according to Russia Times.
Kozlenko claims the finger in the picture wasn't hers. She pointed out that the plane wasn't an Aeroflot plane.
"I don't consider myself guilty! The photo was added to my page, I only tagged myself on it!!! The hand isn't mine, the plane is not my company's!!! I don't understand what they spoil my life for!!! I'm asking you for help and support!!!" Kozlenko wrote on her Vkontakte page.
After receiving input from customers, Kozlenko got her job back.
Others weren't so lucky.
This wasn't the first time an Aeroflot flight attendant lost her job due to a web post. Flight attendant Ekaterina Solovyeva lost her job in May after she joked about the crash of a Sukhoi Superjet-100 in Indonesia.
In December, a Cathay Pacific flight attendant was fired after she said that she wanted to throw coffee in the face of a passenger in a Facebook post.
In 2008, 13 flight attendants were fired when Virgin Atlantic found that they were insulting passengers and discussing the airline's safety standards on Facebook.
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