Sara's Farewell Email of February 13, 2013
Dear United Friends and Co-workers:
If I have not already advised you in person, this valedictory email is designed to break the news gently that my career at United Airlines has come to a soft landing. Importantly, this exit comes on my own terms, facilitated by the agreeable terms of the build-your-own-exit voluntary program. (Thank you, everyone!) The timing is auspicious, and any correlation to a certain holy man in the Eternal City is purely coincidental. (He and I never agreed on Martin Luther’s 95 theses, but that is beyond argument at this turning point in our journeys toward redemption.)
As a new-hire Mainliner Stewardess in 1967, I felt like a cherished daughter who had just been adopted by a lovely family named United Airlines. Forty-five years and 7 months later, I am happy to report that I still feel exactly the same way. To all my United sisters and brothers who have laughed, cried, sung, danced the safety demo dance and prayed with me over the years, I don’t have enough words to express my gratitude. I have worked in Inflight Service (twice), Safety, Media Relations, Airport Operations, and Customer Relations divisions. For the last six years in Customer Care, I have lived the “English major’s dream” of writing dozens of little essays daily, while being surrounded with like-minded people, being well-compensated for doing the activity I love the most – second only to volunteering for children’s welfare for non-profit foundations in China and the U.S.
The volunteer path is what I will be following from here on. In that regard, I want to bring to your attention the Smith Family and their generous donations to Airline Ambassadors International, an ongoing Charity Miles partner based in Washington, DC. Distinguished actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith and their children have pledged all their frequent flyer miles to Airline Ambassadors through the Charity Miles program to end the global scourge of human trafficking. The Smith Family is donating their family’s considerable mileage earnings to an effort to reunite victims of human trafficking with distant family members – provided the traffickers and the families are not the same people, as is often, tragically the case.
If you would care to honor my 45 years of service in any form, a donation of unused MileagePlus miles in any denomination would be my preference. The link Is: https://secure.unitedmileageplus.com/CharityMilesSSO.jsp
My home email address is [email protected] and since I will be staying in my hometown of Chicago, there is no reason to be a stranger.
Cordially,
Sara Dornacker
If I have not already advised you in person, this valedictory email is designed to break the news gently that my career at United Airlines has come to a soft landing. Importantly, this exit comes on my own terms, facilitated by the agreeable terms of the build-your-own-exit voluntary program. (Thank you, everyone!) The timing is auspicious, and any correlation to a certain holy man in the Eternal City is purely coincidental. (He and I never agreed on Martin Luther’s 95 theses, but that is beyond argument at this turning point in our journeys toward redemption.)
As a new-hire Mainliner Stewardess in 1967, I felt like a cherished daughter who had just been adopted by a lovely family named United Airlines. Forty-five years and 7 months later, I am happy to report that I still feel exactly the same way. To all my United sisters and brothers who have laughed, cried, sung, danced the safety demo dance and prayed with me over the years, I don’t have enough words to express my gratitude. I have worked in Inflight Service (twice), Safety, Media Relations, Airport Operations, and Customer Relations divisions. For the last six years in Customer Care, I have lived the “English major’s dream” of writing dozens of little essays daily, while being surrounded with like-minded people, being well-compensated for doing the activity I love the most – second only to volunteering for children’s welfare for non-profit foundations in China and the U.S.
The volunteer path is what I will be following from here on. In that regard, I want to bring to your attention the Smith Family and their generous donations to Airline Ambassadors International, an ongoing Charity Miles partner based in Washington, DC. Distinguished actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith and their children have pledged all their frequent flyer miles to Airline Ambassadors through the Charity Miles program to end the global scourge of human trafficking. The Smith Family is donating their family’s considerable mileage earnings to an effort to reunite victims of human trafficking with distant family members – provided the traffickers and the families are not the same people, as is often, tragically the case.
If you would care to honor my 45 years of service in any form, a donation of unused MileagePlus miles in any denomination would be my preference. The link Is: https://secure.unitedmileageplus.com/CharityMilesSSO.jsp
My home email address is [email protected] and since I will be staying in my hometown of Chicago, there is no reason to be a stranger.
Cordially,
Sara Dornacker