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An outraged Microsoft manager accused United Airlines of making her toddler stand in his own vomit.
Zareen Abbasi, a senior product marketing manager at tech firm, criticized the airline after flight attendants allegedly failed to move the beverage cart while her son was sick.
'Hey @United - any reason why your staff consistently treats parents of toddlers as subhuman?' Abbasi wrote on Threads.
'My 18-month-old threw up and despite y’all seeing it happen, your staff didn't think it was warranted... to move the beverage cart over momentarily to allow a toddler standing in his own vomit and a panicked mom through to use the bathroom?,' she added.
Abbasi claimed she waited an additional 30 minutes to access the plane’s lavatory, while flight attendants allegedly continued serving refreshments despite the situation.
'I hate that I have to continue flying United despite you and your staff consistently showing me how much you hate families,' she said on social media.
'The kicker was, when I kindly asked for a few extra sanitizing wipes (I was handed just two) to clean up residual vomit, I was reminded: “remember to dispose of all that in the lavatory!”'
'But, friendly skies, right?' She wrote.
Zareen Abbasi, a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, she took to Threads and shared her outrage
Abbasi accused United Airlines flight attendants of making her wait an additional 30 minutes to access the plane’s lavatory
After sharing her ordeal the Microsoft manager received some backlash online, with critics saying she should 'fly another airline,' or 'pack her own wipes' or that she 'should've used a barf bag.'
'Did you use your grown up words and manners to ask the FA if you could get through?' One user replied to her post.
'There may be any number of reasons the flight attendants couldn’t jump to your every need exactly when you wanted it,' another person wrote.
'If you don’t have a solution to the problem then shut up. Things happen and they happen and it’s not necessarily always an attack on you,' another critic said.
In response to the criticism, she said she used all of her own wipes and did speak to the flight attendants about the incident.
'For a brand and an airline that spouts spectacles about “service” and “care” for their customers I am sharing an anecdote in a public forum that contradicts what they “stand for”,' Abbasi wrote on Threads.
However, many users swooped into her defense, calling it 'a nightmare scenario' and wishing her and her toddler well.
'The comment thread is insufferable. I guarantee you a cart can move a couple f***ing feet to another side of the plane so that can be cleaned up. I’d rather wait an extra 40 minutes for my water while lil dude gets cleaned off,' one user wrote.
Abbasi received a mix of social media backlash and support over the incident
Another said: 'What is wrong with people, asking why a mom lets her barely not-an-infant child throw up on the plane? May all of you be stricken with uncontrollable bodily functions during travel.
'Also, I think the carts have wheels that help them move. You know, so it could have easily moved up or down a couple of rows to let them out,' they continued.
'Anyway, that sounds miserable and extremely frustrating. Hope you guys are rested and recovered.'
Daily Mail reached out to United Airlines for comment.
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