An Alaska Airlines flight attendant was fired after posting a video on social media of her twerking in an aircraft cabin.
Nelle Diala uploaded the dancing clip to TikTok in late November alongside a caption describing herself as a ‘ghetto bih.’
‘Don’t let the uniform fool you,’ she added. It has since garnered more than 90,000 views and thousands of likes.
In the video, she wears an Alaska Airlines uniform while dancing to the song ‘Ghetto’ by musician E.K.E.
Since her apparent dismissal, Diala has launched a GoFundMe page, on which she detailed the incident that led to her firing.
Diala explained that she posted the video to her personal social media account to celebrate the end of her six-month probation period. She said she filmed the video at 6 a.m. while waiting for the plane’s pilots to arrive.
Diala said the airline told her she had violated its social media policy and that she was terminated without notice or an investigation.
‘Although it was a poor decision on my behalf I didn’t think it would cost me my dream job,’ she wrote.
‘I explained that the video wasn’t intended to harm anyone or the company, but they didn’t want to listen.’
Diala described losing her job as ‘devastating.’ As of Friday, her GoFundMe had raised just over $2,000.
