Flight attendant was four times over alcohol limit, court told

Drink driving the snacks trolley.. what a monster!

I know you jest, but the flight attendants' primary job isn't catering, but safety. Some passengers seem to forget that. Passengers are required to follow their orders, not the other way around; their hospitality doesn't mean they have to take one's bullshit.
So yeah I'd personally prefer if the people in charge of safety on a flight weren't intoxicated. Usually that's a pilot privilege
- I'm not worried. I don't live my life around freak accidents. This really doesn't need to be national news ruining her life if there wasn't a crash before hand, that's the real issue.
  Expecting a shit wage employee to act better than cops (let's set that bar real low) in a dangerous event is silly. That person isn't paid enough to give a fuck about any of those people. Those that do are going above and beyond.
- When the plane crashes into the ocean, you are toast anyways

For reference- she was at 0.091% BAC

England has a driving limit of 0.08%

For those confused: Americans use percentage for blood alcohol concentration.
That's 0.91‰ and 0.8‰ respectively.
- % is percent, ‰ is per mille (thousand)
- What do non-Americans use?
- Thank you
What's the limit at her company for her job, though? I'm assuming that's the limit we're discussing here, unless she was trying to drive the plane.
- 0.02% according to the article.
Why is the driving limit 4 times higher than the limit for acting as a flight attendant?

I really don't care about people not being sober as long as they can function correctly.

Everything else is just strong arming people into the awful state of being conscious in this horrible reality.

I really don’t care about people not being sober as long as they can function correctly.
Regardless of the rest you wrote that I disagree with, she crashed her car on the way to the flight that she was removed from, blaming the steering. Not sure how that would qualify as "function correctly"
- That's true. I read over it.
  But in general I think we should stop judging people. Except the ones that crash their car of course.

Liver can't break down alcohol? How do I get that

First you break the liver.
Alcoholism
Starve a cold, drown a liver?
Well, you could try Disulfram but I’m not sure it’s the effect you’re looking for.
Be born with it, or seriously mess up your liver.
As for the being born with it, it's a super common thing in east asian populations.
Two main processes that break down alcohol (specifically ethanol): alcohol dehydrogenase which does exactly what it says and removes a hydrogen atom from the end of the chain making it an aldehyde. This molecule, acetaldehyde, is to my understanding what actually causes the drunken effects. I don't remember if this means it it entirely the drunken effects, or just is far more of one.
What I do remember however is that there is a second enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase (guess what that does) that further processes it down to a carboxylic acid, which is then what is expelled. This is the enzyme that is occasionally found lacking due to a single base pair replacement (so it still folds normally, but is ineffective due to a single animo acid in a critical site messing the whole thing up).
This is the common mutation found in those aforementioned east asian populations. It means you can get absolutely thrashed on a budget.
Fun fact, too: there is something you can take to mitigate these effects if you know you have it, like how there's lactaid for those that are lactose intolerant (lacking the lactase enzyme). So getting yourself wrecked in this fashion is at least partially a choice.
One more fun fact: this is all from memory of a chemistry course I took some time back, in which I asked the instructor why it was that we only seem able to break down alcohols with two carbons. I don't much remember why for the longer chains, but as for menthol? It also gets dehydrogenized but that aldehyde with one carbon is formaldehyde. Probably don't need to expound on why that transition might be worse.

We've got a bit of an ~~alcohol~~ oligarchy problem in society.

This is an excuse for a firing, nothing else