99Bandit,

This was NOT an "overbooked" flight. It was FULL, and with paying passengers. Then 4 employees arrived to deadhead to a destination that a good dispatch officer could have done more easily by putting the employees on another flight (even with another airline) or arranged for ground transportation to get the employees to the destination that someone forgot to plan well-enough to get them to in the first place.

The company should have taken care of the people who pay their employees' salaries, not have them assaulted..

A dispatcher and a gate agent (and a CEO) need to be fired for their rotten business decisions.