USMCmech
Well-Known Member
Could be worse, they could've gone Tier 3 and below by going the leather jacket route.
I love my leather jacket.
I feel like a idiot wearing a hat.
I'm just going to leave this riiiiiiight here...
- Thread starter ChasenSFO
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I love my leather jacket.
I feel like a idiot wearing a hat.
ShyFlyer
CAP Member
Hence the qualifier "generally."
SlumTodd_Millionaire
Most Hated Member
Sure, why not have mullets and wear cargo shorts, too?
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
I’ve never met a group of people that care more about what their peers wear to work than pilots do. Y’all are seriously ridiculous.
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
There are domestic carriers too.
That'll let someone have a beard?
Lawman
Well-Known Member
After the movie Sully I think that’s pretty much the unofficial public image of 121 pilots now. Whether they want it to be or not.
I thought the "special ops beard" was the in-thing right now? Hell even the Special Response Team guys we were hauling around with us to different locations in Puerto Rico during the hurricane recovery, those guys even had the special ops beard, for reasons I couldn't figure out.
Nark
Macho Superpilot
I'm really disappointed most* of you guys didn't as cav pilots. Us 60 guys had to hold the fort.
You probably wouldn't recognize me without my stash.
Lawman
Well-Known Member
Your OER will reflect is the basic reason it doesn’t happen anymore. Even things like Mustache March get canned.
I make it a point to grow one at field exercises just because mine is so gawd awful ugly.
DPApilot
GUYSH! GUYSH! GUYSH!
That was no joke to Raymond...
Iran Air Force, 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron, F-4E Phantom operations. Mustache pilots/WSOs standard...
denverpilot
Well-Known Member
You haven’t worked with women who’s job role is in sales or marketing, have you? LOL. Or for that matter, some salesmen. They’ll gossip for hours about a pair of shoes, or in the case of the guys, someone’s new watch.
But yes, for people who wear uniforms, it’s pretty funny. I rarely see fast food workers arguing over whether the hair net or the baseball cap works better to keep hair out of the Freedom Fries. Hahahaha.
Especially funny if the uniforms are made of polyester. Plastic clothes ROCK! (Not...)
We had a “well known office rebel” who wore colorful loud ties with his suits in the oil biz in the late 80s. Hahaha. He’d look frumpy in a modern office. There were people who actually would ask quietly “Does he ever get in trouble?”
My boss’ boss’ boss wears t-shirts and wrinkled cargo shorts and tennis shoes to work these days. Granted, I’m in IT for my day job, but that guy makes my sport shirt and jeans with loafers look way overdressed.
Whatever the job requires. Grab it out of the closet and go to work. Easy-peasy.
One friend flew Twin Otters to beaches and docks in the South Pacific for years. The uniform was white button down, khaki shorts, and tennis shoes with low cut white socks.
He’s now dumping fire jumpers, and has a completely different uniform.
Another friend wears a blue Nomex poopy suit, gloves, and a helmet for every flight... with some boots I wouldn’t want my butt kicked with, and drags half dead people to hospitals with his whirlybird.
Whatever works...
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
Yep.
They just had to add some guidance to ensure that people keep it "neat" but we've got more than a few pilots that are rocking the Captain Haddock beard. Technically it says inter island only, but that hasn't ever been enforced as far as I know.
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
Here’s the way I see it. If you sign the employment offer letter, you agree to wear the uniform the company says to wear to the standards they prescribe. That doesn’t mean you can’t say things like “I find this uniform to be an impractical, outmoded homage to a long-gone era and I wish I could wear pants appropriate to a January walk-around”, but it does mean that if the company says “no North Face jacket” you don’t wear a North Face jacket.You haven’t worked with women who’s job role is in sales or marketing, have you? LOL. Or for that matter, some salesmen. They’ll gossip for hours about a pair of shoes, or in the case of the guys, someone’s new watch.
But yes, for people who wear uniforms, it’s pretty funny. I rarely see fast food workers arguing over whether the hair net or the baseball cap works better to keep hair out of the Freedom Fries. Hahahaha.
Especially funny if the uniforms are made of polyester. Plastic clothes ROCK! (Not...)
We had a “well known office rebel” who wore colorful loud ties with his suits in the oil biz in the late 80s. Hahaha. He’d look frumpy in a modern office. There were people who actually would ask quietly “Does he ever get in trouble?”
My boss’ boss’ boss wears t-shirts and wrinkled cargo shorts and tennis shoes to work these days. Granted, I’m in IT for my day job, but that guy makes my sport shirt and jeans with loafers look way overdressed.
Whatever the job requires. Grab it out of the closet and go to work. Easy-peasy.
One friend flew Twin Otters to beaches and docks in the South Pacific for years. The uniform was white button down, khaki shorts, and tennis shoes with low cut white socks.
He’s now dumping fire jumpers, and has a completely different uniform.
Another friend wears a blue Nomex poopy suit, gloves, and a helmet for every flight... with some boots I wouldn’t want my butt kicked with, and drags half dead people to hospitals with his whirlybird.
Whatever works...
On the flip side of it, acting as though other operators that have a different uniform standard (like, say, no hat requirement or allowing *gasp* backpacks) are a) personally insulting every other professional pilot or b) solely responsible for everything that ails the aviation industry makes you sound like an old man yelling at a cloud.