Uniforms
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surreal1221
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Ouch!
TurdBird
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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I wear a hat too.
The Georgia Highway Patrol officers aren't even allowed to get out of their cars on a traffic stop without their hats on. Not sure if they follow the rules in the more rural parts, but around ATL and the suburbs, you never see one without his hat.
TurdBird
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We are supposed to have them on outside the car. I hate it. They are so uncomfortable. Most don't wear them but you have the occasional sergeant or higher that makes you have it on as long as they are around.
SoCalAprch
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Very true, especially the wrinkled by the time you get to the airport...
barnstormer09
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:drool: I could give your lady a lesson in what a girl's supposed to do when her man walks in wearing that. It starts with tearing the hat off and throwing it across the room. I'll let you figure it out from there.
The way I see it, if and when I decide to pursue a career with an airline, I'm going to wear that uniform as proudly as I can (as you should!). You guys put in a lot of time for a pretty thankless job and not a lot of money, but I'll be damned if I show up every day looking like it.
As for wearing the hat... I'd only do it if it didn't mess up my hair. </girl>
surreal1221
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I don't see why this is such a divisive subject.
Dress like a professional, and as if you would want people to respect you, and you'll do just fine.
Follow your company's established dress code, and if you have to ask 5 people if you look professional. . . then you probably need to just ask yourself "Am I asking these people because I'm being a lazy bastard, or because I've put enough effort into looking professional and proper that I still don't think I've achieved it."
If it's the latter, good job. . .you're doing it right. If it's the former, ah - great - another one of those types.
To me this comes back to people who have had to wear a uniform before, professionally. Majority of us in the flying for a living business spent some amount of time in the military, so we know how to dress professionally, with our own standards.
Trouble is, a majority of the young gun pilots are coming out of school where they could wear their baggy ass jeans and untucked polo shirts around all day, and it didn't matter.
Now *gasp* they have to wear a uniform?
Grow up guys and gals.
*Starts timer* I wonder how long it'll take Em to show up.
Dress like a professional, and as if you would want people to respect you, and you'll do just fine.
Follow your company's established dress code, and if you have to ask 5 people if you look professional. . . then you probably need to just ask yourself "Am I asking these people because I'm being a lazy bastard, or because I've put enough effort into looking professional and proper that I still don't think I've achieved it."
If it's the latter, good job. . .you're doing it right. If it's the former, ah - great - another one of those types.
To me this comes back to people who have had to wear a uniform before, professionally. Majority of us in the flying for a living business spent some amount of time in the military, so we know how to dress professionally, with our own standards.
Trouble is, a majority of the young gun pilots are coming out of school where they could wear their baggy ass jeans and untucked polo shirts around all day, and it didn't matter.
Now *gasp* they have to wear a uniform?
Grow up guys and gals.
*Starts timer* I wonder how long it'll take Em to show up.
SoCalAprch
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I don't see why this is such a divisive subject.
Dress like a professional, and as if you would want people to respect you, and you'll do just fine.
Follow your company's established dress code, and if you have to ask 5 people if you look professional. . . then you probably need to just ask yourself "Am I asking these people because I'm being a lazy bastard, or because I've put enough effort into looking professional and proper that I still don't think I've achieved it."
If it's the latter, good job. . .you're doing it right. If it's the former, ah - great - another one of those types.
To me this comes back to people who have had to wear a uniform before, professionally. Majority of us in the flying for a living business spent some amount of time in the military, so we know how to dress professionally, with our own standards.
Trouble is, a majority of the young gun pilots are coming out of school where they could wear their baggy ass jeans and untucked polo shirts around all day, and it didn't matter.
Now *gasp* they have to wear a uniform?
Grow up guys and gals.
*Starts timer* I wonder how long it'll take Em to show up.
Im not saying you should show up looking like a slop. Just because you hang your shirt up at night and wear it again the next day is not being unprofessional. I just picture you guys up at 4 in the morning with a can of starch ironing away just to hop in a van, walk through the terminal (with your blazer on), then sit in a plane for 6 hours behind a closed door. If the shirt looks like I slept in it then I will iron it but for the most part if you just hang it up when you get to the hotel its going to look the same as if you ironed it and rode in the van to the airport. Just my two cents but its not a fashion show and I really don't think people give two shats. You should go through the terminal and ask passengers if they check all the pilots for wrinkles in their shirts. It sounds like some of you may be trying to prove to yourselves that you are professionals.
And I always wear my hat because it does tie the uniform together and I also have uniform shirts and pants that have been tailored to fit correctly. So Im not saying that it is ok to look like a slob, just that ironing every morning is not what makes you a professional.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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I just think it's disgusting to wear the same uniform shirt day after day. Unless I only flew one leg in it, then I change the shirt every day.
SoCalAprch
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I disagree, unless you don't shower everyday I don't see the problem. I don't sweat that much either and I wear an undershirt and deodorant.
Qgar
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:drool: I could give your lady a lesson in what a girl's supposed to do when her man walks in wearing that. It starts with tearing the hat off and throwing it across the room. I'll let you figure it out from there.
The way I see it, if and when I decide to pursue a career with an airline, I'm going to wear that uniform as proudly as I can (as you should!). You guys put in a lot of time for a pretty thankless job and not a lot of money, but I'll be damned if I show up every day looking like it.
As for wearing the hat... I'd only do it if it didn't mess up my hair. </girl>
I like the way you think, Barnstormer! :crazy:
While I love the hat on the guys, I'm glad as a FA, I don't have to wear one. :hiya: All hats mess a girl's hair!
Qgar
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Oops, sorry if I hurt your feelings, Officer!
Your hat is hot too (as long as it's not one of those baseball type caps or taxi driver hats (Chicago PD)! 
There, feel better now?
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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To each his own. I shower twice a day and wear undershirts, and I would still feel grimy if I wore the same shirt day after day. I'll admit to being a little bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to cleanliness, though.
ZWflyer
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To each his own. I shower twice a day and wear undershirts, and I would still feel grimy if I wore the same shirt day after day. I'll admit to being a little bit obsessive-compulsive when it comes to cleanliness, though.
How the heck do you fit 4 shirts/pants, clothes for the overnights, etc. into your suitcase on a 4 day? I usually go with 2 shirts/pants, and 2 sets of clothes along with stuff to work out in and I am doing good to fit all of that into my bag.