Wearing your uni outside the work place

[captain caveman]

Heck, I've stripped down and changed my whole atire in the WM parking lot.

That's not weirder than just going into the strore with your uniform on.

 

[Tex-Ex]

I was in the store yesterday and saw a postman and a UPS driver both in uniform. No big deal. In my own opinion you look like less of a tool in uniform (minus the hat) than you do "de-identifying" yourself. Now you're a guy in blue pants and a white short sleeved button-up shirt with funny flaps on the shoulders.

and by the way, dhc9fo, if you live in a military town, nobody thinks you are military. Don't wanna be the one to break it to you, man. Sorry.

Tex

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

The only "tools" are the people that are that spun up over wearing the uni away from the airport. Hell, I went out to eat with the fam at a BBQ joint on my way home from the airport tonight. Tie and ID came off... unbuttoned the two top buttons to let my man rug breath and ate some ribs. I don't think anyone gave two thirds of a purple fu(k that I dribbled sauce on my shirt.

Again, it's work clothes, who gives a sh#t?

 

[Nindiri]

Uniform shirts without the epys look gay.

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

I ride the "L" to work here in Chicago. You see all kinds of airport employees who have uniforms on. Somehow though it's only pilots who have a uniform embarassment issue. No one cares if you are a pilot. It's just what you wear to work. Just like the lav guy who wears his uniform and the bathroom cleaning lady who wears her uniform. You are nothing special so don't worry about wearing your pilot uniform.

 

[zugzug]

Ya big egomaniac:laugh: Nobody is looking at YOU! If you think everyone is looking at you.... You have issues.


http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/rockwell/default.php

 

[rvsm410]

Heck, I wish dispatchers had uniforms...hats too!

 

[airludy]

Do you think it would be dorky to wear my pilot uniform for Halloween?

 

[Truckdriver]

You can justify it all you want, but if you wear your uniform into the grocery store you are a tool. If you are a SKYW pilot, then it's ok because you guys fly the big iron and you deserve to have people admire you all of your skill and riches.

 

[airludy]

What about wearing it to Starbucks to get coffee on the way to work?

 

[English]

Do you think it would be dorky to wear my pilot uniform for Halloween?

Totally dorky. I did that a few years ago (last-minute party the week before halloween and my good costume wasn't ready yet) and added a black walking cane, black sunglasses, a seeing-eye dog, minis of liquor in one pocket and items of a personal nature in the other. For some reason, others at the party didn't find it out of the ordinary.

 

[dhc8fo]

and by the way, dhc9fo, if you live in a military town, nobody thinks you are military. Don't wanna be the one to break it to you, man. Sorry.

Tex

Actually, they often think I am NATO...it happens all the time because I take off my badge and hat if I have to make a stop.

 

[Silent Partner]

I've got to agree with learthirty5 on this one. It is just work clothes. Don't give it a second thought.

Besides how many times have you seen some other uniformed person do the same thing? Did you think they were some weird person? Probably not. If someone has a problem with it let it be just that their problem & not yours. The most difficult problem that I have run into when I stop on the way to or from the airport is that people what to talk to you & ask you all kinds of questions.

Eh, I agree and then I don't agree. So I'm in between this one.

That is one main reason I'd wouldn't wear my uniform with all the pins and stuff, to avoid being asked questions or someone telling me a story about "someone they know who is a pilot"

This is one reason I started the post because I was curious to see how some fellow pilots view their uniform as "just work clothes" or as something more. Of course!!!!! no one is going to have the same view, especially on flightinfo.com and that's all good.

But for me..... if I see a pilot fully decked out in uniform in the grocery store, the mall, a bookstore, etc.....you're a tool....straight up flaming tool. I'm sure there are other non pilots thinking the same thing. Just take the pins off and epaulets. I'm not so sure about stripping in the wally world parking lot, but if that works for you then more power to you.

 

[dash8driver]

Do you think it would be dorky to wear my pilot uniform for Halloween?

only if its your work uniform.. because its only a costume for you, you can get away with it. until you find that elusive free lunch.






.

 

[dash8driver]

i just go into the store naked





.