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What is up with not wearing full uniform?

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AlbieF15 said:
I generally drop my trousers and pull off my shirt ASAP and then curl up into a little ball in my boxer shorts and white T-shirt and black socks while sitting in first class. I also sometimes fart and scratch whereever it itches. I can usually get both seats to myself this way, even if there was another passenger next to me initially.

I use this tactic frequently also...............Another addition if you dont have your Ipod is a big a$$ set of orange earplugs that they supply in the AOC. When I sit down, I just plug them babies in and stare into space like a mute.
 
First of all, I fly freight so PAX in terminals aren't paying my salary. Usually when I am commuting, I have been up for more than 24 hours and I am extremely tired, so no, i don't want to answer questions. My company has bought my ticket so I am a PAX. If you show your crew ID to the ticket counter and security it does the same as wearing your entire uniform. This tactic works all around the US and mostly everywhere else I've been in the world. What's the big deal?
 
I'll give you a hint, Chief . . . . . . :beer:

Maybe you should relax, and have one yourself. . . . . . . !




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800Dog said:
When passengers are paying 200 bucks to fly coast to coast, they get what they pay for! Walmart employees never help me but, they make billions! Wise up. Point A to B safely is all they should expect sport.

Here, I will slow it down for you a little sport.

Clearly you are exempt from all of this since you fly boxes (and therefore have no obligation to uphold the standards for "the rest" of the industry) but here goes;

1. It doesn't matter what they are paying, they are customers and deserve the same treatment as any other customer. Do we only give a smile or a hello to someone above a certain $ threshold? What is it $500? $600?

2. If you are shopping at WalMart.... we will just leave that one alone.

3. "Point A to B" is NOT all they should expect. They also should receive your professional best as an airline representative.

Here's a few questions for you;
If you were a police officer, and were off duty in partial uniform, would you think it proper to not help someone who is in need or danger?
Would you not help them because you knew they paid less tax than another person?
Would you take off just your badge and tie and go have a brewski at a bar?
 
Someone's got that "New Pilot" smell. . . . . .

Seems like the guys who care the most about "who is wearing what" are the guys with the smallest paychecks and the smallest . . . . . equipment. We have 'em at my airline, too, except they are the "hat police" . . . most of 'em don't seem to have much hair, wonder if there's a connection there?;)




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Seat 0A said:
1. It doesn't matter what they are paying, they are customers and deserve the same treatment as any other customer. Do we only give a smile or a hello to someone above a certain $ threshold? What is it $500? $600?


WHAT!!!! same treatment...so all those coach passengers get treated the same as first class???? i think not!
 
I saw as a Non Rev on a Delta flight last month. An off-line guy (company name withheld to protect the guilty) on an ID-90 in partial uniform. Wearing the pants and blazer with no tie and shirt unbuttoned. He looked like a complete slob, and unfortunately most passengers probably assumed he was a Delta pilot.
 
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CaptainMark said:
WHAT!!!! same treatment...so all those coach passengers get treated the same as first class???? i think not!

Nice try. Missing the forest for the trees. The general discussion related to the average pax and because some are paying only $200 they get to go from A to B and are entitled to nothing else. We all know your big bucks first class folks get "the best care in the air".

BTW, "treatment" costs nothing. I am sure that the free cheap wine in First costs the airline a ton, however. In the old days every passenger was made to feel special. Now all of the carriers are right up there with Greyhound.

Here's an analogy: When we (frax) fly the nanny or gardener of one of our multi-millionaires, they get the same better-than-first class treatment as the owner.
 
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Seat OA...
Our airline does in fact have a policy that requires us to be in full uniform, or in no uniform whatsoever...and I honor that policy.. All in all I generally agree with you in regards to how I choose to conduct myself... w/regards to uniform..

But that doesn't mean I don't think for one second that you are a massive tool for posting this thread. This is just more squabbling; and in fact it is an attack on your brethren.
 
joevollers said:
Seat OA...
Our airline does in fact have a policy that requires us to be in full uniform, or in no uniform whatsoever...and I honor that policy.. All in all I generally agree with you in regards to how I choose to conduct myself... w/regards to uniform..

But that doesn't mean I don't think for one second that you are a massive tool for posting this thread. This is just more squabbling; and in fact it is an attack on your brethren.

let's get to more important issues....how about that airbus rudder?
 
"Here's a few questions for you;
If you were a police officer, and were off duty in partial uniform, would you think it proper to not help someone who is in need or danger?
Would you not help them because you knew they paid less tax than another person?
Would you take off just your badge and tie and go have a brewski at a bar?"

Seat 0A,

You don't know many cops, do you? I had a few beers with a San Francisco cop while he was in uniform and I believe he was on duty at the time. A very nice guy actually, and no I wasn't the only one drinking. I don't really have a point here, just a little story about drinking with an on-duty police officer. I would suggest the same to that cop as I would to any pilot (throw a sweatshirt over your work clothes), but in his case he'd probably get harrassed for wearing his side arm if he wasn't in uniform.

-Blucher:D
 
Seat 0A said:
Here's an analogy: When we (frax) fly the nanny or gardener of one of our multi-millionaires, they get the same better-than-first class treatment as the owner.


yeah ..you pick up their trash when they get off the plane in full uniform..tie and all
 
I tear the sleaves off my uniform, much more comfy!! Jee wiz guys, have we come this far to criticize people on what they do on thier own time?
 
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CaptainMark said:
yeah ..you pick up their trash when they get off the plane!

Jeez, talk about thread "bickering". Actually I tip the line guy to clean the cabin. And I am reimbursed for ALL tips. Another myth shot down.
 
EMB Skillz said:
Funny, but the salaries are so low that pilots have to shop at Target. By the way, Target is owned by the French.

No its not.
 
At least the French workers stand up for themselves.

The U.S. economy is much better than france, they are having major immigration problems and in 10 years have no middle class workers to do the work that the great french workers, who stand up for themselves, wont do. Great country, wish we could take style lessons from them, then we could all wear berets and be more interested in what each other wear.
 

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