Oh FFS, this just takes the cake:
British Airways bosses have apologized for telling cabin crew members what bras to wear under new ‘transparent’ uniforms which led to comments from passengers.
The see-through blouses were issued as part of a new uniform, unveiled earlier this year, designed to ‘take the airline into the next chapter’ and for a non-binary crew.
Last year BA relaxed the rules around its strict uniform policy and went gender-neutral to allow male pilots and crew to wear make-up and carry handbags.
Lemme just deal with the low-hanging fruit first.
- Companies have every right to create a “uniform” policy, and to dictate what does and does not constitute “proper” clothing under that policy
- the corollary is that if the uniform consists of “transparent” clothing, they also have the right to set policy for “proper” undergarments
- but if they do specify transparent clothing, they deserve everything that comes to them.
Now for the ugly stuff.
I’m sick and fucking tired of companies feeling that they have to apologize to their employees for bullshit like this. Were the topic that of terrible salaries, foul working conditions and in short things that deserve corporate groveling, okay; but for causing hurt feeewings? Screw that.
But in to the topic at hand.
Nothing would make me question the capabilities of an airline’s crew faster than the whole thing turning into some kind of costume party, with the “men” wearing clown makeup and the “women” wearing no bra under a transparent blouse (although at first glance the latter wouldn’t seem too bad, please consider that the average age of trolley-dollies now appears to be 50, and all seem to have been recruited from branches of the Ugly Tree).
And frankly, I’m not sure I want to see any of the flight crew wearing transparent clothing, given that said crew will likely include girlymen and butchygirls, all of indeterminate gender.
I don’t know why I bother fulminating about this stuff anymore, considering that my chances of flying at all are minuscule, and on any British airline even less than that.
I’d give this one a try, though.
A transfaggot should nor be a pilot. Pilots should be sane, and by their very nature, trannies are not.
this article is useless without pictures.
Trannies or whatever they’re called now have no place in any position of responsibility. They belong in a mental asylum getting their head screwed on straight.
JQ
> Companies have every right to create a “uniform” policy, and to dictate what does and
> does not constitute “proper” clothing under that policy
This is true.
However, in this case the company had one policy, with, one presumes, “normally” opaque options for covering one’s torso.
And they switched to something that allowed ones undergarments to be visible–at least for those who “identify as female”. This is for people in an occupation where these females already get far more…sexually oriented attention than they should.
That is something that employees *should* complain about, and THAT is what the company SHOULD be apologizing for.
The advice given for said underwear is within reason, but is only necessary because someone in the airline (who should be given a chance to find a new job) was an idiot about the clothing choices to begin with.
It is one thing to specify and require an ugly uniform, it’s another thing entire to require that a woman (more or less) expose herself.
That said, following the links, women (as is typical) have a lot more options than men, and don’t have to wear the blouse. That’s on the employees.
In this case it’s a sound business decision to apologize to the employees, grating though it may be.
Getting and keeping skilled help at the ridiculously low pay offered to F.A.s is non trivial. If management pisses them off strongly enough they’ll leave that poxy company, costing BA a fortune in lost profits and bringing formerly-great Britain to a standstill—with the resultant BritGov formal inquiries surely to follow.
“These are the uniforms, Ladies & Gentlemen, and if you find them unacceptable, I’m sure you can find some other employer to complain to.”
…and, fond memories of PSA: sdam_stews_1970s
When I was in school to become a nurse, our uniform was navy scrub shirts and white scrub pants. A couple of weeks into our clinical rotation, it was announced that purple thongs were not appropriate underwear to wear with our scrub pants. We were told that underwear had to be white or nude color. Yes the class was about 90% women.
JQ
I love the cross-section of the Short Empire flying boat. However, remember that passengers in those days got first class treatment because they paid much more than today’s first-class ticket prices for a slow, bumpy ride, and the airliners _had_ to have a sleeping cabin because the trips took so long.
From the article:
“British Airways unveiled the new uniform for the first time in nearly 20 years in January, with the collection of garments set to ‘take the airline into its next chapter’ “
And would that be the Bri’ish equivalent of Chapter 11?