FAA threatens to fire air traffic controllers for wearing wrong colors
Seriously. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
An air-traffic controller in Oberlin [near Cleveland] was reprimanded because his aquamarine pants were “not gender appropriate.”
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A few male controllers at another facility protested the dress code crackdown by coming to work in dresses. Another wore an all-purple outfit - save for white pants - with purple snakeskin shoes.
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Another Oberlin controller was disciplined because he wore an orange shirt that a supervisor said “looked like a highway traffic cone.”
Let’s consider this, folks. These people are in charge of keeping the skies safe. They work in hidden, dark rooms where no one from the public can see them. They have incredibly stressful jobs.
And the FAA gives a bleep about what color pants they wear? These guys could come to work naked but for a pair of Speedos on their heads and I wouldn’t care, as long as they’re comfortable. Talk about worrying about the wrong things. Sheesh.
Thanks to my wife the aviation reporter journalist for pointing this out to me. Off to submit to Fark…
Steve says:
To their credit - generally, they do an excellent job.
And honestly, I think that cross-dressing day would make more jobs interesting. Think ‘Office Space’ except instead of announcing ‘Hawaiian t-shirt day,’ Lumbergh says, “I’m going to come in tomorrow wearing nothing but strappy bits of lace.”
MY thought is that the boss who made the ‘traffic cone’ comment should be forced to wear orange latex for a week or lose his job.