When I read it, I took it a different way. I took it as a sign of how
off-track the FAA could be in requiring such a superficial thing in the face
of other, as you have said, more important issues. The other rule changes
can be debated. Instituting a dress code and then debating it, is a waste of
time.

And another thing, no controller should report to work without having used
mouthwash...

Appearance is a funny thing. It is difficult to determine if someone just
doesn't care about their appearance or their job - or that they feel so
confident in what they do that they believe that appearance doesn't matter.
Rather than institute a dress code, find out which of these two is the
cause. For the first, fire. For the second, educate.

The guy that always dresses nicely among shorts and tee-shirts is probably
the one that is afraid someone will discover his incompetence.

I'm not a real big supporter of unions. I'm sure that there are good
examples out there but my exposure has been with people taking advantage of
union representation so that they could do the least that they could do with
maximum pay and benefits.

It would seem to me that, if the union was doing it's job, that it would be
asking union members to do their best and look their best.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
NOW you're talking about something substantive. Of course what you've
described is an issue -- so get your collective heads out of your
collective butts about having to dress professionally, and start
discussing the *real* issues.


YOU started this thread. YOU are the one that focused on the dress code
and
ignored the rest of the newly imposed work rules.

NATCA throwing a fit about a minor dress code change was newsworthy
enough for AvWeb to pick up; thus, the thread.

My statement stands. If controllers want issues to be taken seriously,
tell your union to stop worrying about the window dressing, stop
whining about having to dress like businesspeople, and focus on the
substantive issues. Starting a dispute over this kind of stuff isn't
doing anything but make NATCA look unprofessional.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"