Originally Posted by 3inthegreen

I agree this is a serious profession, but we can take our jobs serious without having to take ourselves too serious, like the recent new hire who was standing out the cockpit window with his selfie stick. I mean I get that you fly 228 people around from time to time based on your avatar and screen name. But don't forget that airplane is painted bright yellow, you are flying people who want to go to Vegas for $25, and you and I are the lowest paid airbus pilots in North America. Keeping our ugly, non-matching, plain blue fraying, zip-on tie just simply does not matter.