Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
1. Embrace the baldness. Just keep it close like a #1. No need to bic daily, you look fine.
2. I have no problem with the hat and would wear it but I don't think it should be optional. Either a hat or no hat. I don't think any part of the uniform should be optional. It's a uniform and we should all be uniform. Look at any foreign crew. Clean and uniform. All the FAs wear the exact same thing. We give them 20 options for some reason. When I worked in hotels there was a summer uniform and a winter uniform. You didn't have a bunch of employees in the same department wearing a bunch of variations of the uniform. It's supposed to make the group look uniform
I do embrace the baldness. Sometimes I bic, sometimes I'm lazy and just go with the buzzer every couple weeks. Sometimes it's nice to not have to worry about it and throw a hat on. I look like a child with a 70 year old's head of hair if I let it go too long. But either way...
I see what you're saying with the optional uniform pieces getting out of hand. My old airline had hats. Some wore them, some didn't but I feel like we looked a lot better than the north face brigade here at Spirit. I think if you want a decent looking uniform at this place the hats are the least of our worries at this point. United has optional hats and I haven't seen their crews and thought "what a sloppy group of pilots", I'm not sure that the same can be said for us.