Originally Posted by
symbian simian
My personal opinion.
Every halfway decent place I have worked for provided a uniform. I went to NK (2013) and got $38/hr and no uniform paid for. If a company can afford to give a free uniform to every pilot except new hires you can expect non-compliance. It costs $500 to give every new-hire a free uniform, but NK is too cheap to do it, you get North face, Dickies, aso. Yes, I knew that when I got, hired, just as NK should have seen the black uniform pants coming when they hired me...
I will not be the uniform police until they provide a free uniform to new hires.
This. I got several shirts, pairs of pants, hat, tie, a suit jacket, trench coat, and Luggage Works RON bag as a new hire in new hire class at the regional I used to work for. Got a three-in-one winter coat a year later that I still wear because it's actually comfortable, professional, and warm. That was a regional airline. Thankfully the colors were close enough to Spirit's that I'm still able to wear that same stuff and "look like a pilot."