Originally Posted by redblueskies

Pilots work 16 hour days, specifically Delta pilots. I'm not interested in debating semantics and what is or isn't defined as work. Call it 14 hours or 13 hours or whatever you think the right number is. The point is our days are long and fatigue is often an issue working here, if we can't agree on that than we simply don't agree. Fatigue is difficult to evaluate and cumulative so I personally don't appreciate unnecessarily adding a proverbial straw that broke the camel's back to my cumulative fatigue because some nerds like to play dress up and insist the rest of us play along.

My attire does absolutely affect the quality of my day. Beyond that I find that uncomfortable attire, such as our uniform, contributes negatively to my level of fatigue. Everybody is different though! Some people enjoy having large objects inserted into their derriere. Some people even hilariously take pride in wearing a polyester and gold plated plastic costume that resembles what every AiR LiNe (did I do that right kids?) pilot wore in 1950 before their airlines attire evolved. Personally I take pride in things like mutual respect from my management that would be evident in quality work rules, high pay relative to projected profitability and many other things like non archaic uniform requirements. I'll concede it may not affect the quality of your day but I assure you I'm not being dishonest in saying it negatively affects mine.

We need options like management alluded to was the point of the survey. Instead it's looking like, which is often the case here, that the result will be mostly words and little substance. So congrats to those with fetishes for hats and century old attire, you'll get to keep on enjoying seeing your fellow colleagues suffer in the archaic costumes that were originally designed for what was a very different unoptimized job.