Originally Posted by
itsokimapilot
You can wait until you get here. Unless something changed recently, new hires are required to purchase a certain amount of M&H clothing. Don’t buy extra as it all is terrible.
Haggar Cool Pro 18 pants and Jetseam or cut above shirts are typically the best bang for your buck.
I bought the LuggageWorks roller bag at newhire training. There are other options and like anything else, everyone has an opinion of what’s best.
The company issues you a headset. I used the company headset my first year. My off probation gift to myself was a DC headset.
When I started the leather coat was the way to go. Now, they have a more modern jacket that everyone seems to favor. Check them out your first week and get your order in. The jacket took nearly six months to arrive.
Welcome aboard!
I didn’t want to buy any of the m&h crap. They hounded me for a couple weeks and I kept avoiding them. Finally someone told me I HAD to buy that garbage. I asked where it was written in the FOM or CBA that required new hires to buy crap from their store. Looked at me with deer in headlights that someone new would have the audacity to question them.
I didn’t feel like making a big deal about it so I bought the absolute bare minimum (couple ties, pants, belt, few shirts I never took out of the wrapper and sold a couple years later). It’s all garbage.