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. . . anyone seen the new customer service uniform policy? It was just read to me and I laughed so hard I had tears rolling down my face!!!

This is just begging for a lawsuit. Is this all that those desperately needed execs have to do with their time is think this stuff up? Armpits? Nose hair? Ear hair? Eyebrows????

Oh, and on the peasley money AA pays it's CSRs, they expect you to have your uniforms drycleaned only!

Gawd help AA if the media gets a hold of this! :blink: :lol: :blink:
 
WingNaPrayer said:
. . . anyone seen the new customer service uniform policy? It was just read to me and I laughed so hard I had tears rolling down my face!!!

This is just begging for a lawsuit. Is this all that those desperately needed execs have to do with their time is think this stuff up? Armpits? Nose hair? Ear hair? Eyebrows????

Oh, and on the peasley money AA pays it's CSRs, they expect you to have your uniforms drycleaned only!

Gawd help AA if the media gets a hold of this! :blink: :lol: :blink:
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What about Moustache's :rolleyes:
 
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I'm sure they are in there. It addressed everything all the way down to B.O. and bad breath! I mean, you take a hub where you've slashed the headcount so deep that OCs often find themselves responsible for 9 gates at a time, you don't cover vacations or sick calls, and prohibit overtime for any reason whatsoever and that is a receipe for agents running their collective asses off and working up a sweat.

Perhaps they'll consider opening up the ACs to the customer service set to allow for mid-day showering. Or, maybe AA will come out with it's own branded cologne and perfume for day long schpritzing to make sure agents don't present any kind of odoriferous offense! AA breath freshening chewing gum? BreAAth Mints? Hmmmmm. Make sure there is plenty of free Beano to go around - heaven forbid someone might fart!

I can see insisting on a clean uniform, but once you start sticking your nose into your employee's socks and underwear, you're just asking for trouble. . . .

. . . or perhaps Mercer is trying to see just how far they can push an employee into compliance. I mean, warn letters are out, vbrs and the like have gone through, maybe they figure now is as good a time as any to see just how scared the employees are running.

Lots to think about.
 
WingNaPrayer said:
. . . anyone seen the new customer service uniform policy? It was just read to me and I laughed so hard I had tears rolling down my face!!!

This is just begging for a lawsuit. Is this all that those desperately needed execs have to do with their time is think this stuff up? Armpits? Nose hair? Ear hair? Eyebrows????

Oh, and on the peasley money AA pays it's CSRs, they expect you to have your uniforms drycleaned only!

Gawd help AA if the media gets a hold of this! :blink: :lol: :blink:
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I'm sure the media and general public would also find the company wanting its agents to look and smell like humans to be outrageous.
 
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I'm sure the media and general public would also find the company wanting its agents to look and smell like humans to be outrageous.
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I'm wondering if this was mainly aimed at another part of the world and not the USA. Some of the "problems" described are common in Europe.
 
WNP,

(serious question),

Do you think that You and I.....will..EVER live long enough, to see these poor people get 50.1% of the agents to say............."ENOUGH", and get a Union ????


One area that I would side w/AA on would be,....................ABSOLUTELY..ZERO visable tattoo's or body piercing(except for business appropriate earrings)(THAT does NOT mean those latin "hula hoops") !!!!!
 
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Yes - the Union will come. Albeit too late. The Agents already have a union, it just sucks is all and at one time, Miami was like 80% joined and paying dues. Then, the election was usurped for officers (a non-employee was elected to the board) and they started quitting left and right. The president is in MIA and doesn't lift a finger to boost membership. I don't know where it stands now I haven't asked lately. Besides, all the passenger service management has been displaced and replaced with former rampers in every position, including the director's seat. Don't know what Hazy was thinking but I heard it said that every shift manager is now someone from the ramp. They just vbr'd the shift manager at the counter and when she left, they hauled in most of her CSMs and canned them. . . more rampers are on their way no doubt.

I too, have an aversion to excessive body ink. Most of the time I see it I just shake my head and wonder how it will all look when it is on 90 year old sagging skin ;) Clearly, men mostly, are going waaaaaay overboard with the ink. I think that is mostly a ramp thing though as male agents wear shirts and sport coats so you really wouldn't see. The jewelry? good lord you can hear some of these women coming and jingling a concourse away! Those are a hazard to them.
 
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I'm wondering if this was mainly aimed at another part of the world and not the USA. Some of the "problems" described are common in Europe.
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You know, now that you've said that, it makes much better sense. That could easily be it - and it was uploaded to US in error. Time will tell.
 
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Gawd help AA if the media gets a hold of this! :blink: :lol: :blink:
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How much play did airline employees taking pay and benefit cuts get in the media? Or airlines going under? Not that much so I doubt this will ever get much attention.
 
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Bear. as a Latina, I find this a bit offensive.... I like you, but this would cause some people to file a rule 32. I know ou are retired....but come on... :down:
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Let's check that. You'd file a rule 32 against someone who made a comment about the fact that you were deviating from company dress code?

I think that one would get swept under the proverbial rug. The first pissed off customer that grabed them and gave a good yank might change your mind though.

Personally, I like the hoops, they're attractive in the right circumstances. However, they don't really fit with a uniform. Anything that can be grabbed or snagged in the work environment, the company should have the right to legislate.

However, shaving your legs and armpits - that strikes me as a personal invasion, and I'm sure there are more opinions on that.
 
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777fixer: How much play did airline employees taking pay and benefit cuts get in the media? Or airlines going under? Not that much so I doubt this will ever get much attention.

Actually, as I recall it got plenty of play at the time, but that was business and business is deemed acceptable. This, however, is just plain silly in some parts. The media loves silly, they love to play silly like a raw nerve.
 
Policies like this aren't uncommon, Wing, and it's not to far off from the policy that was in place when I was supervising agents almost 20 years ago...

Visible is the key word. Wear colored or opaque hose, and you don't have visible leg hair. Wear the jacket or a long sleeve shirt, and you don't have visible armpit hair.
 
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Let's check that. You'd file a rule 32 against someone who made a comment about the fact that you were deviating from company dress code?

I think that one would get swept under the proverbial rug. The first pissed off customer that grabed them and gave a good yank might change your mind though.

Personally, I like the hoops, they're attractive in the right circumstances. However, they don't really fit with a uniform. Anything that can be grabbed or snagged in the work environment, the company should have the right to legislate.

However, shaving your legs and armpits - that strikes me as a personal invasion, and I'm sure there are more opinions on that.
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No...read the post. He mentioned "Latin" hula hoop earrings.... At work that could get you in trouble, I wouldn't report that but I know someone who had to go to sensitivity training because he made a comment about latin cha-cha something. I personally don't like the big old hoops....it is just when you attach a race, nationality, religion, etc., that it can land you in hot water.
 
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