Swedish train operators wear skirts to work. to circumvent the ban on wearing shorts.
ROAR
Lion,
I suspect you know New York has an annual no pants on the subway day. I can’t get a link but if you google on “no pants day” you will find it.
John
But the no-pants-day is for riders not for employees.
Mr. Harrington (now retired) was a Train Operator for many many years. One of the best on the system. He is an Caucasian who became a Sikh. He always wore a turban instead of a hat.
On 9/11 he performed heroically backing his train out of a tunnel to get it back into Brooklyn. It was a long and arduous job, since he had to reset the trippers on each car as the backed over the raised signal arms. It took five trips down to the track to get past just one signal.
Anyway, many years later the MTA wanted to restrict him to yard service since he would not wear the regulation hat. The uproar from union, public, and press forced a change in regulations. Now any religious headdress is acceptable, so long as it is blue, and has his (or her) badge on it. Apparently there are also Muslim women who work as conductors on the railroad.
ROAR
Or did the become more manly and Scottish and wear a kilt?
Hard to find a ANSI-III compliant kilt.
No, I don’t wear pants to work. I wear bib overalls. Solid denim color though, not hickory striped ones.
Jeff
Yes, you are right, Lion. And from the looks on the employees’ faces I doubt they are inclined to join their passengers in this celebration.
Generally speaking I have no problem with people who wear items of clothing for religious purposes. However, I do prefer that people I deal with not totally cover their face.
John
It is a matter of culture. I was looking through an Islamic catalog from a company in Connecticut, and of the Burkas it was touted that “Prying eyes could not look in.” Well, that is one way to look at it. Our culture is different, and the only time I met a woman in this country in a full Burka was in a mosque.
ROAR
Well, yes I wear pants, but that’s because the house robe and slippers my kids bought me has a really odd pattern,(smiley faces) but the house shoes do have headlights on them!
We did have a guy who worked one really hot summer night who wore only his boots and a radio belt.
Bet he wore a smile too!
I am a truck driver, I wear shorts to work April-October.
I have seen other drivers, driving around shirtless and I am usually VERY GLAD, that I can’t see below the window level[:-^], I REALLY don’t want to know, if they are Just shirtless, or if it goes beyond that[+o(]
Doug