Anything that annoys the dinosaurs who can’t stand people been able to choose what they wear is a bonus to me. The usual gammons are out on Twitter having a cry. The overall response is a positive one though. Uniform choice also included pronoun choices for name badges.
There’s those claiming they’ll never fly Virgin again, you know the ones who’ve really never even flown with them before anyways
The promo video below is great, starring Michelle Visage an all
Love flying Virgin. Always have a good experience. The 1990’s-era ‘Please don’t disturb me for Drinks/Meals’ and ‘Please wake me up for Drinks/Meals’ tags you placed on your seat back on long-hauls was pure genius. Bring it back!
That video is brilliant and it’s about bloody time a big organisation did something like this.
I used to work for a car manufacturer and women in customer facing roles all had to wear high heels and tight skirts. It really helped customers respect our car knowledge. Oh wait no, no it didn’t.
I saw a comment on tiktok from someone saying this is just wrong, followed up by a comment saying he’s gay and a scientist… Yep 2 things that aren’t related to people wearing a choice of clothing. It seems he’s deleted the comments, as he well and truly got annihilated.
There needs to be more respect for others in general on social media. Calling people “gammons”, even if you think their views are abhorrent, is just insulating and wrong.
People still think they can be much ruder online than in real life and that’s not a good attitude at all.
Do I like the uniforms? Nope. Is it due to the fact that the uniform are unisex? Nope.The cut on them looks slightly off. Then again I don’t really care as I’m not wearing them.
Why do they need a pronoun badge
If they identify as another gender, then surely a name badge is more than adequate.
And before you all jump on me, I do work with a number of trans, non binary, etc people.
Call them by name, problem solved.
Are you telling us you never use a pronoun to identify someone? That you only ever use someone’s name every time you refer to a person, and never shorten it to he, or she, or they?
If you answer this honestly, you’ll be on track to understand why someone might might want you to know how to correctly address them.
Point taken, but I was referring to talking to the person directly, if that makes sense.
And if you are talking to someone else about that person, then does it really matter?
Word sometimes gets back and then you really wouldn’t want to be around…
It’s happened to myself, no not about the trans issue but people taking things back and twisting it to suit whatever agenda they have at the time. It isn’t pretty…
I think the concept of pronouns has become something that the extremists have jumped on.
Those who I work with who identify as a different gender, sexuality, etc, have no problem if we get things wrong, as they know it isn’t done with any malice.
I’ve thought that ever since I first realised that languages such as French had masculine and feminine nouns at school. It just makes no sense, and is a complexity that isn’t needed.