United Airlines and dress codes

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Josh
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United Airlines and dress codes

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United Airlines has a dress code for employees and family of employees using an employee free travel pass.

Recently, two pass riders decided to wear yoga pants instead of complying with the dress code. Another passenger decided to be upset about a United employee enforcing United's dress code with two people using United employee benefits.
Pass riders are United employees or dependents of employees, travelling free of charge or at a discount. The airline’s dress code for such passengers rules that they must be “well-groomed, neat, clean and in good taste”.

Miniskirts, clothing that “reveals a midriff”, short shorts and “form-fitting lycra/spandex tops, pants and dresses” – such as leggings – are banned. Jeans, sneakers and longer shorts are OK.
Worldly people have expectations they can wear whatever they want, and think it's actually immoral to expect women to comply with any kind of dress code:
Watts also noted that a third passenger, a girl of about 10 wearing leggings, put a dress over her outfit after the kerfuffle.

“She’s forcing them to change or put dresses on over leggings or they can’t board,” Watts wrote of the gate agent’s actions on Twitter. “Since when does United police women’s clothing?”
Something in people's hearts knows this isn't quite right, though. People seem to know they should be a bit more covered:
The third young girl at the gate was not a pass rider. Guerin said no gate staff had raised any issues with the girl or her family about her outfit, but she had changed anyway.

“All of this applies only to our employees and their selected pass travelers,” Guerin said. “This does not apply to our regular, paying customers.”
Ultimately, people in our culture have a real problem with authority. Eventually, things like all this technology and advanced transportation aren't possible without authority and the ability to set expectations for behaviour.
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Re: United Airlines and dress codes

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Josh wrote: Ultimately, people in our culture have a real problem with authority. Eventually, things like all this technology and advanced transportation aren't possible without authority and the ability to set expectations for behaviour.
Agree authority is an issue in our society. Our laws are set to establish the behaviour expected to keep us protected from a 'do as you please' mindset. It always puzzles me when someone has committed a crime (broke the law) and the attention is more focused on how the breaking was handled by law enforcers when if the law had not been broken in the first place, the handling would not be an issue.
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