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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2005 15:09:49 GMT
People may be interested to know LU staff are being issued with new style Uniforms in the coming months. see: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4367311.stmI have scanned a few pages from a booklet issued:  Driver  Station Assistant  Station Supervisor  Duty Manager I personally like the new Drivers uniform, Polo Shirts are more comfortable than collar and ties, unfortunatly all drivers won't have the flat stomach like the model has. |
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Post by igelkotten on Mar 21, 2005 23:43:06 GMT
I'll trade you one of mine for one of yours...  Oh, and if you ask nicely, I can send you a pair of our combat-style trousers with big cargo pockets. Some moron decided that the trousers were to be made out of stretch fabric, so if you actually use the leg pockets, you end up looking like a kewl hip-hoper. Let's just say that I am not alone in using alternatively sourced legwear... /Igelkotten |
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Post by Admin Team on Mar 22, 2005 9:00:27 GMT
Combat trousers - now why didn't our lot think of that....
And quite appropriate when dealing with some of our 'customers' too!
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Post by igelkotten on Mar 22, 2005 9:32:07 GMT
The ones I use today are of the same style, with several leg pockets etc, but made out of a fabric that doesn't give you rashes, and cut in a style that is actually wearable on a human body. Very handy -you can keep a nice stockpile of stuff in those pockets! For customer interaction, I prefer my steelcapped safety boots. /Igelkotten |
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Post by trainopd78 on Mar 22, 2005 10:52:02 GMT
Combat trousers - now why didn't our lot think of that.... And quite appropriate when dealing with some of our 'customers' too! Before I was made I/o, I used to wear combat trousers to work. Very very practical, easy to wash and smart. I got away with wearing them for nearly a year before a DMT noticed. I would have stopped wearing them once becoming an i/o anyway. I think they're a marvellous idea. |
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Post by Alexh on Mar 25, 2005 4:46:41 GMT
I wear combat style trousers in my job, and they are excellent, especially in the summer. I think LU should go back to the uniform issued in the mid - late 1990's, it was smart, had a traditional look to it and was much better than the 2000's one. I liked the ties with each line name on the bottom of it, that was good
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Post by Admin Team on Mar 25, 2005 8:24:08 GMT
I wear combat style trousers in my job, and they are excellent, especially in the summer. I think LU should go back to the uniform issued in the mid - late 1990's, it was smart, had a traditional look to it and was much better than the 2000's one. I liked the ties with each line name on the bottom of it, that was good Whilst I agree with you Alex, the problem with that issue was that the white shirts were a bit of a nightmare in the dirty and dusty conditions of the Underground. I'm pretty sure that's why the white shirts now are for Duty Managers and Station Supervisors - they're generally more 'office bound' than the station and train operational grades. The new colours were very much along the lines of the old uniform though - that was part of the outcome of the consultation process. Yes, I liked the old 'line based' ties and the name badges too, and wich they'd revive both of those, even if they were only to be an option. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2005 11:25:58 GMT
Before I was made I/o, I used to wear combat trousers to work. Very very practical, easy to wash and smart. I got away with wearing them for nearly a year before a DMT noticed. I would have stopped wearing them once becoming an i/o anyway. I think they're a marvellous idea. Yes i would wear combat trousers if i had the chance, purely because of the pockets and the practicality of them. I do agree with Dave, the blue shirts are much better, as they dont show the dirt! I know DMs have white shirts, but they dont spend all their lives down a pipe! |
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Post by citysig on Mar 27, 2005 22:34:29 GMT
I do agree with Dave, the blue shirts are much better, as they dont show the dirt! I know DMs have white shirts, but they dont spend all their lives down a pipe! Same in many jobs all over the world. I couldn't possibly sit in my nice control room, drinking tea from our bone china cups, nibbling at posh biscuits, whilst sat in our leather reclining chairs wearing... a boiler suit! The white shirts have a better cut. They fit nicer around the shoulders and have nice button-down collars. They add that certain flair of professionalism and management. Snob. Me?  ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2005 22:36:59 GMT
The white shirts have a better cut. They fit nicer around the shoulders and have nice button-down collars. They add that certain flair of professionalism and management. So do they new blue ones now, so nah! |
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Post by citysig on Mar 27, 2005 23:02:05 GMT
Still won't wear one so nah  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2005 23:05:35 GMT
Same in many jobs all over the world. I couldn't possibly sit in my nice control room, drinking tea from our bone china cups, nibbling at posh biscuits, whilst sat in our leather reclining chairs wearing... a boiler suit! The white shirts have a better cut. They fit nicer around the shoulders and have nice button-down collars. They add that certain flair of professionalism and management. Snob. Me? ;D The day I see a man in a suit, reclining in a leather armchair, daintily pushing and pulling levers in a signal frame... ...is the day I bl--dy well sign up to be a signalman!!! ;D ;D The imagery alone is making me laugh... |
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Post by Tom on Mar 28, 2005 0:16:14 GMT
The day I see a man in a suit, reclining in a leather armchair, daintily pushing and pulling levers in a signal frame.... Sounds like Sparky eh citysig? I can imagine it now: "alright son, run over to Costa's and get me a Latte as I'm working the frame..." (For those not in the know this is a long running joke about a colleague of ours) |
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Post by citysig on Mar 28, 2005 12:30:00 GMT
Now I can see the pictures (I was on the work pc last night, and it hides them) I draw your attention to one of the station supervisor pics.
Our current lone female operator at Baker Street was the first to point out that he could have at least ironed the shirt, rather than, as it appears, take it out the pack and put it on. Women eh!
Tom, yes you can see him now in a very expensive suit, laid back on the phone, using the expletives he generally uses on the phone, together with a few "you with me," "tickety-boos" and "ahh you star, yeh you breeze off home kid."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2005 13:26:11 GMT
Our current lone female operator at Baker Street was the first to point out that he could have at least ironed the shirt, rather than, as it appears, take it out the pack and put it on. Women eh! ROFL! ;D Typical woman!! |
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Post by Admin Team on Apr 19, 2005 21:16:33 GMT
On the subject of the new shirts (blue ones, that is for us 'mere' Operational types).... Mrs. DD has asked me to point out that as she does my ironing she preferred the old blue shirts - the new ones are a pain to iron with the button down collars  OUCH - just been hit round the head with the rolling pin for using the rolling eyes. (I'm master in my own house - she's just told me I am!) |
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Post by citysig on Apr 20, 2005 8:21:58 GMT
Well, and I'm treading carefully here in a male dominated forum, I do my own ironing - always have and probably always will. It's through choice by the way!
DD, you could (very very carefully mind) hint to Mrs DD that the easiest way to get those collars ironed is if you undo the buttons prior to putting them in the wash.
Just a man's point of view that's all. Obviously women have their own methods of doing things. Just thought I would add it though ;D
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Post by igelkotten on Apr 20, 2005 12:57:38 GMT
We once recieved a batch of uniform shirts where, for some reason, the wrong kind of thread was used for the stictches. The result was that when you washed your shirt, the thread shrank a lot, and turning the shirt into something very, very crinkly. In fact, we ended up looking a bit like a bunch of hippie refugees from the seventies, with those crinkly cheesecloth "peasant shirts", although with a Connex logo on the breast pocket. Like, chill, dude, the train's only like, twenty minutes late, like, <puff puff> whooo man, I think I just saw Joan Baez flying by... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2005 15:08:27 GMT
whooo man, I think I just saw Joan Baez flying by... ROFL! Cue the inevitable questions about who Joan Baez was! ;D I think the last time I heard that name was in my dads record collection a few years ago! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2005 16:53:26 GMT
ROFL! Cue the inevitable questions about who Joan Baez was! ;D I think the last time I heard that name was in my dads record collection a few years ago! QUOTED! [question type=inevitable] Who's Joan Baez? [/question] |
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Post by wwwfirstgroupcom on Apr 20, 2005 23:28:00 GMT
I've always found button down colars a pain, and am not sure they addd much to a shirt that a well starched colar can't.
I do my own ironing, do you all use starch?
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Post by DrJimi on Apr 20, 2005 23:47:11 GMT
[question type=inevitable] Who's Joan Baez? [/question] Joan Chandos Baez. 1941- Folk singer and activist. If I had a hammer, I'd hammer on my first half, I'd hammer on my meal break, all over this line, I'd hammer all the tracks flat, I'd hammer all points straight, I'd hammer 'bout the love between The motormen and signalers, Alllllll, all over this line... *cough* sorry. Must have been something in my coffee  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2005 0:18:33 GMT
Brilliant, Dr Jimi! Not only are you a very taleneted MSTS creator, but also a talented lyricist too! ;D
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Post by Admin Team on Apr 21, 2005 16:23:16 GMT
I've always found button down colars a pain, and am not sure they addd much to a shirt that a well starched colar can't. I do my own ironing, do you all use starch? Starch?? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! (At least, I don't think SWMBO does...) |
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Post by Admin Team on Apr 21, 2005 16:24:24 GMT
Brilliant, Dr Jimi! Not only are you a very taleneted MSTS creator, but also a talented lyricist too! ;D I think we need to send the 'Virtual' Drugs & Alcohol testing team round to have a quiet word with Jimi! |
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