Discuss Uniform To Work Day at the ACF forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Originally Posted by CTU-UK
Originally Posted by LancePrivateJones
Originally Posted by CTU-UK
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If the ACF are taking part then so can I; I'm a member of The Sealed Knot. On Uniform to Work Day I am going to arrive in hesian trousers, a leather jerkin, pixie boots, bearing a matchlock pistol and a sharp agricultural impliment. At lunchtime I will throw bones over my shoulder then kill the French bloke in accounts with a swift blow to the head.
If the ACF are taking part then so can I; I'm a member of The Sealed Knot. On Uniform to Work Day I am going to arrive in hesian trousers, a leather jerkin, pixie boots, bearing a matchlock pistol and a sharp agricultural impliment. At lunchtime I will throw bones over my shoulder then kill the French bloke in accounts with a swift blow to the head.
I just figure, especially in the cities, wearing uniform to work is just asking for more attention than you need.
Until not-long-ago, wearing uniform in public was forbidden. Personally I'd say there's still risks involved with doing so.
You can recruit by handing out flyers, putting up posters, whatever. You don't have to walk around in uniform making yourself a potential target of abuse or worse to recruit people. You're just asking for trouble.
I saw a RE squaddie walking about waterloo station the other day, and had horrible visions of some bra-less, skeleton like ageing hippy verbally pouncing him (which is surprising, as you can normally smell them first) and berating him for being a murderer, child killer, [insert left-wing hyped propaganda statement here].
Instead he got a few nods of the head, and a couple of smiles from the passers by, and continued his journey without interruption.
Security risk or not (being lifted, followed etc), it feels good that a person can walk about in uniform and be treated with the respect it deserves. But would I do it? I work in an office of mostly ex-servicemen (mostly navy and rm...but they're ok really once they learned to pick their knuckles up when they walked ), but i'd still be reluctant to wear my uniform to work.
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