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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:33 PM
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Driver suspended for wearing pink tie for cancer
Source: Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Springfield Mass Transit District bus driver has received a one-day unpaid suspension for wearing a pink necktie to help raise awareness for breast cancer. The driver, 46-year-old William Jones, had to serve the suspension, but his action led the transit district to agree that employees could wear pink on Fridays October in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Jones, who said he planned to file a formal grievance, said he has had a number of relatives who have battled cancer, including a grandmother, a sister, several cousins and a niece.

Linda Tisdale, the district's managing director, said employees must ask in advance before wearing any deviation from the standard uniform.


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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:42 PM
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1. Surely a reminder of the policy would have been sufficient.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 07:29 PM
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4. This way he got press. Maybe it turned out for the best. n/t
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 07:41 PM
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5. Bingo. nt
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SemperEadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 07:11 PM
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2. isn't this a bit of "using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat"?
I mean, for real?
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 07:11 PM
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3. the fashion police? eom
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 08:40 AM
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19. The Fashion Police....
now taser offenders-beware:evilgrin:
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 07:41 PM
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6. Talk about petty........
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 08:25 PM
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7. Fucking bureaucrats!
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Crzyrussell Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 08:39 PM
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8. Maybe he used up
all of his warnings beforehand. he is a union worker so I suspect there is more to this abbreviated story than we know.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 09:18 PM
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9. Really? Because we all know how crafty them union guys can be huh?
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Crzyrussell Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:32 PM
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12. No, not that they are crafty
there are a ton of hoops one has to go through to even get suspended from these jobs. At least that is the case where I work where we all are union.
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Quasimodem Donating Member (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:04 PM
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10. There are some occupations where these cause symbols may be out of place.
A bus driver wearing a pink tie, added to a rider who does not know what the pink tie denotes, will raise questions.

The last thing you want a bus driver doing, instead of minding his driving, is proselytizing about a cause for which he is deeply committed toward raising public awareness.

$0.02
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:19 PM
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11. We really don't need more awareness.
We are already "pinked" to death in October as it is.

It was dumb to discipline the guy, but really, wearing a pink tie isn't really some noble thing. All the pink ties in the world aren't going to get a mammogram for a woman who can't afford one, or treatment for a woman with cancer who can't afford it. Nor are they going to stop a really aggressive cancer.

We need to eradicate disease--not get bombarded to death one month a year with messages from other people to remember to get our boobies squished.
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Quasimodem Donating Member (259 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:46 PM
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13. Somewhere along the way . . .
. . . I got my ribbon color decryption chart mixed with my terror threat level colors and I would have either asked the guy, "Why the pink bow tie," or just have written him off as one of a vast panorama of kooks.

Probably the latter.
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Crzyrussell Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:51 PM
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14. Most transit
agencies have strict dress code policies... some are as strict as the military.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 08:22 AM
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18. Amen to that. Other diseases, including other cancers,

could use some of the publicity that breast cancer gets. I think everybody has the message about breast cancer now.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 09:23 AM
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21. I agree completely with that
But in this case, there was a personal connection.
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sudopod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 01:06 PM
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22. OH GOD PEOPLE CARING ABOUT THINGS
The horror!
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mbperrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 01:26 PM
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23. Yes, my God! STAMP IT OUT QUICKLY! In other news, the choco
ration has been raised again....
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 02:18 PM
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24. Actually it's a good reminder because it helps remind people to donate.
It has helped me to remember twice this month. You want a cure, pay for the science involved.
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 03:05 AM
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17. How does the color of your clothing take your mind off your driving? Is that what happens with you?
What a goofy argument.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:55 PM
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15. .
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DeadEyeDyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 11:34 PM
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16. Damn. Just damn!
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 09:21 AM
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20. I used to wear a Santa Claus tie with my uniform.
I was an airline pilot.
Every December I'd bring out the navy blue tie with all the Santa faces on it.
A lot of the guys did that.

Somethimes I'd hang mistletoe over the cockpit door.
The passengers loved it.
;-)
No static from management.
:shrug:
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