My wife briefly interned with the parks service. At least in the late 00s they didn’t let employees go to liquor stores in uniform or even park an NPS vehicle outside one. So I wasn’t surprised when the mandate was issued, but I’m equally unsurprised it was swiftly dropped.
Yeah. I work in a job tangentially related to the federal government, and we’re continually reminded not to engage in anything that might imply affiliation or endorsement. I’m glad NPS is supporting LGBTQ+ causes, but I’m not sure why they get a pass on participating in uniform.
I think everyone is reading this as NPS not allowing Jane Employee to show up in uniform at Pride and hang out. Maybe they’d frown on that. But what appears to be happening is that employees are petitioning to march in Pride parades, or otherwise somehow participate, as they have in years past, and which supports the LGBTQ+ Special Emphasis Program of federal agencies, and NPS is letting those requests sit.
No, they are saying you can’t do certain things in uniform, because whether intentional or not anything you do in the uniform can be seen as representative of the uniform approving of it.
Hell when I worked at McDonald’s, if you wanted to smoke you had to cover up the logo somehow.
The effect was that a bunch of people outside with a piece of duct tape on their very obvious McDonald’s uniform smoking, but whatever.
My wife briefly interned with the parks service. At least in the late 00s they didn’t let employees go to liquor stores in uniform or even park an NPS vehicle outside one. So I wasn’t surprised when the mandate was issued, but I’m equally unsurprised it was swiftly dropped.
Yeah. I work in a job tangentially related to the federal government, and we’re continually reminded not to engage in anything that might imply affiliation or endorsement. I’m glad NPS is supporting LGBTQ+ causes, but I’m not sure why they get a pass on participating in uniform.
I think everyone is reading this as NPS not allowing Jane Employee to show up in uniform at Pride and hang out. Maybe they’d frown on that. But what appears to be happening is that employees are petitioning to march in Pride parades, or otherwise somehow participate, as they have in years past, and which supports the LGBTQ+ Special Emphasis Program of federal agencies, and NPS is letting those requests sit.
Wait, are you equating the appearance of drinking on the job with supporting LGBTQ+?
No, they are saying you can’t do certain things in uniform, because whether intentional or not anything you do in the uniform can be seen as representative of the uniform approving of it.
Hell when I worked at McDonald’s, if you wanted to smoke you had to cover up the logo somehow.
The effect was that a bunch of people outside with a piece of duct tape on their very obvious McDonald’s uniform smoking, but whatever.