A dozen
male train drivers in Sweden have circumvented a ban on shorts by wearing
skirts to work in hot weather.
The workers, who operate the
Roslagsbanan line north of the capital Stockholm, have been wearing skirts to
work for the past two weeks.
Employer Arriva banned the drivers
from wearing shorts after taking over the running of the line in January.
But the company has given the men
its blessing to wear skirts, according to local newspaper Mitti.
I must start by doffing my hat to the
12 train drivers who ingeniously found a way around their employer’s new rules,
but I have to ask if the company, Arriva, allow them to wear skirts then how
can they not let them wear shorts?
What are they worried about, that
shorts are too informal? I mean they’re train drivers they spend most of the
day sitting down and the passengers will only see the top-half of them anyway,
they could be naked from the waist down and nobody would notice.
Hopefully Arriva will realise the ridiculousness
of the situation and let them wear shorts.
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