Posted on Jun 1, 2015
Uniformed Navy Officer Turned Away From NY Hotel Bar For Violating Dress Code: How would You Deal With This Situation?
149K
939
198
7
7
0
An unidentified female Navy Officer, staying at an upscale NYC hotel with family while visiting during Fleet Week festivities last week was taken aback when her group was stopped by bouncers and prevented from entering the hotel's bar one evening. At first, nobody could figure it out, everyone was dressed in professional attire; until the bouncer's indicated that the Officer's Class A Uniform did not fit it's criteria for female dress, and they weren't backing down. How about it? How would you address such an insulting situation?
Posted in these groups: 
Etiquette
Dress Uniform
Etiquette Dress Uniform
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 111
0
0
0
0
0
0
I would ask to speak with manager and if refused I would make a small scene and tell everyone I know how this place refused service to a military service member in dress uniform.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
0
0
0
While the proper response is leave nicely tip your head gear to douche and leave. Not sure that is how it would have played out in my younger day. I would have gone along lines of not liking the military goading the Turd on the door into a physical altercation one of us taking a beat down. Me needing a new uniform and standing tall before the CO explaining I was a dumbass was defending the honor of the service ECT. Praying he would have mercy on my mind, body and wallet.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
And if the manager refused to come out, then I would walk to the lobby of the hotel and ask for the general manager and not leave until they were present to talk to me. There is no excuse for poor training, if that is what it was. I feel there was something else other than the uniform going on.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
That should have never happen. I'm sure that the hotel staff have seen military personnel in uniform. This is kind of disturbing to me. New York has become so foreign in nature that's that it cannot distinguish between American ideas and customs anymore. I would have asked to speak to the manager.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
Inquire WHY it doesn't meet code. Is it considered "work clothes", which it is, then ask to see the manager for a waiver. Was the officer in slacks vice a skirt, and the club required women to be in dresses/skirts? Get the WHY, then make a choice to go somewhere else or ask for the manager's assistance.
(0)
(0)
0
0
0
0
0
0
I think I'm with the majority here, I would have politely asked to speak to the manager on duty. Stated my request to be seated. If at that point, I had been given any indication that things were going south. We would have left. I would have contacted the corporate hedquarters, if I still had not received an apology or some sort of resolution. Yeah, you bet I would have shown some media attention as well! Sorry, but it is never exceptable to disrespect my Country, or the uniform I effing wear ( wore ) so proudly!!!
(0)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google