Wet T-Shirt Problem in Australia

From the Daily Telegraph....

A wet T-shirt controversy has broken out among female firefighters who have complained about their new Rural Fire Service uniforms, The Daily Telegraph reports. Women complained that when they sweat, handle leaking hoses, wash or fill their trucks and even when it rains, their male colleagues can see through their new shirts, “Most women aren’t too happy about it. We’re not doing the job to be glamorous. We’re not sex objects,” Sydney volunteer Maryann Berndt, 34, said yesterday. “You can get quite wet on the fire ground, you always get wet from leaking hoses or filling up the trucks.” In an email forwarded to Opposition emergency services spokeswoman Melinda Pavey, another female firefighter wrote: “I do not like the yellow long sleeved T-shirts for the fact that after you have rolled a few wet hoses or ended up with water all over you they become completely see-through.  “This isn’t much of an issue for the guys but not so flattering for the girlies.”

Well, first off, Maryann Berndt, 34…. NO-ONE, NO-ONE AT ALL, see-through top or not, is suggesting you are a sex object, my dear.  In fact, I’d prefer to be LEFT on fire than see you in a see-through top.  I can promise you, everyone is on your side in terms of you being given a uniform that covers your body in the same way a muumuu might.

I mean - what were the odds the complaint queue was headed up by a fat ginger woman?  Every single time.  I used to run a chain of bars, and whenever we put out new uniforms, it was always the fat ginger who’d complain and we’d have to start over.  Then we learnt – just don’t hire them.  Bam - no more uniform problems.

And that’s where things stand now for the Rural Fire Services for all practical purposes.  Either fit everyone out for muumuus, or fire all the fat gingers.  Definitely DO NOT kid yourselves that any other change of uniform is going to make the likes of the glamorous Maryann Berndt, 34, happy.

However, make some personnel changes, and you could go THIS direction:

Please note, I am going absolutely nowhere near the range of double entendres in that article - it took all my might, and I'm proud of myself.