Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.........................quote attributed to comedian Steve Martin.
Apparently Steve knows nothing about surveyors and summer time. Despite many discussions here about professional attire many of us toss that discussion out the window when headed to the field on days like today. The forecast predicts 99F with a heat index about 10F higher. Formality be damned. Work needs to be done.
Holy Cow, post: 378550, member: 50 wrote: Formality be damned
So which is more "formal": a Pioneer cap or a DeKalb cap?
It's hard to take a man in a frog suit seriously.
Holy Cow, post: 378550, member: 50 wrote: Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.........................quote attributed to comedian Steve Martin.
Apparently Steve knows nothing about surveyors and summer time. Despite many discussions here about professional attire many of us toss that discussion out the window when headed to the field on days like today. The forecast predicts 99F with a heat index about 10F higher. Formality be damned. Work needs to be done.
My grandfather was born in 1909. He passed away when I was 15 in 1992. He wore, all of his life, overalls and long sleeved shirts with a wide brim hat (straw hat). He worked on the railroad for 30 years and retired. Never, and I do mean never, did I see him or any picture of him looking sloven, disheveled, or anything. Shirt was always tucked in, both suspenders attached, never just the overalls and no shirt.
Gentlemen, the time has passed whereby people who worked outside looked "kept". Just because you work outside, and may smell to high heavens, doesn't mean you get to look like you smell. There is no reason to not have your shirt tucked in and look "kept" regardless of where the mercury is in the thermometer. I do not work in the field with my shirt untucked or in tattered blue jeans, nor do I look this way in the office. At the farm, while working outside, I rarely look much different.
The old men knew more than we do about staying cool and beating the heat. The added bonus to long sleeved shirts and wide brim hats was that, you looked professional at the same time.
All that said, my father, long before I worked here, instituted a rule that no overalls were to be worn. He considered it less than professional, but adequate for most all work, but in the public's eye, didn't want to be seen as lower class. It wasn't a dig against his father, but an attempt to raise one to another level, all while maintaining that which he was taught. Since buying the business, I have kept this rule in place, even though I don't always agree with it, but out of respect and we still work to look our best, even when we smell our worst. There is never an excuse for working in the eye of the public and not looking good. That formality will never go out of style.
Kris Morgan, post: 378563, member: 29 wrote: My grandfather was born in 1909. He passed away when I was 15 in 1992. He wore, all of his life, overalls and long sleeved shirts with a wide brim hat (straw hat). He worked on the railroad for 30 years and retired. Never, and I do mean never, did I see him or any picture of him looking sloven, disheveled, or anything. Shirt was always tucked in, both suspenders attached, never just the overalls and no shirt.
Gentlemen, the time has passed whereby people who worked outside looked "kept". Just because you work outside, and may smell to high heavens, doesn't mean you get to look like you smell. There is no reason to not have your shirt tucked in and look "kept" regardless of where the mercury is in the thermometer. I do not work in the field with my shirt untucked or in tattered blue jeans, nor do I look this way in the office. At the farm, while working outside, I rarely look much different.
The old men knew more than we do about staying cool and beating the heat. The added bonus to long sleeved shirts and wide brim hats was that, you looked professional at the same time.
All that said, my father, long before I worked here, instituted a rule that no overalls were to be worn. He considered it less than professional, but adequate for most all work, but in the public's eye, didn't want to be seen as lower class. It wasn't a dig against his father, but an attempt to raise one to another level, all while maintaining that which he was taught. Since buying the business, I have kept this rule in place, even though I don't always agree with it, but out of respect and we still work to look our best, even when we smell our worst. There is never an excuse for working in the eye of the public and not looking good. That formality will never go out of style.
You are correct about this.
I work for a Fire Department. It helps smooth the way to look like my co-workers. So I wear blue tactical pants, blue long-sleeved station t-shirt (the ink on the shirt is melt resistent, very durable), and on cool days a pull-over "work" shirt (fire speak for a blue logo seat shirt). I also have a blue Cal Fire ball cap.
The formality of the cap is based first on how new it is and second on what the message says. Sweat stains and crumpledness decrease the formality level tremendously. Formality is shot to heck if the message reads: I didn't wake up grumpy this morning.........I let her sleep in
Holy Cow, post: 378687, member: 50 wrote: Formality is shot to heck if the message reads: I didn't wake up grumpy this morning.........I let her sleep in
Or "Smile if your not wearing Panties"...turns out they was smilin' 'bout the your (you're) and not there panties:-S
DDSM:beer::beer:
Their panties, ewe saye?
