whats the deal with people dressing down every single friday?

NY PJ1

Heineken Helen wrote:

thought so!

classy dressed up

they take pride in themselves

Heineken Helen

NY PJ1 wrote:

classy dressed up

they take pride in themselves

nope, it just says they take pride in their appearances... appearance is NOT the mark of the person

And pride isn't always a good thing btw :cool:

I'd rather have fun than look good

NY PJ1

Heineken Helen wrote:

nope, it just says they take pride in their appearances... appearance is NOT the mark of the person

And pride isn't always a good thing btw :cool:

I'd rather have fun than look good

not the mark ,, but it gives u an idea

DaytimeDilemma

Haha at you people with corporate jobs and dress codes and so forth and such on.

Heineken Helen

NY PJ1 wrote:

not the mark ,, but it gives u an idea

It certainly DOES give you 'an idea'... perhaps not the one you WANT to give

norm

Heineken Helen wrote:

I've said twice if you're meeting clients or customers, fine! If not, I don't see the point at all. I'll say it again just in case:

If you're meeting clients or customers, fine! If not, I don't see the point. Can somebody tell me why it's important to dress smartly for work if your clients or customers can't see ya?

best i can explain it to ya.....a person dressed professionally will (should) act professionally...

a person who is relaxed in their dress will (could) act less prossionally and their work may suffer...

these aren't had and fast rules mind you and not every business is the same but in nypj1's world appearance matters...:)

Heineken Helen

cutback wrote:

best i can explain it to ya.....a person dressed professionally will (should) act professionally...

a person who is relaxed in their dress will (could) act less prossionally and their work may suffer...

these aren't had and fast rules mind you and not every business is the same but in nypj1's world appearance matters...:)

thank you doesn't really work like that though. Yes it makes you FEEL professional but it doesn't necessarily make you ACT professional

Rygar

Heineken Helen wrote:

thank you doesn't really work like that though. Yes it makes you FEEL professional but it doesn't necessarily make you ACT professional

Does it make you look professional?

mookie9999

dunkman wrote:

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Look here fucker, I told you it's my new cologne and it's called after-birth, not placenta!

GreenTeaDisease

Rygar wrote:

Does it make you look professional?

If you are meeting a client you usually have to dress up to some degree, whether it's a suit or b-cas depending on the situation, but I don't think it makes you look any more "professional." I think it makes you look "corporate." The following professionals rarely wear suits: doctors, engineers, teachers, professors, research scientists, etc. I think if any of these groups wore suits on a regular basis it would look weird.

All I know is for a year I worked for this dumb company that sold crappy services and had some really dumb people working for them. While the business made a lot of money they paid us shit. We were required to wear suits every single day. every thing was about appearances, there was no substance at all. All I got out of wearing a suit every day was displaced bones in my feet from dress shoes.

I am happy to be in my little exposed brick office with my PhD and engineer colleagues in my dirty jeans, baggy sweater, and danskos, making a lot more money and doing much more important work.

mookie9999

I dress up every day. The last thing I would ever want to do is to give the impression that I don't give a shit. Like it or not we are judged by our appearance. If I took a client around looking at $2 million dollar one bedroom condos in jeans and sneakers I would be embarrassed, as would my company and the staff at the building I'm taking my client to. One time, on a Saturday, I was dressed in a suit minus the tie and my client mentioned it to me. He was a lawyer dressed in sweats, but he still mentioned it to me. Jeans are for the weekend and after work, not work. (At least not most jobs).

NY PJ1

mookie9999 wrote:

I dress up every day. The last thing I would ever want to do is to give the impression that I don't give a shit. Like it or not we are judged by our appearance. If I took a client around looking at $2 million dollar one bedroom condos in jeans and sneakers I would be embarrassed, as would my company and the staff at the building I'm taking my client to. One time, on a Saturday, I was dressed in a suit minus the tie and my client mentioned it to me. He was a lawyer dressed in sweats, but he still mentioned it to me. Jeans are for the weekend and after work, not work. (At least not most jobs).

their ya go ,,some sense from mookie

nah just dress like a bum and sell those condo's
people dont notice

Rygar

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

If you are meeting a client you usually have to dress up to some degree, whether it's a suit or b-cas depending on the situation, but I don't think it makes you look any more "professional." I think it makes you look "corporate." The following professionals rarely wear suits: doctors, engineers, teachers, research scientists, etc. I think if any of these groups wore suits on a regular basis it would look weird.

All I know is for a year I worked for this dumb company that sold crappy services and had some really dumb people working for them. While the business made a lot of money they paid us shit. We were required to wear suits every single day. every thing was about appearances, there was no substance at all. All I got out of wearing a suit every day was displaced bones in my feet from dress shoes.

I am happy to be in my little exposed brick office with my PhD and engineer colleagues in my dirty jeans, baggy sweater, and danskos, making a lot more money and doing much more important work.

Even if you aren't meeting with clients daily you often have to dress up every day in various professions. What might not matter to one might matter to the boss.
I think there's an unspoken dress code at my current job (and there ARE casual friday's) but I've never worn anything other than jeans and no one has said anything to me. A bit like NY's situation, except we HAVE a casual day and he doesn't. Staff donates to charity for casual day though.
Teachers don't wear suits, but school teachers don't generally wear jeans and a sweater. Not here, anyway. They aren't dressed in suits, but slacks and a nice shirt are most common.

mookie9999

NY PJ1 wrote:

their ya go ,,some sense from mookie

nah just dress like a bum and sell those condo's
people dont notice

I'm holding an open house this Sunday. I'm thinking about going with bermuda shorts, flip flops, and a Hawaiian shirt. I like the surprise factor of "is this the realtor or the homeowners out of work brother who won't get a job, sleeps on the couch, and watches Springer marathons daily?"

GreenTeaDisease

Rygar wrote:

Teachers don't wear suits, but school teachers don't generally wear jeans and a sweater. Not here, anyway. They aren't dressed in suits, but slacks and a nice shirt are most common.

well it varies by the school obviously, but at that crappy job I had I would work with roomfuls of teachers on a daily basis, and trust me, they weren't dressed "nicely." And what about college profs? they are the most "professional" people there are and they mostly wear jeans or whatever.

Rygar

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

well it varies by the school obviously, but at that crappy job I had I would work with roomfuls of teachers on a daily basis, and trust me, they weren't dressed "nicely." And what about college profs? they are the most "professional" people there are and they mostly wear jeans or whatever.

College profs (in my experience) dress tremendously less 'professional', and much more casual then teachers.
I'm not arguing the point that dressed professional doesn't always equal intelligent professional.

NY PJ1

mookie9999 wrote:

I'm holding an open house this Sunday. I'm thinking about going with bermuda shorts, flip flops, and a Hawaiian shirt. I like the surprise factor of "is this the realtor or the homeowners out of work brother who won't get a job, sleeps on the couch, and watches Springer marathons daily?"

yea it works,, skip the shirt though..thats too dressy

josevolution

i'm in scrubs all day ,i come to work dressed in jeans all the time and then change into scrubs ,so it really makes no sense to come dressed up and then have to stuff those clothes into a locker ...

mookie9999

NY PJ1 wrote:

yea it works,, skip the shirt though..thats too dressy

Good point. Do I go with a wife beater or no shirt at all?

Rygar

mookie9999 wrote:

Good point. Do I go with a wife beater or no shirt at all?

Beater.
See if you can't get some ketchup on it first.