Monday, January 09, 2006
Dress Code Shmess Code
Not many things fire me up like a debate about dress codes. Do you seriously expect me to buy the fact that if I'm wearing a tie, I am better at my job than if I am wearing a t-shirt? Now, if I were wearing a tie people would talk..but they're talking anyway, so that doesn't really matter. When I go to court in a skirt, the judge is more likely to agree with my recommendation than if I were there in nice navy blue velour feeling Sean John Loungewear? Somebody, anybody, please help me to understand this. NBA players are better basketball players or, better yet, better people because they are now forced to "dress up" off the court. Oh...they are role models you say. Well, I didn't realize that it had been researched and proven that there is a strong correlation between violent crime and people in flip-flops. This little boy has an alcoholic father and a drug addict mother, can't read or write, but heaven forbid that he grows up to be like Brian. Did you know that he wears SHORTS to work everyday? The nerve of some people.
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I'm thinking you might try wearing a tie and a skirt. Yummy!!
oh yeah and while we're discussing the importance of our role model's attire and Brian, the testament to the importance of attire can be found in Brian's own daughter. She is definitely destined for a life of crime, thanks to those shorts!
Gene Richardson once told me that if you want to sell a painting at an art fair, you'll do better if you wear a beret and a poncho than you will if you wear a suit and a tie.
But only if you properly tie the beret.
As for the shorts, well, perhaps the difficulty of the job reflects the importance of the attire.
On the other hand, I know that a lot of teachers feel that they get more respect from their students and create a more respectful classroom in general if they wear a tie in class. (High school, not college.) I suspect that students might also act a little differently if they were wearing ties and sport coats. I don't advocate such a thing, at least in the case of students, but I think it is true, to some degree, that the clothes you are wearing affect your attitude. Perhaps my GAS factor would be higher if I wore a suit coat to work... Nah, probably not.
There's no crying in baseball and there's no tying in beret.
Remember, I don't make the policy (though I might try hard to make some changes in this one)...personally, I'd choose jeans any day of the week, but then who am I to really make that decision!
It has always seemed to me that men who dress in ties just totally destroy their personalities. They look like little automatons and I, for one, get sick of it. Some of my best friends wear ties every day to work, and I have always felt sorry for them. I used to feel sorry for myself, too, when the dress code required me to wear a dress (as a secretary) and then a suit (as a consultant). Dress Code Shmess Code Ditto!
I got into a lot of trouble, over the years with this BS of dress code. I pushed the limits and it didn't get me anywhere. What I wanted to do to my boss was to say, "Excuse me," reach up grab his tie, tighten it, push him to the ground, stomp his guts out and then stomp them dry. I am not a fan of dress codes or the bosses who were never as smart as I, the bosses who demanded we wear ties to look "professional." I learned to hate that word, "professional." The day I tried to kill my boss and got fired from TEC has partial ties to the tie and my unedited discourse of what I thought of him, the idiot, fool and bastard. I think the author of "In Cold Blood" would agree with me. He once showed up in court, in shorts, and was ordered to leave and return in proper clothing.
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