Calling someone out on what they wear to work

[angminas]

I wear the same outfit ever day: tan or black slacks & black or blue collared shirt. Not female, not a teenager, thus, don't care. My closet looks like Monks, a row full of the same thing

That's four outfits.

 

[boomerang]

An acquaintance in Europe (Switzerland) got called out for wearing a different outfit everyday to an office job. Which makes more sense to me. You're just rewashing already clean clothes and taking up more resources (water, electricity, and washer/dryer time) for the sake of vanity. It's just a matter of culture.

In that culture, who makes the decision on when an individual's clothes need to be cleaned?

 

[blankslate]

For what it's worth, I would never hire anyone who went into an interview without a tie tied one of two ways (Windsor or double Windsor).

lol that's pretty much the only knot I know for a tie because it's the one that came up when I looked it up online.


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[TheUnk]

oh man time to go buy 10 more outfits so I don't offend anyone with my clean but repetitive attire.

 

[xSauronx]

I'm not sure I'd even notice. I don't much care what people wear, unless it's a woman showing tits. I like tits.

really. i might bring it up, or mention it to HR if it was the same thing without being clean, you know, if you had a smell about you but

eh

its work. i dont own a big variety of work clothes. maybe 8 shirts i rotate through and about 6 pairs of khakis. its pretty boring. /clothing money is drinking money

 

[OutHouse]

For what it's worth, I would never hire anyone who went into an interview without a tie tied one of two ways (Windsor or double Windsor).

and i would never work in such a nazi environment and I will never wear a tie in an interview. its fake as hell.

 

[OutHouse]

Our IT people wear collars and at least khakis. When I was slumming it out in the field I wore jeans and T shirts.

we used to have that requirement. but about 3 years ago management said jeans and collard tee-shirts are ok, so thats all I wear anymore along with my new balance sneakers.

I live in a server room so business casual sucked and completely un-necessary, I lost track on how many slacks i ripped with floor tiles.

 

[smackababy]

and i would never work in such a nazi environment and I will never wear a tie in an interview. its fake as hell.

If you can't be assed to put on a tie for a job interview, I can't trust you can be assed to do anything important on your own. Even if the job isn't somewhere you'd have to wear more than a polo and jeans, an interview isn't what you're wearing every day.

 

[Ban Bot]

I am have small wardrobe of the same outfits. People comments at work about how I have the same 5 shirts. Do. Not. Care. I dress to code (unlike most), always showered, groomed, and clean clothes. So what if I am boring. I cannot color coordinate so I keep it simple and affordable. Work is not a beauty contest, at least not for me. MYOB. And definitely don't be one of those nosey busy bodies who doesn't dress to company code and wants to critique someone else. The only thing else is getting comments from women who wear a ton of perfume and shorts disguised as skirts or flip flops and pretend those a trending business / business casual and have the gall to call others out. Good way to get put on a hypocritical petty-person list.

 

[Ban Bot]

For what it's worth, I would never hire anyone who went into an interview without a tie tied one of two ways (Windsor or double Windsor).

hahahaha

Seriously, I don't know if you are serious, but if you are I guess your company may miss out on some excellent employees. There are so many reasons why but I know I cannot tie a tie (neurological condition that doesn't impact my work but prevents fine motor skills with my hands). But you wouldn't even let me through the door with my Seahawk hat anyways

 

[rudeguy]

I buy the same shirt for work. I just buy 7 of them.
I buy the same pants for work. I just buy 7 of them.
I buy the same shorts for work. I just buy 7 of them.

If someone were to ever call me on it, I would like and say I wore the same thing every day just because its none of their business what I wear.

 

[smackababy]

hahahaha

Seriously, I don't know if you are serious, but if you are I guess your company may miss out on some excellent employees. There are so many reasons why but I know I cannot tie a tie (neurological condition that doesn't impact my work but prevents fine motor skills with my hands). But you wouldn't even let me through the door with my Seahawk hat anyways

If you wear a ball cap to a job interview, yes, you would never get hired anywhere I make decisions. In a short amount of time, I must judge how well you will do in the position you interviewed. You can easily lie on your resume about your attention to detail and work ethic, but you can't lie about the lack of presentation to someone evaluating you.

You're right, I might miss out on someone great because of neurological condition that prevents them from tying a tie, but I'm willing to risk it that person for the ton of shitheads who can't code I will weed out.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

we used to have that requirement. but about 3 years ago management said jeans and collard tee-shirts are ok, so thats all I wear anymore along with my new balance sneakers.

I live in a server room so business casual sucked and completely un-necessary, I lost track on how many slacks i ripped with floor tiles.

My company went the other way. Before I got here IT was able to just wear whatever they wanted. By the time I got accepted, management made all of corporate do business casual. It's really annoying when I have to carry and move stuff.

My old job was sweats and a hoodie in over the phone sales and IT.

 

[gotsmack]

For what it's worth, I would never hire anyone who went into an interview without a tie tied one of two ways (Windsor or double Windsor).

I wear tab collar dress shirt so I have to use the four in hand knot

I don't do hiring, but i've looked through resumes before and I never recommend anyone that went to an online school.

 

[marincounty]

Years ago when I worked for the govt, a senior employee told me I "needed to dress more professionally". Mind you , this is a guy wearing polyester pants.
I told him " I'll dress more professionally when they start paying me professionally".
That was the last I heard about that subject.

 

[Platypus]

could not possibly care less.

I'm glad I work in an industry that values actual talent instead of trite cultural clothing standards. All the programmers who can write proper exploits and fuzzers who aren't getting hired for bullshit reasons like not wearing a suit or tie, hit me up. I'll take care of you.

 

[MixMasterTang]

Yeah, Lord knows the Swiss aren't meticulous or anything....

I am pretty sure he interrupted it as 200 working days in a year = 200 completely different outfits, because nobody ever gave a time frame.

 

[Ban Bot]

If you wear a ball cap to a job interview, yes, you would never get hired anywhere I make decisions. In a short amount of time, I must judge how well you will do in the position you interviewed. You can easily lie on your resume about your attention to detail and work ethic, but you can't lie about the lack of presentation to someone evaluating you.

Sarcasm meter failure! :awe: I left the ball cap side note there to soften the blow for the illogical tie criteria. While I agree for almost any job interview a cap is unacceptable the tie thing I find silly.

You're right, I might miss out on someone great because of neurological condition that prevents them from tying a tie, but I'm willing to risk it that person for the ton of shitheads who can't code I will weed out.

Hey, if your business/group is successful who am I to criticize. The BS that goes on in evaluating people is ridiculous so if your worst sin is evaluating tie style, well, good on you.

Just warn me before I come in for an interview and I will have my wife tie a Double Windsor -- and I will remember to wear my Cowboy lapel pin yes, that will be me in the bathroom puking afterwards--no, not post interview nerves, its the only way to get the Jerrrruh germs out of me.

 

[jlee]

Never bothers me what others wear but I have seen it in our very own department where the individual was approached by someone else in the department about wearing the same 2 or 3 outfits all the time. I've noticed it too but I just mind my own business. I don't know about him but I would be pretty embarrassed even if it was ahole-ish of them.

Would you bring it up to the person or just MYOB?

I would probably buy identical sets of the same clothing and wear the same thing every day just to piss them off. :awe:

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You're right, I might miss out on someone great because of neurological condition that prevents them from tying a tie, but I'm willing to risk it that person for the ton of shitheads who can't code I will weed out.

What kind of work is this? I wouldn't think there would be a particularly strong correlation between knowing how to knot a tie well and knowing how to program. Like, a guy that shows up completely unprepared like a slob, sure, but the way a tie is knotted? I'd think there are better metrics you could come up with over the course of an interview to test a candidate's ability to program.

 

[Carson Dyle]

What kind of work is this? I wouldn't think there would be a particularly strong correlation between knowing how to knot a tie well and knowing how to program.

That's totally incidental. If you're interviewed by a raging moron, he may not like the style of your glasses or the length of your fingernails. Windsor knot? What a fucking idiot.

 

[Artorias]

That's hilarious, there's at least 30 ways to tie a tie. Unless you post it on your job advertisement don't expect a fucking Windsor knot every time.

http://www.shirtsmyway.com/articles/different-ways-how-to-tie-a-tie-knots.php

 

[MongGrel]

That's totally incidental. If you're interviewed by a raging moron, he may not like the style of your glasses or the length of your fingernails. Windsor knot? What a fucking idiot.

I find some things like that completely ridiculous.

We have a young mechanical engineer that can tie a bow tie and wears it to work everyday.

Seems to impress some people for god knows what reason, from what I've seen he's not a very impressive engineer.

 

[DrPizza]

When I saw the thread title, I assumed it was someone wearing excessively short shorts on dress down Friday or something. Calling someone out for wearing the same outfit more than once in a week?? WTF?! What kind of petty self-appointed fashion police actually give a crap about it, so long as it's clean.