Dress Code

I read your post just fine.
I don't understand why you're peaching about it.

Especially if 1) you don't have to deal with it and 2) who cares. A job is a job. If an individual needs one that badly, I think a dress code like that is the least thing they need to be concerned with.

I made a social thread so I could read other people's thoughts on the topic. I don't have to deal with it, but I don't need to in order to think it is wrong. And to be straight forward, I care. I care a little bit to see tweens and retirees donning t-shirts. I think, what if I had to work a retail job while some of my friends who graduated from Stern/Wharton are making $150k+ on Wall Street. What if every day I had to come home to my parent's house, which is not some place I even consider to be my home and look in the mirror seeing myself in a corporate t-shirt and asking myself if this is what I went to college for only to end up in this position. And it might just be me. It might just be me who thinks about these things and find some amount of decency that I have a job that has me dress up with a tie so that I can appear to be business professional and think how awful it would be if I had to look at myself in the mirror every day with the disappointment I already carry in my life and see that I'm there getting ready to work the next shift and I'm wearing a ****ing t-shirt that says, "Welcome to x, A+ Customer Service Guaranteed." It is something so unbelievably little that prevents me from tipping over and breaking down in depression. And you know what, I don't know how other people would feel. But it is good to see that most people don't feel the same way or wouldn't feel the same way hypothetically speaking. It is true that a job IS a job, astute observation. But if a job is to provide a service then services can still be rendered in a suit and tie & not just a t-shirt. If you think that there are more concerning issues with people who work these jobs then I would agree. But I still think that t-shirt uniforms are something that can be addressed in work philosophy without getting in the way of work or work efficiency.

It's not that there's intrinsic evil in the clothes itself or in corporate dogma. You might have parents that say that you gotta work **** jobs to develop skills and get ahead in life. They're trying to tell you it's ok. But when you look at how far corporate is willing to take you, they're going to gravitate you to around $15,16 an hour unless you get an MBA or some advanced degree so they can ship you oversees to Europe, India where you can be closer to the factories so now you can start making $20-something an hour. Or you could have people around you that ask why you couldn't do any better for yourself and imply that your situation is a device of not applying sufficient effort to get out of the rat hole that you are in. And you don't know why you're in the situation that you're in. You only know that you're in it and for some reason you're having trouble getting out. And when you're in your late 20s or early 30s and still working the same ****ing job at the local mart for **** pay and wearing the same ****ing t-shirt that is similar in cut to the kids that come in from high school just breaking out, what do you do, what can you do.

A lot of people hate their jobs. A job is something that people should respect so that they come to work on time, provide positive customer service, and help in a timely manner. You can't guaranty any of that by making people come in a suit and tie. But I know that for me, when I wear that dress shirt and don that tie, I feel like my life could go somewhere and I'm working towards something bigger beyond the horizon. I'm a careerist here to gain knowledge and skills that can be utilized for my next interview. That's what the dress-shirt and slacks tell me. A t-shirt makes me feel like I ****ed up and I'm trapped. And again that could be me. But that's how I interpret it. And I'm interested in how others interpret it as well. And if I'm not mistaken this might be why social boards exist.