Every major company I’ve worked for, the boss would straight out tell you to replace those clothes or don’t bother coming back in. This isn’t optional. Maybe at a small company where you never meet clients or outside people, you might get away with it. Any company with say >500 employees? Fuck no.
And what ‘tone’ do you think wearing your inkstained clothing, (like you’re a teenager who just started washing his own clothes!), sends out to your work peers. Oh wait, you covered that, I forgot, you’re without peers.
Still, kinda butthurt sensitive for a guy who doesn’t care what the world thinks of an adult man wearing dirty clothes - by choice, into a professional setting! If you’re going to live the rebel, non conformist life you’d better grow a tougher skin, my friend!
I’ve never known what the policy was on wearing ink-stained clothes to work at any job I’ve worked at, because somehow I got the knowledge that you just don’t do that - it’s unprofessional and unacceptable, and I would automatically downgrade any ink-stained clothes from “Okay to wear at work” to “Not okay to wear to work” all on my own.
No, fire an employee for not understanding why professional adults don’t wear ruined clothes to work, and more importantly, for having an"I don’t give a fuck" attitude.
Exactly. I don’t care if you aren’t being seen by the customers. You’re being seen by me, and I would be offended by your attire and attitude. Don’t like it? Work somewhere else. IT guys are a penny a hundredweight.
According to Apollon, those bosses should just “Grow up already”.
This. I very, very rarely interact with anyone, but still have never thought of wearing stained and unsightly clothing to work. It just isn’t done in a professional setting.
Ohhhh Quiddity is such an excellent word. …races out to order streamer to fly from SDMB Elistist Flagpole: “Quiddity: Hypocritical Douchebags”
Actually, I heard he dropped the “Q” and just goes by Diddy now.
Your Welcome,
Bubba
This too. I mean, GOOD IT guys are rare, but EVERY IT guy thinks he’s the most subtle genius to ever lay finger to keyboard.
I work for an Extremely Large Corporation as a contractor. The company dress code merely states that you must be neat and well groomed. Stained clothing would definitely violate that. As a contractor, I’d probably be getting a call from my client rep within about 2 hours of showing up looking like that, and then be told to go home and change and don’t ever do that again or I’d be removed from the account.
I didn’t notice that other topic but I’m with you. Ink stains are hardly grease stains. Grease is one thing, it shows a slobbery and a dirtiness that may be a symptom of other things. If I didn’t know you, I’d assume you were a slob. If I knew you, I’d give you a chance to explain
However, ink on a shirt is nothing. It looks a little funny but its not dirty and is kind of hilarious. I might call you “inky” from now on but I wouldn’t worry about the shirt nor would I replace it. Hundreds of dollars is a lot to spend on shirts, and considering I’ve worn some of my work shirts for the past 5 years, I’m loathed to throw out anything that isn’t completely ruined. If its really just a quarter inch, that’s barely noticeable. I might consider getting rid of the white shirts, or the worst of the bunch, but that’s it.
For the record, I have issues with ironing too. I find it a horribly stupid and useless activity. Clothes always have wrinkles on them. I call them ‘work lines’ and refuse to ever iron any clothes for any reason. I think people who think negatively on wrinkled clothes are hopelessly backwards and judgemental
We wouldn’t have to do that if the people asking questions weren’t so stupid.
Don’t throw them away…use them for something else around the house or town. Donate them to the less fortunate. Wear them to the next Dopefest. Do gardening in them.
Ink on clothes =/= useless clothes.
C’mon man…think this through instead of being belligerent.
Is this a performance piece? 
I don’t get it
I thought perhaps you were doing a performance piece of a stereotypical nerd who likes to wear stained and wrinkled clothing (possibly smelly as well) and doesn’t understand why other people are judgemental about it. 
I think I found my religion.
No, I just really really hate ironing. What’s the point? I’ve never been impressed by someone with ironed clothes. I look at him and think “that guy totally wasted his time for nothing”. And ink stains are different from food stains!
I’m sure “what’s the point?” is a rhetorical question, but just in case it isn’t, the point is too look neat. Also, don’t spend too much time thinking a person with clothes that aren’t a rumpled mess wasted too much (or any) time ironing, as many fabrics are wash and wear.
If I haven’t annoyed you too much already, how are ink stains different from food stains? If either one of them is fresh, then it’s no big whoop because it obviously just happened recently and hey, we can all get a little careless with our writing / eating utensils. What are your thoughst on menstral blood stained pants? :dubious:
Is the OP by chance a fan of Linkin Park or Hot Topic? All I can hear is “CRAAWWWWLIIIING…” and vivid imagery of the T-shirt “You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same!” Grow up, dude. If you actually didn’t care about your slobbenness, you wouldn’t get bent out of shape. Either be a slob and own it, or start looking like…not a slob, those are the choices but you’re not going to convince others that your terrible looking clothes, don’t look terrible, no matter how much “life” they have left in them.