We’ve got a business casual dress code at work. In fact, it is quite casual and jeans are allowed. I like not having to maintain two separate wardrobes and I love not having to wear the neck choker.
So, what kind of moron comes up with a voluntary idea like Tie Tuesday? There is no corporate bigwig in town. Just some stupid idea that is being done at some workplaces. Well, count me out. I’ll follow our business casual dress code to the T, but that T doesn’t stand for, “tie!”
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My fifth-grade teacher, back when male teachers wore ties every day, had special “Friday ties”. These were usually big, wild, wide ties from the 70’s or other novelty ties. I’d suggest, if this policy is unavoidable, that you hit the thrift store and amass a collection of “Tuesday ties”.
I wouldn’t even know, as a woman, what to do on “Tie Tuesday”. If I wore one, I’d feel like Paula Poundstone. If men have to wear ties, does that mean I have to wear a dress? Pantyhose? Forget that.
Stupid poilcy. Either you work in a “tie job” or you don’t. No reason I can see to dress up for one day. I hope this recession blows over soon and we can get back to some semblance of sanity.
In my experience, male teachers still have to wear ties every day, and I was in grade school this century.
My daughter’s in middle school, and she said they don’t at her school.
I’d really like this (I say this knowing I’ll be the black sheep of the thread). I like wearing ties. I have a bunch of nice ones, and look good in them. I especially like shopping for them.
We’re business casual every day- dress down on Fridays- but still nobody wears a tie unless they have an off-site meeting or something. I never have an opportunity to wear a tie except for maybe 3-4 times a year, usually around the holidays.
When one of my coworkers was new, he decided he was going to wear a tie every Monday and make “Ties on Monday” into an office ritual. We mocked him pretty mercilessly. I don’t know if he wore a tie yesterday, but he doesn’t try to rope people into it anymore.
Still, if I had to choose - and I never wear ties - I’d rather wear a tie than celebrate “Bosses’ Day.”
I had to wear ties every day as part of my school uniform, then again for the first 20 years of my career. If you think your tie is a “neck choker” it’s probably because your shirt collar is too tight. Remember, your collar size should be 1/2 inch wider than your actual neck size measurement.
I don’t get the hate for ties. Once you’re wearing a dress shirt anyway, especially a white one, I think it actually looks better with a (nice) tie than not.
Assuming this is a corporate environment and not a small business, home office type of thing, I personally like a dress code for work that differentiates the workplace from my home/personal life. This whole “I like not having to maintain two separate wardrobes” attitude is therefore exactly wrong. You want a separate wardrobe to put yourself in the right frame of mind that you are going to fill a different role for a different time slice.
That goes not only for my own frame of mind, but also those I work with. Put another way, I wouldn’t particularly relish the idea of talking over something serious, with the firm’s future and millions of dollars potentially on the line, with someone who looks like he just came from, or is about to head to, a bar, rock concert or the beach. The underlying image is that this guy is not fully paying attention, as it seems he’d rather be at a bar, rock concert or the beach.
I see you commented, “There is no corporate bigwig in town. Just some stupid idea that is being done at some workplaces. Well, count me out.” Think about this. You don’t plan on being a “corporate bigwig” yourself someday? Exactly where do you envision yourself in 10 years? It’s fine, even admirable to have a goal to jump ship and do something entrepreneurial or academic or research-oriented, etc., but make sure that’s what you’re thinking.
I had to in every school I was in.
Is there a rule against your wearing a tie every day? At my last job we had two guys that always wore ties, I never asked why, guess they just liked them, but also don’t know anyone that made negative comments to them.
Personally, I wear a tie when I HAVE to. reluctantly. I have to get realy long ties to look halway decent and only a few of my shirts allow me to button the top button anyway what with my 19.5 inch neck.
I’d like to be the corporate bigwig that doesn’t force my workers to wear an outdated and unnecessary article of clothing such as a tie.
wearing ties only propagates the idea that to be taken seriously you have to wear a tie.
There’s no rule against it. I just choose not to because already many people in the office (there are only about a dozen of us) piss and moan about the current dress code. I don’t want to be the subject of their misplaced ire and concern that the dress code is becoming more formal that it already is.
Personally, I’d be happy if our dress code prohibited pantsuits that were properly sized to the wearer before the last 10 years of daily donuts, but discretion prevents me from making that request to the HR department.
This mentality I don’t understand. I don’t have much trouble telling the difference between work and home, even without a dress code. Of course, how I’m dressed doesn’t affect how I feel, aside from “comfortable” or “uncomfortable”, and I understand many people are not like that.
As a tech type, I don’t see it this way. Quite the opposite. I’d rather have someone who cares more about writing good code or keeping the machines running smoothly than they do about their appearance.
If America is anything like Britain, it varies a lot depending on the school. I visit a number of schools, so go with the most formal option, because it’s impossible for it to actually look wrong in any mainstream school.
It tends to parallel different approaches to school uniform, too, from clearly specified (and strictly enforced) requirements about ties, styles of trouser & skirt etc., through to schools where as long as they’ve got their scruffy sweatshirt with a logo on, they can accesorise with just about anything else they want. The kids in the latter schools will express just as much dislike for their uniform as the smart ones, but I’ve never encountered a scruffy school where the kids take pride in their belonging to it.
Bingo. Unless I’m working on the house or painting or something, I wear pretty much the same thing work, home or play.
It’s great. Every day after work I take the dogs for a walk, I may change into boots if it’s muddy but that’s all I have to worry about.
Well, It depends a little on the weather and such. If somebody suggested tie Tuesdays around here, they be strung up, with a tie.
Seriously…why the hate for ties? If it really is a “neck choker” then you have the damn thing WAY too tight. Loosen it a little and hey, you’re not getting choked! Is it really that hard?
Agreed. If it’s choking you, your shirt is the wrong size. And unless you have the proportions of the Hulk, there’s a shirt that will fit your neck properly. Back when it became law to wear a seatbelt, plenty of people complained about how they don’t wear them because they’re so uncomfortable.
Until they actually started wearing them, and forgot they had them on.
At my office we have a completely voluntary Formal Friday. The regular dress code is nonexistent, and a few guys decided that it might be nice to dress up for a change. So, on Fridays, some people wear business casual, some wear a shirt and tie, some wear full suits. Most completely ignore it. I don’t get the ire. It’s fun for those who like to play dress up from time to time, and everyone else can ignore it.
Marley, that sounds a lot like me. I wear a Tie every Monday, and I do get mocked for it, but I never tried to get anybody else to wear one.
When I jumped into the corporate world, I didn’t know the exact dress code for my company. My Grandma decided to outfit me for my new life, and insisted on buying one tie for every dress shirt she bought me. Well, when I started my job, nobody wore ties, but I had all these brand new ones that were just sitting there in my closet. They just HAD to be put to use, so I decided to wear one a week, and I figured Monday was as good a day as any, and it starts the week off looking good.
I like wearing ties, I think I look nice wearing one, but I don’t want to wear one everyday.