You triggered a memory. I vaguely remember a bar ( maybe in NYC) where if you walked in with a tie on, they cut it off. Anyone heard of any other places like that?
I seem to recall something like this at a steakhouse at Disneyworld (that’s the one in FLA, right?). I was maybe 8 or 10, so the memory is decidedly distant.
Usually not, but if I know I have to go to court or have a client meeting, I’ll wear one. I also keep one behind my office door for emergencies.
Current job as an IT robot for a large bank - It’s basically “just show up in something that’s street-legal” but my group all keeps it pretty much upscale business casual. No t-shirts, shorts or ripped jeans. Unless someone’s extremely familiar with the company’s typography over the years, and recognizes it on the “employee parking only” signs, nobody knows where we are, and we have no customer contact in any form.
Previous job at another bank’s operations department - taking customer service phone calls, but no physical customer contact. Once again, we were hidden away where the public can’t find us. But someone wanted to be prim and proper so we were business formal Monday - Thursday, and to them “business casual” on Friday meant you didn’t have to wear a tie, and jeans of any kind were forbidden. Apparently, they were afraid the bank’s customers might see the operations staff dressed in an unbecoming manner, even though we occupied only one floor out of 20 or so in the building.
I work at an internationally known high-tech company in the Pacific Northwest. Even our executives come in every day with khakis or jeans and polo shirts. There’s a dude down the hallway with a mohawk and a preference for utilikilts; hell, the executive assistant to our CIO has more piercings than a flu-shot facility in October.
Ties? Listen, there are some days I feel fortunate my co-workers show up in pants.
I’m a cube jockey at a major financial firm. Business casual is company-wide unless you’re meeting with a client, in which case a tie and jacket are expected.
In fifteen years, I’ve worn a tie to work exactly once. Mind you, I work on an oil rig.
I can wear pretty much whatever I want at work. I’m a computer geek for a small company and nobody here cares much for dress codes. Shorts and a T-shirt are summer clothes, jeans and a T-shirt are winter clothes. I don’t think I’d ever take a job that required me to wear a tie unless I was a) desperate, and/or b) working in some clothing-uptight field like finance or law.
You’d be surprised how many law firms are business casual. During the late ‘90’s attorneys were in hot demand. In order to land talent, or keep the talent they had, a lot of firms went business casual at the attorneys’ request.
Very true. I was there. When I started as a young associate in 1997, we were business attire four days a week, casual on Friday (which could include jeans). By 1998 or 1999, we were “business casual” five days a week (but no jeans). The younger attorneys loved it, but the support staff hated the change. The reason was that their attire was typically more towards business casual anyway, since they were generally not in front-line client contact positions. The change to business casual cost them the one day they could wear jeans.
I actually don’t mind suits and ties. Done properly I think it’s a really smooth look that projects confidence. But one problem with it is that you need the entire ensemble to successfully project that image. If you remove the tie or the jacket, you lose a huge part of that. And in many places and seasons, it’s simply too warm to keep the full garb on.
Then on a personal note, I have a hard time finding slacks that really fit well, and really don’t like wearing any slacks for that reason. Generally when I buy my waist size (32"), I find that I have to have 2 two 3 inches taken off the hems. That’s just the way they’re made these days. As a result, there’s just too much room in the seat, too long a rise that hangs too low, because they’re really designed for a man who’s 2-3" taller. I really don’t know why that is. I’m a shade under 5’9" with my 32" waist, and in good–almost athletic, even-- shape. The side pockets are also usually too big and cut too low, so I’m always losing thing out of them, especially when I sit down in my car. Also, all the contents of those pockets jingle loudly when I walk.
So I’m very grateful that my employer doesn’t require ties, though for the reasons stated, even “tie-and-jeans” would be preferable to “slacks-and-no-tie”, however unlikely such a dress code would be.
I wear jacket and tie, by choice. I’m a professional and I work with professionals and I project a professional image. But I don’t wear a suit. It’s sports jacket (tweeds) and slacks.
In Germany, there is a celebration akin to Mardi Gras called “fasching”. During this time, it is accepted practice for people to cut off another person’s necktie. On this day, anybody with a brain wears a cheap $2 tie for that purpose.
There have been many a pissed-off diplomat who has lost an expensive silk tie because nobody told them about the tradition.
I have the same kind of problem finding short rise pants. Check out www.josbank.com. They’re expensive but they carry short rise pants. Try and catch one of their monthly sales which bring their prices down from outrageous to slightly high.
We’re business casual every day. Dress up a bit more when clients come in. However, the boss has been tightening the dress code more every year. I figure she only wants to tighten it, so it gives her a “free perk” to give away when the economy picks up and retaining employees becomes a challenge.
I do hate how dress codes vary so much from companiy to company however. I think it would be a major expense if I had to find a job with a formal 4 days a week company. I haven’t worn business dress in years.
Chief Officer level - Suit and tie every day.
Director level - optional
otherwise - business casual mon-thurs, jeans on friday.
I’m CIO, so it’s suit and tie every day. Urg.
I wear a tie every day and a suit most days. I work for a state government agency. Pretty me, my boss and my staff attorney are the only ones who dress this way. Everybody else is business casual.
You get used to it. More of a bother in the summer when it’s hot.
That should read “Pretty much me”, not “Pretty me.”
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The dress code at the biotech company where I work is very relaxed. The CEO, CFO and COO are the only guys who regularly wear ties, and even they don’t every day.
The research, development and manufacturing people are really only constrained by safety concerns. The big no-no is open toed shoes like sandals, they are absolutely forbidden in the labs. Shorts are ok though because we wear long lab coats.
Our small commercial operations team dresses professionally a good bit of the time, but they meet with customers and collaborators alot. Also the regulatory affairs folks have to dress like grown ups fairly often.
Yup, utilikilts seem to be pretty popular up in the pac-northwest. In the building I work in, there are at least two guys who wear* kilts consistently (one of them also frequently wears leather pants - he pulls off the gruff biker look pretty well, except when he has his young daughter with him). If someone comes in dressed up, everyone will ask them if they’re interviewing.
So, to answer the OP, no ties for me.
- I had to look this one up to get it spelled correctly. No kidding. I guess it’s time for bed.