Ties

[peachey]

what do you think of ties?

(as the ones mainly blokes wear around their necks)

[Jon M]

they're very useful for hiding the fact that your neck is so fat that you can't do up your top button

[Chris W]

I like wearing a shirt and tie from time to time... makes me feel all smart! i don't have to wear one normally so it is a bit of a treat!

I work in an office where business dress used to be required 4 days a week and Fridays was casual. Now there is the option to dress casual everday. However is still do the business dress thing 4 days a week as i find dressing casually everyday somehow changes my attitude towards work.

[peachey]

if its a wedding or funeral

or some other night out or something
they are ok

but as a rule I find being forced to wear one not nice

I worked in a bank once and they made us wear one there
in the back office - even though you never saw a customer
and were not customer (or anyone else for that matter) facing

Originally Posted by peachey

if its a wedding or funeral

or some other night out or something
they are ok

but as a rule I find being forced to wear one not nice

I worked in a bank once and they made us wear one there
in the back office - even though you never saw a customer
and were not customer (or anyone else for that matter) facing

Wether you customer facing or not im not sure it matters. I think the more important thing is if you are professional about your image then your more likely to be professinal about your job.

Ties are one of the most pointless pieces of clothing ever invented! They serve absolutely *no* useful purpose, they don't provide protection or keep you warm, they are purely decorative and yet, somehow, they have become de rigeur.

Unbelievable

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by Graham

Ties are one of the most pointless pieces of clothing ever invented! They serve absolutely *no* useful purpose, they don't provide protection or keep you warm, they are purely decorative and yet, somehow, they have become de rigeur.

Unbelievable

I agree with you there. I have to wear a stupid green tie with the King Harold School logo printed on it.

[peachey]

that point about maintaining a 'professional image' may be all well and good

but when you are working for a rotten
bank as a temporary agency person on £5/hour

it does not seem to have the same snappy ring to it

[Matuka]

I hate them with a passion!

They are one of the most useless ever things to come out of the whatever pereod that invented them!

They are a useless rag that does nothing but restrict my breathing, risk throttling me if I use a drill & get in the way when I'm washing my hands etc.

I am almost phobic about wearing them, as I have to wear one to follow a stupid & ancient dress code at work (yet the women have no equivelent items) I mainly go in wearing a jumper or sweatshirt so that it negates the need to wear one, only to put one on when I get too warm later in the day & take the jumper off.

The day that someone manages to sue the company for sexual discrimination willbe the day that I have a really big party!

[Maggy J]

Get rid of them as compulsary item of clothing.Make it a matter of personal choice.

Incog.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Matuka

I hate them with a passion!

They are one of the most useless ever things to come out of the whatever pereod that invented them!

They are a useless rag that does nothing but restrict my breathing, risk throttling me if I use a drill & get in the way when I'm washing my hands etc.

I am almost phobic about wearing them, as I have to wear one to follow a stupid & ancient dress code at work (yet the women have no equivelent items) I mainly go in wearing a jumper or sweatshirt so that it negates the need to wear one, only to put one on when I get too warm later in the day & take the jumper off.

The day that someone manages to sue the company for sexual discrimination willbe the day that I have a really big party!

Legally you don't anymore

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNew.../41062-ap.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2840013.stm

PartyonWayne, Partyon Garth

[Matuka]

Not quite so.

Although he won a sex discrimination case, it does not change the rules for the rest of the country.
He still has to wear a tie, but his employers have had to review it.

The law has not changed & if your contract says you wear a tie, you still do.
Unfortunately..

Unless of course you can prove different & then I would be most interested. If you have some legal acts etc that say I can remove my tie then I'd be only too happy to show the personell dept at work

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Matuka

The law has not changed & if your contract says you wear a tie, you still do.
Unfortunately..

Unless of course you can prove different & then I would be most interested. If you have some legal acts etc that say I can remove my tie then I'd be only too happy to show the personell dept at work

But if it only requires men to wear a tie then it is a descriminatory contract and needs reviewing.

This could always end up like pension legislation, we complained that women could reture earlier so they leveled the playing field and upped the age for women, everyone loses.

Surely if you need to use a drill then there is a health and safety issue also.

Personally I don't mind wearing them, I have to wear a suit and it finishes the look nicely. The whole thing is a grown up school uniform which means I can get dressed whilst my brain is still off at 6:30 am. I'd hate to be a woman and have to think when I last wore what and be subject to the complexities of female written and unwritten dress code.

[carlingman]

Originally Posted by peachey

if its a wedding or funeral

or some other night out or something
they are ok

but as a rule I find being forced to wear one not nice

I worked in a bank once and they made us wear one there
in the back office - even though you never saw a customer
and were not customer (or anyone else for that matter) facing

Is there something you need to tell us peachey.

In this thread you state you wear ties of the male kind.

Yet in this thread found here you are wearing womens trousers.

Dual sexuality perhaps.