Son of a b^%*^!!!!!

My office is switching to uniforms

Cool. See if you can be the Cop--or maybe Construction Worker.

Margie

Maybe you'll get a nice plad skirt and button-down shirt.

Cheer up... some uniforms are classy!

My kid went to Catholic School right up through high school. In the fifth grade as a reward for doing so well on the CAT Tests, his class was allowed to wear "civilian" clothes for one week, no uniforms.

I remember him standing in the closet on Friday morning pawing through shirts "How the heck do you people do THIS??

Getting dressed just got easier, Gameboy.

I have to wear a uniform to work. I'm a purchasing manager. But it makes getting dressed so much easier. It also makes the "must do" load of laundry on sunday night very easy.

I've had to wear a uniform for years, you get used to it fast enough, be sure when you get it order a couple extra shirts, and if the don't fit right spend a couple bucks with a decent tailor and have them fixed. I started doing that a few years ago and it makes a difference.

It could be worse. Being a German academic environment, the summer uniform around my workplace is a T-shirt, really short shorts, step-in sandals, and white socks. (Sometimes they're knee socks.) This dress code is followed exclusively by late-middle-aged men who have the kind of legs I never needed to see in the first place. Fortunately it only gets warm enough for it a couple of months a year.

After spending 21 years in the Navy, wearing a uniform for my current job is no big deal. The pain, as it were, comes from the small details. For example, when I first joined the Navy, the summer/white uniforms were made from cotton. You could easily outgrow your uniform before the "season" was over, what with shrinking cotton and a potentially spreading belly. Add in, that these uniforms were designed by someone who didn't seem to realize that under some lighting conditions the pants were close to being transparent.... I went to a few dress inspections where 1 or 2 sailors were unaware that it was not a good idea to wear patterned shorts under a pair of white trousers.

My current uniforn is cheaply made. I suspect it was "assembled" in a third world country where NO ONE has a neck bigger around than a pencil and where most of the citizens must be anorexic (sp?) as the neck hole in the shirt is too small for all our employees and the sizes of the shirts are also too small in relation to shirts made in the U.S., for example.

As already said, tho, it sure makes doing laundry easier.

I've never found picking out clothes for the day that much of a chore ...

Ah yes I went to a Catholic middle and high school that had uniforms...gotta love those girls in the plaid skirts

While I hate wearing uniforms I also hate wearing suits or hell even slacks and a dress shirt. Guess that is why I've gone back to school and once I'm out I'll be working in the field wear I can dress the way I want and I'll only have to "dress up" to go get grants and the like for research.

If you can't pick clothes out to wear for yourself on a day to day basis you have deeper problems at hand.

Yeah, when I was younger I hated the idea of a uniform. Now, I really like it. No worries about what to wear everyday - and they do the laundry for me! Not to mention that I don't need to invest money into work clothes.

Nothing wrong with uniforms. When I was in high school, I was a cadet in my high school's Army JROTC unit. We had to wear Class A (dress green) uniforms every Tuesday. I looked damned good in uniform!

I love uniforms, I look like Wally right now as a matter of fact. Dark blue pants and light blue oxford logo shirt, yesterday was khakis and a white oxford logo shirt... you get the idea.

I watched “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” the other day and couldn’t stop thinking about how unflattering the Army Air Corps uniforms were…man, unless you were in absolutely perfect shape, you wound up looking Boss Hogg wearing a suit that had gone through the heat dry cycle.

17 years in a uniform. Mine says "Do Not Iron" Hot in the summer, cold in the winter, gotta love it.

Yeah but Chris, yours has WINGS!

I dont mind uniforms, it makes days off that much better

Mental wrote: Hot in the summer, cold in the winter, gotta love it.

It's magical!

Funny thing for me is, at work I am the least likely to get greasy, but I am one of the few who wears a work shirt every day. Hell, I wear them on my day off sometimes because I got addicted to having the shirt pockets. It's not mandated or a strict uniform by any stretch, but for me, it might as well be mandatory. I can't go to work without a workshirt on! Sometimes I even wear a shop apron. LOL! I loves me some pockets!