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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
NO!!! We are in the crapper. It used to be folks dressed up to go to church, funerals, dinner out, movies, night club shows. Now its anything goes, torn jeans, beer T shirts, flip-flops, and that is church or funeral attire!! Then there is the baggy pants and lets show your stupid by exposing your underwear!! Yup, America is now a slum and scum pit!!
ReplyDelete5:41, I have to agree. When I was a kid and we'd go to a Yankee Game in the Bronx, everyone was wearing at least a dress shirt and a tie. Yet we want to be taken seriously today. I see many local department heads and elected officials in the same suit jacket all the time. It really is a shame.
ReplyDeleteI think we have made positive changes in important areas(example: woman can wear slacks to work and guys can help stay home with newborns). However we did not bring the important good with us (example: respect for this country, it's laws, personal image, and respect for one another. It's terrible how we have let society and our ethics erode,
ReplyDeleteThe "Be Free Generation" of the 60's gave way to the "Me Generation" of the 80's which gave way to the current "Mom and Dad Save Me Generation". Coming up the "Government Take Care of Me Generation".
ReplyDeleteYesterday I saw an older gentleman with a suit and one of those hats and I pointed out to my 12 y/o son that in the 50's and 60's everyone went to baseball games dressed just like that. I wasn't around, but many pictures are around. Life was so much better then.
ReplyDeleteDress code-wise? definitely not. Its not only the dress code it is manners and civility that have gone out the window along with grammar, education, race relations, and the sanctimony of holy matrimony. Heck of a situation us 65 year olds find ourselves in.
ReplyDeleteI am not that old but when I was a kid it was customary to dress up on special occasions like Easter, Thanksgiving & Christmas. Most people I see today do not do that any longer. I really miss it!
ReplyDeleteI'm a proud millennial!
ReplyDeleteSorry, but we care a lot more about what you say and do than how you look. Ironic considering the context of this post, wouldn't you say?
Speaking of ties mr albero, I hope someone tells jake day to fix his in that picture you posted. Thats a disgrace to the armed forces. Also for a platoon trainer the grill on top needs to be alot tighter.
ReplyDeleteSean you are off base. Anyone can say anything or do anything but when a person always takes pride in their appearance that speaks more than any words and actions which can be faked.
ReplyDeleteThoughts like you have are why Fortune 500 companies are sending headhunters oversees to find quality employees and have lobbied Congress to make it easier for these recent graduates to come and work in the US.
I grew up in the transition period. When I started grade school, girls were still wearing dresses, boys were still wearing ties to school, etc.
ReplyDeleteI relish my clothing choice freedom. Partly because it was a long time after Jeans were allowed in school that my folks would even let me own a pair of jeans.
In my careers, I have managed to avoid needing to wear anything but jeans. In fact, having to "dress" is a deal breaker for me.
Now as an employer, I run a casual shop. What's more important than how you look is how you perform. And that performance begins with first contact. If there are grammar mistakes, spelling errors or other issues with your resume, you never even get a phone call.
I can tell you from reading this blog regularly, 97% of you would never get a call.
So, while you're pissing and moaning about the shape this country is in, the loss of jobs, infrastructure and everything else that is wrong with this country, maybe look in the mirror. I know the people I surround myself with are top notch people.
cheers.
Dress like a gangsta.
ReplyDeleteStart with president of the county council..he wears the same navy blazer,kaki pants, and light blue shirt to everything. His kaki's are even frayed at the cuff. Check him out.
ReplyDelete10:22pm Gosh, looks to me like you really checked him out from head to toe. Why would anyone look that closely at him?
ReplyDeleteAppearance is one of the many pieces of the equation to being successful.
ReplyDeleteRest assured, in most instances show up to an interview dressed in jeans, while speaking the King's English and you will quickly get shown the door.
If you can't take the time to dress appropriately for an interview, it is looked upon as being lackadaisical in the corporate and professional world.
Since the advent of social media, dressing appropriately, at all times, has become more important. Employers of all shapes and sizes, at the very minimum, browse a prospective employees social media accounts.
Some would like to think that appearance doesn't matter, but I would like to ask the person above who runs the "casual shop" does any of their employees interact with the public and would they permit, someone to interact while wearing their jeans hanging low, with underclothes exposed? Or someone with multiple stars tattooed on their face to interact with the public?
While some would like to think appearance isn't important, it most certainly is.
Just for the record, saying we run a casual shop, is in no way the same thing as saying we allow facial piercings, visible body ink, ghetto dress or any of the sort of things to which you are referring.
ReplyDeleteSo, in that sense, it is all a sliding scale of grey, then...
It is a bit of a sliding scale 9:27 depending on the job. Sean is off base though. He may like to think all that matters is what a person says or does, but than is not reality, though there is an exception. The exception would be if someone with a nonconventional appearance has happened to prove themselves in their field and no on else has skills compatible. They would get a pass but for everyone else appearance is important.
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