Do you wear a tie at work?

Do you wear a tie at work?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 14.8%

  • No

    Votes: 69 85.2%
  • Total voters
    81
#26
Petrochem facility, engineering center. Either jeans & a dress shirt(office) or flame resistant clothing(inside the fence line and in the plants).
Ties & machinery don't mix too well.

The only time I do ties now is when we have a wedding gig or other formal band thing. Doing backup vocals with a tie is not fun(top button gets undone, tie gets loosened).
 
#27
I always wear a suit and tie at work - it is part of my job. I think it's true that the wearing of ties is much less common in white collar jobs than it used to be. Not sure if that's good or not.
 
#31
I went to Catholic School for 12 years. At the end of it I swore I'd never take a job that required wearing a tie. I'm almost 50 now, and in my entire professional career I've only worn a tie 2 or 3 times. Now that I work from home I don't even wear pants most days. So... me for the win! The funny thing is that most of my older brothers, who all went through Catholic School too, have jobs that require at least occasional tie wearing, and they all seem to like getting dressed up.

Tie wearing definitely seems to be on the way out. I did some expert witness testimony a couple of years back, and when the attorney was prepping me for the hearing he specifically told me NOT to wear a tie. Only the top admin people at the main office of my company wear them, and they only seem to do so on specific occasions.


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#35
spade2you said:
I didn't used to. I started wearing a tie once or twice a week, especially if I'm going to be seen. Hard work alone hasn't exactly gotten me very far.
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Is it working? Do you get more respect? Sometimes I have to dress up for client meeting on a suit (sans tie) and my $4 real leather brown wing tips I got at the Rescue Mission (score!). If I stop by the supermarket or my local bar for a drink, people treat me much different. They say "excuse me" as the hurry to get out of my way. I can see how rich people get addicted to that kind of treatment.
 
#37
Duuuuuuuuuude said:
Is it working? Do you get more respect? Sometimes I have to dress up for client meeting on a suit (sans tie) and my $4 real leather brown wing tips I got at the Rescue Mission (score!). If I stop by the supermarket or my local bar for a drink, people treat me much different. They say "excuse me" as the hurry to get out of my way. I can see how rich people get addicted to that kind of treatment.
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Just started. Had a coworker who does 1/3rd the work, but kisses a lot of ass. Guess who got a better raise that year?
 
#40
I'm in real estate. Sometimes I wear jeans and a sport coat, sometimes jeans and a polo, sometimes a suit w/tie, sometimes w/o tie, sometimes sport coat and tie.

It all depends on the situation, the client (or not), my mood, etc.

I like the flexibility. Because I don't have to, I enjoy doing so when the mood strikes me and/or if it's appropriate.
 
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