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
#41
No. We have a business casual dress code so I usually wear a dress shirt or polo shirt and dress pants.
I've had jobs where ties were required. Basically, if you buy dress shirts in the correct neck size, you won't choke yourself when the tie is on. If going up a half inch or more in neck size results in a baggy shirt, get a fitted or athletic cut shirt.
 
#42
I'm very fortunate. My boss buys 5 uniforms a year and we can wear them if we like (to keep from wearing our own cloths out) or not.

Pretty much the only rules are no jeans, no T-shirts (gotta have a collar) and no hats.

Funny thing is the uniform shirts are really comfortable and breathe. So I usually wear them at least a few days a week. But the pants are stiff and irchy so I usually wear cargo pants or whatever slacks I feel like that day. I can wear sneakers if I want but I usually wear one step up from that in a leather hiker.

It all adds up to a really comfy way to work.

He wears a tie and his boss wears a tie. So if we have a formal meeting to make plans for a quarter I wear a tie. It's not required but it can't hurt.
 
#43
Don't own a tie.

I worked a job where a memo came down about 3 months after i started, saying all front office personnel would be required to wear a tie effective the following monday. We didn't deal with the public so the unofficial dress code was kakis and a shirt with a collar. The weekend before i was required to start wearing ties i went and found some really big, multi colored bow ties and had the sales lady show me how to tie them. I showed up monday in a clownishly large, gaudy bow tie that clashed with my pin striped shirt. After lunch i got called on the carpet and asked to explain myself. I acted like i was not understanding what the boss was asking and made him spell it out. My face lit up and i gushed about how Bozo had always been my hero and when i had to buy some ties i just wanted to look like my hero. He wasn't buying my BS and told me to get in line at work or get in line at the employment office. I took the employment office.
 
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#45
I seem to be in the minority. I wear a tie at work, along with a suit or sport coat and slacks. I have been doing it for more years than I like to think about, but it is no big deal, to me. I get a lot of positive comments on my ties, especially the Jerry Garcia ties. I recently thinned my collection to about 90, or so.
 
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#50
47th Street said:
Retired now, but I wore a tie for 36 years...as a young man I'm sure I did it in an effort to be taken seriously...later, as a Teacher, I had fun with it...100 or so kids' ties... I gave away all but a handful last Spring.
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When I was in 10th grade, I got Mr. Blanchard, a grand old bird of a gentleman who had been teaching English at the high school for some 40 years or so. The rumor among the students was that the Mr. Blanchard who taught English at the JUNIOR high school, and was the oldest teacher there, had been a student of THIS Mr. Blanchard once upon a time, but they weren't related. The High School Mr. Blanchard was known for his bow ties, and students often gave him a new tie at the end of the school year. He reportedly had two bins at home, and when he dressed in the morning he would put on a tie from one bin, then put it in the other bin at night, and thus never wear the same bow tie twice all year.
 
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#51
We stopped wearing tie and suit 15 years ago, last year we stopped the ''casual business'' attire and move to wear whatever you want so these days I wear jeans/shirts/chukkas.

We still need to wear suit when we travel to Asia and business casual in Europe.
 
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#52
I have never, ever purchased a tie.
I have never ever worn a tie to any of the god knows how many jobs I've had in my lifetime.

I wore a tie every single weekday, barring summers, holidays, and days I was sick from grades 1 to 8. It was against my will. That may have had something to do with the first part.
 
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#53
Joe Nerve said:
I wore a tie every single weekday, barring summers, holidays, and days I was sick from grades 1 to 8. It was against my will. That may have had something to do with the first part.
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Same here. I wore a tie, slacks, dress shirt, dress shoes and a blazer from Kindergarten through 8th grade, as well.
After that for many years, you had to put a gun to my head to wear any of that again.

Now, 30+ years later, I'll dress up again, as I used to learn swing dancing, and had a blast dressing up from that era and dancing all night.
 
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#54
This is what I've been lucky enough to wear to work for the last 6 years (this is, however, an old pic).

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#57
I wear a tie maybe 5% of the time. I work in an office, but the environment is quite casual (and it's not a tech firm). I wear jeans and either sneakers or a low-cut hiker probably 90% of the time; my shirts range from long-sleeve button-downs to flannel over a T shirt to short sleeve button shirts (untucked) in the summer. Even our CEO, a billionaire at this point, still wears jeans more often than not.

But we do dress up when meeting outsiders, so at our annual conference (3 days) I'm in a suit and tie the whole time. Same is typically true when the companies I cover come to visit, or if I travel to visit them (3-5X a year), and when I'm interviewing job candidates. Even on these occasions, I'll go tie-less sometimes if I can get away with it (some of the companies I visit encourage business-casual attire).
 
#59
Pilgrim said:
I used to fairly often, but my seniority and the overall ethos of the university where I work mean that very few people wear ties here. It's mostly folks with top-tier jobs and those working with media.
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Same here. In my department, the male faculty range wear everything from suits to jeans-and-t-shirts. (I'm at or near the latter end of the spectrum.) The pre-tenure guys tend to be among the best-dressed, but the more senior faculty are all over the map. And most important, everyone is okay with that.
 
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