Dress Code

I care a little bit to see tweens and retirees donning t-shirts. I think, what if I had to work a retail job while some of my friends who graduated from Stern/Wharton are making $150k+ on Wall Street. What if every day I had to come home to my parent's house, which is not some place I even consider to be my home and look in the mirror seeing myself in a corporate t-shirt and asking myself if this is what I went to college for only to end up in this position. And it might just be me. It might just be me who thinks about these things and find some amount of decency that I have a job that has me dress up with a tie so that I can appear to be business professional and think how awful it would be if I had to look at myself in the mirror every day with the disappointment I already carry in my life and see that I'm there getting ready to work the next shift and I'm wearing a ****ing t-shirt that says, "Welcome to x, A+ Customer Service Guaranteed."

It isn't the uniform that's demeaning to you, it's the job itself. The shirt itself doesn't look bad, and it isn't like people look at people in their uniforms and chuckle. I mean, maybe if the uniform was a chicken suit, but just a t-shirt and some jeans? Who cares? Like other people have said it just makes it easier to identify an employee. Now, in jobs where there isn't really any possibility for confusion, much like standard office jobs, I can see how a uniform would be pointless, but for retail it makes perfect sense.

You think you would honestly go home and NOT think ''Oh god, THIS is where I'm at?!'' just with a change in dress code? No. No because you STILL work at retail while your friends are raking it in at Wall Street. Unless what you're saying is that you honestly believe the shirt is just merely the nail in the coffin. That that ONE detail is what makes you ''realize you're in a lowly position''?

Again, it's your attitude towards the job itself that's the problem, not the uniform.