Have you taken/would you take a job that required you to wear a polo shirt with the corporate logo emblazoned on it?

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You see them everywhere: on people in the elevator, on thrift store hangers for $1.50. Would you take a job that made you wear a corporate logo-ed polo?

― Skottie, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

More to the point, who actually buys one of those 'real cool' polo/shirts that the staff have to wear?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

we don't have to wear them on a daily basis but we're expected to have the logo on when representing the company to the public. The company splits the cost with us.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, do they split their actual cost, or some kind of fabricated "suggested retail cost?" The actual cost of most mass produced clothing is almost nothing.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been known to wear my No frills shirt I got when I worked there for a week or two.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not compulsary here but I wear a polo shirt that doesn't have the company logo on although it's the same shade of green, but it has 'Caffreys' on it instead. It beats wearing a shirt and tie which everyone else in our office feels compelled to wear.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the cost of the shirt plus the silk-screening/embroidering, it was quite affordable. I got a baseball-style 3/4 sleeve shirt with embroidered logo for $4.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

We used to get them for free when I worked in a software company. Whenever we went on a teambuilding weekend or some such thing. Then people immediately gave them away to charity shops.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a job that required it once .. it was a job where I got pretty dirty during the day too .. so I had to have about 5 shirts for the week. So wearing the logo wasn't the part I hated - it was making sure I had a clean shirt to wear that was the pain in the ass.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaarrrrgggghhhh, I'm wearing one now! Accentmonkey OTM re: free shirts at software companies -- I work customer events occasionally and they always give you two or three before each one. The trouble is that when you try to swap your extras for other free company swag it doesn't work because *everyone* is overloaded on shirts.

The last place I worked gave out sweatshirts a couple months before they closed the plant -- I think the Goodwills in that area were inundated with those shirts in the months that followed (at least the shirts that hadn't either been (a) burned on the front lawn of the facility or (b) had editorial comments about the company added by the wearers.)

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have had two jobs that were like this, neither of which I lasted six months at.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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