Do you consider yourself Blue Collar, White Collar or sonething else?
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Blue, then blue or white depending on the situation, then whatever I want for the last 17 years.
I'm blue collar and darn proud of it. I wear Carhartt to work everyday. I'm a locomotive engineer of 31 years.
Everything that is wrong with the world is Union labor's fault!
Ha.
Everything that is wrong with the world is Union labor's fault!
Ha.
That reminds me of the job application question:
Male, Female, or Other?
Male, Female, or Other?
I consider myself white collar. Although my shirt and its collar are blue today. My company forces me to wear slacks but no tie. Most others in this business only require jeans.
Apparently as a nurse I am considered a pink collar by some groups and white collar by others.
I consider myself more of a blue collar since I do manual labor, don't sit behind a desk, and am paid hourly. Ironically my scrubs that I have to wear are blue (but do not have a collar).
Apparently there are multiple color collars
I consider myself more of a blue collar since I do manual labor, don't sit behind a desk, and am paid hourly. Ironically my scrubs that I have to wear are blue (but do not have a collar).
Apparently there are multiple color collars
I'm ring around the collar.
White, blue, makes no difference.
Just go to work.
White, blue, makes no difference.
Just go to work.
Originally Posted by skyactiv
I'm white, but am a brown color as I work at UPS and make $36 an hour.
Is this we're BITOG is at now , people announcing their income , LOL . Let's all compare net worth or better yet our DNA so we can all be sperated into little groups . Over in this corner the poor blue collar workers , in this corner the uneducated ignorant pheasants etc etc .
I'm white, but am a brown color as I work at UPS and make $36 an hour.
Is this we're BITOG is at now , people announcing their income , LOL . Let's all compare net worth or better yet our DNA so we can all be sperated into little groups . Over in this corner the poor blue collar workers , in this corner the uneducated ignorant pheasants etc etc .
Originally Posted by blupupher
Apparently as a nurse I am considered a pink collar by some groups and white collar by others.
I consider myself more of a blue collar since I do manual labor, don't sit behind a desk, and am paid hourly. Ironically my scrubs that I have to wear are blue (but do not have a collar).
Apparently there are multiple color collars
As a nurse you wear 10 different 'hats' and keep the circus of healthcare running smoothly.
A big 👠for all the nurses.
Apparently as a nurse I am considered a pink collar by some groups and white collar by others.
I consider myself more of a blue collar since I do manual labor, don't sit behind a desk, and am paid hourly. Ironically my scrubs that I have to wear are blue (but do not have a collar).
Apparently there are multiple color collars
As a nurse you wear 10 different 'hats' and keep the circus of healthcare running smoothly.
A big 👠for all the nurses.
Only one thing I can think of that would be worse and I'm not going to try to measure up it that department ! Just [censored] !
I'm only good at coffee, breaks and going home not necessarily in that order. I guess i could be?
I am a lowly programmer. White and blue.
Originally Posted by Mr Nice
As a nurse you wear 10 different 'hats' and keep the circus of healthcare running smoothly.
A big 👠for all the nurses.
Hear, hear.
I've worked both and my current job is a mix of both sometimes.
As a nurse you wear 10 different 'hats' and keep the circus of healthcare running smoothly.
A big 👠for all the nurses.
Hear, hear.
I've worked both and my current job is a mix of both sometimes.
4WD
$50 site donor 2025
White collar with both collars reporting to me (Line Supvs and Engineering)
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Originally Posted by ragtoplvr
My job is white collar, but I have it made, as I can wear a Tshirt to work. What you do here is way more important than how you look.
Heck I walk in in my dirty bug splattered motorcycle riding gear and hang it in the office and no one says anything.
Rod
I am one the few in my office who wears dress shirts and slacks or chinos to work, most of my coworkers wear casual shirts (although usually not concert tees) and jeans or shorts.
At my first job, I was adamant about wearing casual clothes and keeping my hair long...some managers were really irked by that and one of them always called me "football jersey". I didn't care because I was a "rebel" and HR had assured me that there was no dress code other than covering up...I thought I was caving in when I bought new dark blue jeans and a button down Western shirt with fake mother of pearl snaps for a critical meeting with customers from overseas. I got into work really early to clean up my slides (yes, they were physical foils back then) and found a senior manager staring daggers at me during the meeting...he finally rubbed his hand over his chin and I realized that I had forgotten to shave because I was in such a rush to get to work. Luckily, the schedule slipped and I didn't have to present until the next day after I had cleaned up.
For my next job, I was told at the interview that I would have to wear a suit everyday as the design center was part of a sales office. I agreed because I REALLY wanted the job and bought a couple of suits and some nice shirts...during my first week I noticed that nobody else was wearing suits except for the salesmen when they were making calls. I kept wearing them, then my boss finally decided to try to shame me in front of everybody for falling for his little "gag"...he only told me to wear a suit to get me to buy clothes I wouldn't really need and then wear them to work with people in tshirts.
This manager also made a big point of parking next to a coworker with a new car and putting a big ding in his door...then chewed the guy out for complaining.
You can imagine how that job worked out with a jackwagon boss like that...I moved on in less than a year and leaving was one of the best decisions I ever made. That guy ended up killing the design center because nobody would work for him in time...
After this, I slowly migrated from towards more and more formal workwear...wore polo shirts for a while and never really cared for them, I refuse to wear them at any time now. On the weekends I am happiest in a tshirt with a pocket (long or short sleeve) and comfy jeans...I just feel weird at work in anything but a good quality vertically striped dress shirt and slacks/chinos. I know nobody cares much what I wear and I don't care what they wear...I notice on my trips to our HQ that it's mostly young people looking to climb the ladder and people near retirement who dress up at all, everybody else is pretty casual.
One big thing...NO TIES! I hate them and they're stupid. ;^)
My job is white collar, but I have it made, as I can wear a Tshirt to work. What you do here is way more important than how you look.
Heck I walk in in my dirty bug splattered motorcycle riding gear and hang it in the office and no one says anything.
Rod
I am one the few in my office who wears dress shirts and slacks or chinos to work, most of my coworkers wear casual shirts (although usually not concert tees) and jeans or shorts.
At my first job, I was adamant about wearing casual clothes and keeping my hair long...some managers were really irked by that and one of them always called me "football jersey". I didn't care because I was a "rebel" and HR had assured me that there was no dress code other than covering up...I thought I was caving in when I bought new dark blue jeans and a button down Western shirt with fake mother of pearl snaps for a critical meeting with customers from overseas. I got into work really early to clean up my slides (yes, they were physical foils back then) and found a senior manager staring daggers at me during the meeting...he finally rubbed his hand over his chin and I realized that I had forgotten to shave because I was in such a rush to get to work. Luckily, the schedule slipped and I didn't have to present until the next day after I had cleaned up.
For my next job, I was told at the interview that I would have to wear a suit everyday as the design center was part of a sales office. I agreed because I REALLY wanted the job and bought a couple of suits and some nice shirts...during my first week I noticed that nobody else was wearing suits except for the salesmen when they were making calls. I kept wearing them, then my boss finally decided to try to shame me in front of everybody for falling for his little "gag"...he only told me to wear a suit to get me to buy clothes I wouldn't really need and then wear them to work with people in tshirts.
This manager also made a big point of parking next to a coworker with a new car and putting a big ding in his door...then chewed the guy out for complaining.
You can imagine how that job worked out with a jackwagon boss like that...I moved on in less than a year and leaving was one of the best decisions I ever made. That guy ended up killing the design center because nobody would work for him in time...
After this, I slowly migrated from towards more and more formal workwear...wore polo shirts for a while and never really cared for them, I refuse to wear them at any time now. On the weekends I am happiest in a tshirt with a pocket (long or short sleeve) and comfy jeans...I just feel weird at work in anything but a good quality vertically striped dress shirt and slacks/chinos. I know nobody cares much what I wear and I don't care what they wear...I notice on my trips to our HQ that it's mostly young people looking to climb the ladder and people near retirement who dress up at all, everybody else is pretty casual.
One big thing...NO TIES! I hate them and they're stupid. ;^)
I'm retired.
But I've been both.
25yrs Blue at the phone co.
10yrs White at other telephone co. and 7 yrs at a Boutique grocery store
TOMB
But I've been both.
25yrs Blue at the phone co.
10yrs White at other telephone co. and 7 yrs at a Boutique grocery store
TOMB
Blue collar. Was white collar for a while but went to blue by choice.
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