Standards change over time.
My father worked on the floor in a grocery store from the 1950's up until 1990 or so. For the first 25 or 30 years he was required to wear a white shirt and tie to pack out the aisles, chase after shopping carts in the parking lot, sweep and mop the floor, shovel snow, etc. As one of the managers told me it was the kind of job where you dress like an executive but work like a slave.
I worked for a few years doing the same in the 1970's, I was a rebel refusing to wear a tie. The only reason I got away with it was because I only worked in the summers at minimum wage but did the same work as the career guys who made double or more. That was when you could do this sort of thing to pay your own way through state college. Like I said, things change over time.
My father worked on the floor in a grocery store from the 1950's up until 1990 or so. For the first 25 or 30 years he was required to wear a white shirt and tie to pack out the aisles, chase after shopping carts in the parking lot, sweep and mop the floor, shovel snow, etc. As one of the managers told me it was the kind of job where you dress like an executive but work like a slave.
I worked for a few years doing the same in the 1970's, I was a rebel refusing to wear a tie. The only reason I got away with it was because I only worked in the summers at minimum wage but did the same work as the career guys who made double or more. That was when you could do this sort of thing to pay your own way through state college. Like I said, things change over time.