Comments on: Who benefits from a corporate dress code?

By: jonray

jonray — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:02:02 +0000

@nicole – glad you enjoyed the post. i had a terrible time with my high school's administration and while i wanted to change things, i went about it in the wrong way (in retrospect). Instead of being a nuisance and blatantly disobeying the school district's rules, I really wish that I would have taken more of a legal approach to this. A well presented case will always go further than a bunch of kids running around saying, “This sucks.” That's what I learned.

That being said, you have to have some fun with it. So, by all means, get in trouble, just make sure you understand what your actual legal rights are and use your “trouble” to bring those freedoms to light.

Feel free to keep in contact and let me know how things progress with your school. Best of luck!

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:58:54 +0000

this is a great article!! you are awesome! i have so much trouble with my school's dress code, and you have inspired me to persuade them to change it and let us freely express ourselves without dressing all crazy-like. : )

By: Concerning Jon Ray’s behavior at home, at school & in his community

Concerning Jon Ray’s behavior at home, at school & in his community — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:11:39 +0000

[...] later in life, I would have to go head to head with corporate America’s dress code policy and would find myself exercising the same rebellious nature that I’ve always had. But, in [...]

By: Acolyteandy

Acolyteandy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:59:20 +0000

I think “bare that expense” was a good ironic play on words considering the topic!

By: Jon Ray

Jon Ray — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:20:52 +0000

thank you for playing grammar nazi for me ;)

By: Hanski

Hanski — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:46:42 +0000

“Confidence is what sell, not clothing.”

“bare that expense”

Spelling corrections: sells, bear
If you ever need me to proof your posts, holla. Grammatical errors=way unprofessional bra.

By: Kristina Hughes

Kristina Hughes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:32:39 +0000

Jon, sadly it is those people who do not take pride in their appearance that ruin it for us who do. Employers should go an extra step and hire tailors to make sure that people are wearing clothes that actually FIT them too!

The only benefit I can see from our point is we can wear their clothes and they can pay for them to be cleaned and we can then take that money we’d save and use it to maintain our own fashionable threads on our own time.

Thankfully with our company many employees work on their own time, in their own home, alas probably in their own “dress code”…which for all we know is in their underwear! Hey as long as we don’t have to see it and the work gets done–happily!

Best,
Kristina