would you do a job that required a uniform

[magicpixie]

I'm sahm, so doesn't really apply to me, but I would hate to wear the same thing day in day out
would actually find it depressing

There's some evidence suggesting certain uniforms keep you safer. In the 80s mental health nurses used to wear uniforms but moved into own clothes as they felt it was more inclusive and less clinical. Nowadays some Trusts are going back into uniform as they've found incidents against staff have gone down, especially if wearing a nurses uniform rather than a logoed polo shirt.

Ha ha ha ha.

Work: So, Dr Lobeseder, here's a job where you get to earn good money, gain unique and invaluable experience in molecular biology and get to save the lives of countless animals and the economy of vulnerable nations across the world. Sound good?

Me: Fantastic, when can I start?

Work: Next week. But you'll have to walk through a changing room naked each morning and wear scruffy old scrubs.

Me: Screw the animals and saving the world, and screw my career and paying the mortgage, I won't do that!

You have very odd priorities, magicpixie.

However, you wouldn't be the only one. We have had more than one person quit on the first day when they found out about the bathroom situation.

I would LOVE a uniform- office clothes bore me and I'd have more money to spend on non-work clothes which I love.

However, I once worked as a tequila cowgirl (feminism fail but i was a hard up student and it paid well). My uniform comprised jeans, chaps a stetson and a bikini top. I would probably pass on that now.......but then again so would they.

my first job out of school was with the coastguard... a most unflattering, uncomfortable scritchy wool based uniform, but gave a 17 year old girl more respect than she ever had - especially the proper white topped peak cap with a big badge.

my last job was in a craft shop - shirt, pullover and pinny provided - nice and comfy, protection against glitter glue was always welcome... but shown no respect at all....

I like my uniform. I've been in a non uniform role and hated finding smart/ casual office wear type outfits.

Now back in uniform and much more practical and people know who you are (nursing sister in navy blue with big sensible pockets full of scissors and pens and tape )

I once applied for three different jobs, all with the same type of company but all with different colour uniforms. I got offered two of the jobs and I'm afraid to say that my decision of who to work for was made wholly on the basis that their colour suited me best.

Christ his thread

Yanno it's those types who care more about image than most other things die first in horror films.

I worked at McDonalds for eight years... The uniform was not too bad and now I definitely appreciate wearing that now I have to wear my own

My brother works for Heathrow Airport in a senior managerial role. But everyone has a uniform that they wear if there are problems for passengers and they drop everything to go and help them find hotels etc. Isn't that brilliant?
Like others, I don't have a work uniform but I go in dressed much the same every day.

when i was a student, i worked in a couple of bars. the uniforms consisted of:

jeans, trainers, tshirt - bar one
daisy dukes, bikini top, checked shirt, stetson, cowboy boots - bar two (western themed)
satin hotpants, waistcoat, tights, sky high heels, small top hat - bar three (er...gentlemans establishment...aka...strip club) (pay was amazing, drunk guys lusting after busty lovely strippers often mistake £50 notes for £10 notes when handing out tips...)

now i don't wear a uniform for work. I sometimes wish i did though, as it would mean I'd probably save money on work clothes, and wouldn't have to spend as much time deciding what to wear. And we'd all look the same.

I get you OP. First job was dental nurse white overalls big puffy sleeves lined with pink. Lovely not!! Changed jobs plain white uniform not too bad. Worked at a dental hospital, lavender uniform. Not my colour and had to wear a silly paper hat!
Changed career to nursery nurse had to wear a boring sweatshirt with logo. Went onto work at a private school and it was wonderful to have the luxury of wearing own clothes even if they did get splattered with paint and worse. Had DS went back to work at a playgroup back to wearing boring sweatshirt with even bigger logo!
I do think about this, it certainly is a bonus to wear my own clothes. I love clothes and feel putting them together satisfies our creativity.
So I am shallow so shoot me