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The firm that ive been with for a very long time has decided that it would be agood idea if we all had a dress code.
They want us to wear nice shoes trousrers shirt and a collar and tie.

Now if we are doing nonstop exec work then ok, but do the idiots at night give a dam. Or do our regulars really care?

And how hoyt is it going to be in the summer? It all right for you lot up north living in your caves. But it will be a nightmare.

Help.

you know I was feeling sorry for you till that point.

obviously your gaffer thinks you all dress like tramps with perhaps a similar standard of hygene, when he starts to give you presents which include bath oils, Brut, and Lynx start worrying.

hehe

Captain cab

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So does neither your firm nor your council require any sort of specified dress just now, or is it t-shirts and trackie bottoms, jeans and dirty trainers?

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Our council allow anything really. In there conditions it says something like reasonable appearence and behaviour.
But is it really worth it for me. If im at the back of a rank how popular will i be if a bloke tryts to get intro my motor because i have a collar and tie?

the idea is to get work off the other cartel members. But surely if we start kopping it the others will do exactly the same.

if your council says reasonable appearance and behaviour, how come you lot ignore both?

tell em to stick the collar and tie, you are not going to attempt to keep up with the Joness but drag em down to your level!

up north its strictly evening suit and black tie.

but we are a cut above you scruffy soultherners in cartel city.

I do not have a problem with private companies having dress code policies, the problem is with local authorities that impose these conditions on self-employed drivers

It should be up to the self-employed to decide how the present themselves & not up to beurocrats and busy-body at the council chambers

These people seem to think because they license us they must regulate us to the hilt but I have not seen dress codes brought in for window cleaners, street traders etc.

I will accept dress codes when we have them for councillors
I will accept knowledge tests when we have them for councillors
I will accept age restrictions when we have the for council contracted school buses

Cheers

ahhh

so its okay for a private company to make the self employed have a dress code, but not okay for a local authority.

Its a sad state of affairs that people want to go to work dressed as tramps and have not got the personal pride or motivation to dress correctly.

LA's and companies dont come up with these ideas without good reason, invariably the reason is that the drivers dress like mingers.

Captain cab

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I agree with 1 and 3, but I think 2 is a must.

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Yes I know you are different. Down ere we only ply where we are allowed too.

So do we cutie so do we.

we also believe a person is innocent until prooved guilty

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As a PH firm doing lots of hotel work we have always had a dress code. Also recently a collar and tie dress code was brought in for hackneys. initially they played hell but now a lot of my hack friends (yes we do get on mostly here !!) think it was a good idea. I think it is much nicer to see them samt driving around town. In the summer months they can, of course switch to a smart polo shirt too. I cannnot understand even some of our own drivers who soend a lot of energy pleading to go around as scuffy unkempt persons.

somebody will yelp when the roughs choke a driver on the tie.
beets me how councils have rules for those they persecute and yet other rules for drivers they employ, and have health and safety responsibility over.