New uniforms ( Shirts )

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For those that have them, do the new shirts have a front pocket? I looked at the standards manual and couldn’t tell. The front pocket on the old shirts worked great as a “trash can” to store loose debris, carpet fuzzies and hairballs accumulated during a regular cleaning day that was easily emptied at the end of the day/job. Don’t know where I’ll store this if there is no pocket. Pocket question aside, I like the look of the new shirts and plan on acquiring some soon.

Today is the fourth day that I have worn the new shirt. I have been meeting alot of clients and marketing this last week. I went to 8 new apartment complexes and at least 20 current accountsin the past week. I thought I would try out the new look and see how well it was recieved. I bought a blue short sleeve shirt to test out. I said nothing to my new clients, but told my existing ones that I was running a test of a new uniform for the company and asked what they thought. This is what I experienced.
Every single person noticed the new shirt right away. Everyone loved the new logo on the front. I had comments like nice shirt, I love the new logo and so on.
I the asked If I should go with the new shirt or if it needed any changes. That Is when people started picking me apart. The logo on this shirt pulls from around the edge so that it looks a little wrinklled. If they did notice the sleave they seemed not to care for it. I had two managers refer to it as a nascar pit crew look. I was asked by at least 6 managers “why only one sleave. It does not make sense.”
On some of the visits I had some cleaning to do. This is when I found out the hard way that they absolutly do not breath!!! When I went back to the office this was brought to my attention By the half dark half light blue uniform. I started taking it off in vacant apartments to save the humiliation. Yes I wore a white shirt under the uniform. I tryed every combination of undershirt , all natural,tanktop, and Body armor shirt. nothing helped. the good news it drys very fast. I did like the pocket with the extra thin pocket for a pen. I am realy bad about never knowing where a pen is at invoice time.
What I got out of this is that people really like the new logo. People alos like to see change. THis Is why companys change there style often. I also realized that my employees shirts need a new look, and some just need thrown away. I have never worn the same shirts as my crew, and when I show up on a job my customers nknow who is in charge. I would like to see the line of shirts expanded and get rid of the “nascar pit crew sleave logo”or at least make it an option. I am getting excited for the new change with our logo it really gets peoples attention. I think that The old logo just looks outdated.

Please post your experiences. We already know that people notice them I want to hear more. By the way I did nail 7 out of 8 of the new accounts. Maybe the shirts are good luck?