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I didn’t notice anywhere in the standards manual regarding t-shirts. Will there be any allowance for t-shirts? I find it very difficult working in a polo shirt when it’s 115 degrees.
Ron, I’m with you. I sweat alot while I work in Texas.
I’m O.K. with polo’s. I suspect that I will be changing shirts several times a day.I sweat a lot as well and have worn a dress shirt with long pants for the past couple of years. I am actually more comfortable working in a dress shirt. Pennsylvania gets beastly when both the temperature and humidity are racing to 100.
The more covered you are in extremely hot climates…the better and cooler you actually are and feel. I get much more ventilation without a polo or t shirt. A dress shirt allows for much more ventilation.
It also looks very profesional, except for the arm-patch…that should have a certification patch there. Also, the logo will be partially obscured by anything placed in the pocket that sticks out of the top, pens, papesr, notes, etc. Patck or logo should be placed over the right side of the shirt… leaving it totally visible and legible.
Wearing the “Under Armour” type of t-shirt under the polos really helps with the sweat. They keep you cooler and don’t stay saturated like cotton t shirts. And, they keep your outer shirt from getting soaked. The under armour brand is expensive (usually over $20 a shirt), however, you can get the off brand version at Wal-Mart for around $6-$7 a shirt and they work pretty well…
Dan
Hey Ron,
try wearing long sleeves in 100 degree weather(I’ve got tattoos). I’m more interested in being able to wear dickies type shorts.I’m with Ammon and Ron. I would like to wear T-shirt with nice shorts. It was 105 here a couple days ago. Average temp this time of year is 95 or more. Never freezes here. It is alwayssssssss hot.
Mike Nowlin
Amazing to me…when I was in Basic Training in August 1968, in San Antonio, with many red flag days (over 100 degrees F), we had to wear GI issue. Long sleeve shirt and long pants…once in a blue moon, like PT we could wear a t-shirt.
No one had shorts.
There are a lot of places is this great country where heat is an issue. Arizona . . . 100 degree plus (but it’s a dry heat Ron!), Texas same deal. Iowa in July is about 90-95 with incredible humidity. We all work hard and we all sweat. The whole idea here is raising our good image to another level. Remember, all these changes were considered to benefit the operators. Yes, it’s going to cost some money. Yes, it may be a little unsettling, but aren’t we all optimist? Isn’t it great that our home office wants our success so bad that they will take this opportunity/risk to do so. The big reason we are independent business people is that we are the greatest optimists! We all entered this to make our lives better. We are all striving to make more money in a shorter amount of time. All this is designed to do just that if we remain positive. I personally can’t wait to get started. Ra, Ra, sis boom bah . . . go HB!
@bferris wrote:
The whole idea here is raising our good image to another level.
Well I don’t consider a sweat soaked shirt a good image. Maybe you can buy me 50 shirts seeing that you make $50k a month… 8)
I do agree Bryan, the new image and all of the changes are good for the overall company. I’m glad to see the vision that Cody has. I guess I’ll have to be forced off the truck sooner than I wanted.
Oh I get it, you don’t sweat in t-shirts. My bad.
I do, however I tried wearing the polo shirts for the first 2 months of the summer here and it was literally hell. I’m not the type to overly sweat, but my sweat glands do work and they release much less in a t-shirt.
Don’t forget, we do do manual labor.
If your shirt is a light material, sleeves aren’t an issue. I don’t like polo shirts either, but only because I don’t think they look professional for a technician. T-shirts would be a step in the wrong direction. I think that we should be happy to increase the professional image by wearing a button up collared shirt. By the way, Old Spice Red Zone anti-persperant works well.
I believe that t-shirts and polos can be identical in comfort as they both come in a variety of materials and qualities. The amount of material in a polo cannot be much, if any, greater than a tee. Look around, you’ll find something that works in all climates. Let’s all be possitive and make this work.
Brian,
I beg to differ, I’m within 250 miles of the Gulf of Mexico.
It’s very humid here.I do agree that T-shirts provide the wrong image.
Unfortunately I’m don’t care for the price that these shirts will come at.
Until this news letter came out, I was looking forward to showing a profit for the first time ever.
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