classic old stuff you DON'T miss
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Everybody is different. A jacket and tie shows me no more respect than any other outfit.
Again, I disagree. Someone shows up to a funeral/wedding/job interview wearing jeans and a tee shirt shows a complete lack of respect.
You disagree that a jacket and tie shows me no more respect than any other outfit? I guess I’ll have to spend some time in quiet introspection this evening to learn more about myself. I thought I knew me.
retired, and was self employed before that, if I'm a witness I'd wear whatever I have on, and I may be the only person in America who never wanted to be on TV
Leisure suit anecdote.... After college in 1974, I'm at my first office in Manhattan, and wearing a powder blue leisure suit, and carrying my engineering, freshman kit attache case to work. My boss gives me instructions to go to a potential project site to check accessibility for a drill rig for test borings. He gives me subway directions to a property in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Being a Jersey kid , I knew nothing about the Brooklyn neighborhoods, and simply followed the directions on the subway. When I came up out of the subway, I realized I was in a place I didn't anticipate. I'll leave it at, me and my leisure suit and attache case were so strikingly in contrast with the neighborhood, that the folks checking me out were as taken aback as I was, and I got my work done with no hassles.
Read somewhere that his Ronco company generated over $1B in profit before he sold it.
Polyester shirts 4 hours in on a hot summer night arm pits would smell like dried mushrooms.
Crazy Eddie commercials.
Vertical adjustment knob on TV's
Crazy Eddie commercials.
Vertical adjustment knob on TV's
had a Zoom call with a software company last week and one guy on their side didn’t know his camera was on as he sat there shirtless on a call with a prospect (me). He had a porn star mustache and I thought for a moment the call was being hacked with porn. Alas someone from his company told him to turn off his camera.
A guy I work with told a story of a business call where a woman from a pharma company where his wife worked got on a call shortly after exiting the shower while topless and her camera was on. Resulted in a company-wide email on proper dress for video calls.
Those cameras can be tricky little things. But who works from home with his shirt off? WTF?
The worst was State Stores in the ‘70s. You could not browse the aisles. The liquor was by number. You’d tell a sullen old guy behind a counter a number, he’d shuffle off, and ten minutes later he’d emerge with your bottle of Imperial or whatever and stick it in a brown paper bag. Felt like you were buying dirty magazines. By the way, State Stores still suck.
Remember those days well. Can't say that I miss it though. Also don't miss smoking Winston cigarettes during my college years. The big cigarette on campus in those days were Marlboro. Fortunately, I gave all that up shortly after graduation.
I could not buy liquor until the 80’s but always felt like a criminal going into a state store. Even after I moved to another state where you could buy liquor anywhere, it took a long time to get over that feeling.
Not really the same, but I do wear a mask...I have a NY Giants mask in honor of Barkley.
