I used to wear a tie to work. No, not where I work now, where I used to work some years back. Heh, at my interview at my current job, I was threatened with having my tie cut off, as they do at Pinnacle Peak.
When I started there back in the late '80s it was still pretty common for management/supervisory/professional types to wear ties, and as a newly minted supervisor, I did so (actually I started the "tradition" before I became a supervisor). Well, even after it became less common (and the dress-down Fridays expanded to the whole week for most folks) I continued to wear a tie. It actually became sort of a running joke that I was the only one in the company (well, some upper management types still continued) who wore a tie every day. And I would sometimes tell people that I did so because some days you need to be ready to find an exposed overhead sprinkler pipe
After I had been there for more than 10 years, and after the parent company was bought out by an Evil International Global Corporate Conglomerate™ (headquartered in Switzerland, of all places) we got the word that our facility would eventually be closed. And I stopped wearing a tie. It kind of surprised people, to which my response was:
What are they going to do, fire me?Chuckle.
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