Wearing a suit makes you better than everyone
I don't have to wear a suit to work. I have to be smart, but not suited and booted.
My ability to wear a suit does not increase my capabilities to do my job, it doesn't make me work faster or instantly increase my pay packet.

So why do people who wear suits to work think they are the big fucking 'I AM' on the tube in the morning?

They have their big papers (but still pick up a Metro, depriving someone who just wants to occupy themselves in the mind numbing tedium of the tube); they stick their fucking briefcases in the aisles; NEVER give up their seat to someone who needs it more; and, although this applies to most, they fucking stink in the evenings.

But it's not just on the tube where they turn their noses up at non-suit wearers.

In my office, the guys who wear suits will regularly stand having conversations right by my desk, or block a corridor discussing the weekend's golf game, and never move, apologise, or even have the good grace to acknowledge your presence.

And I don't even think it's to do with status or pay packet.
People who work in mobile phone shops wear suits, and they're tossers as well. In fact, salesmen of any kind. And I should know, I used to be one. But I never forgot my non-suit wearing roots.

Now, before you start, I know this is a broad generalisation, and I'm sure some of you lovely people wear suits to work, but it just seems wearing a suit to work instantly makes you a wanker.
Or is it because you're a wanker that you manouvered yourself into a job where you wear a suit?
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 7 May 2008, 8:21, 6 replies)

As a scientist
I feel privileged at not having to wear a suit to work. I would hate to have to dress up every day, rather than my usual jeans/scruffy shirt combo!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 7 May 2008, 9:13, closed)

Agreed
I always tell my potential employers before the interview that if I have to wear a suit to work, then it's the wrong job for me. It's just ridiculous. I mean, you have to play the game sometimes if meeting with certain types in order to rape their corporate bank accounts of their ill gotten gains, but generally, I work better if I can be comfortable in my clothing.
( BlueHaze Chutney. All good., Wed 7 May 2008, 9:20, closed)

^this
also, suits tend to need dry cleaning, so unless you have more money (and therefore suits) than sense, you only have a couple of suits at best.

This means constant dry cleaning, or wearing the same filthy suit trousers day-in, day-out

disgusting bastards
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 7 May 2008, 9:32, closed)

i also dont need to wear a suit
in fact working as a creative if i did people would think i was being ironic.

i find this highlights peoples preconceptions

1. i have stolen my car

2. i'm not as senior as i am - a girl i work with once introduced me to her friend as being 'her boss' and the bloke (in a cheap suit) looked at me and went "no way!"

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( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 7 May 2008, 10:13, closed)

What I find quite funny
is the 20-25 year-olds with far too much product in their hair and sharp (but cheap) suits who look down on me in my tshirt and jeans on the tube and think they're superior.

1 - Chances are I actually earn more than you - the sharper the suit and the more product in their hair the bigger the chance that they actually work in a mobile phone shop or a call centre.
2 - I own a percentage of my company. I bet you get paid commission at best.
3 - I don't have to wear a suit to work. I actually think that's a sign of a good job.
4 - In fact most days I work from home. You have to cram yourself into the tube each day.

So basically I'm quite happy for them to act like twats towards me, if it helps them fight their obviously pretty severe insecurity. I can just laugh at them.
(Axeman Jim, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:51, closed)

Stupid suit wearing twankers.
Oh Gods how muhc do I agree with this?

I work with children in a YOUTH CENTRE where I am expected to dress on a level with the kiddie winks, yet am expected to turn up in a suit. Although I'll never wear one. Ever, ever again.

It's stupid that I'm judged on my apperance for an interview yet at the same time it's not the apperance I'll be wearing when I'm at work! Yet those who do wear a suit look down on my because obviously wearing a suit means that you do *proper* work...
(Helo, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:58, closed)