Complaining about an employee's shoes...

[workerbee222]

We figured if he was old enough to need a suit for an interview, and had worn a suit often enough for it to be dry-cleaned, why maybe the wimmin-folk in his family didn't have to do this?

next town over would have been maybe a ten mile drive, all told.

I did have one job that specified in the employee handbook, "Shoes will be kept shined and in good repair." Also, "Makeup must be worn for a professional appearance."

[wolfie]

I did have one job that specified in the employee handbook, "Shoes will be kept shined and in good repair." Also, "Makeup must be worn for a professional appearance."

Professional appearance? Soldiers are professionals, and apply camouflage makeup. Circus clowns are professionals, and they wear makeup. "Seamstresses" (we miss you, Terry Pratchett) practice the World's Oldest Profession, and I'd guess a lot of them wear makeup. Even though these are all examples of a professional appearance (for various professions), I doubt if this is what the employee handbook had in mind.

[Gilhelmi]

It's four miles down the freeway.

heheheh, I used to ride my bicycle to work. Four miles round trip. Saved a ton of money that year. I should start doing that again....

Anyway, I walk farther than that (round trip) to go to the store. I am single, so everything fits in my backpack nicely.

[mathnerd]

I use the "it lasts longer" justification for my purse. Yes, I did spend nearly $300 on the bag I carry. I have carried it every day for over a decade and it is still in decent shape. I'm only now thinking about replacing it, though the only thing wrong with it is that it's dirty. If I could figure out how to clean it, it would be fine.

[notalwaysright]

I get this nonsense all the time. I tell a customer that our Nexttown store has the product they're looking for, and they whine, "I don't waaaaannnnnttttt to drive to Nexttooooowwwwnnnnn!" It's four miles down the freeway. If I can get my beat-to-hell ten-year-old car down there and back home, you can drive your 2016 Suburban Yuppie Tank there with no problems!

Good lord, just noticed this. I send people nearly 30 miles to our nearest store, if they have it in stock and we don't. I don't usually bother to look it up unless they seem really set on that specific item, but if the other store has it they get all happy and don't seem to mind driving half an hour.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I did have one job that specified in the employee handbook, "Shoes will be kept shined and in good repair." Also, "Makeup must be worn for a professional appearance."

Many years before I retired from the government, one higher up management type decided they would have a dress code for us professionals that included wearing a tie*. This notion did not last long after it pointed out that it was a sexist rule since the women weren't required to wear ties. Long live equality.

* This being before computers, we worked around metal filing cabinets that snagged anything and everything that came near. A tie would be shredded to ribbons in very little time.