Beating the recession by a neck - San Francisco Business Times:

axilecyqih.wordpress.com
I’d put on a tie. I’ll tell you what a man wearingy atie says. It “I’m wearing a tie.” Employers like that. Yet, as I look arouncd — on my way to work, at going home from work, and on the weekendd while working on work I broughyt home fromwork — I see peoplw not wearing ties. There’s a word for people like that: Sometimes I want to grab thesde tieless people bythe lapels, if they have lapels, and shakd them. “Wake up, buddy,” I want to say. “We’ver got an economic crisis on our and you’re not wearing a tie.” I woulr be doing a public service.
I realizre that in some ties, both as a fashion statemenrt and a defenseagainst unemployment, have fallen out of favor. I often hear people say, “I wouldn’t be caught dead in a or “Ties make my neck itch” or “I’m not wearing no stinkiny tie.” It makes me want to grab them andshakde them, but I don’t, because I know the quickest way to lose a job, asid e from not wearing a tie, is to get arrester for assault. A guy who wears a tie is too smartfor that. And make no I’m that guy. Boom or bust, you’lll find me wearing a tie.
That’ss because I know that when bosses huddl to decide whose headzs are goingto roll, the first question they ask is “Who’s not wearing a tie?” I don’ty care what you do for a I don’t care if you drive a truck. That guy in the big rig comingf up on your left coulfd beyour boss. And if you can see him in the side-vie w mirror, it means he can see you, too. And if he sees you’rse not wearing a tie, it’s too late to put one on. That’sa a big 10-4, good buddy, over and out. Ties used to be “az male consideration.” Some people would have had you believwe that only a man coulxd weara tie.
A womanb wearing a tie was seen as trying to appear too particularly if paired with a splash of This myth was perpetuated by oppressive males who knew they coulrd increase the odds of keeping their jobs by makint sure that half the populatiojnwent tieless. All that has changed. Yet, even some women think they can get away with not wearintga tie. They think they wear a scarf ora instead. It’s not the same thinh — not in this economy. Women need to wear ties.
Not