Hats or No Hats?

Ken Snow

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Two extremes, not related to reality Jim. Of course looking homeless would make someone be judged more harshly, but the second a client opens the door or looks out the window and sees the van pulling up the judgements start- again good or bad. Non-verbal ques are the most powerful and positive or negative moments of truth are being made every second.
 

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Lee Stockwell said:
Funny. Northern guys telling southerners how to stay cool.


I was thinking the same thing. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Been doing the tee under the polo for many years. Started when I had to wear a shirt and tie to work after college. It is definitely much cooler. The wet tee will hold the smell off until it dries. !gotcha!


Not a big fan of hats, down here you would have a sweat ring on it in just a few days.
 

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Drifit shirts work pretty well in the summer heat, dry quickly and no tell tale salt ring.

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Being raised in the South and having a marine for a dad - no way. I just can't do it. Hats are for outside only. Never worn side ways or backwards (unless the task requires it).
 

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For me it's oversized straw hats outside during the summer.

I don't think hats are okay indoors for service work, but for construction, absolutely. If you're going to wear a hat, it must be a company hat and do not pull it down over your eyes.

Hats also act as a sweat band

I worked for a guy who was absolutely against hats, period. He said baseball caps made you look "dumb", so I argued that it was head protection and not just decoration. While he agreed, he still said he was against them.
 

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Ken Snow said:
Two extremes, not related to reality Jim. Of course looking homeless would make someone be judged more harshly, but the second a client opens the door or looks out the window and sees the van pulling up the judgements start- again good or bad. Non-verbal ques are the most powerful and positive or negative moments of truth are being made every second.
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Almost always judgments will be passed very quickly and never, ever, shared with you.
 
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Becker said:
I recall my old days in Spokane in the summers, cleaning vacant rentals shirtless. And still dying.. Not sure how you guys in hot humid climates do it.


That is funny I had to do the same thing when I worked for a company in Spokane doing empty rentals apts.. I would even put my shirt in the freezer for that brief relief.

Company hats shouldn't be a problem for anyone and I seriously doubt someone would view it as unprofessional. SS and Coit uses them. Just make sure it doesn't get nasty with sweat, so you may need a lot of them in Spokane... place gets hot in the summer.
 

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as someone that only wears a hat for a "purpose" (sun, rain, cold, etc) and not "fashion", i don't know why anyone would wear one .
and if you're not doing indoor demo or construction, I haven't a clue WHY someone would even WANT to wear a hat indoors :roll:

having said that, I personally find nothing offensive about someone wearing them indoors


















'cides, my stately mane is far too naturally nice, thick and full to ever want to cover it
an'ats the troof! !gotcha!






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You ever have a mullet Larry? come on.. be honest.. and do you have any pics of it?

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You ever have a mullet Larry? come on.. be honest.. and do you have any pics of it?

shiteatinggrin

LOL!!
I don't know when mullets became popular (early '80s?) , but i had a doo somewhat similar in '73? '74?

I recall "shag" cuts were trendy back then ..but i wanted something different .
i was into long hair back then...so i told the chic with the scissors to shag/feather the sides but cut the top short .
donno if that's classified as a mullet or not, i'd call it "spiked shag" doo...... 8)

by the early '80s I had long since quit caring about long hair and have pretty had the same doo I have now

jump out of shower, towel dry, comb it straight back and I'm out the door !gotcha!


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My Stetson started oot as a Beaver......
To go wit my custom made Norwegin Hair Seal bikers jacket, I also had made a WW I pilots cap. Don't wear it much, askeered there is still more seal clubbers like me oot there. Look yust like a seal abbobin awaitin to be popped wit the 22 High Power..
 

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lots of guys wearing ball caps with a logo.

I started wearing a fedora cause I don't like the ball caps. Keeps my head warm, the sun out of my eyes and the rain off my glasses. I've worn it inside but more so because I forget I'm wearing it. Its saved my scalp a few times by cushioning the hit on the chandelier or the low ceiling. Usually, hat is off inside.

Hats are more for "not on the job time".
 

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The military changed my habit of wearing hats indoors. I will sometimes put a sweatband on when cleaning stairs in the summer.
 
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Generally colder days pants work tshirt beefy haines and jacket, If I have a early start 7 am I'll put on a Laker's hat In Socal thats acceptable.

Shorts in the summer with same tshirt The hat only on early start days I roll otta bed and throgh on the hat No shower.

The Hat doesnt come off. Hat hair is more of a problem then a hat in my opinion.
80 percent of what I do is repeat refferal and I wear the hat rarely
 

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In the winter, it's pants, logo'd polo(with undershirt) and no hat.

In the summer, it's cargo shorts, logo'd polo(with undershirt) and a logo'd visor.


did the same in Phoenix. well, it was shorts all year there.

Hell, I even wear a white cotton tshirt under tshirts. It's like amex......I don't leave home without it.
 

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Jimmy L said:
Wear hats, yes but underwear....no


Just cos you wear panties on your head, doesn't mean that it's a hat.

But the crotch piece of a thong over one eye as an eyepatch does count as pirate wear. Arrrghhh
 

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Connor said:
Jimmy L said:
Wear hats, yes but underwear....no


Just cos you wear panties on your head, doesn't mean that it's a hat.

But the crotch piece of a thong over one eye as an eyepatch does count as pirate wear. Arrrghhh
A pirate walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. What happened, you look terrible!"
"What do you mean?" the pirate replies, "I'm fine."
The bartender says, "But what about that wooden leg? You didn't have that before."
"Well," says the pirate, "We were in a battle at sea and a cannon ball hit my leg but the surgeon fixed me up, and I'm fine, really."
"Yeah," says the bartender, "But what about that hook? Last time I saw you, you had both hands."
"Well," says the pirate, "We were in another battle and we boarded the enemy ship. I was in a sword fight and my hand was cut off but the surgeon fixed me up with this hook, and I feel great, really."
"Oh," says the bartender, "What about that eye patch? Last time you were in here you had both eyes."
"Well," says the pirate, "One day when we were at sea, some birds were flying over the ship. I looked up, and one of them shat in my eye."
"So?" replied the bartender, "what happened? You couldn't have lost an eye just from some bird shit!"
"Well," says the pirate, "I really wasn't used to the hook yet."

Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the waves, a captain and his crew were in danger of being boarded by a pirate ship. As the crew became frantic, the captain bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my red shirt!". The First Mate quickly retrieved the captain's red shirt, which the captain put on and lead the crew to battle the pirate boarding party. Although some casualties occurred among the crew, the pirates were repelled.

Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the captain calm as ever bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!". The battle was on, and once again the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding parties, although this time more casualties occurred.

Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain and asked, "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?". The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the wound and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid". The men sat in silence marveling at the courage of such a man.

As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there were pirate ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way. The men became silent and looked to their Captain for his usual command. The Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my brown pants!!


A large Humpback whale is lazily enjoying a beautiful day when he sees a female Humpback whale just a little ways off, and he thinks to himself that he's going to try to impress her...

He swims over to her, and breeches the surface, showing off the large hump on his back.

She looked unimpressed as she breached and showed a larger more well formed hump herself.

Now, a little embarrassed, he tries again to impress her by taking a breath and blowing a huge cloud of mist and water with a really nice rainbow in it.

Once again she looked unimpressed and she blew a larger cloud of mist, with a more beautiful rainbow.

Now clearly agitated, the Male sees a Navel vessel in the distance and races off toward it. Just before he collides with the ship, he dives, jumps out of the water and as he sails over the bow of the ship, he plucks a sailor off the deck and in one gulp swallows him whole!

He swam back to her very proud of himself, only to find the female object of his attentions with a disgusted look on her face...

As she swam off she said..."I'll Hump, I'll Blow, BUT I WON'T SWALLOW SEAMEN!


A young man is captured by pirates and is persuaded to join the crew rather than walk the plank. After a few weeks at sea the captain speaks to the man and asks him how he is getting on. The man replies that on the whole he is enjoying things - the rum-soaked drinking binges, the plundering, etc - but there was one thing missing.

"What's that?" asks the captain.
"Well, there are no women" replies the man.

"Arrr" says the captain "Follow me!" The man follows the captain to what appears to be a barrel, on top of the barrel stands a coconut with a face drawn on and a few strands of wispy straw for hair. On the barrel is a crude outline of a woman's body and between the legs is a bung hole. "We calls her Carmen," says the captain, "and you may take her as you will". The man explains that he was unlikely to make use of her and goes on his way.

However, as the months go by with no respite, Carmen appears more and more attractive to the young man. Finally he can resist her no longer and the man has his wicked way with Carmen the rum barrel. To his amazement the experience is far more satisfying than he could ever have imagined!

The next day the captain greets him again. "How did you get on with Carmen then, lad?" he asks eagerly. The man replies "Rather better than I thought... actually, it was rather good!"

"Good," says the captain, a great beaming smile splitting his black-bearded face. "It's your turn in the barrel tomorrow!"

So a pirate walks into a bar, okay, and swaggers up to the barkeep and demands a glass of rum. I believe his exact words were "Your rum or your life, dog, what'll it be?".

And so the bartender, being a reasonable fellow, makes no complaint but simply grabs a large glass, a bottle of fine dark rum, and begins to pour. And while he's waiting for the glass to fill (this being, as I said before, a large glass) he sizes up the pirate, having never seen a real honest-to-God pirate before.

This pirate is in full pirate gear. Gold earrings, patch over the eye, a big filthy white blouse covering his swarthy chest, tattoos everywhere, all of it. But protruding from his pirate trousers is the unmistakable form of a steering wheel.

Well, the bartender sees that the glass of rum is just about topped off, so he passes the glass across the bar to the pirate, who nods curtly and takes a huge swig of the rum. Slapping a dubloon on the bartop, he turns to walk away, when our bartender's curiousity gets the best of him.

"Wait, one second. What's up with the steering wheel?"

And the pirate turns back and fixes him with a beady glare from his lone eye. "Arrr, I don't know, but it's drivin' me nuts!"
 

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I think a clean, non stinky (sweated out) hat with a company embroidered logo would work just fine.

To wear some stupid hat with ink screen on it would look like crap.
 

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