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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrew was born in London, UK, raised in Toronto, Canada, and cavorted in Ohtawara, Japan for three years. He is married, has a son, a cat named Freddy and a dog named Shaggy (after the dudes in Scooby-Doo). He has over 35,000 comic books and a plethora of pioneer aviation-related tobacco and sports cards and likes to build LEGO dioramas. Along with writing for a monthly industrial magazine, he also writes comic books and hates writing in the 3rd person. He also hates having to write this crap that no one will ever read. He also writes an aviation blog: Pioneers Of Aviation ( https://av8rblog.wordpress.com/ ) - a cool blog on early fliers. He also wants to do more writing - for money, though. Help him out so he can stop talking in the 3rd person.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Clothes Snobs

You know what I hate? Clothes snobs.
I work in an office environment, and every day I wear a pair of dress pants, a dress shirt, dress shoes (my underwear, while nice, is not dressy) and dress socks.
In other words, I try to fit in. Often, I am one of the few people to always wear dress clothes everyday. Now I'm not complaining about the so-called dress-down Fridays - I wear jeans and a decent shirt... but some people dress in jeans and a the--shirt everyday... and that's fine... if they can wear it and their bosses don't care... that's their prerogative.
Now... a couple of weeks ago, I was asked to go to a meeting where a prospective client was coming in to chat with a bunch of us editors. Fine. I know the drill. Dres up and look like you care. I was going to do that as a matter of course.
My boss, however, actually came up to me to ask if I had a suit. Holy crap. That's rude. Number one... what if I didn't have a suit? Was I expected to go out and buy one for a stupid meeting. I don't know about you, but I don't get paid a lot of money - in fact, I make a bout $10,000 less than I made 16 years ago... but I actually enjoy my job now.
Number two... my boss obviously doesn't think very highly of me if he doesn't believe I would dress up for a client.
Truthfully... I have a suit. I have a few suits. And, I look good in them. The problem is that on a day-to-day basis, why would I want to wear a suit to work and actually look better than the bosses and everyone else? These jokers have suits, but few actually know how to look good.
Hmmm... I suppose that makes me a clothes snob... still, to insult someone to their face about their clothing... well...
You know what I hate?
I hate clothes snobs.