wearing shorts

[ryn6609]

Just curious. How many of you guys out there work for a company that allows shorts worn on the job. Considering allowing it just wanted to see what a couple others think. Personally I think a clean dressed and copmfortable tech will work better, and by clean dress I mean neat cus im never clean by the end of the day.

[swat]

Not at our shop. If you walk into a persons home and you are wearing shorts, and are still some what professional looking it still is not the same if the person is wearing a uniform shirt and pants. I try to keep myself and my guys looking as professional as possible with out going over board.The more respectable and profesional a guy looks the easier it is to sell the tech and the company.

[Spidy]

When its 90 outside with 95% humidity and 120+ on the roof...I'm wearing shorts and short sleeve shirt! It's better and more professional looking then being soaked in sweat.

[chicago installer]

shorts, i think the people who see me when it is 95 just want air,plus i feel i work better, its like wearing a black shirt in the blazzing sun, cant deal with it i burn up inside

[R12rules]

I am in the hot sun four days a week piping heatpumps. I will not wear short.
I wear what is best suited to my needs of getting the job done.
I have seen people dress in shorts ... personally, they appear to me as they work for UPS or FedEx.

In other words ... comfy/ professional .... but certainly NOT trade compliant.


Now if I worked where no body cared what you looked like .... I may wear shorts myself.


But for as long as appearance makes an impression ... I will continue to dress trade appropriately.

[square2round]

As an installer, I opt to wear pants. It's as hot, and hotter, as what Spidy says. I'll be soaked in sweat no matter what I wear...and pants are better suited for installation purposes.

Shorts are for those who, in this business, know what they will be doing everyday so they may wear them.

[jacob perkins]

I remember back when they wanted "to remove the bikini competition from the Miss America Pagent".I thought that meant they would march out naked. I was mistaken.

If I understand your question correctly,yes I think shorts should be worn if that is appropriate to the season.

[ryn6609]

good answers. Im not sure which way Ill go, kinda hard to way. I dont mind the pants we all wear jeans. They do suck in the Virginia summers when they are soaked with sweat. I kinda think even if you had shorts on you would have to bring pants everywhere. Youd be cursing yourself the 1st time you had to crawl thru a ceiling.

[dec]

I tried wearing shorts for a while. I didnt keep it up for too long being half the time I was wishing I had my jeans on. Too often I would be giving bids in crawl spaces or doing something I had to be on my knees. Now as far as it being emergancy service on the weekends .....what the heck, you can tell the customer that you dont have to set around in long pants just in case they call. If they dont understand that they better get someone else.

[swat]

After hours you are lucky if I dont show up in wind pants and a t shirt. Almost anything goes if it is after hours and residential. If we were more commercial then you really need to be uniformed at all times and as professional as possible at all times.

[mdp]

Commercial/industrial side of the trade you'll be escorted off the site or fined by MSHA or OSHA. No shorts allowed, many industrial sites will require long sleeve shirts also.

[tlcartman]

we can and sometimes do wear shorts, however our shorts must match our uniform pants. no cut off jeans. i carry coveralls for crawling, and i wear them even if wearing regular uniform pants.

[derrick1623]

i have uniform shorts from a previous job...i "can" wear them to work, but i choose not to. i don't care if i sweat, it comes with the territory.

i wore shorts on an attic install last summer, and i will not do that again.

[rob10]

Under our nomex coveralls in 97 degree 85% humidity weather!!

[dhvac]

First of all you say you want to look professional then go on to say you wear jeans?? Hmmm just my opinion but jeans don’t look professional,
As far as shorts my guys may wear them but they have to be knee length at least and have to be dress or work style shorts must also match uniform, no cutoffs, no sweat shorts, gym shorts, and no jean shorts
I think that we still look professional maybe not as professional as when we are in uniform pants but still look good and have never heard a negative remark yet.

[a\c don]

Some of my co-workers choose uniform shorts during the hot Florida summers.

I prefer long pants just for a little extra protection.

[Freezeking2000]

I wear shorts in the supermarket world unless i know i am going to be on a tin roof or something!

[hillbuck]

exactly whatdhvac said.We also have to keep long pants in our vans in ase we do a commercial construction or industrial job.

[rasmussen6880]

If the shorts make you more comfortable on the hot days you are less likley to make mistakes, think clearer, be more efficent at what you are doing, all of wich makes you more profetable. isnt that why we do HVAC or is it for the love of 120 degree attics with blown in insulation.
Its the latter for me...hehehehe.

[bustawrench1]

I worked for one guy that was nice enough to let us wear shorts and a company T-Shirt, as long as they were respectable looking, ya'know like carhardtt work shorts, not cutoffs. Pretty reasonable I'd say.

Life was good....'Till the office gets a call from one of the High Schools we serviced that some knucklehead is running around the place in a pair of gym shorts, circra 1975, that are about 3 sizes too small. As if this ain't bad enough he's "trolling" if you know what I mean.

Three days later the uniform service showed up. Dark grey pants with MAROON STRIPED LONG SLEEVE shirts. New policy-Wear 'em or yer fired!

What's even more amazeing than the fact that they did'nt fire the moron is that he did'nt suffer a "work related accident" involving a roof.

Now I understand why most bosses just summarily don't allow it.

Busta.