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Q: Does anyone wear ties?
Has anyone else noticed that no one wears ties? The only people I see wearing ties are some estate agents and insurance salesmen. Does anyone wear a tie to work?
The guy at work opposite me came out with something weird today. I'm the only one in the office who wears a tie. He told me they don't like wearing ties because it looks like you have a lot of money, and with their salaries being so low theres no need to dress up. I don't understand that at all. They don't want to look like they have money, they want to look poor?
11 years 48 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
I do wear a tie to work on some occasions as you are right it looks nice.
What I do hate which I see alot here with Chinese workers is top button not done up followed by a rats knot.
Never. It's been one of the good things about China: the super casual dress code at work.
It doesn't make a difference wearing a tie or not. At your job the only thing that really matters is performance. You can wear no tie if your performance lacks that's what they will look at first not which tie you wore a certain day.
I wear ties, but no one else does. I just think it looks better with a button shirt. I don't wear blazers though.
The cheesy blazers and watches look more like money to me than ties.
I am required to wear a suit during the winter but am allowed to wear a shirt and tie with dockers during the summer.
back when Henry Ford was still using the mod to bust his unions there was a gangster who went by bow tie, during an argument over payment ford ask why do they call you bow tie he went because I where a bow tie. ford went why bow tie then grabbed ford by his tie he began to choke, he then said it is a lot harder for someone to strangle you in a bow tie.
so i can understand not wanting to where ties
I never wore a tie to work and sometimes i would get told about it. So I would wear one for awhile, but always pulled down with my button undone. If anyone said anything, I said it was too hot in here for me, After awhile, I'd quit again. Besides I had too man ywork days where it was just too tempting to hang myself.If something really irritated me, I'd get someone to hold the end of my tie, then say 'higher' and make like I hung myself.
My first couple days on the job in China I showed up in a tie. I stopped when I noticed no one else was wearing them. I think it's lame, especially in my industry.
HugAPanda:
Tie guys are sexy... don't stop wearing them just cuz they arent.
For years here, I sported a tie, suit, the whole shebang. I felt great. Moved to a new city after I got married and the owner of the school tells me everyday to stop wearing it. Says he loses face. He slides in to work daily with gym pants on. There's that!
And what about some of those that do wear a tie, but have the shirt tails outside the pants ? When I first saw that I was really shocked, but it seems to be a fad here.
I wear a suit & tie every day at work. I have always believed strongly in the "dress for success" saying.
I have to wear a suit and tie daily, but I guess for the Chinese if you wore a tie, people would ask to borrow money
I don't work in China but in Australia I have always lived by the doctrine "if wearing an uncomfortable phallic symbol around my neck makes me better at my job I will be the first to wear one". When I worked my way into a certain level at the company I work most men wore a tie (I started at the bottom as a manual labourer). I did not but it has never effected my job or stopped me from getting a promotion. Many people now do not wear them in roles where they traditionally did. All for the better IMO.
I havent worn a tie since the 80s when we had super skinny girl ties 
We all wanted to be Molly Ringwald.
If a woman doesn't have to wear one, why should a man? Well, it does look pretty spiffy for special occasions.
