15th November 2005, 02:02 PM
Well, maybe there is a lesson there, albeit an unpalatable one for most archaeologists.
People in all walks of life respond to subliminal visual cues. In the construction industry, one of the key ones seems to be the wearing of a tie. Anyone seen on site wearing a shirt and tie (irrespective of what other clothes they are wearing) is seen as a professional (engineer, quantity surveyor, etc. etc.), whereas anyone not wearing a tie is a manual worker (labourer, digger driver, banksman, etc).
Ergo, anyone wanting to be taken seriously (or even recognised as a participant) in a site meeting needs to wear a shirt and tie.
Not palatable, and I kicked hard against it myself when it first came my way, but it works.
1man1desk
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People in all walks of life respond to subliminal visual cues. In the construction industry, one of the key ones seems to be the wearing of a tie. Anyone seen on site wearing a shirt and tie (irrespective of what other clothes they are wearing) is seen as a professional (engineer, quantity surveyor, etc. etc.), whereas anyone not wearing a tie is a manual worker (labourer, digger driver, banksman, etc).
Ergo, anyone wanting to be taken seriously (or even recognised as a participant) in a site meeting needs to wear a shirt and tie.
Not palatable, and I kicked hard against it myself when it first came my way, but it works.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished