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Jasonk

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we are getting ready to pull the trigger on uniforms for our employees. Appearance and presentation is important, and we know it will help out by taking away cost of clothing and general upkeep. The plan is to go with a company who washes and repairs/ replaces on a weekly basis. Just looking for any productive input from others on uniform or dress code policy.
 
We wear uniforms at my company and I think it makes us stand out as professionals. Plus I never have to wonder what to wear
 
It's so nice not having to worry about stains or anything. Make sure you get a company where you lease the uniforms not have to purchase them. This comes into play when you tear or stain one severely. We have G&K and been happy for the most part we pay a bit extra for the appearance package (not to sure on the name). This ensure if a garment is torn or stained severely it will be replaced in the next exchange.
 
We wear uniforms as well. My advice would just be to make sure they're somewhat comfortable. It may take a few changes but I don't mind them now. A cleaning service would be icing on the cake for me. I wouldn't have to listen to my wife about the sawdust in the dryer:cachetada:
 
I'll do the moisture wicking shirts with our company t shirt over it but the collared long sleeve or short sleeve shirts with the company sweatshirt over top looks good. We get 11 pairs of collared shirts, 11 pairs of pants, four t shirts every 6 six months, two sweat shirts to start, then one a year, and a company jacket. There is some leeway if your wearing performance clothing that looks professional. But there's no reason why we can't look good while we do what we do. And our company does go with a company that rents them to us and fixes and cleans them when there's issues
 
We will be going with cintas. It is a lease program and they clean and repair as part of the cost weekly. They offer a carhart pant and they have both collered as well as a moisture wicking shirt. It's not arbor wear but it's pretty nice....I agree with the comfort factor, and I was hesitant especially about the collered shirts but after talking with the crews they are very receptive to it. We will still provide t shirts and probably a jacket or a heavy sweat shirt yearly.
 
Some companies when we were searching asked if there was a certain type of pant or brand that we wanted. If our amount of people was high enough they were willing to purchase those pants for us. Arborwear????
 
One potential issue: With that many shirts floating around, you have to trust your employees or keep really good track of the shirts. We've had two occasions where guys (ex-employees) were door knocking claiming to be us, and people believed them because of the shirt. They got unlucky by knocking on the door of an actual customer who was suspicious and called us.

I guess there's no way around this, unless you just provide nice unis without a logo.
 
Damn, that is some shady sh##! I guess a dirt bags a dirt bag though no matter what covers the dirt bag!
 
ROYCE said:
We purchased these with some good success. I have found that hi-vis is really easy to get dirty. Like stained dirty that you can't get off. We do a lot of work in pines and it will destroy a shirt in one day. These have lasted so far. Except the few days we burnt a huge brush fire!! Embers burnt holes in all our shirts.

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Might try those.
I hear ya on the pines. That's one reason we chose orange.
Ours have held up well with the pitch.
We had an extra black belly square added when we lettered/logoed them that lasted well.

Funny on the pine pitch topic. A new guy last summer used to whine every time we did pines. He was convinced it ruined his cloths for ever. He did not last long. We still joke about him when ever we get all sappy.
 
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