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In reply to the discussion: In 1981, I was a full time stock clerk at an Ohio Big Bear grocery store making 12.60 an hour [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,425 posts)to try our fate at the employers here, DH was dumpster diving the trash compactor area and noticed two unopened unlabeled boxes - opening them he found two "brown company" driver jackets. He gave one of them to our neighbor who worked for that company and kept one himself for terrible winter weather. He wore it to a store with some brown pants one day, and some woman asked where and why he wore one. He told her he found it in the trash. She said she'd exchange it for another blue (management) jacket because "we can't have people think you work for that brown company." Some sort of reputation to uphold? He agreed and they met in a neutral place for the exchange. It was just as warm; both bore the logo patch, but the blue one was not as long and, of course, not easily indicative that he was a "brown company" driver. Dress blues? WEIRD!