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To be honest, I don't know what to tell you unless you can work at an alternative clothes retailer, I think you're just going to have to suck it up.

To be honest, I'd rather be naked then clothed, so any clothing for me is a nuisance. Obviously I have preferred ways of dressing, but still... clothes... sad

You don't have to buy a whole bunch of clothes for work. Alot of restraunts have really simple dresscodes. Usually black pants and a white oxford or polo shirt. Sometimes, you'll get the weird place that makes you wear blue jeans and like... some shirt you have to order from them, but most places stick with black and white. I only have two pairs of work pants, and three work shirts. You only have to wear them to work. It's not like it's defining your personality.

I'll be seventeen in september, so obviously I'm not to thrilled with adhering to work industry fashion, but I mean, I wear the clothes for nine hours a day, it's not going to kill me. I'm getting paid to trick guys in the back to do my work for me (which probably won't last, because I'm going to lock Richard in the freezer for being a stupid cockmuncher.)

Only problem with working in the public eye, is you have to be terribly good at acting (at least, I do, because I'm rarely ever that cheerful and I don't give a sideways ******** about what people want).

Do you know anyone who has a job somewhere you'd like to work?

Considering the people around here are a bunch of contentious ******** and won't hire you if you've got a behavioral disorder the only reason I got a job was because my stepmother knew a manager at The Iron Skillet.

Do you have any friends who either dress less 'scary' or have some boring clothes you could bum off them for the occassion?

Or maybe go to like, the dollar store, and buy some cheap a** shorts and a tshirt? Burn them or something after you've got the job?

Ah hell, I just wore jeans and a fitted shirt to my interveiw.

If it's just an idustrial job you're applying to I don't see where you'd need to be all fancied up considering you'll probably be wearing Jeans and a tshirt. (At least, that's what my dad wears everyday, and the other guys at the warehouse wear.) Whatever you end up wearing look really clean and hygenic and all that. Don't look like you just plucked it off the bedroom floor and sniffed it to see if it's clean.


Ew, and you know what sucks about customers?
When I'm reicing the salad bar, they're like ******** vultures, all surrounding me, wanting to know when 'the fresh stuff' will be done.
Um, like I didn't just put stuff that I'm taking off on there less then a half hour ago? It's not like food sits long there, it's a truckstop and everyone is so hungry they just want to scarf every thing down.

Haha, yeah.

As someone who's been working for like 15 years now, let me tell you it's better to overdress for an interview than to go in there looking like a hobo.
It won't kill you to put on a pair of khaki's, and a polo shirt for an hour to go to a job interview. I wore a suit and tie to my last one. It's also a good idea to remove any abnormal piercings temporarily.

You can look gothic and formal of course. rofl

Well, I work for a customer service travel agency. I get to wear pretty much whatever I want and I was told that if I want to shave my head or get a mohawk, I'd just have to wear a wig over it. You can still be who you are, its just that not everyone wants to see it.