Jobs that require us to wear a designated uniform threaten our individuality.
Mikołaj Gieleciak SW1
Jobs that require us to wear a designated uniform threaten our individuality.
In today's world, which nearly entirely consist of capitalistic societes, we often find ourselves surrounded by multitude of various stores, shops, restaurants and other places of service that belong to a larger company or corporation. We can observe that in those “temples of spending money” work actual people. The main problem that those people face is the fact that they are seen by the customers not as fellow humans but as an extensions of will or just tools of the corporation that they work for, which can easly lead the workers to think less of themselves.
Firstly I would like to adress the problem that is the previously mentioned fact that the customers can be seen as not always treating the people in uniforms as equal to them. If someone is angry at the company, because either the product they have bought is not working or the food they ordered is inedible, the first thing they will lash out at will be the unfortunate employee who is wearing that dreadful uniform that makes everyone around associate them with the company. Being seen as an object owned by the company may give the people who have such jobs a need to express themselves and show everyone around that they are in fact human.
Unfortunately there is an obstacle in the form of those uniforms that makes everyone else working there look exactly the same. By ensuring that everyone is obeying to the same dress code, the corporations effectively kill all the seeds of inviduality in their workplaces, apparently to help to create a clean and professional look for their enterprises.
The second thing that I want to talk about are the effects that such toxic environment as the one mentioned can affect one's psyche. A person who is denied self-expression for a prolonged period of time can eventually become either more distant and weary of human interaction or completely opposite, very clingy and thirsty for the
Jobs that require us to wear a designated uniform threaten our individuality.
In today's world, which nearly entirely consist of capitalistic societes, we often find ourselves surrounded by multitude of various stores, shops, restaurants and other places of service that belong to a larger company or corporation. We can observe that in those “temples of spending money” work actual people. The main problem that those people face is the fact that they are seen by the customers not as fellow humans but as an extensions of will or just tools of the corporation that they work for, which can easly lead the workers to think less of themselves.
Firstly I would like to adress the problem that is the previously mentioned fact that the customers can be seen as not always treating the people in uniforms as equal to them. If someone is angry at the company, because either the product they have bought is not working or the food they ordered is inedible, the first thing they will lash out at will be the unfortunate employee who is wearing that dreadful uniform that makes everyone around associate them with the company. Being seen as an object owned by the company may give the people who have such jobs a need to express themselves and show everyone around that they are in fact human.
Unfortunately there is an obstacle in the form of those uniforms that makes everyone else working there look exactly the same. By ensuring that everyone is obeying to the same dress code, the corporations effectively kill all the seeds of inviduality in their workplaces, apparently to help to create a clean and professional look for their enterprises.
The second thing that I want to talk about are the effects that such toxic environment as the one mentioned can affect one's psyche. A person who is denied self-expression for a prolonged period of time can eventually become either more distant and weary of human interaction or completely opposite, very clingy and thirsty for the