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Originally Posted by R58484957
My first day at P&O in the supers office two of us being interviewed by Mr Girvin, he came in eyed us up down and said we do not employ people with a garish tie like that, I suggest you go round Miller Raynor and get a respectable tie he said speaking to the other person. My tie met with P&O approval eventually both of us joined the same ship.
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Nice story!
I remember going to meet up with other engineers and their wives to see a good local band in either the Marco Polo or Marriot in Singapore. Me and the other Junior were refused entry for not wearing a tie.
A few streets aways was a street stall and, you guessed it, they sold ties - Garish Batik kipper ties which came with a matching hat!!
After carefully looking for the MOST garish (mine looked like "road smash" lasagna and the other engineers looked like blackberry crumble with custard, also road smash) we went back and were promptly allowed in! For a while, I used to take the tie ashore with me, just in case!
Rgds.
Dave