Let the record show that Gunner wrote back on
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:16:44 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:03:38 GMT, (~Roy)
wrote:

shoes or boots that
required polish, nor ever get another hair cut.......and wear nothing
but blue jeans and T shirts........and sneakers.........I have held up
that statement since retiring, and dropped in and applied for the
job,, just for the hell of it. I also had my ears repierced since
retiring as well, so in I go with my earings, long hair about to the
middle of my back in a pony tail, a Black T shirt and blue jeans and
Nikes, and desperately in need of a shave as well.


That sounds like about 65% of the machinists here in California. Big
companies or little.

Oh, so like, it is almost a uniform, or requirement?

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."