What to do with wrong sized company Tshirt

Company bought me wrong size Tshirt. What should I do with it?

  • Take it as a nice gesture and say nothing and use it as a rag.

    Votes: 10 52.6%

  • Tell the boss in person my shirt size for next time.

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • Send out a company email asking if someone wanted my shirt explaining the circumstances.

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Burn the T shirt in the front hall.

    Votes: 4 21.1%

  • Cut the sleeves out and wear it to work with "I wear an XL dumbass" written in sharpie on the back.

    Votes: 3 15.8%
  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
6BangBronk

6BangBronk

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I find this amuzing that I'm caught in the middle.

So the dude that usually goes around asking shirt sizes for annual company t-shirts got laid off last year due to he wasn't up to par with the remaining 20% that still work here. That dude knew my size for the past 16 years I've worked here. My boss came around asking shirt sizes instead this year but for a polo style collared shirt. I wear a ball cap religiously and hats don't go with polo shirts so I declined. Well evidently there were alot of non-polo wearers for they handed out t-shirts instead? And I got a "Large" where as I can use my shoulder width to do a "Hulk" and bust a Large after the first washing. But you can't see it for my short stature until I flex and explain my back width issue.
I'm kinda up in air what to do, if nothing? Evidentlly my boss "assumed" my size for the dude handing them out insisted it was written down for me.
One part of me would rather say nothing and go on. It was a nice gesture and I shouldn't take anything for granted knowing I'm privlidged to even have a job. Another part of me would rather inform my boss so I don't get a "rag" again next year.
This is one of the largest Engineering firms in Raleigh that used to have more benifits than anybody and strived to be the best for their employees. The annual T-shirt is the only benifit remaining for the company besides free ice out of an ice machine. We even provide our own Christmas luncheon in the company kitchen now. They used to take us out for Christmas, pig picking / golf tourny every summer, 100% 401K match, over the board salary increases every spring, 6 month bonuses, buiscuits / donuts / bagles every morning / fish fry dinners from church next door. All out the window besides the T-shirt now due to the economy shift... so the T is kinda a big deal??? And I wear the free ice out!
 
aww hell he meant nothing by it, those big britches types don't even consider us menial types let him know in person just explain your exceptional back width and he never forget your size and pbly even get you an XL for this year!! good luck!! and i could never use a t-shirt as a rag just seems wrong to me
 
Any chance they have an extra XL t-shirt available? It wouldn't hurt to ask...if not, you've got a brand new, free rag!

Don't feel bad, I requested a women's small t-shirt and got a men's medium t-shirt at our holiday luncheon this week. I'm not sure why they bothered asking about our sizes. It wouldn't matter except this is the only t-shirt we're allowed to wear for casual Fridays starting January 1st.
 
6BangBronk said:
Civil Designer. Basically an Engineer without a degree after doing it for so long.
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I'm with ya buddy. Mechanical Designer here. They once called me a Design Engineer on a client proposal, so I snatched that title and ran with it. :lol:

Although I do have a degree..........in History......:lol:
 
give it back to teh bossman, tell him politely you have no use for it since you wear an XL. Ask if he has any XL's left, you'll take one, if not, he'll know for next time, at least to confirm with you (the ungrateful trobulemaker who made a stink last year :D)
 
uncc civilengineer said:
do you work for a company that starts with a "G" and ends with a eosyntec? Just ask for an XL... hate to see your business is way down, we've been pretty steady.
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Bass Nixon and Kennedy. We're on path this year to double the amount of work than any of the past 5 or 6 years. It's starting to pick up dramatically but we're not hiring anybody back just yet.

There's no extra T's. You kidding right? Waste money???
It's only a T shirt... I'll probably just lay mine on the Kitchen table anonomously.

And I'll probably go with the majority on here and send my boss a personal email after I take it home and make SURE it won't fit. I'll explain since he's the new T-shirt dude.
 
I'm w/ T and others, just politely say Thanks, but just FYI it turns out this is just a bit too small for me; next year if something larger is available, I'd appreciate it. It turns out my coworker/son/BIL/friend/dog would like to have one so I'll probably pass it on. Thanks..

Hell I'm a small guy, and I wear T-shirts under other things so I like 'em a little tight, usually mediums are a bit big so I end up in teh same boat.
But I work for the Gob'ment so we don't get free t-shirts :D
 
I give them to my wife, she wears them as pajamas or as grunge around the house wear

I am one of 5 persons over 6ft 4in tall in our shop, none of us wear less than 3XLT, NEVER have they supplied shirts that actually fit more than once ( they shrink upon the first wash )

If we want shirts other than the supplied uniforms we have to order them and pay for them ourselves, this is the ONLY way to ensure they will fit. ( even uniform shirts are too short )

Anything supplied for "free" is pretty much a token offering, merely signifying that we exist. The thought that we might actually want to use and or enjoy the offering doesn't exist.
 
i say wash it a million times so it gets nice and thin. then on the golf outting, hulk flex right out of it! next year it should be remembered that you wear and XL
 
I spent many, many years doing construction staking/layout ( surveying ) In the Raleigh/Durham area on construction projects large and small and have grown to dispise civil and architechtual engineers for the gross mistakes ( on approved plans ) I've found w contours ( existing and proposed ), bad lengths and %s of fall on pipes etc., that I had to field correct/engineer myself to make poop and stormwater flow downhill. I have probably worked off/corrected your companies plans before and wonder where my shirt is ?........... but not why they can't get the size of a T-shirt right!:flipoff2::lol:

I voted for answer # 5........
 
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I would do the same thing I always do, send it to goodwill, the battered womens shelter or hand it off to a temp worker who actually appreciates it. I live two separate lives between work and home and like it that way:lol:. I don't want to see my employers name outside of work.
 
Eh, we have boxes of company t shirts. I take 1 a day for good measure :flipoff2:

I would just let it casually mention it to your boss in conversation. I wouldn't make a big deal about it based on what you have told us.
 
Am I the only one who was hoping it was going to be a very tight t-shirt on some tig ol bitties? Damn it.
 
mommucked said:
I spent many, many years doing construction staking/layout ( surveying ) In the Raleigh/Durham area on construction projects large and small and have grown to dispise civil and architechtual engineers for the gross mistakes ( on approved plans ) I've found w contours ( existing and proposed ), bad lengths and %s of fall on pipes etc., that I had to field correct/engineer myself to make poop and stormwater flow downhill. I have probably worked off/corrected your companies plans before and wonder where my shirt is ?........... but not why they can't get the size of a T-shirt right!:flipoff2::lol:

I voted for answer # 5........
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Oh, the benifits of in-house survey department... I take not a single job for granted but it is awesome insurance when a surveyor walks in my office and tells me of a bust to fix on the fly before buying a manhole or some curb and gutter. There's so much detail these days due to stricter rules implamented every day, the budget would go out the roof to dot every single I and cross every single T with enough attention. I totally see your frustrations!!! It's the designer (me) that's the one that makes the initial mistakes and the Engineer didn't pick it up. And it's the best of surveyors that can pick off a problem before staking it in the field and assuming anything. I think it's usually the bottom man that finds the mistakes from the top man no matter what the occupation. I knew this topic could get interesting but I'm with 72Rockcruiser with this one... Nothing else, that answer should have been an option...
Boss sent an email to Tshirt provider asking for another shirt this morning. I think the finger pointing was unimportant since they just ordered 38 shirts from a company, they should be able to throw us another.
 
Tried adding: "Was hoping it was going to be a very tight t-shirt on some tig ol bitties? Damn it." option unsuccessfully... Damn it.:)
 
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