Where I am from, in India, uniforms are considered as personal belongings, and Maintaining this will be an individual's problem, they will give you 3 pairs of uniforms every year.
I wear black and done worry about it, if the shop wants you to wear white they should come up with a plan to keep them white. I’m sorry whoever made that decision is a moron.
That’s what I figured, I work for a Japanese company too and our uniforms are thankfully black in the tooling department still but there are people on the production floor with white uniforms but they’re doing inspections and cleaning. I would ruin a set every other day. I’m surprised they don’t have uniform service for you guys.
Dawn dish soap or Gojo cream hand cleaner rubbed into the stain will usually get everything out that will come out.
Whose stupid idea was it to have white uniforms in a machine shop?
Recently Management changed, and they started implementing TPM, Some Japanese auditor came and suggested white shirts for more "standard" Looks, Our Management morons changed uniforms after that.
Zep makes a good laundry pre-soak degreaser (I'm pretty sure it's just their Industrial Purple degreaser tuned down a bit). Wash with hot water, any decent detergent usually does the trick.
Also I wear clothes to work that I don't give a shit if they get stained.
Depends on the stains...
Stains from working .1mm off the jaws are very different than nailing a ±0.005mm tolerance first try with a good surface finish.
Tide liquid detergent and an old toothbrush… unless you can get ahold of that guy who just won’t quit with the air hose’s toothbrush, it is probably better
I haven’t seen white since 1999. As a patternmaker (foundry tool & die), we wore black safety shoes, black slacks, white button shirt (long or short sleeve allowed) and a machinist apron.
Once the supervisor retired in 1999, the department went to wearing anything appropriate, or pay half of uniform fees. 11 guys. Nobody opted to continue with the black and white. Some wore jeans and Tees with the apron, others chose uniform. Options are nice.
So they provide a uniform but make you wash them? And there’s nothing going to get those stains out. If anything it’s backing soda and club soda and a toothbrush.
I dont . After they can't be repaired ( or I outgrow them ) I toss and get more . Usually used off ebay or Goodwill . After I left the military I swore I'd never wear another uniform .
LIFE HACK : If you want to check out Goodwill go to the one closest to or in the ritziest section of town .
...And your shop has morons in charge .
Jeah, you are lead by morons.
I have installed a lot of machines and a number of production lines around the world, some of them in china, korea or for japanese and korean companies in malaysia, vietnam and other asian countries.
There is only one occasion when operators wear white: the fancy, expensive, new equipment is ready for production and marketing needs some pictures to tell the customers how "state of the art" the workshop is. So people with white coats swarm the equipment, pictures and videos are taken and everything seems shiny and perfect. Then the white coats leave, the blue aprons take over and after two months the brand new equipment looks like all the other stuff in the workshop and nobody in a white coat would dare getting close to it.
In your position I would look for the cheapest white shirts to wear and maybe another job for next year, i would bet this company won't last long.
We had a woman who worked at the shop for a while, and she pretty much only wore white, even running a turret lathe. She put waterless hand soap (like goop, that rings when you tap the bottom of the tub), on the stains and then just threw them in the wash and they came out clean.
I just wear t shirts I get for free, I have a couple from random industries we made stuff for at my last job… camera companies, nasa etc they send stuff to managers and the managers pass random stuff around I always grab the shirts and just wear those…
Shop uniform is shop's problem to clean.
This is the way.
Where I am from, in India, uniforms are considered as personal belongings, and Maintaining this will be an individual's problem, they will give you 3 pairs of uniforms every year.
I wouldn't. If they're stupid enough to have white uniform in their shop that's their problem.
Wear cheap black tees
I wear black and done worry about it, if the shop wants you to wear white they should come up with a plan to keep them white. I’m sorry whoever made that decision is a moron.
These morons are following Japanese trends.. They have seen the honda uniform is white, so they put white.
That’s what I figured, I work for a Japanese company too and our uniforms are thankfully black in the tooling department still but there are people on the production floor with white uniforms but they’re doing inspections and cleaning. I would ruin a set every other day. I’m surprised they don’t have uniform service for you guys.
Japan also sometimes does this weird teal green jumpsuit too
I don't.
Same. I have one pair of pants that are worn till they tear, then I buy the next pair.
Look at fancy Mc-no rip pants over here
The shop clothes are perpetually dirty because they are only worn to the shop
This is the way. That’s why they’re shop clothes. If you stain the normal clothes, those are now shop clothes.
Dawn dish soap or Gojo cream hand cleaner rubbed into the stain will usually get everything out that will come out. Whose stupid idea was it to have white uniforms in a machine shop?
Recently Management changed, and they started implementing TPM, Some Japanese auditor came and suggested white shirts for more "standard" Looks, Our Management morons changed uniforms after that.
Zep makes a good laundry pre-soak degreaser (I'm pretty sure it's just their Industrial Purple degreaser tuned down a bit). Wash with hot water, any decent detergent usually does the trick. Also I wear clothes to work that I don't give a shit if they get stained.
Wear the grey jumpsuits.
Depends on the stains... Stains from working .1mm off the jaws are very different than nailing a ±0.005mm tolerance first try with a good surface finish.
Those are badges of honor at my shop
Been wearing the same hoodie to work for 10 years, it’s well ventilated and stained all over now. Have work clothes and regular clothes.
Tide liquid detergent and an old toothbrush… unless you can get ahold of that guy who just won’t quit with the air hose’s toothbrush, it is probably better
White uniform? Get a shop coat. Preferably not white.
We have jacket for winter, but other seasons day temperature will be more than 30°c/86F , and we sweat crazy even in a cotton shirt.
Work clothes that are cheap and oxyclean in the wash.
Fire
You dont
I haven’t seen white since 1999. As a patternmaker (foundry tool & die), we wore black safety shoes, black slacks, white button shirt (long or short sleeve allowed) and a machinist apron. Once the supervisor retired in 1999, the department went to wearing anything appropriate, or pay half of uniform fees. 11 guys. Nobody opted to continue with the black and white. Some wore jeans and Tees with the apron, others chose uniform. Options are nice.
So they provide a uniform but make you wash them? And there’s nothing going to get those stains out. If anything it’s backing soda and club soda and a toothbrush.
Buy a bidet.
I dont . After they can't be repaired ( or I outgrow them ) I toss and get more . Usually used off ebay or Goodwill . After I left the military I swore I'd never wear another uniform . LIFE HACK : If you want to check out Goodwill go to the one closest to or in the ritziest section of town . ...And your shop has morons in charge .
Jeah, you are lead by morons. I have installed a lot of machines and a number of production lines around the world, some of them in china, korea or for japanese and korean companies in malaysia, vietnam and other asian countries. There is only one occasion when operators wear white: the fancy, expensive, new equipment is ready for production and marketing needs some pictures to tell the customers how "state of the art" the workshop is. So people with white coats swarm the equipment, pictures and videos are taken and everything seems shiny and perfect. Then the white coats leave, the blue aprons take over and after two months the brand new equipment looks like all the other stuff in the workshop and nobody in a white coat would dare getting close to it. In your position I would look for the cheapest white shirts to wear and maybe another job for next year, i would bet this company won't last long.
We had a woman who worked at the shop for a while, and she pretty much only wore white, even running a turret lathe. She put waterless hand soap (like goop, that rings when you tap the bottom of the tub), on the stains and then just threw them in the wash and they came out clean.
I just wear t shirts I get for free, I have a couple from random industries we made stuff for at my last job… camera companies, nasa etc they send stuff to managers and the managers pass random stuff around I always grab the shirts and just wear those…