Suit

Has anyone here ever succesfully carried a suit on a motorbike bike without
creasing it?

Im currently out of work and my only means of transportation is a bike. Thus
is would be very useful to be able to carry a suit to my job interviews. I
can usually wear the trousers and shirt underneath leather's/waterproof's
but the jacket is driving me crazy.

Any suggestions?

 

Large topbox.

 

Fish wrote

Not me.

When employed, I have tended to do shirtsleeve jobs and turn up under
the bike gear in readiness for such so I am no fucking use to you at all
really but the stats are due soon and we must do our part IYSWIM.

 

Get a job where you don't have to wear a jacket.

 

He said interview. It's generally a good idea to have a suit at
interview.

I used to have an M&S Suit bag that I carefully folded into a 40-odd
litre topbox.

 

Get a textile jacket with removable lining. Remove the lining. Wear
your jacket underneath.

Works for me.

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

Why? I'd be over dressed if I wore a suit to an interview.

I read that as "shit bag".

I actively avoid job interviews that might result in me having to wear a
suit.

<Thinks>

Maybe that's where I've been going wrong all these years. Ah, **** it
anyway, if I really wanted to do something about it I would.

 

Im actually hoping to get just the oppositite im applying for
apprenticeships in motor veichle engineering where I will be up to my
armpits in grease. But like he said its always a good idea to turn up in a
suit. Freshyly shaven with all your peircing's removed and your shoes
polished. Why!!! If I get the job I will probably never wear anything even
coming close to a suit to work again Wouldnt it make more sense if they
invited me an 1/2 hour earlier (the time is usually takes for me to scrub
up) and do some kind of mechanical aptitude test?

Does this not crease it at all Ive tried folding it into my paniers but it
dosent look so good when it comes out

 

Whinging Courier wrote

You could be right.

 

http://www.waudbys.co.uk/products/details/80.html

 

Great Plan erm...... anyone got any suggestions for carring a ironing board
on a bike?

 

About what, being a martyr?

 

Fish emerged from their own little world to say

Phone the person who will interview you. Explain that you are keen but need
to travel on 2 wheels. Ask if they would mind if you did not wear a jacket.

This will provide you and your prospective employer with some information:
1. the employer will discover that you are keen and able to use your
initiative
2. you will discover if the employer is reasonable or a ****.

Don't forget that part of a job interview is for *you* to find out if you
want to work for that company.

 

Whinging Courier wrote

You see yourself as a martyr?

Kinnel dude are you deluded.

 

wessie says...

When I went for the job I have now I called the MD to explain that I
would be travelling from Bedford to Penrith by bike and would there be
somewhere available for me to change into a suit, he said yes and that
wouldn't be a problem. I packed the suit into a suit bag and folded it
carefully onto the back of the Thunderace. When I got there half an hour
early I asked the receptionist if I could hang my suit somewhere and get
changed. I looked good enough at the interview to get the job.

After I'd started the MD told me he'd have interviewed me in my leathers
as he'd expect anyone who'd been a rep and was applying for this job to
own a suit. I suppose it helps that I work in the bike trade and they do
tend to be more bike friendly.

 

Not exactly, more a cutting my nose off to spite my face.

Not deluded[1], pissed.

What you mean anyway? I'm always willing to learn as I'm always on the
path to true enlightenment.

[1] That's denial for ya.

 

Take the bus?

I don't like it, but it is an unfortunate fact of life that a large
proportion of employers will make an on the spot assumption about anyone who
rides a bike being the spawn of Satan, unreliable and 'bad for the
company'... I'd seriously consider going by public transport in the first
instance and not give them the opportunity to make their mind up as soon as
they see the crash helmet....

Since I started driving a car I've only changd jobs once and that was to go
self-employed.... When I went for the last job I deliberately went by bus
so as not to crease the suit etc then waited til I'd started before asking
where I could park the bike when I came in on it and sorting out somewhere
to stash my kit/suit etc...

Of course it's your call as to whether you'd want to work for a company/boss
where such a crappy assumption might be made -depends on how much you need
to get a new job straight away.

Dave

 

I've worn a suit on a motorbike before, but ...

1. The jacket flaps around quite a lot at 120+, so much so that I lost my
business card holder that I'd been given as a gift for doing best man
duties.

2. The trousers flap around your ankles quite a lot too.

3. High speed filtering feels a bit edgy.

Really the moral of my tail is don't end up with somewhere important to go,
where you have to wear a suit and no other way to get their on time but to
take the bike.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Arse. I got a tobacco pouch nicked from a van once.

Wearing a suit does that to a man.

 

YWAGL1500, YD.

hth