Thoughts on Wearing Clothing with Company Logo While Delivering Food for Another Company

Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 16:41
Last edited 02/08/2022 - 09:49 by 1 other user

Well this is a strange one, I been doing some food delivery as I am now working at home and my car is hardly been used so I started doing some food delivery to earn some income while I am free.

Yesterday while I am doing a food delivery to one of the regular customer who always orders a few times a week after the delivery before got into the car a man live across the street asked me a very strange question, the whole conversation went pretty much below:

'Hey mate, its none of my business but why do you do food delivery? We have lots of work and cant even fill them which pays a lot more'
(I had no idea what he was talking about at first……………)

'Just to earn some extra income like everyone else as my income isn't very high' is what I said

By now he suddenly realised something and said to me: 'Do you actually work for us?' Then point at the logo on my coat

'No, I got this coat at OP shop for $20 and its good as it doesn't get wet in the rain'

'Mate!, you cant wear other company uniform and doing food delivery, it makes us look bad. I will let this one slide but if I caught you wearing that uniform again I will report you as now I have your car rego on my camera (point towards his security system).'

Before I can respond he turned and went back to his house……………

A very strange encounter indeed, so what are you thoughts regarding this???

Am I at Fault Here?

Facts:

After searching i realised it is indeed a very big company
I never worked for them
I paid $20 at OP shop as its a good coat to do delivery in the rain

Poll Options

  • 34
    1: He has a point, it does make their company look bad
  • 116
    2: No, he has no rights as you own this coat since you paid for it
  • 2
    3: POP Corn is ready!
Fashion & Apparel

Comments

  • GourmetFoodie on 01/08/2022 - 16:45
    +14

    That is awkward. I don’t think I’d buy something with a company logo on that I don’t work for! I can understand his point. Wearing the logo people will assume you work for the business. Maybe cover the logo up with some of that strong commercial style big black sticky tape from Bunnings?

    • Quantumcat on 01/08/2022 - 16:46
      +24

      Or unpick the logo off

      • md333 on 02/08/2022 - 12:36
        +7

        Preferably just unpick individual letters so it says something rude.

    • apsilon on 01/08/2022 - 16:49
      +16

      Heaps of companies give away merch including clothing with the logo on it as it's advertising for them with others seeing the logo out and about.

      OP, it's obvious what you need to do. Get in first and complain to the company that one of it's employees that lives on XYZ street was harassing you because you were wearing a jacket with their logo that you bought and he didn't like your line of work.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:02
      +1

      I thought about that, I just dont know how I am going to cover the logo and wording on the both sleeves though.

      And if I remove it undone all the stitching's, this coat will be damaged on the front, back, and 2 long sleeves, which totally defeats the purpose of paying $20 in the first place which is delivery in the rain…………….

      • Banana3 on 01/08/2022 - 18:04

        Definitely this. De-escalate. Not worth making life more complicated because of some dikhet. People are paying premium to have a peaceful life, why throw it away because of $20. And yes, you can actually unpick the logo off without damaging the jacket at all. Done that with the soft shell jacket I got from the previous company.

      • Presence on 01/08/2022 - 18:18
        +7

        Go on AliExpress, search for "Self adhesive patches on down" and cover it up. I used it to repair a torn raincoat. Worked great.

  • GourmetFoodie on 01/08/2022 - 16:45
    +3

    Also why don’t you knock on his door and ask for a job lol?!

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 16:49

      Big engineering group (after googling it)? I have snowball chance in hell…………………

      • netjock on 01/08/2022 - 17:06
        +1

        blackmail then that you will do more food deliveries, and you'll do it for the worst of the food delivery firms and give out fake cards so they can call up reception. Maybe you can get a full time delivery driver for them instead!

      • morse on 02/08/2022 - 03:06
        +1

        Not necessarily. In a large company there’s usually entry level positions that don’t require a specific qualification.

        • Presence on 02/08/2022 - 08:59

          Lol maybe in the 1960s, you can't even call or email their HR. Everything is online aptitude tests and the like.

          • morse on 02/08/2022 - 09:17

            @Presence: Oh… I’m out of touch. So this really was an opportunity for OP to get in the back door.

            • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:40

              @morse: Never thought it that way………….no wonder you guys are doing better than me as my mind is too slow to even think something like this! LOL

  • MS Paint on 01/08/2022 - 16:54
    +2

    Should have told him to zip it.

    • whatwasherproblem on 01/08/2022 - 16:56

      Yup. And then immediately penned up a post on r/antiwork about it for that sweet sweet Reddit karma.

    • EightImmortals on 01/08/2022 - 17:25

      What if it was a button-up coat?

  • PensionerXXL on 01/08/2022 - 16:55
    +3

    you should have said "mate you can report this as well" and started throwing hands

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:00

      I barely had time to react and he is gone………….

  • Boioioioi on 01/08/2022 - 17:03
    +8

    Who will he report you to? You are not breaking any rules. Don't worry about it. That guy sounds like he's got an inflated ego

    • whatwasherproblem on 01/08/2022 - 17:04

      Who will he report you to?

      The boss of Fortescue (or wherever it was that OP doesn't actually work but the other guy for whatever reason thinks OP does).

      • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:08

        No no, i told him I bought this at OP shop, I never claimed I worked for the company ever.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:07

      The food delivery company? Or his company now he has my rego? I honest don't know and what makes this awkward is the customer I delivery to orders very often, so I will be seeing him again surely……………

      My friend said maybe he thinks he earns a lot more than me and seeing me (a lowly ranked delivery driver in his mind) wearing the same coat drags his high standard down.

      • CrowReally on 01/08/2022 - 17:30
        +6

        He's being a busybody.

        He can report you to your food delivery company and make your life awkward ("Hello Uber, I saw a driver wearing my work's corporate outfit, I think he's pretending to be an employee.."), and you can make his life awkward in turn given you know where he lives. It really depends how far either of you choose to pursue and escalate things and how petty either of you choose to be.

        You absolutely have a right to wear the jacket you got from the OP shop, but Uber (or whoever) doesn't want to deal with this sort of headache either.

        If he speaks to you again, say "It's my jacket, and I'm wearing it because it's a good warm/rain jacket - I frankly don't care about the logos. If you get me a similar jacket without the logos I'll swap with you".

    • freefall101 on 01/08/2022 - 18:27
      +2

      The fashion police

  • netjock on 01/08/2022 - 17:07
    +1

    Probably ABB. Some guy on here was telling me how Australia is the best place in the world to live per their ABB Finland work trippers, the small sample.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/08/2022 - 17:09
    +6

    Start doing donuts on old mates lawn lmao

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:10

      LOL

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/08/2022 - 17:12
        +1

        Roll down the window and yell out:

        who ya gonna report me to ya stooogeeeeee

        (The police probably in this case tho lmao)

  • [Deactivated] on 01/08/2022 - 17:14
    -6

    Was the uniform not returned by a previous employee and just given to goodwill? Might be you are wearing stolen property. Whether you payed for it doesn't neccessarily give you ownership.
    You could pick the stitching or remove the logo to make him happy?

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 17:16

      Really? What you are saying is everything selling in gumtree and all the OP shops could be stolen property then…………just saying

      • [Deactivated] on 01/08/2022 - 17:20

        It might be? Maybe the guy was just yanking your chain, but if you bought a McDonalds uniform from the Salvos, do you really think Maccas wouldn't want it returned rather than pawned off? They do own the IP for their logos and they are not a clothing retail store/brand.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 01/08/2022 - 17:19
    +3

    Mate invoice the company for all the advertising you’re doing.

    Instagram advertising is so 2021. U want to bring a message to the masses? Try menulog with op!

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 22:45

      Actually not a bad idea. Why should I lose $20 considering he is the one making the big bucks

  • spackbace on 01/08/2022 - 17:49
    +4

    Politely return the next time you're in the area, wearing different clothing, and talk to him about career opportunities at his business? Ask for his card etc?

    You say you're needing the extra cash as you're not earing much, why wouldn't you use this as a chance to network or possibly get your foot in the door at a higher paying job?

    You never know, something good might come of it, but talk of "glitter bombing", etc etc shows maybe you're just not ready or willing to accept that chance

    Many times it's not what you know, but who you know.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:38

      Honest dont think he will even talk to me, not the way how the conversation ended last time.

  • Seraphin7 on 01/08/2022 - 18:03
    +1

    Old mate can put on as much of a turn as he wants. The only place he'll get anywhere with is the food delivery outfit, and even then you'll get told not to wear it while delivering.

  • outlander on 01/08/2022 - 18:24
    +1

    This is one instance where the best response was a terminator-style 'F you A hole'

    • Aerith-Waifu on 01/08/2022 - 22:45

      Brutal!

    • 82norm on 02/08/2022 - 12:38

      Finally commonsense prevails 👍

  • El cheepo on 01/08/2022 - 19:01
    +3

    He can just mind his own business…

    It’s no different to you wearing any other company branded attire like Nike etc.
    Just because you wear a item of clothing doesn’t mean you automatically represent the brand/business.

    • Rayzorback on 03/08/2022 - 06:43

      Exactly

    • cunningdrew on 06/08/2022 - 00:05
      +1

      "He can just mind his own business…"

      Actually, that's exactly what he was doing.

  • FourSquareMan on 01/08/2022 - 19:11
    +2

    You should have asked him if you could get a job with his company!.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:37

      I don't think a guy doing phone support working from home and doing delivery rounds will bat his HIGH standard……………

  • Dave Bowman on 01/08/2022 - 19:50
    +5

    Get the company branding on your car too.

  • [Deactivated] on 01/08/2022 - 19:54

    i often see this story in the news, usually regarding dole "bludgers" (imagine my surprise when it wasn't an article about politicians). there are two sides to every story, if they really have such a great employment opportunity, they would be able to fill it, something is not as they say it is, whether it's pay, management, hours etc. something is off. you can't trust people like that

    • spackbace on 01/08/2022 - 19:58
      +1

      A lot of businesses are crying out for staff these days

      • [Deactivated] on 01/08/2022 - 21:01
        +1

        that's true, but it's a workers market, if they can't match or exceed their competition in salary and benefits, tough luck for them

      • ThithLord on 02/08/2022 - 08:14

        Yeah but they aren't willing to offer respectable working conditions and remuneration.

        • cfuse on 02/08/2022 - 11:23
          +3

          I can give you work today and all you have to do is be available, sober, clean, not steal anything from the clients, and move the entire contents of houses in and out of the back of trucks. A job is the smallest unit of work, and you can have as many or as few as you like. If you're a minor and you can do the job then you'll be paid the same as an adult would be.

          You'd think that it would be trivial to find people to fill that role, wouldn't you? It's not. The question I would ask here is: How much do you think that job pays per hour? How much would you do it for?

          Jobs are more than just money for tasks. Some jobs are just unwanted. They may be better than nothing, but nothing is still a choice that people are willing to take over them.

          • ThithLord on 02/08/2022 - 11:30

            @cfuse: Well put.

            Also, a lot of these jobs are not full-time or secured work

          • outlander on 02/08/2022 - 18:10

            @cfuse: All jobs are unwanted. That's why they're called jobs. If they were wanted, they'd be called cool fun activities.

            How much do you think that job pays per hour? How much would you do it for?

            I'm guessing.. $35 an hour.

            • cfuse on 03/08/2022 - 15:33
              -1

              @outlander: I've worked with people that didn't need to work at all. I've worked with people that picked unexpected jobs (people doing work that is so far beneath their skillset and experience that when you find out you can't help but say "What the hell are you doing working here?" Human motivations can be more counter-intuitive than you'd expect.

              And right on the money, $35 is where it starts, not including tips and bonuses. So the question remains: how much more would be required to make recruitment a non-issue? If it's not about money, what is it about?

              • Vote for Pedro on 03/08/2022 - 16:58
                -1

                @cfuse: Its absolutely about money.

                Its all about money. A (profanity) of a boss in a basic retail type job for $23 an hour? Nope. Same boss/same job for $35, maybe. $43, ok, lets talk.

          • Vote for Pedro on 03/08/2022 - 16:56
            -1

            @cfuse: Every job has a price. If you don’t pay that price you don’t get a worker.

          • ozbjunkie on 04/08/2022 - 21:10

            @cfuse: This modern obsession with sobriety is very distressing. Drives me to drink…

            • cfuse on 05/08/2022 - 08:20

              @ozbjunkie: I have routinely worked with people on substances. As a co-worker, If I cannot tell you are intoxicated then I don't care if you are.

              As someone with liability or responsibility, if you take substances when it can mess up my life then I will break your kneecaps.

  • SF3 on 01/08/2022 - 20:45

    Sharpie over it.

  • Elppa8 on 01/08/2022 - 21:12

    Spray paint neatly over the logos

  • cookie2 on 01/08/2022 - 21:36
    +1

    He's cooked. End of story.

  • morse on 02/08/2022 - 03:14
    +3

    I don’t think he can do much about it. That said, wearing a uniform for a company you don’t work for could be seen as misleading. I think this would only be an issue if you were somehow gaining undue advantage, harming others or fraudulently representing the company. e.g. if you bought second hand scrubs with the health service logo and wore them in that hospital, or did something in the media. Just wearing it for deliveries isn’t hurting anyone.

    The way he spoke to you sounded threatening - to me that’s more of an image problem for the company.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:35

      It is indeed about imagine, i think he doesn't want to other people to see the employee of their company doing lowly paid jobs. Which may lead to others think if an engineer have to resort to food delivery, they must be not paying well. I don't know to be honest what he was thinking at the time. But you are spot on about the imagine issues.

      To be honest, i wouldnt even consider wearing it if it wasn't so much rain in Perth at the moment.

  • avoidfullprice on 02/08/2022 - 07:49
    +1

    Upgrade to a fireman jacket from op shop. Rain AND fire proof

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:45

      I saw a workman jacket the other day, with yellow stripes and everything, good for the rain but they wanted $35 for it!

      Bit expensive consider its in the OP shop.

  • ThithLord on 02/08/2022 - 08:14

    If you don't work for the company, why not tell us what brand jacket it is man? Sheesh

  • subydooby on 02/08/2022 - 08:28
    +3

    a piece of masking tape with “I don’t work for” above the company logo should suffice.

  • 82norm on 02/08/2022 - 12:49
    +1

    Was the guy called Karen? What a loser. So you where Nike shoes, do you work for Nike? I wear a Bunnings hoodie, but I don’t work for Bunnings. Does this mean every time you put on some clothes you need to do some form of disassociation? The guy has no justification to question what you wear. He may not like it, but stiff shite.

    If you were wearing a cop uniform, different story….

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:31

      Interesting take indeed. Never thought it like that

  • lainey13 on 03/08/2022 - 12:57

    Is this company sufficiently far apart from the food delivery company that there is no direct competition and no way someone would mistake you as an employee of both? If it's an engineering company and a food delivery company I can't see why someone would have a problem with it unless they were one of those annoying brown noses who live for work at this engineering company.. in which case you can ignore him.

    • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:33
      +2

      Well from the man's perspective, if you are working for the company there is lots of shifts to be filled which will earns you heaps and heaps more, therefore there is no need to be working as a delivery man as you can surely see the differences in pay between the 2 jobs.

      Then again, if everyone works in the high paying jobs, who is going to do the low paying jobs??? Besides, I enjoy a bit of driving as my day job is stuck in front of a computer for 8 hours which isnt fun at all.

  • Vote for Pedro on 03/08/2022 - 16:53

    I wouldn’t worry about it. You own the coat. You bought it. Let them report you. What’s the company gonna do, send you a stern letter? Ok.

  • Aerith-Waifu on 04/08/2022 - 05:30

    Well one of my friend said just give to the homeless, they surely need it in this weather, not a bad idea i thought.

  • lachhelix on 06/08/2022 - 00:55
    +1

    Yeah he sounds like a total tool - you bought it, wear it however you like!
    Who does he think he is? The clothing police?

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