Albert Pujols wears one. So do children attending parochial schools, members of the armed forces, police officers and thousands upon thousands employees of fast food restaurants.
Now the Missouri Department of Agriculture is requiring its field employees to don a uniform each day.
The department director, Jon Hagler, says uniform(ity) readily identifies his employees while protecting the public from imposters posing as agency workers.
But at least one agriculture worker, saying she represents the sentiments of several others, thinks the department’s directive is a real dud.
The problem isn’t the aesthetics of the “uniform” — seasonally appropriate green Carhartt brand shirts bearing a gold Department of Agriculture insignia over lettering that identifies the employee’s division.
Rather, it’s the department’s failure to provide enough clothing to get the 70 to 80 field employees — department workers that encounter the public in various capacities — through the week.
Each employee was issued two short-sleeved (for spring and summer) and two long-sleeved (for fall and winter) when the policy took effect in July.
