Appearance

[Carl Meyer]

Dear small potatoe  (is that spelled right?)

I guess if I lived in Phoenix, I'd strip to my bvd's to tune a piano that is
too hot to touch.

I absitively, posilutely hate hot weather.  I was in the corporate world for
many years.  I was expected to wear suits and tie every day and hated it
profusely.  I'll never go back to that.  If you want to really irritate me,
just say "But it's a dry heat."

You have to decide if making an additional $100 a day is worth being
miserable. Or you could become an air conditioning repairman.  I doubt they
wear a suit and tie.

Don't tell gentleman Jim I said this:  He's still one of my favorite guys.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California





----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliot Lee" <eliotlee1@home.com>
To: <Pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Appearance


> Hello,
>
>     I was just told by a senior tuner here (Jim Coleman Sr.) that if I
> change my appearance by wearing a shirt and tie, instead of wearing casual
> dress, jeans and polo shirt, that I could increase my annual salary by
> $30,000.  He said there was a Yamaha study 20 years ago about this.
>
>     Have any of you noticed an increase in business by upgrading your
> grooming?
>
>     The problem is that here in Phoenix it is so hot, many homes are not
> properly cooled, I shutter to think how much I would suffer with the top
> button fastened wearing a tie, and to wear a suit coat over that would
> really be unbearable.
>
>     Do any of you take off your tie and open your shirt after making the
> first impression?
>
>     We small potatoes want to know.
>
> Eliot Lee
>