I have a lot of tshirts from companies I used to work for, but I don’t wear them anymore. I was going to give them away, but I’m worried random people wearing work uniforms might cause problems down the line. Some are construction companies, which I’m not too worried about, but the retail shirts are my concern. Is there a way to remove the text on them so they’re just regular solid colored shirts? I want to say the logos are screenprinted but I don’t think they were, and I can’t remember the name of any other printing processes that aren’t just stitching them in.
A lot of companies require branded work wear to be returned or destroyed to stop people impersonating their employees. It may not seem like a big deal but a bad actor could use it in any number of ways.
Imagine some one used a branded work shirt to gain access to your granny’s house when she thought they were from a company or service they trusted etc.
Certainly the police and other emergency services won’t want their uniforms in the wrong hands.
In my view it might seem like wastage but there are good reasons to destroy these clothing items, I guess it depends what business you’re in.
Just…. A small point. You can buy the basic police uni from a uniform supply store, no questions asked.
Depending on where you are, patches are a lot harder to come by but most places reasonably accessible. You can buy generic patches on Amazon.
Patches are a collectors item to some people, it’s perfectly legal as long as you don’t actually impersonate a cop.
And if you slap on generic patches that look remotely close, Joe Idiot ain’t gonna know.
Maybe to personal but what companies did you work for? Because there are markets for employee clothing and depending on what or who it is they can earn you big bucks.
I’m mostly worried about the Harbor Freight shirts, cause there’s one down the street from the clothing bin I usually drop stuff in. The construction contractors not so much cause outside of construction sites, no one really says anything about em
If it’s just HF and you didn’t sign any paperwork on the matter when you worked there, it’s probably fine. If you signed paperwork, consult an attorney yadda yadda yadda.
It’d be one thing if you worked in an industry where those uniforms might give you actual access somewhere (police, fire, EMS, etc), but this is not that.
