Originally Posted by
Maelochs
If a person is more comfortable riding slowly and not carrying a change of clothes ... I don't know where cooker works ,... but most of the places I have worked (except working from home) people made it inconvenient to some small extent to change, wash, store wet clothes ....
I understand that most people in a place of business don't want sweaty clothes hanging anywhere ... or wet clothes on a rainy day. Can't blame them.
I also know that when I was commuting in Florida it took half an hour or 45 minutes for my core temperature to drop in the summer ... meaning I could wash as much as I liked, i was still going to sweat a river for the first 30 minutes after I arrived.
When I worked in air-conditioned offices the sweating time was shorter ... but still, I couldn't put on my work clothes fro half an hour, which had to be added to my commute time.
Many moons ago I worked for a big office equipment and tech company. I started out in the warehouse and slowly worked my up to lead. When I first started I was only about 9 miles from the base warehouse so riding my bicycle sounds pretty good. We had lockers and a shower so I could pretty much hit it hard all the way to work and cruise home. That worked pretty well as long as I was out on the floor working mostly with other men. But the front office had more of a dress code.and a higher number of women working. Slacks, dress shirt and tie for men was mandatory until you made management and then dress coat was added.
In my case I discovered that promotions and movement into an office environment can be a game changer when it comes to working and sweat. There is a entire industry based on eliminating body order. The commercials for Fabreeze show a series of cases where someone has become nose blind to sweat, a kids room before a study session with his girlfriend or has his room smells like a locker room. Duluth trading company offers underwear that is both comfortable and "they won't stink".
It may be corporate identity or societies expectation but from high school through college and even our military you exercise till you sweat and you shower before rejoining the public. Body order is to be avoided much like food caught on your teeth.
I gave up cycling to work, switched to motorcycles and finally when I had meeting with customers moved back to cars. It didn't take long to get used to cup holder, air conditioning and a great sound system. It took years to come back to the bicycle.