On: Why Americans don't take sick days

[paulddraper]

"White collar" doesn't have to do with management or social status.

White collar work is in an office setting. Blue collar work is manual labor.

Telemarketers are white collar. Construction managers are blue collar.

[bryanlarsen → paulddraper]

White collar means a job that traditionally would require a suit and tie. Blue collar means a uniform.

[paulddraper → bryanlarsen]

That is the origin of the word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collar_workers

But so few jobs require suit and tie compared to 60 years ago, that the definition has shifted to "office job" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker.

[bryanlarsen → paulddraper]

Yup, which is why I used the word "traditionally".

[paulddraper → bryanlarsen]

Very traditionally.