Gracious Professionalism or NOT?

[dtengineering]

When it comes to style, usually if you have to ask the question, "Is it in good taste to do ________." then the answer is no.

Of course a team has earned their awards and has a right to be recognized for that success. There is nothing wrong, per se, with listing the awards whenever and where ever desired. It is definitely within GP to list awards and celebrate past successes... on a .sig on a shirt, in your pit area, etc.

But the fact that you felt the need to ask the question suggests that you might be just a little uncomfortable with the idea of splaying a long list of awards on your team shirts for... as you put it... risk of appearing arrogant.

Why take the risk?

Remember that it's not what is on the outside of the shirt that matters, it's what is on the inside. Awards don't make your team good... its what you did to earn those awards that make your team good. If you keep doing whatever you did to win the awards, then you'll find that listing the awards is really kind of redundant.

Jason

P.S. Those of you who have listed awards on your shirts, please note... I'm not saying it is wrong or arrogant. You can bet that in the highly unlikely event that we walk off Einstein this year in a barrage of confetti this year, that our team will be doing something to mark the accomplishment... I'm just saying that if you wouldn't feel 100% comfortable with a list of awards on your shirt, then don't put them there! There's lots of other good places to list awards.