Dressed For Success
on August 16, 2016
at 12:00 am
This is the thought that hit me yesterday morning as I got up for work. I looked like a dork, but shrugged and said, “Meh. They didn’t hire me for my fashion sense.”
Bug Martini
Random nonsense three days a week
I wear a fleece to work most days.
And cargo shorts.
My job is super complicated.
Somehow I suspect that if I were an office worker, I would probably dress like Columbo.
“Can you sign this shipping memo?”
*signs*
“Just one more thing… you said you were out last week for hand surgery yet, you seem to be holding that pen perfectly well.”
“Shut up, Bob!”
“And there’s no smoking in the office.”
He did acknowledge both the no smoking and not actually smoking but still carried the cigar for habits sake in the latter stories.
I wish I didn’t have to worry about dressing nicely. Yesterday I had an unexpected meeting with Boss #1, and I had to avoid Boss #2 because I was wearing dress slacks and Boss #2 is a dress code neanderthal and demands skirts on all women employees. Boss #1 IS a woman and wears dress slacks all the time. o.o;;;
Is there a hierarchy between Boss #1 and Boss#2? How about you tell Boss #2 that Boss #1 is your sole source of inspiration?
Some days ago someone on the TV said: “There hasn’t been any woman who looked bad in a dirndl, ever.” As I thought about it I had to admit: He is right!
But our female employees weren’t too keen on picking up that dress code.
We have “Super Casual Summers” here… shorts and t-shirts from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Of course, the building folks keep our AC blasting at 65 degrees… so participation in Super Casual Summer attire is sparse.
After 43 years I’ll soon hang up my suits and ties for good. Can’t say that I’ll miss them. After a while they were just a uniform to me. However, on cold days the tie felt good and on hot days it was miserable. We recently dropped “casual days” – I miss them.
I’m a catsitter. The cats don’t give a flick what I’m wearing as long as I can put food in a bowl and scoop their poop. On the other hand, there are no sick days or snow days.
I work at a business casual type place but where shorts in and change wqhen I get there
Ideally I would work in the buff but that upsets people. Come on, it’s natural!
Sadly, the dress code at my workplace just got bumped up. Used to be we could wear any sort of pants or shorts as long as they were roughly khaki-colored, and while we did have to wear company shirts, they at least came in a few different colors we could pick from, and we could just use a regular polo of an approved color in a pinch. Now that my boss is back from a franchise-owners’ convention though, he’s announced that we all have to color-coordinate every day. And because shirts cost money, that color is blue. (Though come to think of it, that’s actually probably the best outcome for a fan of the game EarthBound…)
He’s also announced that it’s khaki pants all year round now, which is fine if you have a car I guess. For someone like me who bikes to and from work in the middle of the muggy Gulf Coast summer, however…
I do understand things like this if your workplace is amidst customers. Some kind of uniform makes it easy to distinguish who to turn to if you have a question.
But just for the sake of it? That’s just crap.
No, you actually make a fair point. It is a retail job. It’s just that all of our shirts have our logo and name on them already regardless of color, along with the name tags we’re supposed to wear. And because our store is small and we primarily sell a service, the customers can just take five steps over to the counter, since there’s always someone manning it. Honestly, I only mind the shirt part a little. I’m mostly bummed about the pants thing because I like my shorts’ pocket space and, again, *much* cooler when biking in high-humidity, high-temp southeast summertime.
Where’s the problem? Bike to work in shorts and just change there into corporate uniform. Decend companies (well, over here) have bath rooms (real ones, not just loos) and sometimes even showers for their staff.
The last real job I had (before the glorious freedom of self-employment) was electronics service tech. I maybe dealt with customers an hour a week, but I still had to wear khakis, shirt and tie. And then do benchwork next to a server rack in the back room in July the other fifty-nine hours. I did manage to talk the boss into a fifty-cent raise for having to wear a tie, which at the hours I was working made that tie worth over a hundred bucks a month. When the shop closed down I didn’t touch a dress shirt and tie again for over four years. Will never work a shirt-tie dress code job again unless it’s the only option preventing homelessness, and even then it’d be debatable.
I work in a lab so whatever i wear gets covered by my lab coat. There’s dangerous chemicals so they forbid shorts and open-toe shoes, but that’s it.
In practice, though, everyone wears a decent shirt, albeit not fancy.