Jeans and Sneakers
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deird_ljMy boss - or, rather, my boss's boss's boss's boss - is on an unending quest to abolish all business attire.
A year ago, when he first became head honcho (his job is, basically, the same as Sir Humphrey Appleby's), he promptly banned ties.
Well - not banned them, actually. He just declared that ties were no longer a compulsory part of business wear, and no-one had to wear them unless they really wanted to.
Our office became 80% tieless within a week.
And now, he's decided that having Casual Fridays just isn't good enough.
(Casual Fridays, for those who don't know, mean that we get to spend Fridays wearing jeans, or so forth. They're very fun.)
My last job had Casual Fridays for a price - you had to pay $2 if you wanted to wear casual clothes. And the job before that had Casual Fridays on the first Friday of the month.
I thought getting a Casual Friday, free of charge, every single week was doing pretty well. But no. Apparently not.
We now get Casual Fridays and Casual Mondays.
Today's the first one.
Currently, half the office are wearing suits (without ties) and the rest are in jeans - and spent most of the morning having whispered conversations with each other, trying to figure out if they were right about it being a Casual Monday, or if they'd accidentally misinterpreted the Big Boss's email and made a huge non-suit-wearing faux pas...
A year ago, when he first became head honcho (his job is, basically, the same as Sir Humphrey Appleby's), he promptly banned ties.
Well - not banned them, actually. He just declared that ties were no longer a compulsory part of business wear, and no-one had to wear them unless they really wanted to.
Our office became 80% tieless within a week.
And now, he's decided that having Casual Fridays just isn't good enough.
(Casual Fridays, for those who don't know, mean that we get to spend Fridays wearing jeans, or so forth. They're very fun.)
My last job had Casual Fridays for a price - you had to pay $2 if you wanted to wear casual clothes. And the job before that had Casual Fridays on the first Friday of the month.
I thought getting a Casual Friday, free of charge, every single week was doing pretty well. But no. Apparently not.
We now get Casual Fridays and Casual Mondays.
Today's the first one.
Currently, half the office are wearing suits (without ties) and the rest are in jeans - and spent most of the morning having whispered conversations with each other, trying to figure out if they were right about it being a Casual Monday, or if they'd accidentally misinterpreted the Big Boss's email and made a huge non-suit-wearing faux pas...
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Date: 2009-06-01 04:00 am (UTC)But there are staff here whom I've never seen wear any trousers that aren't jeans.
The PE staff are still the most casual, but even the others here are pretty good.
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Date: 2009-06-01 12:49 pm (UTC)Any particular reason your boss hates formal wear?
And cause I'm curious...did you do Casual Monday?
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Date: 2009-06-02 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-02 01:10 am (UTC)