@hchavers I relate to this SO much. My solution? I literally have “emergency door pants” hanging on a hook by the door all summer. It’s saved the UPS guy from embarrassment more than once. (There may have been one time I may have forgotten I was working in my undies, when a package arrived…)
I have confirmed that people will comment on, but not chastise me for wearing Star Trek uniforms, Harry Potter robes, fuzzy slippers, David Bowie makeup, and Doctor Who cosplay.
@2many2no That’s still a better color than hunter. I had an interview last week at Penn. I’m hoping I land the job, not only because the money would be amazing, but because they wear gray scrubs.
People in my building wear everything from suits to flipflops. I think it’s that way through the rest of the agency, though some buildings hew slightly closer to biz-cazh.
I’m sure there’s a written dress code somewhere, but in reality it just seems to be “whatever you’re comfortable in.” I settled on jeans and untucked oxford shirts a long time ago, which seems be fine with everyone.
work from home/gainfully unemployed so usually a tank top, underwear, and socks. will add leggings and knee socks to that equation when the weather gets cooler.
Trophy/engraving shop. Dress code is something like “whatever is street legal, looks and smells cleanish, and has nothing inappropriate printed on it” and we are asked to please wear actual shoes until 5 in case we have to wait on a customer (a good idea anyway because sometimes random tiny pointy bits of metal find their way onto the floor). During busy season we frequently go out to dinner after closing time, come back, and change into pajama pants and slippers before getting back to work.
Retired from advertising sales. Twenty four years of dressing up including heels most days. We had one uptight male publisher who would not allow us to wear sandals or open toe shoes and insisted we wear hosiery on even the hottest days of summer while out pounding the pavement. He got caught playing hanky panky with a subordinate and was gone soon after. I wonder if she had to keep her shoes on.
@tngrannyd Used to be that a lot of employers expected that. More the rule rather than the exception. One of the toughest I ever heard of was Ross Perot. He expected females to wear a skirt suit, heels but not too high. No necklaces, etc. He had some very specific dress code.
@mustardeleven It’s not even close to a representative sampling of meh. But I get what you are going for. I know some jobs where one dresses well though, that don’t pay hardly anything, whereas some jobs where one doesn’t dress up at all, pay very well. In the meantime, let’s look at how pirates cause global warming.
Cargo pants, button-down shirt. I used to wear T-shirts on Fridays at the old place, but my manager here didn’t like his engineers to wear T-shirts. He’s moved on now, though…
Tasteful casual, with the occasional “a reporter and/or politician is visiting, so tomorrow’s business casual” day. My normal attire is an untucked short-sleeved buttondown with carpenter jeans and steel-toe boots.
@dannybeans Every once in a while we will get an email to remind us that we should look a little more presentable when a customer visits… but for security reasons they don’t tell us when customers are going to visit.
Not working so. . . Pajamas.
None, bitches, I’m retired!
Anything I want. Usually a Meh t shirt. Speaking
Of meh shirts…
@ThatsHeadly
Yep. Most of my shirts come from meh…
I work from home, so anything I want. My greatest dressing concern is that I have pants on when the doorbell rings.
@hchavers I relate to this SO much. My solution? I literally have “emergency door pants” hanging on a hook by the door all summer. It’s saved the UPS guy from embarrassment more than once. (There may have been one time I may have forgotten I was working in my undies, when a package arrived…)
@hchavers @QuietDelusions Ditto… but there were no undies.
@QuietDelusions You met the package with a package of your own?
@PocketBrain I don’t have a package of my own. Maybe that’s why I keep ordering them online?
Pajamas and sneakers…
Well, technically, scrubs.
Red shirt with khaki pants.
@JT954 you sound hideous
@JT954 You sound like you’re asking to die first on the mission.
@JT954 Jake? Jake from State Farm? Hey! You still owe me 20 bucks from the other day!
@Ignorant Well I’m a guy so …
But I’m not that guy.
And I don’t work for that company.
Must be wearing pants, it’s highly frowned upon to come to work bareass.
I work from home. I only have a dress code if I have to go in to the office. My most recent in-office visit was 3 years ago.
Our fearless leader has described it as “homeless casual”.
I have confirmed that people will comment on, but not chastise me for wearing Star Trek uniforms, Harry Potter robes, fuzzy slippers, David Bowie makeup, and Doctor Who cosplay.
@arielleslie
@cinoclav more or less
I’m a (mostly non-functioning) hausfrau. I wear what I want. Usually pajama shorts and a t-shirt.
@Pony Executive Director of Operations, then.
Just like @2many2no - scrubs. Hunter green ones in my department. I always say the same thing, it’s like wearing pajamas to work.
@cinoclav Ours are a color I said I’d never wear again…
O.D. Green.
@2many2no That’s still a better color than hunter. I had an interview last week at Penn. I’m hoping I land the job, not only because the money would be amazing, but because they wear gray scrubs.
@cinoclav Good luck, hope you get it.
@2many2no Thank you!
Business casual, but jeans allowed.
Business dress (but not actually a dress). Did I mention that I HATE business dress?
People in my building wear everything from suits to flipflops. I think it’s that way through the rest of the agency, though some buildings hew slightly closer to biz-cazh.
I’m sure there’s a written dress code somewhere, but in reality it just seems to be “whatever you’re comfortable in.” I settled on jeans and untucked oxford shirts a long time ago, which seems be fine with everyone.
whatever i wore to bed the night before.
@carl669 stripper glitter?
I get to wear whatever I want under my pants!
work from home/gainfully unemployed so usually a tank top, underwear, and socks. will add leggings and knee socks to that equation when the weather gets cooler.
@jerk_nugget Do you work as a stock photo model?
Trophy/engraving shop. Dress code is something like “whatever is street legal, looks and smells cleanish, and has nothing inappropriate printed on it” and we are asked to please wear actual shoes until 5 in case we have to wait on a customer (a good idea anyway because sometimes random tiny pointy bits of metal find their way onto the floor). During busy season we frequently go out to dinner after closing time, come back, and change into pajama pants and slippers before getting back to work.
Retired from advertising sales. Twenty four years of dressing up including heels most days. We had one uptight male publisher who would not allow us to wear sandals or open toe shoes and insisted we wear hosiery on even the hottest days of summer while out pounding the pavement. He got caught playing hanky panky with a subordinate and was gone soon after. I wonder if she had to keep her shoes on.
@tngrannyd Used to be that a lot of employers expected that. More the rule rather than the exception. One of the toughest I ever heard of was Ross Perot. He expected females to wear a skirt suit, heels but not too high. No necklaces, etc. He had some very specific dress code.
Anything I don’t mind possibly getting destroyed.
@ZeroCharisma What do you do that destroys clothes?
@Kidsandliz Warehousing. 99% of the time I can stay clean but that 1% invariably involves industrial grease and rust that pretty much never comes out.
I like how the results are like a microcosm of the demographics of meh users.
Now just make the “uniform” result bar about 100x longer and it’s a microcosm of income class levels in America lol
@mustardeleven It’s not even close to a representative sampling of meh. But I get what you are going for. I know some jobs where one dresses well though, that don’t pay hardly anything, whereas some jobs where one doesn’t dress up at all, pay very well. In the meantime, let’s look at how pirates cause global warming.
@mustardeleven @therealjrn arrrrrrrrrr…
@daveinwarsh @mustardeleven @therealjrn
Et’s HOT thar, matey!
/image hot pirate
Cargo pants, button-down shirt. I used to wear T-shirts on Fridays at the old place, but my manager here didn’t like his engineers to wear T-shirts. He’s moved on now, though…
Tasteful casual, with the occasional “a reporter and/or politician is visiting, so tomorrow’s business casual” day. My normal attire is an untucked short-sleeved buttondown with carpenter jeans and steel-toe boots.
. . . which is how I like to dress anyway, so it works out pretty well.
@dannybeans Every once in a while we will get an email to remind us that we should look a little more presentable when a customer visits… but for security reasons they don’t tell us when customers are going to visit.
Casual with a few rules + part of a uniform.