Dress Down Friday at Work



Used to do this over 20 years ago - became a fashion show for the ladies and the lads had their Friday drinking gear on.
 
Dress down - bollocks!

The world seems to have been on a downward trajectory towards ever more casual clothes in the workplace. How long before we all just chuck in the towel and come to work in pyjamas?

Hospital scrubs used to be for people doing surgery in the OR. Now everyone from the janitor to the receptionist up to the chief surgeon rolls up in scrubs.

I’m flighting a rearguard action against this sloppiness. Love getting suited and booted for work.
 
Hate working in offices and wearing a shirt and trousers. While men are limited in what smart clothes they can wear, women can practically whatever they like, generally what's light and comfortable. Then they insist on having the place heated to approximately the temperature of what they'd incubate dinosaur eggs in the Jurassic Park lab to compensate, so you're roasting and uncomfortable all day.

...oh, and to add insult to injury, the guys in IT who earn more than me get to swerve this and dress in scruffy tshirts and have beards like they've been sleeping in a bin behind Lidl.
 
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Dress down - bollocks!

The world seems to have been on a downward trajectory towards ever more casual clothes in the workplace. How long before we all just chuck in the towel and come to work in pyjamas?

Hospital scrubs used to be for people doing surgery in the OR. Now everyone from the janitor to the receptionist up to the chief surgeon rolls up in scrubs.

I’m flighting a rearguard action against this sloppiness. Love getting suited and booted for work.

Fuck that, had the shorts out today.
 
Hate working in offices and wearing a shirt and trousers. While men are limited in what smart clothes they can wear, women can practically whatever they like, generally what's light and comfortable. Then they insist on having the place heated to approximately the temperature of what they'd incubate dinosaur eggs in the Jurassic Park lab to compensate, so you're roasting and uncomfortable all day.

...oh, and to add insult to injury, the guys in IT who earn more than me get to swerve this and dress in scruffy tshirts and have beards like they've been sleeping in a bin behind Lidl.
Women do take the piss with office wear like 100%
 
Fuck that, had the shorts out today.

This is how we lost the empire.
We British used to be able to handle all climates.
I checked the temperature the other day. It was 88F.

That was the temperature of the water in the pool!

Still went out suited and booted.

(The house has A/C as does the car, the airport, the rental car, the hotel, the hospital where I worked etc).

Nowts the bother if you’re not a whingeing soft shite and have a few ounces of dignity and self respect to not want to leave the house looking like a schlub.
 
We have dress down every day, although a large % tend to only dress down on a Friday...


The web dev team started this trend earlier this year on the first few warm days, now it’s gone through the office like a domino effect...
Tbf the dev team in any office are always the worst dressed fat lads. Known as the darts team in our place
 
This is how we lost the empire.
We British used to be able to handle all climates.
I checked the temperature the other day. It was 88F.

That was the temperature of the water in the pool!

Still went out suited and booted.

(The house has A/C as does the car, the airport, the rental car, the hotel, the hospital where I worked etc).

Nowts the bother if you’re not a whingeing soft shite and have a few ounces of dignity and self respect to not want to leave the house looking like a schlub.

You'd look a bit odd at our place like.
 

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