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really, it's not that my productivity goes up (although it has) it's that my work is much more pleased with me when i don't surf so much. *sigh*

so here i am, at half past six, slowly waking up and wishing i could drink coffee.

Caffeine's such a social drug. I mean, it's interesting that you can get cups of it on every corner in this city, including the one downtown where you can get sushi and coffee at the dunkin' donuts. Only one i know of that does it, and i think it's just swell.

The only thing i can think of that would be better is a cup of coffee and minions. Here- get your caffeine and your followers at the same place!!! When you're awake enough to tell them what to do, they'll be right there where you can order them about!

Why, yes, Evil's still on till 8 AM, why do you ask?

So, alas, i'm skipping the caffeine. I likes it but my system's overclocked as it is. My brain is not overclocked. My brain might still be asleep. *poke* *poke* nope, we're not getting anywhere with Mr. the brain right now.

Now i have to go find a suit and put on my corporate bear disguise. (Picture paddington bear, with suit coat, hat, and false moustachios, and that's about how i feel about my work wear.)

What do you wear to work, if you work? How do you feel about it?

Blinder, tell the story of the trouser verification stickers, if you would. (his workplace has rituals.)

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  • What do you wear to work, if you work? How do you feel about it?

    I will be wearing dressy casual for the temp gig I start next week. It's what I'm most comfortable with. The dress code seems pretty relaxed where I will be, though the people I know who work there are fashion slaves to a certain extent...

  • The atmosphere where I work is quite laid-back. In fact, since it's a collegiante/grad-school environs, it's not uncommon to see folks muck about in...well, not quite college dormwear, but bright-pink-with-yellow-polka-dot galoshes aren't going to bring the place to a grinding halt.

    There's no particular "pressure" to dress a certain way, but the folks there tend to be a mix of part-time young folk and long-term (we're talking decades here) workers, and fashion seems to be a distinguishing characteristic b
  • No shorts allowed, though. I alternate between jeans and pants, usually khakis, though I have five colors of pants that I wear, not including the various shades that jeans encompass. T-shirts, long- & short-sleeve button-down shirts, combinations thereof...

    I wore something special [zazzle.com] yesterday. Only one person caught the reference, though.

    I do also get to wear sandals much of the time, but I am supposed to wear closed-toe shoes to be in the warehouse and required to wear steel-toe boots to be on the manu
  • Scrubs, the next best thing to working in your jammies. I buy four sets and they last the whole year long, order out of a catalogue so no shopping - yay ! The theme last year was cartoon characters. The theme this year is Florida flamingos, fish and fauna -all rather colorful. I miss Marvin the Martian most of all, he has the ray gun.

  • No blue jeans, sandals or T-shirts. Ties are optional, or rather discouraged for us worker bees. Mangement wears ties. Upper management wears suits. Other than that it's pretty relaxed.

    I tend to go on the dressier side with dress pants and single colored shirts. I prefer a more strict, neat look rather than the casual end of the scale. But I'm weird like that. I feel better in a white shirt and tie than I do in khakis and a polo.

  • usually jeans, a polo shirt, and my sneakers.

    If I feel depressed, maybe Kaiki's (spelling?), and dress shoes.

    I work at a manufacturing facility so some times I'm in the factory, some times in the warehouse, a lot of times at my desk. So there will be times I'm out running or crawling around in welding dust (oh yay! heavy metals!) I don't really want to wear really nice clothes and then get them crapped up. Jeans are a little more durable for me.

    As long as I don't come in looking like a slob I'm ok.

    I
  • Very engineering casual. The minium usually is kahkis or dress type pants, button up and polo shirts. At times, a tie or suit may be required for certain types of client interaction, but even then we don't want to project a feeling of being uptight like some engineers come across. I like it. It's comfortbale.

    Fridays, we go pretty casual. Well, I probably do more so than others. When we get into spring and summer I start wearing sandals to work. Funny thing about this. At an old company I kind of did the s
  • I once worked in a place where the written dress code was pretty casual, generic and gender-inspecific. But then the last item on the list said "no open-toed sandals without nylons."

    I asked if this meant that I could wear open-toed sandals as long as I wore nylons (I'm male, for readers who don't know me) but I never did get a proper response.
  • For pants I wear mostly khakis of various colors or slacks. I have nice dress shoes to go with them, but generally favor decent looking normal shoes, as the comfort factor is higher and nobody at all cares. They're brownish shoes, so as long as I'm not wearing black or navy pants they work. Black or navy pants require the black dress shoes. Always a belt, though I found a brown leather braid one that looks nice, is comfortable, and I like.

    Up top I wear things with buttons and collars. Always with the button

  • I'm working in my bathrobe right now.

    Of course, work from home program makes this pretty easy :-)

  • Blinder, tell the story of the trouser verification stickers, if you would. (his workplace has rituals.)

    okay, its all part of the year-long (never ending) United Way Shakedown. if you give to the United Way... you get... and i just can't stop laughing at this... you get these stickers. these stickers act like "get out of jail free" cards or something. basically each sticker "buys" you *snicker* a jeans-day.

    yes!! a day where you can wear jeans instead of the usual business-casual nonsense.

    the sticker ac
  • Oh, you meant my day job. I wear Khakis and a polo or button up shirt. It's ok. I look nice and that's what matters. Honestly I would wear a tie, but everytime I do people bug the hell out of me. "Why are YOU dressed up... do you have an interview?"
  • Ew.

    It means I can't wear jeans, tennis shoes (well, running shoes in my case), or t-shirts. That's what I wore at my last job.

    Open-toed shoes and bottoms other than long pants have always been out of the question due to working in a lab.

    I dress as casually as I can get away with: pants in khaki/black/grey/brown and a knit shirt or sweater. And of course, my super-stylish static dissipating shoes.
  • Actually, everywhere I've managed to work has had a pretty lax dress code, as long as it wasn't trashy or [too] filled with holes it was ok.

    I'm pretty sure that's how it goes for my new job, though I'll probably try to wear non t-shirts a decent amount of time, though I do want to avoid the sys admin look. No offense to kshgoddes, but anytime I dress like that I have flash back of my old boss when I sys admin'd at Clemson, and he was not one of my more favorite people.
  • Well, they're navy blue, with shiny (er....should be shiny) boots and a beret.

    Makes it much easier to decide what to wear in the morning.

  • What do you wear to work, if you work? How do you feel about it?

    Usually, jeans and a t-shirt or sweatshirt, but occasionally I will step out and wear something entirely different [slashdot.org] just to stir the pot.

  • I am famous at work for my collection of haxor t-shirts.
  • Generally, no dress code here (the standard in the manual is "clothing that will not adversely affect you or your co-workers ability to do the job", so that leaves ellem's assless pants out but pretty much everything else goes.)

    We do have the occasional e-mail saying "on day x, we have client reps in the building, so we are business casual/formal for that day."
    • amen.

      Go Start-up mentality! :D

      Our dress code is "wear something that covers the naughty bits"... or it would be, if we had one. Jeans and T-shirts and tennis shoes all day.

      We get "dress up because important people will be here" emails occasionally. Not very often, though.
    • the standard in the manual is "clothing that will not adversely affect you or your co-workers ability to do the job"

      We had an employee manual that was a bit more direct then this and said "no spandex". A few of us got concerned and wondered what 300 pound engineer wore spandex into work one day before we were hired. And then cursed ourselves for putting such a disturbing image into our heads.
  • Dockers & button-down, collared short-sleeve shirt.

    If I had my way, then I'd wear Jeans, sneakers and a baseball shirt [smartbargains.com] (with a real team, tho). Every day.

  • Caffeine's such a social drug. I mean, it's interesting that you can get cups of it on every corner in this city, including the one downtown where you can get sushi and coffee at the dunkin' donuts. Only one i know of that does it, and i think it's just swell.

    I'm having the most horrid mental images of that. Particulary in the form of kitchen mistakes.

    Sushi dipped in powdered sugar and cinnamon or even worse, filled with jelly. Ugh.

    And raw donut dough wrapped in seaweed. Yeuck.

  • I work in a pretty relaxed medical office. So relaxed that I can even wear a kilt [utilikilts.com] to work. Of course, I rarely am seen by the patients, so generally only my co-workers experience this oddness.

    Last summer, though, there was trouble in paradise. Someone had been wearing clothes a bit too casual for someone else's taste, there were complaints, and a dress code was imposed. As about 85% of staff is female, the code had the usual stuff aimed at women... no shorts, no spaghetti straps, at least knee-length skirt
  • Polo shirt and khakis or dress pants most days, jeans and tennis shoes on Fridays. Unless we're going to a ship that day, in which case jeans are allowed, as they are for the field service guys.
  • When I used to work, I wore slacks,athletic shoes (I did a lot of walking back to test stuff) and a silk blouse, unbuttoned one button past where modesty dictated :) That way, it exposed a bit of the rosebud I have tattooed over my left breast. Yes, it's silly, but it sure felt nice, in a twisted way, when the guys I worked with (who'd known me before, as John) would unconciously stare at my breasts while we talked.

    Mind you, they still denied that anybody would ever accept me as a woman, all the while de
  • Which in my case means black khakis, black sneakers (that look as formal as sneakers can), black watch, black Palm Pilot case, black belt, and a tan shirt with the company logo sewn in (I have five of those shirts, for one week's wear). Yes, the company logo is 1/2 black.

    When they laid me off three months ago, I was sorely tempted to have another embroidery done to all those shirts - just add the word SUCKS under the logo + name. Then they brought me back (at least temporarily). I'm glad I procrastinated o

  • Attire containing holes, or shorts that reveal any part of your butt while sitting or standing.

    I work in newspaper production, at night when there are no customers or reps around to see us. And most of the high-level managers have gone home. So we tend to err on the side of comfy.

    Usually, I wear a sweatshirt, t-shirt or other casual shirt with jeans, nice sweats (not the kind I exercise in) or shorts that come almost down to the knee. If I must attend a meeting, I upgrade to khakis or my pseudo-suede pant
  • Yikes do messages pile up, though, because I'm also not reading /. at work.

    Our dress code at work is something like dressy casual, but being a small company it is more like "what the owner is okay with". She actually works from another office most of the time, so we are rarely brought to task for it. In fact our Britney wanna-be often wore the torn up jeans, exposed navel bit most of the time. (Thankfully, she has moved on.) We are pretty casual most of the time because we so seldom deal with clients i
  • Most folks at the offices are 'business casual' with jeans allowed under limited circumstances. (Friday is jeans allowed with no restrictions)

    I wear a tie to the office Mon-Thurs, and I'm often the only guy wearing one. This is for two reasons; first to say that I'm important enough to do so (:-p) and other reason is the ladies seem to like the ties I tend to wear. Yeah, they are sometimes loud and playful with flags, igloos, or animal cartoons on them. The secretaries insist on 'inspecting' my new tie

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