Dov, get a grip.

You make dirt seem young in comparison.

 

Please don't go Canarsie on me. One of Canarsie is a riot. Two is too much!

At work yesterday they emailed out a new dress code effective 1 June with special provisions for those in Cubicle Country: No jeans except on "casual Friday" (casual Friday? Someone is in a time warp. "Casual Friday" is so passι.); four specific materials are recommended for pants. No athletic shoes. Pressed shirts or sweaters.

The "pressed shirts" part really shows that behind this all is a pampered exec who either sends his laundry out or has a little woman at home to do it for him.

I ride my bike to work (20 miles each way) whenever I can, and for a couple family reasons I can't abandon the benefits package at this point in my life, so in a couple weeks I guess I will be the best dresser biker on the trail.

I fear this will also cause some hiring and retention issues, especially with the younger engineers, and this is a company that goes to extremes when its high profit margins are threatened.

 

Don't dawg out my casual Fridays!!! My feet look forward to them all week long!

 

If you show some heel or toe, that wouldn't be allowed, even on casual Friday. Foot fetishists need not apply.

And jeans can't be "too faded".

 

Are you worried about people salivating over your open-toes sandals?

 

I am. Via CVG

I am currently enjoying someting people only get to enjoy maybe a handful of times in their life - my last day of work! I am properly celebrating it by not doing anything and enjoying an aduly beverage or five on the clock!! ^

 

Can Delta Dawn wear a faded rose from days gone by?

 

No, because she is simply not Reddy to take you to his mansion in the sky.

Instead, you are both doomed to go to Helen.

 

tkey75 It is your last day of work and it has sure been a pleasure working you as too! ..have a drink or 3 on me. You deserve it. Good luck with the move to CT. ^

 

You drink ODouls?

 

Apparently not

And MRKEY - I'm not quite done with you yet. We've still a couple weeks to go before that happes.

 

Possibly on Friday's as long as it's opaque, reveals no cleavage, and extends down as least as far as Capri pants. She most also wear shoes that completely enclose her feet.

However, if Delta Dawn also happens to be DL Dawn, she can't wear her new uniform since the blouses are ever so slightly transparent.

I wonder if I could wear Capri pants on Fridays?

 

Whew.. Now I can buy you the drinks and dinner before you take your fantastic journey up north. Ya just have to meet me somewhere. Ms.Key will been gone for a week as I'm taking her bright and early tomorrow for a 8:15 dep. out of MIA- HOU ^. So we have plenty of time to party! You just have to keep me out of trouble..and we both know that's a job nobody wants.

 

Maybe the execs behind this have a foot-fetish phobia?

We are primarily a manufacturing facility and for the most part (esp. as they apply to the mfg. floor) are common sense safety and decency requirements. It's the added requirements for Cubicle Land that annoy me, although I will be a faithful Borg and comply.

I once worked for a company (ETA Systems) that went in 2-3 months from having a very-talented & highly-motivated software engineering staff (~ 60 total) to having > 2/3 of them circulating their resumes. The turnover was their doom; they were shut down by the parent company a couple years later. Applying petty requirements to engineers (esp. the software variety) is risky business.

 

I notice that half the people signing up for the Delta Forum Lounge™ Do who have never posted in the Lounge™. Shouldn't there be a minimum post count requirement? You can't visit OMNI until you've posted a certain number of times, you shouldn't be allowed to the Lounge™ Do unless you've posted at least, say, six times in the Lounge™.