Casual Friday

[Paddy]

No matter what client co says I always dress in a suit and tie and I never dress down for Friday or for some stupid £1 donation. I find dress down day demeaning as it asserts control over the workers.
Paddy in Karl Marx mode.

[suityou01]

Ah, that's why you're not leaving until 6pm. You won't wake up from sleeping on the disabled toilet floor until 5:45...

For the hard of thinking.

We established that there was no dress code
We started coming into work wearing jeans and other casual items of dress
HR announced that we could come into work wearing jeans on one friday for charidee.
HR were unaware that we'd been coming into work in jeans for weeks
On the "jean" day, we wore suits to piss off HR.

Is that simple enough?

Brill, thanks.

<scavenges for bacon butty>

[original PM]

we had 'dress down' friday - but the the CEO stopped it as he felt that it was reducing productivity.

he also made everyone wear a suit (well the men anyway)

he has gone and dress codes have relaxed again

personally i do not give a hoot!

[NotAllThere]

Several clients have had similar things:
Pay a pound to charity to wear jeans.
Pay to wear a woolly sweater.
Pay to wear casual clothes.
Pay to wear something pink (apparently Birthday Suit doesn't count).

I ignore all of these and dress as I would normally in my suit, however depending on the charity concerned I'm happy to throw some cash in.
I've had one client where the contractor leading my team told me not to wear a 3-piece suit anymore as I was looking too smart and showing the rest of them up. I toned it down to 2 pieces for a while, then I realised that the guy was a complete knobber who I couldn't stand, so just dressed how I wanted.

...and always parked the Rolls in his allocated place.

[DS23]

just a small change and it could become causal friday...

[MicrosoftBob]

Who are you working for Alan Partridge ?

[expat]

No matter what client co says I always dress in a suit and tie and I never dress down for Friday or for some stupid £1 donation. I find dress down day demeaning as it asserts control over the workers.
Paddy in Karl Marx mode.

That was my point. Any given dress code might be a reasonable expectation; a variable one is just control