Reply to: Casual Friday

[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

[MicrosoftBob]

Who are you working for Alan Partridge ?

[DS23]

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

[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.

[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!

[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>

[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.

[Ticktock]

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.

[NotAllThere]

Dude, please break this down for me. Category 4 hangover this morning.

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?

[suityou01]

At one place I worked, a bunch of managers and senior consultants went out on the lash, and the subject came up of office dress code. The MD said that as far as he was concerned there wasn't one. One of the IT managers (Brian) said - in that case, I'll come in to work tomorrow wearing Bermuda shorts.

Next day, Brian was feeling a bit sorry for himself, sat at his desk, in his usual M&S suit. The MD came into the office, wearing a pair of purple bermudas and a very colourful t-shirt. He strode over to Brian and said "You ****ing wuss. I knew you were more mouth than balls!". From then on, all the staff of the IT department dressed however they liked.

Six weeks later, HR announced that for "Jeans for Genes" day, if we paid a pound, we'd be allowed to wear jeans in the office. That day, we all turned up in suits. It was nice to see that HR were so on the ball.

Dude, please break this down for me. Category 4 hangover this morning.

[SimonMac]

I wear pyjamas as work almost every day.

Don't your clients ask you to at least remove the bottoms?

[NotAllThere]

I wear pyjamas as work almost every day.

Don't your clients ask you to at least remove the bottoms?

[NotAllThere]

At one place I worked, a bunch of managers and senior consultants went out on the lash, and the subject came up of office dress code. The MD said that as far as he was concerned there wasn't one. One of the IT managers (Brian) said - in that case, I'll come in to work tomorrow wearing Bermuda shorts.

Next day, Brian was feeling a bit sorry for himself, sat at his desk, in his usual M&S suit. The MD came into the office, wearing a pair of purple bermudas and a very colourful t-shirt. He strode over to Brian and said "You ****ing wuss. I knew you were more mouth than balls!". From then on, all the staff of the IT department dressed however they liked.

Six weeks later, HR announced that for "Jeans for Genes" day, if we paid a pound, we'd be allowed to wear jeans in the office. That day, we all turned up in suits. It was nice to see that HR were so on the ball.

[Damon]

It isn't too hard to wear a pair of jeans rather than a suit trouser; job done.

Wear your normal uniform if you can't be bothered, no-one will care.

[russell]

Does anyone else have a problem with this? ("or is it just me").

I don't mind if a site demands a jacket and tie. But if they start telling me that different dress codes are appropriate for different days of the week, then they are presuming too much.

I wear pyjamas as work almost every day.