business casual?

[anacrucis]

speaking of 'attention getting attire', a coworker in another department wore hot pink surgical scrubs to work today.

i don't get fashion.

Comments

[siobhankha]

Um, no. That's not even CLOSE to business casual! Or Casual Friday, really!

Ugh, I hate it when people wear lounging clothes (or exercise clothes, or sleepwear) to the office.

[anacrucis]

I work in a back office. We don't have any customer contact except by phone (and even that we're not technically supposed to have.) I don't see any problem with it, and I don't mind seeing my coworkers dressed down.

It's just that... well... if my coworkers can get away with dressing like that, then damnit, I want to be allowed to wear my jeans to work. My workplace has very clearly laid out rules for business casual but they are not consistently enforced and I'm not the kind of person who's going to stick his neck out on the job and push the boundries.

(I will wear a casual sweater in the winter, or comfy baggy cargo pants which are technically not prohibited by the letter of the law on a day where i'm feeling crappy but came to work anyway, or a Friday that I can't remember if we were given special dress code dispensation or not - but that's about it.)

[developer]

I've found that in general women have a lot more room to move in the 'business casual' world. But if men could wear skirts then life would be more equeal.

[siobhankha]

We don't really have much customer contact, either - if they're coming in, we are told days in advance - and we have a pretty loose business casual type dress code. It's actually more casual than business casual most days. I wear jeans to the office at least once a week, sometimes more, and not always on Friday (although I always wear a reasonable shirt with them, something I could wear with dressier pants).

I just get annoyed with sweat pants, or scrubs, or those velour track pants because I feel like that's what you wear when you're relaxing or exercising, not working. It seems like they don't take their jobs seriously. But I guess I have a double standard of sorts because clean, reasonable jeans (not the 5 sizes too big and/or holey ones) are not a problem in my mind.

[lietya]

Oooh! Well, OK, not for work, but - hot pink scrubs!! I would love to have that.....

[developer]

Part of the reason I am excited for my new job is that the guy who interviewed me, whose team I will be on I think, interviewed me in shorts and barefoot. :)

Plus they have a dog in the office -- screw business casual, I'm all for casual. Fridays should be pants optional!

And then there are my friends who regularly wear kilts to work.

[anacrucis]

I wouldn't be comfortable with the dog in the office, but I'm all for the non-professional dress code if it's a back-office work environment.

[developer]

Appearently he was one of the founding members of the company (the office I will working in was recently acquired by Citrix, so he was a founder of the acquired company).

I guess that means we can't all bring our dogs in. At my current office once in a blue moon people would bring in dogs, or sometimes kids on weekends (hey, it was the weekend, why was I there.)

But I think we can say I really like a reasonably casual office.

[anacrucis]

kids on the weekends (or any-non-standard business hours) is cool in my book. Potentially annoying, but cool.

[rolypolypony]

I can't quite see why she'd wear them to a business office, but scrubs are pretty comfy!

[zephyrkel]

maybe she lost a bet.

[anacrucis]

heh.