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[anacrucis]

How many dress code violations am I required to witness in one day before I'm allowed to put my sneakers back on?

(count so far: 5 - that's one per floor of my building plus one surplus, all involving shoulders)

Comments

[aunticrist]

waitaminute

It's against your dresscode for -shoulders- to be exposed???

[lietya]

Our dress code, which is otherwise pretty relaxed (no ratty jeans, no sneakers or flip-flops, no shirts with logos), does ban tank tops and strapless/spaghetti-strap shirts. of course, I believe those are all OK in dresses, probably because no one ever *wears* dresses here.....

[aunticrist]

I can understand tube-tops, and even requiring shirts that are either buttoned properly, or even making sure that deep-V neck shirts are banned. I can even understand more casual tanktops making the list, but there are business casual tank top blouses and camisoles that should be perfectly acceptable.

I mean, were these people wearing "wife-beater" type tank tops?

[lietya]

well, obviously I can't speak to Anacrucis' workplace, but I know that mine decided that determining which was "business acceptable" and which wasn't was too big of a headache in order to permit a relatively small class of garments, and banned the whole shebang. It doesn't apply to *covered* camisole blouses - you can wear whatever you like under a jacket so long as what shows looks professional.

it's not "no bare shoulders" per se, either, but that's what it amounts to unless someone takes up wearing strapless fancy dresses.

(we won't get into the silliness of requiring a dress code at all when NO CUSTOMERS ARE ALLOWED INTO THE BUILDING. Bean Counter downstairs has a bug up his butt about that sort of thing, and we sorta humor him. Sorta.)

[lietya]

I'd go for it. Heck, I would have after just Pink Scrubs Person.

[kenjari]

Maybe the bank is similar to the place I work in that there is a tacit understanding that the finer points of the dress code can be overridden by the weather. We're pretty much business casual, but in the winter when there's snow, it seems to be understood that jeans, sweatshirts, and hiking boots are perfectly acceptable. Likewise for tank tops and such when it is a billion degrees out (like today).