Fifteen Questions About Some Stuff
The poll urge was really bad tonight. Thus this is especially long and the questions are especially unrelated. ;)
( Fifteen Question Poll Under the Cut )
( Fifteen Question Poll Under the Cut )
Also, heh, from the limited sample size so far, your f-list is disproportionately full of trickster gods, not surprisingly.
So weird... Your dresscode question comes after I got into an entirely uncharacteristic-for-me "Someone is wrong on the Internet" argument last week in a journal I mostly lurk on about essentially that very thing... I think if I were starting right out of school or had worked at a job with stricter dress codes, my answer would be "that would depend on the requirements" or "occasionally frustrated". But my only jobs have been at very loose dresscode places -- like, jeans and a polo shirt being normal everyday wear, have worn my suit once since I stopped going to interviews, and that I could've gotten away without, too -- so it would be much, much harder for me to go to a place with a strict dresscode. (The argument, btw, was whether or not wearing makeup was a mandatory part of 'formal dresscode' for a woman.)
Occasionally, I will get into some totally silly video game and play it for hours a week (usually while multitasking on the phone or something), but usually I don't play any video games at all.
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And my "Other" supernatural show is the canceled-after-one-season The Dresden Files (see icon)
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Lol, hardly a surprise indeed. I love my tricksters (see: icon!).
The argument, btw, was whether or not wearing makeup was a mandatory part of 'formal dresscode' for a woman.)
Yeah, uh, there is only one correct answer in this argument, and that is the fact that it is NOT. The idea that makeup would be mandatory is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
I do the same thing, which is why I averaged it out to something in the 1-5 hour bracket. ;)
Also, in response to your comment below, wow. You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?
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Her precise argument was something like, 'a woman who comes to the office with no makeup and her hair unbrushed will never be taken as seriously as a woman who is polished and nicely made up' (not a direct quote, because I don't feel like going back there and having it make me boggle all over again). And a couple of people stepped in to point out that 1) putting on makeup and brushing hair are NOT equivalent elements of grooming, and 2) um NO.
She was reacting to a comment that she thought was saying that people who wear makeup are not worth knowing (which, OK, also is NO), but she didn't seem to think *she* was saying anything insulting or generalizing, even when women who don't wear makeup to the office popped up to disagree. Anyway.
You'd think New York would get with the program 17 years after you guys, eh?
Yeah, I would expect any place with a significant Hispanic population to have at least been forced to consider the change... maybe it's the higher concentration of Italians in New York, who want their man Columbus recognized? I don't know...
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