Trio Of tribulations Part Uno
The universe is an amazing and powerful place, but i sometimes forget that it has an amazing sense of humour, and I'm sorry Mike sometimes it puts your amuzing and joyous observations to shame . SO today we have the choose your own adventure of Livejournals, I have three seperate events that have happeend in the past few days that need signifigant writings on and so I have decided to learn how to put things behind cuts. So like the choose your own adventure books from mine and so many other geeky childrens history, I provide you today with different posts.
We will start with the background of the great capris caper. It all started a month ago when I politely started following up on a prior statement that Capris are acceptable business wear for men. Desperate to wear anything that showed my uber sexy calves i leapt at the chance to wear capris and sought out the definition of what constituted a mens capris according to our archaic and sexist dress code. After many emails back and forth with one of the managers and our HR department it was determined that a business casual capris was in fact any pant cut below the knee of a proper business casual style/material.
I reveled in the joy of this discovery and vowed to fill our already substantial closet with a plethora of capris as to avoid the stricure against men wearing shorts (patently sexist consider the women wear skirts that make soccer shorts look modest) . SO after much shopping around I found some capris that matched the neccesary criteria and came in my size (chocolate brown with baby blue and kahki pinstriping, totally cute) and in a display of uncommon maturity, brought them into the office in order to show the person who had made the decision (lovely forward thinking lady) and get her final approval. Two thumbs up later I proudly strode into work the following day wearing my capris joyously. Once again I had them approved by the Lady I was told was the final authority and she gave me the thumbs up again. Well the consternation this caused, snide comments about dress code, and incredulous looks at the scandal of partially naked male legs.
Near the end of my shift after recieving many comments on my "shorts" and many progressively more dismissive rebutals on my part, I got an email from my team lead advising me that my clothing was inappropriate and not in line with the dress code. I went to see him and explained the process for approval that i went through in order to have them approved for wear. He was understanding and withdrew his objection.
The following time I wore them however the shittith doth hitteth the fan big time. 5 Minutes after I arrive at work I am sedately filling my cup of coffee when a different team lead, says to me that I may have to go home because my clothing isnt dress code appropriate. His crony also another team lead, joked about how the last company he worked for called what I was wearing shorts....hahahaah, funny ass fucker *pbbbt* . I politely clarified, and then, he objected to the definition of what i was wearing as Capris, when I got to my desk forwarded the entire email history to him. 2 Hours later the grand high muckety muck of our office is shaking her head at me telling me how shes sick of being in meetings all day about my pants....( I was horrified, these are the people complaining about being so busy, and they spend that long on my pants) Once again I was flabbergasted, I just about fell over, I mean how much of an impact did my pants make on our business practices. I thought the matter would be settled considering the rules were adhered and proper procedure was followed.
Lo and behold the following day we had an amazing reversal of policy and an instituation of one more sexist and arbitrary dress code rule. Womens capris are acceptable and cut right below the knee, mens capris must be mid calf, no shorter. Wow I was amazed and dismayed, I had followed the rules and taken all the proper steps only to get slapped down just like when I intentionally don't follow the rules. I immediately drafted and email for my team lead, frothing at the at the whiney, backward thinking, insecure team leads who had spent the whole day whining about my pants, and then the weak willed management staff that didnt have the balls to tell them that a decision was made and they could suck it up. So off goes my email about my disapointment in the inability of management to be make a ruling and stick to it, and how the authority of our head of HR and the Woman who had initially approved my pants was now totally undermined. I also included that In the time they were busy trying to get the decision overturned, I noticed no less then 6 infractions of the established dress code that had gone unmentioned and the people didnt get sent home as is the established procedure.
4 hours later before the end of my shift I recieve an email from same said hig h muckety muck, that started "Save you disapointment in the company and direct it at me." and led on a grand tour of how much i need to gain the virtue of shut the fuck up, and how that if I felt it was so wildly unfair, and outrageous i could go to her for personal reinbursment of the cost of the pants. I lost it! Not a single mention of my valid concerns or justification of her arbitray decision.
SO its time to start job hunting again.
If you wish continue to part Duex
We will start with the background of the great capris caper. It all started a month ago when I politely started following up on a prior statement that Capris are acceptable business wear for men. Desperate to wear anything that showed my uber sexy calves i leapt at the chance to wear capris and sought out the definition of what constituted a mens capris according to our archaic and sexist dress code. After many emails back and forth with one of the managers and our HR department it was determined that a business casual capris was in fact any pant cut below the knee of a proper business casual style/material.
I reveled in the joy of this discovery and vowed to fill our already substantial closet with a plethora of capris as to avoid the stricure against men wearing shorts (patently sexist consider the women wear skirts that make soccer shorts look modest) . SO after much shopping around I found some capris that matched the neccesary criteria and came in my size (chocolate brown with baby blue and kahki pinstriping, totally cute) and in a display of uncommon maturity, brought them into the office in order to show the person who had made the decision (lovely forward thinking lady) and get her final approval. Two thumbs up later I proudly strode into work the following day wearing my capris joyously. Once again I had them approved by the Lady I was told was the final authority and she gave me the thumbs up again. Well the consternation this caused, snide comments about dress code, and incredulous looks at the scandal of partially naked male legs.
Near the end of my shift after recieving many comments on my "shorts" and many progressively more dismissive rebutals on my part, I got an email from my team lead advising me that my clothing was inappropriate and not in line with the dress code. I went to see him and explained the process for approval that i went through in order to have them approved for wear. He was understanding and withdrew his objection.
The following time I wore them however the shittith doth hitteth the fan big time. 5 Minutes after I arrive at work I am sedately filling my cup of coffee when a different team lead, says to me that I may have to go home because my clothing isnt dress code appropriate. His crony also another team lead, joked about how the last company he worked for called what I was wearing shorts....hahahaah, funny ass fucker *pbbbt* . I politely clarified, and then, he objected to the definition of what i was wearing as Capris, when I got to my desk forwarded the entire email history to him. 2 Hours later the grand high muckety muck of our office is shaking her head at me telling me how shes sick of being in meetings all day about my pants....( I was horrified, these are the people complaining about being so busy, and they spend that long on my pants) Once again I was flabbergasted, I just about fell over, I mean how much of an impact did my pants make on our business practices. I thought the matter would be settled considering the rules were adhered and proper procedure was followed.
Lo and behold the following day we had an amazing reversal of policy and an instituation of one more sexist and arbitrary dress code rule. Womens capris are acceptable and cut right below the knee, mens capris must be mid calf, no shorter. Wow I was amazed and dismayed, I had followed the rules and taken all the proper steps only to get slapped down just like when I intentionally don't follow the rules. I immediately drafted and email for my team lead, frothing at the at the whiney, backward thinking, insecure team leads who had spent the whole day whining about my pants, and then the weak willed management staff that didnt have the balls to tell them that a decision was made and they could suck it up. So off goes my email about my disapointment in the inability of management to be make a ruling and stick to it, and how the authority of our head of HR and the Woman who had initially approved my pants was now totally undermined. I also included that In the time they were busy trying to get the decision overturned, I noticed no less then 6 infractions of the established dress code that had gone unmentioned and the people didnt get sent home as is the established procedure.
4 hours later before the end of my shift I recieve an email from same said hig h muckety muck, that started "Save you disapointment in the company and direct it at me." and led on a grand tour of how much i need to gain the virtue of shut the fuck up, and how that if I felt it was so wildly unfair, and outrageous i could go to her for personal reinbursment of the cost of the pants. I lost it! Not a single mention of my valid concerns or justification of her arbitray decision.
SO its time to start job hunting again.
If you wish continue to part Duex