Dress Code
So my work has this dress code. I'm not against it, but it's been planned a little poorly.
We have Monday's and Friday's when we can wear jeans, so long as we wear the company button-up shirts. The rest of the week we must wear other company shirts, polo-style, but no jeans/denim allowed. We have a promotional t-shirt that we are now wearing on Thursdays while trying to get donations for the Children's Hospital of Austin.
On the promotional information sheet, I could have sworn that it said we could wear jeans with the promo t-shirt. I know that it said that the person who gets the most donations in a week is allowed to wear a super-special t-shirt and can wear it any day of the week with jeans. But I also thought that it said we could wear jeans on Thursdays with the not-so-super-special t-shirt. I've been wearing jeans these past two Thursdays, and I even saw others wearing jeans last week, so I thought it was ok.
The other thing is that I'm a back-office person, but those at my location in the back office setting must adhere to dress code because we may walk into public areas where our members may be.
Well, apparantly it's not ok, and some people bitter about the dress code complained about me behind my back - which is really odd, because most people love me there - and I was talked to. I apologized and said thanks for the info.
Later I got this email requesting that I go home and change my pants. I was about to live for my mid-day class, and by the time I could get Chris down to pick me up, take me home, and take me back, I'd probably only have an hour of work before leaving for my evening class. So I replied to the email stating that I was sorry for the misunderstanding, and that I'd just take the rest of the day off, use my vacation hours.
I added that I thought the dress code did not make fashionable sense. Why put the nicer shirts on days we wear jeans. They'd look better with slacks, and the polo-type shirts would look better with jeans. AND wearing a t-shirt along with slacks is just stupid looking. A black t-shirt with slacks can work, but not a colored shirt with a crayon-drawn logo for the Children's Hospital on it.
So I got the rest of the day off, I had time after my first class to finish some graphs for a project, and I am now home eating a slice of strawberry pie with whip cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side, with some time to relax before my next class.
Yeah, they really stuck it to me, didn't they. >=)
We have Monday's and Friday's when we can wear jeans, so long as we wear the company button-up shirts. The rest of the week we must wear other company shirts, polo-style, but no jeans/denim allowed. We have a promotional t-shirt that we are now wearing on Thursdays while trying to get donations for the Children's Hospital of Austin.
On the promotional information sheet, I could have sworn that it said we could wear jeans with the promo t-shirt. I know that it said that the person who gets the most donations in a week is allowed to wear a super-special t-shirt and can wear it any day of the week with jeans. But I also thought that it said we could wear jeans on Thursdays with the not-so-super-special t-shirt. I've been wearing jeans these past two Thursdays, and I even saw others wearing jeans last week, so I thought it was ok.
The other thing is that I'm a back-office person, but those at my location in the back office setting must adhere to dress code because we may walk into public areas where our members may be.
Well, apparantly it's not ok, and some people bitter about the dress code complained about me behind my back - which is really odd, because most people love me there - and I was talked to. I apologized and said thanks for the info.
Later I got this email requesting that I go home and change my pants. I was about to live for my mid-day class, and by the time I could get Chris down to pick me up, take me home, and take me back, I'd probably only have an hour of work before leaving for my evening class. So I replied to the email stating that I was sorry for the misunderstanding, and that I'd just take the rest of the day off, use my vacation hours.
I added that I thought the dress code did not make fashionable sense. Why put the nicer shirts on days we wear jeans. They'd look better with slacks, and the polo-type shirts would look better with jeans. AND wearing a t-shirt along with slacks is just stupid looking. A black t-shirt with slacks can work, but not a colored shirt with a crayon-drawn logo for the Children's Hospital on it.
So I got the rest of the day off, I had time after my first class to finish some graphs for a project, and I am now home eating a slice of strawberry pie with whip cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side, with some time to relax before my next class.
Yeah, they really stuck it to me, didn't they. >=)