Wearing the Kilt at Work - Like Pulling Teeth

[Jack Daw]

I'm negotiating approval for me to wear the kilt for 5 days in return for funds to go to the company charity. How could management refuse? Well, it has to go through "channels", still. Aren't you glad you don't work for a large, stuffy bank? HHHHHHRRRRRRMMMMPPHH!!

[Dr Mac]

Yes, indeed, I am!

[Spc. Scott]

Yes I am as well. I'm lucky to be working in an office that is pretty open as far a dress code goes. So when I asked about wearing a kilt to work I was answered with an immediate yes.

[McMurdo]

I work for a Multi-National Financial Printer and I wear a kilt everyday to work, just lucky I guess, but you could always look into the HR dept. guidelines on Dress Codes also look for any documentation on diversity.

[Jack Daw]

I work for a Multi-National Financial Printer and I wear a kilt everyday to work, just lucky I guess, but you could always look into the HR dept. guidelines on Dress Codes also look for any documentation on diversity.

What's allowed by policy is different from what management really tallies as reasons to promote an employee or not. As an example, facial whiskers are permitted, but the Big Cheese tells in cryptic language certain staffers that they had better not grow any.

[Alaskan Kilted Guy]

I am lucky too. I never asked for permission, though I did let my boss (the HR director)know the day before I wore it, so I didn't blindside him. I'd wear kilts more often if I had more.

[TheKiltedWonder]

That sounds somewhat like my company. Yet they allow shorts! Grrr. If an HR department is involved, you know sense and logic will lose out.

[Jack Daw]

That sounds somewhat like my company. Yet they allow shorts! Grrr. If an HR department is involved, you know sense and logic will lose out.

Yes, HR. Marvelous people where I work they are. The department performed a market survey to determine if our pay scales should be revised. THEY DID! They changed the pay ranges! But, our salaries stay the same.

[Frank McGrath]

Yes, HR. Marvelous people where I work they are. The department performed a market survey to determine if our pay scales should be revised. THEY DID! They changed the pay ranges! But, our salaries stay the same.

My darling wife, being in HR all her career, does not know everything. She was working a consulting job for a large institution in the NE. We started talking about what the tradesman were earning. Painters were making 5.00 an hour more than electricians. I told her this is no good. We argued for days until I took her to see a friend that was an electrician. She now knows about High wattage panels, and if pressed she could probably change a breaker if she had to. (she has me to do that kind of work, though). The electricians got a good raise and I received a nice gift from the group. Every good HR person still needs a blue collar consultant now and then.

[hospitaller]

I wonder if women have also to go thru channels when they decide to go to work wearing pants.