Quote Originally Posted by Archangel
I fight dirty. It sounds like your manager gave you permission, is that right? He gave a qualifier to cover himself, was that a directive to follow prior to wearing the kilt?

If that is what you heard then wear it and let HR chase you. Let them come up with the violation, we can help with the response.

If that is not the case, don't take your statements to HR, your statements don't hold water (sorry, I can go over them with you later.) Send HR a memo saying two sentences: you intend to wear a kilt; you wisht to have their okay. Again, make them come up with the violation/problem, on paper. It's more fun this way.
Archangel, my manager gave me his support. He did not give a directive, I mentioned to him that I would be talking to HR and he mentioned someone else who handles the HR issues for our area that I had not had a chance to meet. No directive, just information.

While I agree that given his support, I could decide to just wear one in tomorrow. However, my personality is that I would rather have all of the issues settled before wearing the kilt for the first day. As I have stated previously in this thread, if I were at a different point in my career and family life, I might take that approach. However, I actually am very happy with my current job and really don't want to turn it into a hostile workplace for me and my colleagues.

I am actually not going to present my 3 reasons to HR, I was actually going to do exactly what you proposed, which is communicate my intent to wear a kilt and request HR acceptance of the matter. The reasons are more in response to being questioned on why I want to wear a kilt, and I would be interested in why you feel that they do not hold water.

RJI, trying to bring the kilt out of the cave and stop living the life of a troglodyte! (Sorry Alan, had to use it, its a fun word and even more fun to say out loud!)

RJI