Lads in Plaids Making Waves

[Angus MacSpey]

I know the Denver area will be hearing and seeing more of these guys. As the AP, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal have picked up on this so will the rest of the country.

I've said this many times, but it really can't be said enough: I Love Colorado!

Now the wheels are turning and I'm thinking UKs for a sort of uniform for my company, as mine seem to be a hit with customers. I would assume that the owner of a company in that situation would purchase them, or at least pay for them. Not fair to employees to make them buy new stuff just to work for you. Might be cheaper than 401K's....

However, I have worked in places where they expect you to wear dress slacks, button-down shirts, and ties, and they weren't provided. What, did they just think I had a closet full of this stuff? Because of precisely this libertarian attitude of mine toward jerks telling me to do things I don't want to do, I would probably leave the kilts optional.

Really, the only thing I ask at this point, as some phases of construction like drywalling and painting get rather messy, is that jeans & t-shirts not have holes in them.

It must be the clear, dry, Rocky Mountain air that causes such clear thinking exemplified by Mr. Warner, eh, GMan?



*** visualizing herds of XMarkers in UHaul trucks heading for Denver ****

[UmAnOnion]

One day you will come to realize that clothing in gerneral is just a uniform as dictated by society be it cowboy, goth or a kilt.
As a hireing businessman I look for people with flexible minds to be able to deal with "unusual" situations as they arise. If someone is so set in their thinking ruts so as to not be able to get their mind around something this simple, I don't need them. Sometimes what you do or don't say or do tells more about you than all the great stuff I get told about.

Mike

As i sit here and get ready to don the NYC corporate uniform (suit, tie, WHITE shirt :-x ) I am re-reading about the guys at Highland Water with extreme envy. WAs out & about most of Saturday eve with a bunch of friends all in kilts & loved it & am wishing I were able to wear something similar today .

Love what Mike said about flexible thinkers. As one who tries to live outside of the box (either those imposed by society or the ones I create for myself) to have a boss with a respect for individuality would be a wonderful thing.

[davedove]

As i sit here and get ready to don the NYC corporate uniform (suit, tie, WHITE shirt :-x ) I am re-reading about the guys at Highland Water with extreme envy. WAs out & about most of Saturday eve with a bunch of friends all in kilts & loved it & am wishing I were able to wear something similar today .

Love what Mike said about flexible thinkers. As one who tries to live outside of the box (either those imposed by society or the ones I create for myself) to have a boss with a respect for individuality would be a wonderful thing.

Fortunately, I don't have a real dress code at work. It's just a general notion of wearing "appropriate" office clothing. Now I don't wear a kilt at work all the time; I tend to wear it for special days (although sometimes the special day is a day I felt like wearing the kilt;) ).

Of course, working as a civilian for the US Army, they are VERY careful about not doing anything that could be considered discriminatory, for fear of Equal Opportunity investigations.

One day when I was kilted, the Director walked into the restroom while I was in there and paused for a second when seeing the kilt. He joked that he thought he had walked into the wrong room when he saw the "skirt".

I don't ram the kilt down their throats and I am respectful of their wishes. If there is a special event or meeting where they would rather I not wear the kilt, they just ask me not to and I'm fine with that.

Back to the thread though, it is great that a company has the kilt as a uniform. What I would like to see is a company openly declare that the kilt is an accepted alternative in their dress policy.

[mbhandy]

Maybe the guy who quit can get a job with UPS. Their plain brown uniform might be more to his liking.

Around here the UPS guys wear shorts year round (even in a snow storm) and the ladies in the offices look forward to seeing them.

Met a contractor at home dē-pot He was wearing a Utility kilt and he had heard from some of the employees there that I some times wear my SWK gordan and how come I wasn't wearing it now? Wow reverse discrimination.

MrBill

[UmAnOnion]

Fortunately, I don't have a real dress code at work. It's just a general notion of wearing "appropriate" office clothing. Now I don't wear a kilt at work all the time; I tend to wear it for special days (although sometimes the special day is a day I felt like wearing the kilt;) ).

Of course, working as a civilian for the US Army, they are VERY careful about not doing anything that could be considered discriminatory, for fear of Equal Opportunity investigations.

One day when I was kilted, the Director walked into the restroom while I was in there and paused for a second when weeing the kilt. He joked that he thought he had walked into the wrong room when he saw the "skirt".

I don't ram the kilt down their throats and I am respectful of their wishes. If there is a special event or meeting where they would rather I not wear the kilt, they just ask me not to and I'm fine with that.

Back to the thread though, it is great that a company has the kilt as a uniform. What I would like to see is a company make openly declare that the kilt is an accepted alternative in their dress policy.

my company does "casual fridays" where the dress code is a bit more relaxed: no tie required, sports jackets, dockers and the like.

I doubt if it woudl ever fly if i were to come into the office wearing one of my kilts, but with NY tartan week coming up i might just give it a try..... and if it doesnt work out I'm heading for DENVER!!!


p.s. dave - LOVING your signature - any friend of Family Guy is a friend of mone - especially if he is wearing a kilt :-D

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

I don't know how I missed this the first time, but this is great!

Rob... meditating on businesses he could open..

[davedove]

p.s. dave - LOVING your signature - any friend of Family Guy is a friend of mone - especially if he is wearing a kilt :-D

Actually, I got it from the movie "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka", well before Family Guy was created. I haven't watched the show, but I'm sure they got it from the movie.;)

[Rob Wright]

My uniform is a kilt, of course, my uniform is whatever I want it to be :mrgreen:


Rob

[UmAnOnion]

Actually, I got it from the movie "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka", well before Family Guy was created. I haven't watched the show, but I'm sure they got it from the movie.;)

Well in that case....

KIDDING!!!

I still think you are cool - even if you dont watch Family Guy - Irreverence at its best/worst!!

[Graham]

Sorry Glen, I missed this post, but remembered it when in the mail I had a card from Pastor Calvin Burrell (you met him in Denver), he enclosed 2 newspaper cuttings about Highland Water.

It's great to see people making a feature of kilts in their business, which as you know is what I've done, except there's been no news coverage of Tasmania's only kilted sign company (yet):-(

It's all happening in Denver!! Calvin has invited me back again, I'd love to come.