Where do you work?

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Great thread. I love seeing the background about everybody. I am actually a senior manager for a global banking corporation, which is based in the UK. The unit I work for was acquired 2 years ago and was a well recognized name in personal finance in the US. It was a very beneficial company. My path to wearing the kilt is well documented on another thread, but I have found that our own fears are worse than anything a company can actually do to us. Every company embraces diversity, at least in lip service. Wearing a kilt should prompt no more reaction than someone wearing a yamulka or someone wearing traditional robes to celebrate and support their religion or someone wearing a turban, all of which I had seen and nevern heard any concerns. I have found wearing the kilt to be positive because more people know me than when I did not wear it.

What we wear shoud not matter one bit, as long as we get the work done. I originally had some thoughts about interviewing in a kilt if I ever needed to get a new job, but since I have interviewed and hired people while wearing the kilt, I have come to the realization that people need to evaluate me as a person and not based on what I wear.

[sorcererdale]

I am a horologist. Ok, I always like people to guess what that is, noooo, don't look it up, I will tell you later. You don't have to post your guesses, but come on, guess NOW and see what you think I do.

I will give you a hint, the word is Latin, so if you know that it might help. Actually I don't wear a kilt while I work at home and I will explain that in a minute, but when I go out to customer homes for service calls, I sometimes wear a kilt. Mostly the black Survival from UK.

Ok, give up, and havent' figured out that hora is Latin for "hour." Ok, so I work with hours, what could that mean? I repair clocks from my home and go out to get the movements from grandfather clocks in peoples homes. I tried wearing the kilt in the shop, but it is a small area and the kilt brushes up against all the weights hanging on chains for the clocks; cuckoo and grand father. Also the work can be very greasy and dirty at times, and would really ruin too many kilts. So blue jeans work good for that.

Just a note, my license plate is "TIMEFIX" and here is a web site for you. I also have a large automated Christmas light show every year and those links are on there too! The picture shows me in my tan mocker (now shortened) as I didn't have the Survival at the time. www.dalesclockshop.com And one other little fact about me, I have an automated home all run by computer. The house talks to us, and does many "amazing" things.

DALE.