Where do you work?

[elijah]

I'm Telephone Customer Service for one of America's top financial institutions, hoping to move up to Quality Assurance. Been wearing the kilt since September, 2003. In training, the trainer was going over the dress code. I asked him, "Are kilts okay?" He responded, "Sure, make yourself happy."

The next day I came to class wearing a kilt and he said, "I have to learn that when you ask a question, you're not just asking for the sake of argument, you're serious." I'd also asked running for office and I ended up doing that too. But then re-assured me the kilt was okay and I've been wearing it since for 2 1/2 years.

I went out with shirt, tie, and kilt to represent the company in a job fair, though I doubt I would again. I've interviewed three times for promotion, all in the kilt and I didn't get the jobs, but the kilts never been cited as a reason for that.

I actually worry a lot less about the policy changing on me than I used to. In the first place, 2 1/2 years is a long time to allow something and then change. Second, my center manager told me she'd been reading about Utilikilts and the growth of kilt wearing so its something she's aware of. Third, my performance is such that the company's not going to make a huge to-do.

[JackK]

I'm self-employed doing design and 3d modeling for plastic injection molds and die cast dies from my home office. I'm kilted most of the day unless I need to go to tool shop then its jeans - flying chips, cutting oil and carbon dust from the EDM machines and 'redneck' die makers how just wouldn't get it.

Jack

[Canuck]

I am a full time kiltmaker and have two other part time jobs. I work partime as an Opera Stage Manager, and I teach Stage Management at a University. I started wearing a kilt in the year 2000 I also got diagnosed with M.S. I have been kilted full time for the past four years. The only time I'm not kilted is when I'm on my motorcycle avoiding speeding tickets...(I do wear my kilt on the bike sometimes but mostly around town)
The kilts have helped with dealing with my M.S. by keeping my body cool.

[Kiltedmusiclover]

This has been a very enjoyable thread to read.

I have just been named as the executive director for a nonprofit
agency here in our community.
Our dress code does not allow for kilts at the work place.
I will get to wear them to some of our formal functions.

[Macman]

I am self-employed as a Chartered Accountant, with a general tax and accounting practice. I spent many years with the "Big Six" or whatever they are called now, but have been way happier since I set up on my own. I've gotten my clients to the point where they don't expect to see me in a suit and tie any more, but I'm not really into wearing my kilts to work. Once I leave work, though, . . .
This has been an excellent thread!

[philbo]

I work at a local pizza shop called Colombos. I wear a utilikilt there roughly once a week. I don't want to wear any nice wool kilts there, for fear of spilling pizza sauce on them.

[StoneCold]

I'm a buyer for a municipal government. Generally, I think I may be looked at with a jaundiced eye if I was in a typical office environment while wearing a kilt. However, because so much of our buying is for outside operations, I'm not at a city hall. The dress code tends to be much less formal. Having said that...

Until about two years ago, wearing even shorts to work was not permitted. I did so anyways to make a point when indoor temperatures were kept in the low eighties even in the winter. I had meat falling off the bone. I got a talking to but made my point and the thermostat was turned down.

I did sport my only kilt (at that time) to the company Christmas party several years ago. It got nothing but positive responses. When the shorts policy came into effect, I interpreted it to mean that I could wear a kilt if I so chose. So I did. And got virtually nothing but positive responses to it as well, with a few exceptions, all of which were tongue in cheek joking. I'm sort of the company eccentric the way I dress anyways (shorts all winter long, a closet full of Hawaiian shirts, etc.) so no one is really too shocked to see what I wear.

[cormacmacguardhe]

Being what one would call semi retired, I wear what I want. Working around the farm I make clothing choices depending on what I will be doing that day.