Where do you work?

[macsim]

I was in printing for 25 years but I got outsourced last year so I've started over as a Customer Service Rep for Blue Cross Blue Shield. I wanted something different and boy did I ever get it! I don't know what my future is here but it's an okay job if nothing else comes my way. I do wear kilts to work. We have casual dress days on Monday and Friday so I wear a kilt on those days some of the time. I only have 3 at this point but as the number increases I'll probably wear them more. I have one on order now in fact. I work mostly with females and they all seem to like it. I never wore a kilt to the print shop though. I ruined waaaaay too many items of clothing over the years from chemicals and ink. I really don't miss that profession very much. I do however miss the benefits I had after 17 years at my last job. I have to look on the bright side though - I'd never get to go to work kilted if I were still there!

[Alan H]

I'm currently unemployed, which is why I have time to develop the X-Kilt, but I did IT support...light networking, lots of desktop support, and student computing lab management, for about ten years prior to that. My most recent gig was at Stanford University...about six years there.

I started wearing kilts to work in January 2005. I got one comment from my boss..."So. A kilt today." and the students wanted to know if it was a Scottish Holiday. The senior network admin asked me if that day was the anniversary of some great Scottish Victory. That's it.

After that, no comments at all really, except from two very pleasant Chinese programmers that simply could NOT wrap their minds around the word "kilt" no matter how many times I explained it to them. When I showed up in the bright red MacNicol that I sewed up myself, I had to walk around and point it out to people, before anybody said anything! I wore a kilt and the jacket I modified to the Dept. Christmas....errrr... Holiday Party and got several positive comments but not a negative word, except for once, at work.

That negative word was from the woman that ran the Faculty Assistance Lab. She made a couple of snide comments when I wore a casual kilt look to the office once, and then complained once to management that my wearing of a kilt was sexual harassment. Go figure on THAT one. She can wear black heels, painted-on denim pants and crop-tops that show her (admittedly very attractive) midriff, but I can't wear a kilt? Her case went nowhere and I wound up supervising her for about six months.

[Blu (Ontario)]

I'm an architectural technician for a design-build construction firm in Ontario. I design large buildings for heavy industry (factories) and commercial uses, liase with municipalities, professionals and subcontractors, do site inspections, and prepare contract documents. I'm also the defacto network administrator, sign maker, coffee maker, and occasional mouse catcher. But I don't do windows!

I don't wear kilts to work as I never know from day to day just what king of mess or danger I might find myself in. I've have worn kilts to trade shows and company functions... but I don't feel the need to take it further than that.

blu

[Niblox]

As I am a dentist (specialist in orthodontics) I cannot wear a kilt to work - infection control would not allow it. Also, the fact that your patient's had is in close proximity to your kilt does not bear thinking about. I know of one Scottish dentist who does wear a kilt in the surgery, but he must be the only one.