Mods, not wishing to reopen a closed thread.

Do wanna support Raphael's position that employers are tough and that letter writing may help.

I sent the CEO and CFO/HR of my agency an executive summary of the reasons I wear the kilt and should be allowed to wear the kilt. Ran the usual range of arguments.

In response CEO came down to see me in my office (a big difference from being invited upstairs to his office). He was very cordial. He said my clinical supervisor had been "mixed up" and that he had never said I needed to stop wearing kilts or be fired. He said he wanted me to think about whether being kilted as a therapist affected my ability to establish rapport and build a bond with my clients, then talk about it sometime next week. He did say he had been very hard in the clinical supervisor at management meeting over other issues last week and thought the CS had been mixed up. And there is no dress code roll out pending, only dress code development and he said the points in my letter would be looked at.

Then, he said that though he has a common English last name, his paternal ancestry is, in fact, Scottish. A great grandfather was a Scottish orphan taken in by an English family. No one ever knew the orphan boy's family name.

In turn, I gave him brief immediate feeback that one of my clients had, without my knowledge or urging, taken it upon himself to travel to a highland games and buy a kilt from a vendor and wear it. The client is a highly placed executive in a large local business.

So, perhaps some hope, perhaps not. But the point is the letter/executive summary to the CEO and CFO/HR appears to have been helpful.

I support Raphael's premise.

Ron