Into The Breech - Kilted at Work

**Satirist** · 24th February 05, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Finally just decided to kilt up and show up for work.

I'm glad you finally did it. I've been going to work in kilts since august '04. I don't think you'll have too much trouble with your client base. I would think that most people seeing you professionally can appreciate a therapist that is more open minded than the suit and tie crowd. They may assume, and rightly so, that you know something the others don't.

**Avonlea22** · 24th February 05, 05:45 PM

My personal feeling is that if the women in a particular company are allowed to wear either skirts or pants (depending on their mood), then men should have the same right to wear slacks or a kilt. If they said otherwise, I think that would be grounds for discrimination.

**awoodfellow** · 24th February 05, 06:42 PM

first i gotta ask, cajun... are you a state or federal park ranger? and the reason i ask....

my first love ( well, 2nd if my wife happens to read this

) is forestry management and ranger services. i went to school for forestry management up at Hocking Hills Tech just outside of Athens, Ohio with the hopes of becoming a Ranger at Pine Mountain State Park in Cumberland Mountains. i had a state job all lined up with the KY. Dept of Natural Resources but they really lacked financial satisfaction at the time. KY had openings in the reclamation division and i would have been helping reforest strip mine lands. ah, well. damn, i'd be retired now!

hence my propensity for tree planting on the farm.

kilts at work .....

as some might know, i'm one of several network admins at a regional isp here in the bluegrass. it's an all male, (read that as geek) office. we're all linux gearheads and would rather wear a "Black Helicopters" tee-shirt than just about anything else. 'cept me

, i wear the Black Watch!

i do wear the kilts to work. now, you have to understand all these guys except for me and one other are from the Eastern Mountain region of Kentucky and they all like to make subtle remarks. nothing derogatory, just a sly remark now and then. i really don't mind because i understand. it's unusual and certainly not a common sight to see a kilt here in the bluegrass. i think of it as their loss and for certain, they will get over it. i'm sure that if they took that first step, they'd keep on down the kilted path.

disregard the nervousness of fellow employees. i know the conscienceness of wearing a kilt is high, but that is a cool factor. knowing that you can and do wear the kilt to work is your mental benefactor. it's kilt cash in your pocket .... if you have them

.

'brose

**Magnus Sporrano** · 24th February 05, 07:37 PM

Welcome to the club. It's terribly liberating to work in a kilt!

I work for a major pharma that everyone here has heard of. I sort of used the company credo and "cultural diversity policy" as leverage in my interpretation of the dress code to get it in on the first day, and when they saw that business didn't grind to a halt it simply never became a problem. I actually did try to get buy-in from my co-workers and direct supervisor before proceeding. I wrote an article for Xmarks on the subject a few months back.

**Riverkilt** · 24th February 05, 09:22 PM

Day three went smooth. A couple of compliments, the CEO wondering about three days in a row kilted but nothing more. One client asked some questions then went on to his issues after a minute or so. A client in group said her boyfriend wanted to know where to get a kilt then rushed off in the stormy weather before I could retreive a card...oh well, next week.

Ron

**elijah** · 24th February 05, 09:26 PM

Been wearing a kilt to work every day at my job as a Phone Banker since September 17, 2003 and have had little problem over it. I still get nervous from time to time but after a year and a half, I don't think it's a rational concern as long as the management stays the same, this is particularly true with my company's emphaisis on diversity.

**kiltie as charged** · 24th February 05, 09:55 PM

I have not had an opportunity to wear my kilt to work. I am a custodian at a post office. I think that if I were to get a UK, or a Piittsbugh kilt
in a solid colour.then it probably be alright, my boss is a pretty easy going guy. As long as I do my work I don't think that there will be problems. I hope. my only concern is when i climb a ladder.Being the true highlander that I am

so before I go back to work I'll have a
Guinness or two. Life is to short to worry about what my co-workers will say when I do show up kilted.So here's to you lads that have gone before me kiled to work, and have given the courage to do the same.