Work would be more comfortable if...

[Nuzzolese]

I could take my pants off when sitting at my desk like Bob DeNiro in Casino.

See, I like my pants a lot and they look good on me when I'm standing or walking but when I sit at my desk they kind of dig into my abdomen at times if they're tight. Mostly the problem is I like to sit on my feet or cross my legs (native american style) to be more comfortable, and then my pants get all wrinkled, and I just look like trash. :(

But see I don't have my own office. I have a sweet corner office, it's nice and big and sunny, but I share it with two other women, and we leave the door open because we're welcoming and busy and we go down the hall a lot, and people are always coming in to talk to us and give us things.

[beastieangel01]

I like to sit on my feet or cross my legs (native american style)

same here. I like taking my shoes off for that too and just going with socks or barefoot. I can't help it. It's how I sit at home while on the computer usually.

[mickill]

I hardly ever wear pants at home...usually just boxers and a t-shirt (no socks). Then when someone rings the doorbell, I'm like, "Quick, help me find my pants!".

I've pretty much turned into my dad over the last few years.

[b i o n i c]

wear a skirt?

[paul jones]

I think most bosses should be made to wear clown outfits

[enree erzweglle]

I hardly ever wear pants at home...usually just boxers and a t-shirt (no socks). Then when someone rings the doorbell, I'm like, "Quick, help me find my pants!".
I'm the same way except they're not boxers. I just walk around the house in underwear, so when someone comes to the door, I scurry around too, looking for clothes.

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought the body was going to say, "...if we could bring our pets with us." :)

[mickill]

I'm the same way except they're not boxers. I just walk around the house in underwear, so when someone comes to the door, I scurry around too, looking for clothes.

I'm guessing that this probably didn't start until after your son moved out, though. See, I think I'm going to have to stop doing this once my daughter is old enough to be embarrassed by it. So I figure I have until she's around four..........teen or fifteen or so.

[Documad]

My job would be 1000 times better if I could wear sandals. We're not allowed to show our toes. And I understand that because many people have ugly toes. But my toes are lovely and they want air!

The very SECOND I get to my car, I take off my shoes and socks and drive barefoot home. I have at least four pairs of flip flops in my car, as well as a whole mess of dirty socks and dress shoes.

[Bitchamachacha]

See, I think I'm going to have to stop doing this once my daughter is old enough to be embarrassed by it. So I figure I have until she's around four..........teen or fifteen or so.


Hahaha!

try sooner than that!

When Aiedyn was a wee man, I could use the bathroom with the door open, walk around naked..etc. No problem!

Now if he sees me naked (usually by accident when he storms into my bedroom while I'm changing), he stops, stares at me oddly for a moment as if he's intrigued, then covers his eyes because he knows not to look, yet doesn't know why exactly.

Then he asks me why my boobies are bigger than his father's.

[zorra_chiflada]

i wear pajama pants around the house.
i have problems with trousers as in finding a size that is comfortable. it always digs into the wrong spots.

[Dr Deaf]

my new job insists i tuck in my shirt. not very cool at all.
at my old job i used to rock my shirt, LA voto style with a beater underneath, dickies short pants, a hairnet, locs and house shoes to complete the look. wesssssssssssside.

[trailerprincess]

thank god we can wear what we want - shorts, cut offs, jeans, sandals, flip flops - anything goes. When I first started here it was a major adjustment as I had spent nearly 6 years in suits.

[na§tee]

i wear skirts to work (and dresses pretty much all the time when i'm out of work; i have real trouble finding trousers that i like/fit) and i strongly STRONGLY dislike having to wear tights. they are just so unsexy. and, i swear, i must spend about £25 on tights a month. they just break and ladder almost INSTANTLY when i put them on. god. i hate it! there are like 5 pairs of discarded tights in the corner of my bedroom right now that i have thrown away in anger.

when i'm on a film/tv job i get to wear whatever the crap i want to tho. wooh!

when i'm at home i normally wear pyjama bottoms, too. they're the only troooosers i own.

[abcdefz]

I hardly ever wear pants at home...usually just boxers and a t-shirt (no socks)....

I've pretty much turned into my dad over the last few years.



My dad did that, with three sons and one daughter in the house. except not boxers -- briefs. It's pretty scarring for a kid.

[enree erzweglle]

mickill, right--since my son's at college, I am free to do what I want at home in lots of ways. When he is home, I wear a shirt and shorts. Earlier, I was wearing an exercise bra and girlie-boy-brief sorts of bottoms and I thought he was out of the house but he wasn't and when he saw me he recoiled in horror against a wall, rubbed the palms of his hands into his eyes, and then recovered but walked around the room blind, hands outstretched, for a few minutes.

[Nuzzolese]

I hardly ever wear pants at home...usually just boxers and a t-shirt (no socks). Then when someone rings the doorbell, I'm like, "Quick, help me find my pants!".

I've pretty much turned into my dad over the last few years.

You could keep a box of spare pants by the door. Or a bathrobe. Hey, aren't coat closets usually by the door? Just grab a coat as if you were on your way out, then if it's someone you don't want to talk to you can say, "hey I was just on my way out...to flash people... on the beach, as you can see I'm not wearing pants or shoes" Okay so scrap the coat idea.

[enree erzweglle]

My job would be 1000 times better if I could wear sandals. We're not allowed to show our toes. And I understand that because many people have ugly toes. But my toes are lovely and they want air!

The very SECOND I get to my car, I take off my shoes and socks and drive barefoot home. I have at least four pairs of flip flops in my car, as well as a whole mess of dirty socks and dress shoes.No sandals. I would have thought that to be SO weird a year ago, but recently at my work, even sandals have been on the unofficial, rumored-to-exist no-no list. Management talks about "dressing appropriately" but they haven't come right out and said exactly what that means.

So, the rumor is that we can wear sandals, but that they're frowned upon. Flip-flops (not beach flip-flops, but those sort of dressier ones) are right out. Same with shorts (which not a lot of people wear them anyway). Jeans are kind of getting a hairy eyeball now. (Someone said that management said that jeans have to be clean (!) and neat looking. Who wears them dirty, we've wondered.) We've also heard that management is saying no to tee shirts with printing on the front or back. And then there's just this general sort of "be sensible in what you wear" kind of proclamation. Which is confusing because none of us have seen any examples of inappropriate dress.

One co-worker said that her higher up manager took her aside and suggested that she dress more like <example 1> and <example 2> where those examples are women who shop at Ann Taylor types of stores and my co-worker was more of a JC Penny type of shopper with the occasional Macys and Gap thrown in.

The nature of where I work, I think, would make it impossible for a dress code to be instituted and enforced only in my building (and not all the way across campus). So it's rumor that's been somewhat and casually reinforced by management, but sometimes rumor puts fear into people just as effectively as some official something, so pretty much everyone is being cautious and maybe a little paranoid. I will tell you this, though: they don't pay us enough to shop at Ann Taylor for everyday clothes and they really don't pay us enough to have those clothes dry cleaned.

[Nuzzolese]

I THINK I'm allowed to wear hospital scrubs if I want to. I'm not really sure, since scrubs are allowed for all hospital employees. Technically I'm a university employee but the department is a blend of hospital and university staff. This is all interesting to you all I'm sure. The only women on this floor who wear scrubs are crazy bitches though.

[Dr Deaf]

:p haha. nice pants.

:rolleyes: they're OR scrubs.

:cool: OH ARE they?!

[trailerprincess]

:p haha. nice pants.

:rolleyes: they're OR scrubs.

:cool: OH ARE they?!

greatest film ever

thank you

[enree erzweglle]

I THINK I'm allowed to wear hospital scrubs if I want to. I'm not really sure, since scrubs are allowed for all hospital employees. Technically I'm a university employee but the department is a blend of hospital and university staff. This is all interesting to you all I'm sure. The only women on this floor who wear scrubs are crazy bitches though.I've got a friend who works in a hospital and everyone in her department is required to wear scrubs and they have to be a certain color. Her scrubs are always clean and starched and neat looking to the point where I think I want to wear scrubs. Then I go to visit her at work and see that some people in her department wear scrubs from Walgreens and I think that I'm happy wearing what I wear. :)

[Nuzzolese]

The rules are strict about who gets to wear what color of scrubs, so there's no confusion about who has a medical degree. BUT, get this! One lady has started wearing different colored scrubs, with printed tops! How does she think she can get away with that? She must have gotten them from a special uniform supply store, or JCPenney.

When the 3 scrub-wearers are in their scrubs it usually looks like they didn't bother with anything regarding appearance. One woman is a really natural farm lady so it's understandable for her. Another, even if she looks like she tried she still kind of looks sloppy. And the third always looks hideous because she seems to think that if you're as tan as a sadle and wearing enough bling then it doesn't really matter if you combed your bird's nest or shaved your chest.

[b i o n i c]

scrubs make great pajamas (y)

[Nuzzolese]

^...as long as they don't have the elastic ankles on the pants. Most of my daily pants have elastic ankles so I like a break from it when I wear PJs.

[Documad]

About five years ago, my work outlawed almost all casual clothes.

When they were working on the new dress code, we got memos every day as the older bosses tried to explain the parameters. They outlawed "shorts" "skorts" and "culottes", then later "capris." One day, a boss approached a woman in my department and asked her what she called the pants she was wearing. She replied "clam diggers." The next day, "clam diggers" made the list of forbidden clothes. I lobbied for the inclusion of general "high water" pants because that could get some of the older guys in trouble.

[Nuzzolese]

Hahaha! It would have been funny to come in every day and call your pants something new. Oh these? These are pedal pushers! Next day they're coastal waders, then they're beach combers, pebble kickers, shell pushers, ankle skimmers, lobster baiters, floods, baby gauchos...

[Dorothy Wood]

in my day we called them long short pants.

[Documad]

:)

I forgot that "beach combers" were already on the list before "clam diggers."

I do remember that we wasted hours discussing the new memos -- especially because the guys we worked with had never heard of a "skort."

[Nuzzolese]

Oh but what about CITY SHORTS? Wait, there's actually a style of pants called Beach Combers?

[Dorothy Wood]

beachcombers? (http://www.gaffneyproductions.com/beachcombers.jpg)

[Nuzzolese]

Ughh! Maybe the dress code isn't such a bad idea afterall.

[Documad]

Oh but what about CITY SHORTS? Wait, there's actually a style of pants called Beach Combers?
I don't think there is a beachcomber, but that was part of the fun. I think it said "beach combers" and they meant "clam diggers."

These were guys in their mid 50s trying to tell youngish women not to wear short pants. I don't understand why they just didn't say that you pant hem couldn't be more than x number of inches from the floor.

Also, they didn't outlaw open toed shoes entirely. You can still wear a non-flip flop, open-toed shoe, but you have to wear socks or hose. I couldn't possibly wear sandals with socks or hose. I'd slip inside my shoe and fall. Plus that's something my grandma would have worn.

[steve-onpoint]

I think most bosses should be made to wear clown outfits

Word. Mine, too. Haha.

:D