Why is it....

[Kyle]

workplace casual means something different to every person you could ask.

If I left it up to these ###hats they'd come to work...

 

[OccamsRazor]

Why is it acceptable for women to wear yoga pants and flip flops in the work place as soon as the temperature gets above 70 degrees?

 

[lucky_bee]

If I left it up to these ###hats they'd come to work...

I have no doubt. You definitely have to spell it out for them though. With the obsession highschoolers currently have with PJs at school, we refuse to let ours wear them in public. He has zero sense of style so he just looks like a homeless person. I said the words "you'll thank me when you're older" and I almost smacked myself for being that parent, but FFS apparently all other parents have decided this battle isn't worth it

 

[SamSpade]

Be sure to do the fig Newton dance!

Wow. I thought I was the only person who remembered that one. Especially - the "tricky part".

 

[SamSpade]

Per the OP -

If it were me - I'd remind them there is a dress code - if they don't know what it is - find out - and if they violate again, don't come back.

 

[RoseRed]

Wow. I thought I was the only person who remembered that one. Especially - the "tricky part".

I brought it up a couple of weeks ago after a meeting. Our VP and I were the only ones that remembered it.

 

[SamSpade]

I brought it up a couple of weeks ago after a meeting. Our VP and I were the only ones that remembered it.

This is from memory - something like Big Fig here ----- (something) tender flaky outside, (something) cakey inside, wrap the inside in the outside is it good? Darn' tootin. Try the big fig Newton. One more time! The big fig newton - here's the tricky part - etc.

I mean, to me that was as memorable as Let's Get Mikey to eat it.

EDIT to add: Looked it up. Not bad. I forgot about the "Hit it Hal".

 

[RoseRed]

This is from memory - something like Big Fig here ----- (something) tender flaky outside, (something) cakey inside, wrap the inside in the outside is it good? Darn' tootin. Try the big fig Newton. One more time! The big fig newton - here's the tricky part - etc.

I mean, to me that was as memorable as Let's Get Mikey to eat it.

EDIT to add: Looked it up. Not bad. I forgot about the "Hit it Hal".

 

[Toxick]

That when you tell the under 40 employees something like "Suit, Jacket and Tie or Workplace Casual they can't understand that means "No Sneakers, Jeans, Shorts etc.?"

And after repeated warnings, they can't get it through their heads?

You're dealing with a couple of generations who think etiquette is "stupid boomer shit". And the attitude is "If you want me to wear a jacket and tie, the company need to buy or supply me a jacket and tie".

Rules are suggestions.
I am doing YOU a favor by working here.
You are oppressing me by enforcing a dress code.
If you don't like my clothes it's because you're out of touch.
... Or it's because you are a racist, sexist, transphobe, homophobe, bigot, ageist, ableist, white cis-male cog in the patriarchy.




Thank god I can work from home, where I can wear nothing but a bathing suit and clothes pins on my nipples, and I don't have to deal with these freaks.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Rules are suggestions.
I am doing YOU a favor by working here.
You are oppressing me by enforcing a dress code.
If you don't like my clothes it's because you're out of touch.
... Or it's because you are a racist, sexist, transphobe, homophobe, bigot, ageist, ableist, white cis-male cog in the patriarchy.

One other difference between you and me kid - I have a job and you don't. Now get lost.

 

[Kyle]

Thank god I can work from home, where I can wear nothing but a bathing suit and clothes pins on my nipples, and I don't have to deal with these freaks.

I'm actually surprised that since the beginning of covid, a teams or zoom meeting hasn't been interrupted by something like that.

 

[RoseRed]

I'm actually surprised that since the beginning of covid, a teams or zoom meeting hasn't been interrupted by something like that.

Brian Toobin?

 

[Sneakers]

I'm actually surprised that since the beginning of covid, a teams or zoom meeting hasn't been interrupted by something like that.

I'm sure it has. Seen a few YouTubes of very odd meetings.

 

[Toxick]

I'm actually surprised that since the beginning of covid, a teams or zoom meeting hasn't been interrupted by something like that.

That's a bold assumption.

 

[Toxick]

I'm sure it has. Seen a few YouTubes of very odd meetings.

Here's a one for ya.


This was maybe 6 to 10 months back... I was in a Teams meeting... 40 maybe 50 people. Some guy was giving his presentation, everyone in rapt attention my phone starts blowing up. Being in a meeting, I ignored it and moved the phone away so I could ignore it more thoroughly.

Ding... ding... ding... ding... ding.

So I say - right into an hot mic - Oh my ****ing god - shut the ****ing hell up.



I didn't realize I had a hot mic until the speaker immediately stopped talking and stammered nervously.

I thought I was going to get fired.
Turns out most everyone in the meeting got a HUGE laugh out of it. They heard my phone and knew I wasn't talking to the presenter but still.


I still cringe when I think about it.




PS: The meeting was recorded and still exists in our archives.

 

[RoseRed]

Here's a one for ya.


This was maybe 6 to 10 months back... I was in a Teams meeting... 40 maybe 50 people. Some guy was giving his presentation, everyone in rapt attention my phone starts blowing up. Being in a meeting, I ignored it and moved the phone away so I could ignore it more thoroughly.

Ding... ding... ding... ding... ding.

So I say - right into an hot mic - Oh my ****ing god - shut the ****ing hell up.



I didn't realize I had a hot mic until the speaker immediately stopped talking and stammered nervously.

I thought I was going to get fired.
Turns out most everyone in the meeting got a HUGE laugh out of it. They heard my phone and knew I wasn't talking to the presenter but still.


I still cringe when I think about it.




PS: The meeting was recorded and still exists in our archives.

That's a funny story!

There are several Zoom or Teams meeting flubs floating around the interwebz. I think it was an attorney having a hearing with a judge and somehow his face got turned into a cat. There was another that caught a man sneaking around in the background, where he wasn't supposed to be. And another of a guy in his skivvies that his co-corkers could see. One of them had to text him to tell him to put his pants on...

 

[Grumpy]

Here's a one for ya.

and another...We used to have these 'all hands' meeting weekly..75 to 100 folks on Skype..This one guy starts talking and my roommate(woman) says 'wish this guy would just shut the eff up' and I (on another computer) says 'yeah, he is such an azzhole'. Co-workers from other offices came running into our office and mouthed the words 'you arent muted'..Turns out my roommates mic was on.. Funny, never heard a word about it afterwards,

 

[Sneakers]

and another...We used to have these 'all hands' meeting weekly..75 to 100 folks on Skype..This one guy starts talking and my roommate(woman) says 'wish this guy would just shut the eff up' and I (on another computer) says 'yeah, he is such an azzhole'. Co-workers from other offices came running into our office and mouthed the words 'you arent muted'..Turns out my roommates mic was on.. Funny, never heard a word about it afterwards,

oops...

That was always a problem with huge group meetings. Someone would invariably leave their mike open, and even after repeated demands to turn it off, the offender was clueless they were the problem.

 

[RoseRed]

and another...We used to have these 'all hands' meeting weekly..75 to 100 folks on Skype..This one guy starts talking and my roommate(woman) says 'wish this guy would just shut the eff up' and I (on another computer) says 'yeah, he is such an azzhole'. Co-workers from other offices came running into our office and mouthed the words 'you arent muted'..Turns out my roommates mic was on.. Funny, never heard a word about it afterwards,

We have one that forgets to mute, and you can her Grands in the background.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I'm waiting for this...

I'd wear that. I keep getting told to get my official profile picture taken Id love to show up in that.