The senior manager in our office
He's a prick of the highest order. He makes Graham Norton look like Chuck Norris, and seems to go out of his way to rub people up the wrong way.

Take the office dress code. We used to be smart all of the time, then we introduced dress down Fridays, then eventually we went casual all the time.

This became a problem as some of the lazier elements in the office were coming into work in stuff that most folk wouldn't wear to decorate in.

Anyway, the casual dress code was moved up a notch to 'smart casual'. A memo was sent out stating what was and wasn't permitted.

On the banned list was 'combats'. Fair enough. However, our lord and master, not a fortnight later, appeared in what can only be described (or so I thought) as 'combats'. I took him to task on this.

"Oh Reverend" he simpered, "these are cargo pants, silly".

"Er, you what?" I enquired. "So what's the difference between cargo pants and combats?"

"Well Reverend, combats have rectangular pockets on the thighs. Cargo pants don't."

"Well I fucking never."

Guess what he wore into the office just a couple of weeks later? You guessed it.

"Er are those combats?"

"How do you mean Reverend?"

"Well the other week you explained to me the difference between combats and cargo pants, and they look like combats to me. Combats aren't allowed, according to the dress code that you introduced..."

"Oh do shut up Reverend", and off he minced.

Meanwhile, other people have been sent home for not sticking to the precise letter of the dress code. What a prick.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:18, 5 replies)

Smart casual
what the fuck does that mean?

Great post, by the way!
( SpankyHanky, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:32, closed)

Good question!
We got a definitive list of what was and wasn't allowed.

Not allowed included denim jeans, combats (obviously), T-shirts with 'unsavoury' messages on them, tracksuits, shellsuits, crappy old trainers, flip-flops, etc.

Allowable stuff included cords, chinos (yuck), trousers, polo shirts, T-shirts without unsavoury messages on them, 'smart' trainers, etc.

You get the idea.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Feb 2009, 15:42, closed)

Well,
I'd have to go to your work starkers. Don't have any gear that fits any of those categories. I'm not a scruffy cunt, but I don't like the idea of looking like a catalogue model. You should wear a tux to work one day and say: "What too smart, isn't this casual enough?"
( SpankyHanky, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:01, closed)

Cargo pants
Shouldn't Cargo Pants have decent sized pockets, and Combats something about the right size to stick a few clips of ammo into?

Stupid clothing people and their odd Nomenclature..

Edit: According to Google, the main Oracle for all things, Cargo Pants do indeed have pockets on the side.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:16, closed)

Thanks for the info...
....but I can't believe you Googled it! :-)
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Feb 2009, 16:28, closed)