This is a very good point.
I wear a suit and stick my head into printers and PCs most of the day. And the women here have to wear smart clothes, nothing that shows them off or anything!

Or am I not getting this right?
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:06, 2 replies)

You're in a place that requires everyone to wear smart clothing
not just the men.

And my excuse for not wearing a tie is that my printers take up roughly the size of a small house in length, each. Tie in one of them would be bad.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 14:48, closed)

No, you work in a place where everyone is smart.
Sounds familiar... women really do kick up a fuss with dress code. At the old job women went batshit crazy because they were told they had to wear tights when they wore skirts, and that they weren't allowed coloured shoes, and certainly not allowed high boots with short skirts. At the same time men were pulled aside for wearing shoes without laces and told they needed laceup shoes with their suits...

Overall, it worked out that it was far stricter than my school uniform ever was (I did come from a sink school however, so turning up and not setting fire to stuff was applauded). However, turning up in a shirt and trousers with a blazer type thing seemed to suit me fine: lazy and easy, especially with no-iron blouses and trousers.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 0:39, closed)