More cocktail dresses should be worn in work
I would wear mine, but I already get odd looks for being skimpily dressed at the (admittedly rare) cocktail parties, and I'm already on one written warning for what I wear at work. Damn them all to heck! Do it and show us photographs Ms. M!
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:19, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oh, are you sent to posh events with ice sculptures and ventriloquists where you feel shockingly out of your depth too?
We did discuss changing from Casual Friday (which for us is the same as any other day since we're only customer-facing if something goes epically wrong) to Formal Friday once a month...

Are you invoking POIDH?
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:23, Reply)

I am invoking
I don't get sent (luckily. I think the company is too scared to send me out after the last time I got sent to meet a client). I have been invited to a few though (sadly lacking in ice sculptures), and since I prefer a) strapless and b) I'm a metalhead, take three guesses what mine tend to look like...

I am invoking though. I want the whole office if you do go formal friday. I think this should be done more often. Or, I could cause a failure somewhere to make you go formal and customer facing...
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:28, Reply)

A challenge appears!
I decided against a corset dress (out of my budget at the moment) for the event I was sent to last weekend and opted for a halterneck thing that went down quite well if I do say so myself. There were no ice sculptures this time and it did transition quite nicely to the 80s bar in Birmingham afterwards (Rick Astley-a-gogo). I imagine your taste is like my "if I had all the money in the world" wardrobe...

We shall see what happens :) I will suggest it to my manager again (and she makes her own corsets so she'll be well in)! I don't advise causing a failure since I'll be the one opening the letters from the pissed off customers (if I never see another cab receipt again it will be too soon)...
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:38, Reply)

Halterneck aren't bad
Don't work on me though. What was the name of this bar? I must find it when I next have to take a trip to the forsaken city.
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:46, Reply)

This one required structural engineering to contain the norks
since I didn't want to do a Janet Jackson at a work thing!

The bar was Reflex - they're a chain (or must be, there was one in the town I grew up in). I used to go to Birmingham all the time for the shopping when I was a teenager (Bullring = heaven on earth) but had never experienced the nightlife until now, and compared to where I went to uni it was insanely crowded!
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:48, Reply)

I feel lucky sometimes I don't require said engineering
It would be nice to need it occasionally. Not doing the Janet Jackson is much better though!

I shall look up said bar. Although I'm not that big a fan of going out in the night, so may well end up skipping it. Sounds like you had a great time!
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:01, Reply)

I do, to a rather inconvenient level at times!
If only I could wear corsets all the time...

I did :) am not usually much of a clubby type myself but there's something rather charming about spazzing out to 80s cheese with your boss when he's had a few and is singing 9 to 5 at the top of his voice! I'm even more impressed no unflattering photos have appeared on Facebook yet...
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:03, Reply)

I'll invoke POIDH on Stimpy
Anything worth a written warning must be picworthy.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:26, Reply)

There are no pics! If there are, I will eat them. And the camera.
It was a stupid thing to be pulled up on. I simply wore a black skinny fit style t-shirt in one day. It has no hem at the bottom, so it rolls up. Leggings and skirt were rather low down as well, so I ended up showing rather a lot of my belly all day (although no more than some of the people in the office who meet clients all the time do) and it showed off some of my tattoos and piercings. Apparantly people take offence to that... but have no problem when I managed to pick up a "Danni filth is a cunt" t-shirt in error once, which I spent most of the day cringing in before I could nip out at lunch and buy a new top.
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:31, Reply)

Ah, the logic of management.

( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:41, Reply)

Never ceases to amuse!

(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:47, Reply)

I especially like it when one manager says "do this and send it to the other manager"
and you do it and then the other manager says "stop that, you don't need to do it".
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:49, Reply)

Sounds like a job for
managment consultancy. Mangers can be a bunch or right little unmanageable buggers if left unmanaged.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:58, Reply)

A sheepdog would do the job well.
Round them all up and manage them. Or an Alsatian.
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

I'll set my rats on them
They have sharp claws...
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:02, Reply)

But they look so cute! And they wash their little noses with their little paws.
(I like anything small and cute; you will come to learn this.) I find it hard to believe domesticated rats are vicious!
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:06, Reply)