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, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

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)