We have a casual dress code at work. (Or, more accurately, we have no dress code, because we have no HR bureaucracy.) Some days I’ll wear a button-down shirt or sweater, but when it’s warmer I usually wear jeans and a T-shirt. It’s totally normal.<\/p>\n
I don’t even know how it started — the people involved in starting it have moved on — but sometimes people wear ties on Thursdays. It started for some sensible reason, but then it just became a tradition. By the time I came along I didn’t even know why we did it. Not everyone participates, and it’s not an official company thing.<\/p>\n
I haven’t participated in a while, so today I decided to go for it. But it’s sort of like giving a moose a muffin*: if you’re wearing a tie, you need a nice dress shirt, and if you’re doing a nice dress shirt, you’ve got to have dress pants and dress shoes, and if you’re going that far you might as well break out the sweater-vest and pocketwatch.<\/p>\n
I happened to see a lot of my friends today, and all of them asked why I was all dressed up. The conversation went like this every single time:<\/p>\n
“Why are you all dressed up?”\n“It’s Thursday.”\n“What does that mean?”\n“Thursday is tie day.”\n“Why?”\n“Why not?”\n“So you got dressed up for no reason?”\n“Well, just because it’s tie day.”\n“You’re weird.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have a casual dress code at work. (Or, more accurately, we have no dress code, because we have no HR bureaucracy.) Some days I’ll wear a button-down shirt or sweater, but when it’s warmer I usually wear jeans and … Continue reading