"Dress" code

[semperfiona]

On a quasi-regular basis, we have "Conversations with the CEO". He gathers a group of employees, we get a catered lunch, and a chance to have a smallish-group conversation. Due to department demographics, this was a group of about twenty men and three women.

Among other, more-serious topics, such as the difficulty of recruiting new programmers--I'd specifically asked about recruiting of women--and immediately after I asked about whether we'd be offered domestic partner health insurance, one guy asked for a change in the dress code.

Mike: I would like a change in the dress code to allow shorts.

CEO: You mean you'd wear shorts everyday, right now?

Mike: Yes.

CEO: You'd rather have shorts than medical insurance?

Mike: I don't get sick.

Me: How about, we drop the gender specific part and let all y'all wear skirts?

CEO: I'll wear a skirt if you will...

Mike: You're on!

Room: You don't know Mike very well, do you.

Jason: [I forget the exact wording] ... wear drawers with your skirt?

Me: That's how you know whether it's a kilt or a skirt!

Comments

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

Actually, I usually chicken out and wear something under the kilt to the office - just in case.

[ohari.livejournal.com]

hehehehehehehe
So.......what was the answer to the benefits question?

[semperfiona]

It was an option on the policy that they had to choose, but it hadn't really come up before, he hadn't heard many people asking for it, yadayadayada. So I said, well, I'm asking now. He talked about there was going to be an employee survey in the next bit, and made a note to add a question. *shrug* Not a hugely positive response, but better than "we hate all you living-in-sin people".

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

And here you had me all excited that men in our company would start wearing kilts! Bah Humbug.... really, there are only a few that I wouldn't mind seeing in one. ::grin::