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VP of My Company Ordered Me to No Longer Wear This Belt
- Thread starter DJ Lushious
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Typical millenial post. Turn and run, BOY.
No, the belt isn't business casual. No the VP's request wasn't homophobic. That's either looking for drama where there clearly isn't any or very badly misreading the situation.
...Not everyone has the privilege of being able to just up and leave their job for a different one because they don't enjoy the dress code...
Someone didn't live through the 80s. That includes the 1880s and the 1980s.
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Yes, but there's no way I could pull it off as well as this man.
This is ingenious!
Oh, yeah, fair point. I actually got the belt in the OP during a 2-for-1 sale. I thought that Herbivore belt was $60, so my bad.
Yeah, I'm not going back and forth with him any longer. Childish.
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It's not the 1880s or the 1980s, either. And no, I was 7 in 1990.
Oh look, a thread where everyone agrees with everyone for once.
OP, that's totally not business casual, but I feel like the VP overreacted. My workplace is business casual, and also IT, and I and others wear all kinds of not business casual things. No one cares if you're not customer facing.
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.... But I've never seen anyone rock a belt like that in the office.
OP, that's totally not business casual, but I feel like the VP overreacted. My workplace is business casual, and also IT, and I and others wear all kinds of not business casual things. No one cares if you're not customer facing.
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.... But I've never seen anyone rock a belt like that in the office.
Some of you guys. How do you function in the real world?
"fuck that guy, wear it anyway" "quit your job and find another one" LMAO.
"fuck that guy, wear it anyway" "quit your job and find another one" LMAO.
Yes.
Generally the only place you really get to show some personality in business casual is socks.
I've gotten a job offer from a pretty big company in my area that:
1. Will take you on a "tour" of their campus if they think you're overweight or out of shape. It's a long, winding tour up and down flights of stairs. They do this to see how fit you are before they continue the interview.
2. Has it so their campus only sells diet versions of beverages. Even diet lemonade.
3. Will rip hair out of your head to conduct random testing for nicotine. Not only can you not smoke, you cannot even use anything with nicotine in it.
4. Will fire you for having nicotine in your system at the time of the test. Even if you opted-out of their employee insurance pool, you are fired.
5. Will track you all over the campus via RFID using a sensor in your badge.
6. Will pressure you into voting Republican because the CEO is a crazed ex-Marine that is a big time donor.
7. Will publicly shame you if you bring "unhealthy" food into the office from outside.
8. Makes it so all food purchases must be done using your badge. As a result, all food purchases are linked to your employee ID and logged.
Y'all haven't seen corporate dystopia if you think clothing is worth quitting a gig for.
1. Will take you on a "tour" of their campus if they think you're overweight or out of shape. It's a long, winding tour up and down flights of stairs. They do this to see how fit you are before they continue the interview.
2. Has it so their campus only sells diet versions of beverages. Even diet lemonade.
3. Will rip hair out of your head to conduct random testing for nicotine. Not only can you not smoke, you cannot even use anything with nicotine in it.
4. Will fire you for having nicotine in your system at the time of the test. Even if you opted-out of their employee insurance pool, you are fired.
5. Will track you all over the campus via RFID using a sensor in your badge.
6. Will pressure you into voting Republican because the CEO is a crazed ex-Marine that is a big time donor.
7. Will publicly shame you if you bring "unhealthy" food into the office from outside.
8. Makes it so all food purchases must be done using your badge. As a result, all food purchases are linked to your employee ID and logged.
Y'all haven't seen corporate dystopia if you think clothing is worth quitting a gig for.
In 50 years you will be the old curmudgeon telling interns to "put some damn pants on" when 'modern corporate dress' will be fully nude.
Ironically, not everyone has the privilege of handwaving potential homophobia as "just looking for dramas where there clearly isn't any"
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I don't even know where to start on this one. That's just insane rule/behavior after another. I'd imagine you live in an At-Will Employment State?
Good for all you who value fashion freedom. I will wear any shit to get money because I don't care. I will wear a clown suit everyday to keep cash rolling in.
Wait...am I missing something?
EDIT: I see now that this has already been addressed. Please disregard.
Oh it absolutely is. They get away with it because the company culture enables it and it's got enough plausible deniability where it can't be investigated. Anyone who doesn't fit into the company culture either gets worked until they quit or they walk in one morning to find a secretary holding an empty box near their cubicle.
Let's just say a "certain midwestern state that gets a lot of attention at election time".
So yeah.
Because he told him he should get a different job
Fascist companies, because they have dress codes.
Some people don't like seeing people walk around with their toes out. Maybe fascism is the best way to go when it comes to dressing in a business environment.
Clearly I have an extreme disconnect with you and your logic so I'll just agree to disagree.
I get where you're coming from since nobody seem to have a problem with it right off the bat, but it's definitely not a business casual belt, and I also don't think it's very fair at all to assume it's homophobic for the VP to request you not wear it.
Different places will allow for different things but on the whole I think you'd find that most companies would not want you to wear a clothing item like that under the banner of business casual unless there was a casual attire day or something.
You can check your company policy or employee handbook, but typically there is some written form of dress code, or at the least an informal expectation of accepted office attire.
Different places will allow for different things but on the whole I think you'd find that most companies would not want you to wear a clothing item like that under the banner of business casual unless there was a casual attire day or something.
You can check your company policy or employee handbook, but typically there is some written form of dress code, or at the least an informal expectation of accepted office attire.
Just wait until you turn 20 and start to work in a decent place.
If the video games thing stops working out, you'd be great at sales for Lulu
Not even remotely business casual. It's garish as fuck, regardless of what it personally symbolises to you.
Also for me personally, you are giving out way too much information about yourself to not be identified if some internet busybody wants to be a dick.
You never know who is lurking and sharing threads from this site OP.
Also for me personally, you are giving out way too much information about yourself to not be identified if some internet busybody wants to be a dick.
You never know who is lurking and sharing threads from this site OP.
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While dressing codes do suck, I would say its wiser to pick your battles.
My current job doesn't enforce a dress code as long we don't show up in fipflops and shorts. I let my grow/beard grow even if it is discouraged but since I don't meet with customers they dont bother to enforce that rule.
And to add to the pile, yeah that belt isn't business casual.
Also, what the fuck at dress codes = fascism lol
My current job doesn't enforce a dress code as long we don't show up in fipflops and shorts. I let my grow/beard grow even if it is discouraged but since I don't meet with customers they dont bother to enforce that rule.
And to add to the pile, yeah that belt isn't business casual.
Also, what the fuck at dress codes = fascism lol
Unless you work from home, every company has some kind of dress code, even if it's super lax.
I like the belt but yeah, definitely wouldn't be considered business casual. My office is the same way, and while I can often get away with wearing jeans or sneakers, that's probably a bit too far. I doubt it has anything to do with the message of the belt, but then again 1st amendment rights don't apply when you are a corporate employee.
