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There is an investment banking office next to my office on the floor where I work. Like the other offices on this floor the walls facing the elevator lobby are glass. This morning, walking to our office door what do I see inside the the investment banking office? Buttfloss. I'm sorry, casual Fridays or not, under what circumstances does someone think an exposed midriff (in January, no less) with pink buttfloss sticking up out the back of her pants is suitable attire for an office? Especially an investment banking office? Would you hand over you life savings to some hootchie with buttfloss hanging out? Low-slug pants displaying butt-cleavage, once the exclusive realm of plumbers from New Jersey and Outer Bouroughs is now mainstream fashion, co-opted and made feminine by the addition of pink buttfloss emerging from the realm of the permanent vertical smile. Is there anything at all dignified about ass crack? How would a conversation with a client go? "Please invest a million in gold bonds, distribute 500K into high-yield funds and, oh, by the way, nice underwear."Meanwhile, because there is a leaky pipe in the ceiling, there is a real pumber in my office. He's better dressed.
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Date: 2004-01-23 12:55 pm (UTC)Just count your lucky stars that Miss Butfloss
wasn't horrificly ugly or ...big boned
Casual dress code in a working environment is a
mixed blessing - on one hand you are comfortable
but on the other - you are subjected to the bad fashin sense and taste of your co-workers
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Date: 2004-01-23 01:10 pm (UTC)Thing is, good clothes don't have to be uncomfortable - if they are uncomfortable then you've got something on that's the wrong size. On the flip side, I've yet to meet anyone that is comfortable with underwear crawling up their ass. So in all likelyhood buttfloss girl is more uncomfortable looking "casual" than I am in my dress-shirt and tie.
In my experience casual dress codes are usually a concession granted by cheap employers to distract employees from the fact that their job actually sucks and they have no useful perks of benefits. "We won't pay you for sick days and your salary will be ΒΌ¢/hr. above minimum wage with no overtime, but you can wear buttfloss to work or get a tattoo on your face if you want."
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Date: 2004-01-23 02:56 pm (UTC)Then what DO you do at Sin City?
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Date: 2004-01-23 03:09 pm (UTC)You poor bastard. Buttfloss, forever etched in your memory. Simply vulgar. Eep!
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Date: 2004-01-23 04:34 pm (UTC)Butfloss Bladderrack?