The amount of pajamas in the workplace has gotten out of control

[BigDaddyLH]

What are shorts?

Oh, the pants missing most of the leg, right......
Just for swimming. Nothing else.

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[BigDaddyLH]

I feel kinda stoopid when my wife comes home from 1/2 day work at noon and I’m in pajamas playing guitar.

Not sure if it's the pyjamas or the guitar...

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

When I started in IT people at the least wore dress pants, a shirt and tie. Many wore suits. I knew people that worked for Ross Perot's EDS that had to wear a jacket and tie. The only time they could take their jacket off was at their desk. No facial hair either. Women wore dresses, skirts or pant suits. When I became a Data Center shift supervisor I wore a tie everyday up until the last few years. This was on midnights too. At the end no one wore ties anymore. Friday's were "dress casual". You could wear jeans and a collared shirt. The company I worked for was very strict on dress codes. I would probably stick out like a soar thumb at the workplace these days.

When I was a kid, IBM's rules were: gray suits for top management, navy suits for middle management, brown suits for lower management.

So does IBM color-code pajamas these days?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I knew a stock trader who quit the brokerage house he worked for to do independent trading at home.

He said he did it because he liked working naked.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

When I was a kid, IBM's rules were: gray suits for top management, navy suits for middle management, brown suits for lower management.

So does IBM color-code pajamas these days?

I don't know about that, but they can't stop talking about opening the kimono: https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...e-executives-talk-about-opening-their-kimonos

 

[FenderGyrl]

I think all office workers should wear bunny slippers to work....

 

[Happy Enchilada]

Good thing law enforcement doesn't have lax dress codes.
We'd be having folks in furry suits with guns and badges chasing bad guys.
Swat teams that look like an Easter parade.
And wouldn't that make for an amusing traffic stop?
But I bet it'd help inject some needed comic relief into domestic calls ...

I work for myself by myself in my daylight basement bunker.
Dang near 30 years in the freelance virtual space.
I do some of my best work in PJs, sweats, and once in my skivvies (it was unbearably hot).
But when I had a W-2 job in Corporate America, I dressed the part out of respect.
Buttondown Oxford shirts.
Silk ties.
Nice slacks.
Dress shoes.
And always had a coordinated sport jacket around just in case.
Am I happier now?
Dumb question.
But I paid my dues so I can dress like a slob in my cootage.
Like that Neil Diamond song, "Forever in Sweatpants."

 

[Nogoodnamesleft]

I work in IT as well. In the office nobody would get away with pajamas. Even jeans is approaching questionable, although most of us do it (I get away with black jeans most of the time). No tie required but shirt with a collar.

No skimpy outfits for the female employees either. Pajamas and a tank top wouldn't make it far past security never mind into the office. Everyone has to look somewhat dressed.

At home it's another matter. But even then, reasonable attire from the waist up at least. Fleshy meetings on Teams would get you legendary status in the "career limiting moves" yearbook.

 

[Red Ryder]

Fortunately in the construction biz nobody wears them, but shorts have become popular. However if you are one of my employees and show up in shorts you have a choice. Go home and change or take your final pay and good luck in your future.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

If you are going to show up in pyjamas, or sweatpants, or a track suit, just makes sure everyone else wears the same thing!

 

[mbapcpppmd]

Been there done that, once for B.O. and once for excessive farting in the cubicles

What’s an acceptible level of farting in cubicles? Does cropdusting count?

 

[Happy Enchilada]

What’s an acceptible level of farting in cubicles? Does cropdusting count?

Confucius say:
He who farts and runs away lives to fart another day.
(He was a notorious cropduster).

 

[sloppychops]

I'm anti-pajama pants at work. It's just a total visual disconnect from a work environment. And I don't like seeing pajama pants on people at the grocery store. Something about it just seems trashy.

It's mostly women I see in pajama pants, but yoga pants/leggings seem to be more prevalent now. There were a couple young girls at work who wore them all the time. Terrible workers. They either got fired or moved on. The grocery store always has several women walking around in skin tight leggings. I always wonder if they just came from working out or if they wear them to show off. Most of them wear them well. Some should really take a more critical look at themselves in the mirror before leaving the house wearing them.

 

[Red Ryder]

I'm anti-pajama pants at work. It's just a total visual disconnect from a work environment. And I don't like seeing pajama pants on people at the grocery store. Something about it just seems trashy.

It's mostly women I see in pajama pants, but yoga pants/leggings seem to be more prevalent now. There were a couple young girls at work who wore them all the time. Terrible workers. They either got fired or moved on. The grocery store always has several women walking around in skin tight leggings. I always wonder if they just came from working out or if they wear them to show off. Most of them wear them well. Some should really take a more critically look at themselves in the mirror before leaving the house wearing them.

I've often thought don't these people ever look in a mirror. I once saw a young lady with red sneakers, green with red polkadots, an orange T shirt and a big green frizzy bush for hair on her head. I asked my wife if the circus was in town. She told me to be quite people can hear you.

 

[swervinbob]

Doesn’t bother me. I’m back in the field now, but just spent 6 months working from home. We would have a Teams meeting ever morning. Most times I was in a tee shirt and boxers. The camera only showed my chest up. I grew up in a small town with a strict dress code at school. I’ve always despised dress codes.

 

[brindlepicker]

Never worked where there was a dress code-either worked factory or construction. I’d have tossed my cookies if the women wore yoga pants at the factory I worked at when I was 20.

Seems like you see now what designers put out for women to wear is what hookers used to wear on TV or movies in the 70’s.

 

[Engine Swap]

Brian Wilson started it…

 

[johnny k]

Brian Wilson started it…

and the fireman helmet, which will soon be a feature in every office. He was ahead of his time.

 

[johnny k]

I've often thought don't these people ever look in a mirror. I once saw a young lady with red sneakers, green with red polkadots, an orange T shirt and a big green frizzy bush for hair on her head. I asked my wife if the circus was in town. She told me to be quite people can hear you.

I don't mind mismatched clothes, i like to wear bright colors.

 

[Alamo]

One can't wear bunny slippers just anywhere, some work places require safety foot wear