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by DerGolgo » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:54 pm
Lucky for me, my work environment only requires I wear ... clothes. Anything that's fit to be seen in the street with is fit for work, really. Nobody turns up for work looking disheveled or anything. One of the teams in the social media department is run by two ladies, either one of whom has more tatoos than brother Jaeger. Just counting what I could see with them in civilized dress. Seriously, there's exactly ONE guy on my paygrade who wears a suit and tie to work, every day. Guy also uses Brylcream and looks just damn fucking immaculate , from when he comes in to when he clocks out. He learned how to go to work in an office environment about 45 years ago, and he's too damn close to retirement to change his ways. Nice chap, btw.
I know I own a suit, two even, but I'll be damned if I could remember what color they are ...
My usual attire, in warm weather, is cargo pants and some manner of shirt. Preferably with two breast pockets, just for the convenience. Dirt cheap, either one.
In cold weather, like currently, cargo pants and a sweater of some kind. Usually the army-style sweaters, simply because they are damn comfortable and don't have stupid shit or brands or fictional sportsteams or something printed on them. Seriously, finding a sweater with nothing printed on it is damn near unpossible here.
Shoes will be workboots, as some of you know. Dirt cheap, yet made in Europe and made to conform to safety regs, so quite durable. Also, made so you can walk around a factory floor for eight hours comfortably. Before I visited the 'mericas, my feet had never hurt in those. Before I visited the 'mericas, I also had never had literally trodden through a steel shank. No joke, brother AZRider can attest, he had to help out with his pliers to get that thing out when it had worked it's way through the rubber sole.
Jacket, in warm weather, is a threadbare denim jacket. In cold-ish weather a "hunter's" parka someone threw my way when somebody had died. It has many convenient pockets, and little things to hold on to .308 rounds. In cold weather a super-high-quality parka, the kind made from space-age material, with little reflective things, for people to wear on construction sites. Not awful yellow or nothing, gray, but that sort of parks. Exceptionally good quality, usually retails for a few hundred, I got it on sale for 20. Yes, score.
I got in the habit of cheap, comfortable clothes with convenient pockets and suchlike when I was an impoverished student, I just never got out of it. I look respectable enough, at the office and in the street, so why bother with anything else.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
It changes nothing about the uniformed guy who I like working with, but I guess it informs a little about who he is in the rest of his life.
) When I head out it'll be an Oakley hoodie kept mostly permanently as a liner in a carhartt canvas jacket. And I pretty much live this way 365.
