Every been send home from work for inappropiate clothes?

[Firky]

Sure I have posted this before but a couple of years ago I was asked to take photographs for a gallery of the International Festival of the Sea. I refused as it is basically an arms fair and to cut a long story short had a wee falling out with my boss. I came in the next day with red and black flagged tshirt on and a conflicting CPB pin badge. The MoD poilce wouldn't even let me on site so I rang my boss who came to see what all the fuss was about and he sent me home - he laughed about it after. Said he "admired my balls"

 

[oddworld]

Nope.

Mostly jeans and T-shirts and lots of frowning at me.

Thats not the jeans and t-shirts though

 

[Gromit]

should add both times it was for fuckin skirts

A 'fuckin skirt'? I've never knew such a garment existed. I can't picture how it would look but I get the feeling I'd like to see you in one.

 

[story]

What happened?

We had a row about the shoes I was wearing, and then he sacked me

 

[Kanda]

Thats not the jeans and t-shirts though

You're prolly right

 

[story]

What happened?

The shoes I was wearing were apparrently "too frivolous"

They were not clown shoes, no.

I asked if we had a uniform. Answer: No, but we had guidelines, and my shoes contravened the guidelines.

I countered with the "guidelines" that were being flouted in the establishment's treatment of staff (no oficial breaktimes, no chairs to sit on... a bunch of other stuff).

He responded with a threat to give me a written warning. I said if he did, I'd make a written report about the flouting of staff rights.

etc.

In the end he sacked me for insubordination. It's the one and only time in my life I was able to say "You can't sack me, cos I quit!"

 

[sojourner]

Funnily enough, no

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

The shoes I was wearing were apparrently "too frivolous"

They were not clown shoes, no.

I asked if we had a uniform. Answer: No, but we had guidelines, and my shoes contravened the guidelines.

I countered with the "guidelines" that were being flouted in the establishment's treatment of staff (no oficial breaktimes, no chairs to sit on... a bunch of other stuff).

He responded with a threat to give me a written warning. I said if he did, I'd make a written report about the flouting of staff rights.

etc.

In the end he sacked me for insubordination. It's the one and only time in my life I was able to say "You can't sack me, cos I quit!"

How could he insult your shoes of all things!

 

[story]

How could he insult your shoes of all things!

He was a small-minded man.

He was out to get me?

It was a high-end shoe shop.



(no, not that last one)

 

[Pieface]

I so badly want to see these shoes now

 

[Gromit]

Headmaster sent me home for having wet clothes. Does that count?

I went for a bit of a swim in the local stream at lunch time.
I think I said bullies pushed me in but it was self inflicted as I didn't fancy the afternoon classes.

Unfortunately the next time i tried it he had spare itchy clothes for me to wear. So I didn't try it a third time.

 

[longdog]

I got sent home for having a grade one shaved bonce.

Manager (with fashionable Hoxton fin). "It makes you look like a thug".

Me: "Well your hair makes you look like a cunt, what of it?".

Of course the best thing about that is they either have to wait weeks for your hair to grow or back down. Once it dawned on them I was the only one with an HGV licence they had a change of heart


Didn't get sent home for it but got a bollocking during my week's notice period for wearing a t-shirt and not the company branded sweatshirt on a 30 degree summer's day.

"What you gonna do? Fire me?"

I love notice periods

 

[Detroit City]

Headmaster sent me home for having wet clothes. Does that count?.

yes, I should have specified work or school

its about the same thing, innit?

 

[Gromit]

yes, I should have specified work or school

its about the same thing, innit?

No I meant does wet clothes count as inappropriate? Its not exactly a fashion statement... although check the catwalks next year, you never know

 

[Detroit City]

No I meant does wet clothes count as inappropriate?

yes, assuming you're not in the general vicinity of any type of water (pool, shower, massive rainstorm, etc...)

 

[joevsimp]

no, but i got a few laughs off the team leaders for "I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?"

and a bollocking at cadets many moons ago for "accidentally" wearing a Che t-shirt with my combats

 

[story]

I so badly want to see these shoes now

 

[kalidarkone]

A number of years ago I wore jeans to work cause I thought it was "jeans Friday".....my boss made me go home and change.

Turns out it was Thursday

You ever been sent home by the boss to change?

Nope There is a dress code at work but it does not apply to project staff in my department, thank fuck.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

i think i agree with the boss

 

[Detroit City]

sorry, but these should just be illegal

is there a model for people whose 2nd toe is longer than their big toe?

 

[story]

sorry, but these should just be illegal

is there a model for people whose 2nd toe is longer than their big toe?

It's a condition called Morton's Toe.

The Greeks and Romans considered it beautiful. But this is not a beautiful example...

 

[story]

I'd like to point out that those toe shoes I posted are merely an example of frivolous shoes, for PieEye. They are not the shoes I was wearing when I got sacked.

 

[Detroit City]

It's a condition called Morton's Toe....

thats gross man

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'd been out clubbing one night, and ended up staying at a residence that wasn't my own. Then I got up late, and raced to my job, wearing last night's clothes. When I got there, I changed on the tarmac beside my jeep: I had some work clothes in the car - then put down the windshield on the jeep and roared off.

Apparently the boss was pissed as hell at my cheek. Maybe it was the Crayons. He never liked me anyway.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Not sent home but been told off for innappropiate wear. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman etc.

I can't wear V-necks at one of my jobs for that reason. My supervisor said I look "pornographic" in them. I think she's just jealous of my DD tits.

 

[Detroit City]

Apparently the boss was pissed as hell at my cheek. Maybe it was the Crayons. He never liked me anyway.

so i take it you don't work for the RCMP

I think she's just jealous of my DD tits.

probably...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

probably...

They are rather threatening. I've almost put my own eye out while jogging.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

so i take it you don't work for the RCMP

p

You're correct on that..

 

[Dubversion]

on my left foot, my middle toe is longest. On my right, my 2nd.

 

[bluestreak]

Plenty of times at school. I treated uniform policy as a guideline rather than a set of rules. Then my HOY clocked on to it and had words with a few of the other teachers that I expect went something along the lines of "for fucks sake people, this one might actually get an a level, don;t keep sending him home." after that I doubt i could have been sent home if i;d been wearing a tutu. Well, in a coffin, but there you go. Plenty of work bollockings too. i'm a scruffy guy. IME the lower the pay, the bigger the bollocking you get when you're not dressed according to how some high paid cunt in a head office somewhere thinks you should look.

Oh, when I worked in a kitchen I was banned from the front line because apparently the piercings and dreads would put the customers off. This suited me because it was easier to slack off and steal food out the back.