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"Dress" code
Dec. 11th, 2007 01:39 pmOn a quasi-regular basis, we have "Conversations with the CEO". He gathers a group of employees, we get a catered lunch, and a chance to have a smallish-group conversation. Due to department demographics, this was a group of about twenty men and three women.
Among other, more-serious topics, such as the difficulty of recruiting new programmers--I'd specifically asked about recruiting of women--and immediately after I asked about whether we'd be offered domestic partner health insurance, one guy asked for a change in the dress code.
Mike: I would like a change in the dress code to allow shorts.
CEO: You mean you'd wear shorts everyday, right now?
Mike: Yes.
CEO: You'd rather have shorts than medical insurance?
Mike: I don't get sick.
Me: How about, we drop the gender specific part and let all y'all wear skirts?
CEO: I'll wear a skirt if you will...
Mike: You're on!
Room: You don't know Mike very well, do you.
Jason: [I forget the exact wording] ... wear drawers with your skirt?
Me: That's how you know whether it's a kilt or a skirt!
Among other, more-serious topics, such as the difficulty of recruiting new programmers--I'd specifically asked about recruiting of women--and immediately after I asked about whether we'd be offered domestic partner health insurance, one guy asked for a change in the dress code.
Mike: I would like a change in the dress code to allow shorts.
CEO: You mean you'd wear shorts everyday, right now?
Mike: Yes.
CEO: You'd rather have shorts than medical insurance?
Mike: I don't get sick.
Me: How about, we drop the gender specific part and let all y'all wear skirts?
CEO: I'll wear a skirt if you will...
Mike: You're on!
Room: You don't know Mike very well, do you.
Jason: [I forget the exact wording] ... wear drawers with your skirt?
Me: That's how you know whether it's a kilt or a skirt!
