Unfashionable

[fbhjr]

I’ve been told that I don’t meet the dress code requirements at work. Sad.
Yesterday the head of HR sent out an email saying there is going to be a
big tour Friday, and a dealer conference at the same time, so everyone
needs to dress well.
I didn’t get the email.
So I went over to her office and asked “Am I so fashionable that it’s never
a problem, or so hopeless I should just take Friday off?”
After a brief explanation of what I was talking about, and email
distribution lists, she inspected me to see if I passed muster.

“No, that won’t do,” she said after the inspection.
“Why not, I thought this would be OK?”
“No sneakers,” she said.
So, given my lack of shoe collection, I think it will have to be my ren
faire boots.

Comments

[saeble.livejournal.com]

you're an Engineer, you're supposed to have nuthin' but steelcap workboots..:)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

When I worked at the iron foundry, many years ago, I saw an excellent example of why to wear protective footwear. A mold blew out and molten iron went through someone's foot. And, I do mean through.
So, I have a very good respect for protective footwear. But, sitting behind a computer most of the day, sneakers are doing it for me.
Every day but Friday.

[saeble.livejournal.com]

I've got a nice pair of black ones of these :

http://www.american-workwear.com/rine.htm

When your pants cuff covers the top, they pass for work shoes and you
can still kick people in the ghoulies without breaking toes.

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Foundries aren't good places to be. I've seen one dickhead try cooling
some spilled molten bronze with water.... I've never seen such fleet
footed guys in all my life, or a more perfect running tackle... to
stop Mister Bucket from getting to the spilled bronze...

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can you check your .hunt.org email addy from work ?

just sent you one

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Those are good boots, but someone who has them here at work as been told they won’t do for Friday. So, I’m going to have to get some real shoes. It won’t hurt me to have them. Right?

Never had issues with my toes that way anyhow. Dropping equipment on them, sometimes. Kicking people? Not an issue.

My favorite foundry story was one day when we were making ductile iron. It’s made by adding magnesium to the molten iron. As you’d expect, that is an “energetic” reaction.
We did it twice a week, so it wasn’t a problem. But, one day one of our customers was there to see it.
They threw in the magnesium; it flared up, started bubbling as it always did.
My boss turned to the guy and said, “Look out, it’s going to blow!”
The guy turned, ran, and never came back into the building again.

The worst part of the foundry was due to my fingers. My family has an inherited issue with no sense of temperature in our fingertips. So, the guys who worked for me would think it was a great joke to ask me to pick up something that was hot. I would, then a few seconds later the burn would reach the nerves lower down in the fingers and I’d yell.
I wish I could say I only fell for it once.

[perrin-o-ravnos.livejournal.com]

well you do own flip flops right? those been vetoed yet =P

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Just show up in the whole Ren Faire kit and say you forgot Halloween was over.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

They already sent one out about tomorrow, and how it is only for tomorrow.
Besides, last time I got complaints about wearing my work clothes in the office.

[zemanel.livejournal.com]

Go to Burlington Coat Factory, buy a pair of good Nunn Bush shoes for half-off and you're good to go.

Failing that, you can pay retail at a place like:
Matt Shoes Retail Store
284 Boston Tpke
Shrewsbury, MA 01545

Get a good comfortable pair that you slip into and they'll be better than sneakers.
Something like the Maguire, Mead or Hartley tend to be good comfortable shoes:
http://www.nunnbush.com/shop-nb/shoes/dress-casual/maguire/prod84044.html

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I did Pay Less shoes at the mall.
That's where I usually get my shoes.
Buy 1 get the other 1/2 off.
So, I got new sneakers too.