Smells like team spirit

[bubblebabble]

In preparation for moving the office to a new building, this afternoon will be spent packing up common areas, moving boxes, and that sort of thing. We have all been informed that we will wear NewBuildingThatWeOwn tee shirts.

Poll the floggings will continue until morale improves

Comments

for the record

[bubblebabble]

"Silently wear a different tee shirt" is looking less and less likely. Some folks around here are quite insistent.

[magid]

If it irks you that much but is becoming a pain to avoid, how about wearing the T-shirt... under a chamois shirt or some other button-down, or a sweater, or sweatshirt, or...

[hrafn]

Ohh . . . good idea! It's a great way to follow the letter of the law but not the spirit.

[onemintjulep]

I just happen to love your particular non-answer "oh, this is the shirt I'm wearing". I mean, what can you say to that? It's beautiful. Plan B for me would be to wear it under something, given how chilly it's been- I mean, it's practically snowing right? Confrontation with a bunch of pantywad bureaucrats who thought that this "team-building" fashion show was a good idea in the first place? ehhh...sounds like they have a little too much invested to gracefully admit that they went to one too many of those seminars.

Clarification...

[surrealestate]

Do they just want you to wear that tshirt for the moving process, or for some extended period?

Re: Clarification...

[bubblebabble]

Ms. Lethal:

We were requested to wear them for today. So one should suppose that we're only expected to be dronelike for a day.

-bb, 'course, that's always how it starts, isn't it.

Re: Clarification...

[surrealestate]

I am of course missing any context regarding what your workplace is like, but I honestly don't feel like it would be a big deal for me. When I was at PGP, I wore whatever the heck I felt like normally, but for the launch event at InternetWorld, wore a company polo. (I realize that's not exactly the same thing.)

That said, I'm sure many people will be wearing another shirt (like a flannel or other sort of long-sleeved-buttoned thing) over the T.

I'm curious as to what your feelings are on the matter and why.

Re: Clarification...

[treacle_well]

Thanks. I was going to ask the same thing, but didn't have time to reply earlier.

Have they said why they want you to wear them? I mean is there a practical reason for it--like there are extra people working on the move and this makes it easier to identify people who belong in the area moving things around, and helps identify people other people can go to for assistance?

I wouldn't mind if there was a practical reason like the above, and would wear it. Otherwise I'd probably quietly not-wear one and if people got insistent I'd keep pretending I was about to go put it on. If people got really insistent then I'd either put it on under something else and go around wearing a frowny-face snarling at people. Or, if I got really annoyed, I'd (say I'd) become suddenly very ill and go home for the rest of the day.

[bitty]

look at it this way - you're not getting your own clothes dirty or sweaty.