Kilt Acceptance at Work

[Kiltedfirepiper]

"I don't give a tinker's damn about what anyone else thinks. What other people say about me is none of my business."


I've felt this way since high school!..... I wore prepy one day , cowboy the next , grunge the day after, then I would show up in full BDU's( cameflage pants, shirt) the day after that!....it was a different theme everyday ...people would ask me " so what are you?" and I would say ..." it depends on my mood "

I just wish I knew about kilts then

I'm up to 3 right now (im 28 ....29 on 9 jan )...and outside of work (I work in a hospital, and patient care dictates that I wear scrubs) I plan on wearing kilts full time after I get my third this week .......(see "look what my wife bought for me" thread to see my third kilt)
now the question is ...whats my next kilt?!

[Graham]

Ron, you are dead right about comfort in sitting, I would say especially so in a vehicle. I do a fair bit of driving and find kilt really nice to wear.

Recently I had to do an installation up a ladder at a Catholic Convent. I decided to wear shorts even though the nuns are used to me in a kilt.
It was a hot day and I was very uncomfortable in shorts. couldn't wait to put the kilt back on (which I had in my truck).

Even though I was only in shorts for an hour I had some friends comment later that they saw me working out of a kilt.

So yes Ron, you soon get known as a kilted man and people get used to it pretty quickly. Congrats on working full time kilted, the benefits are enormous.

[Riverkilt]

Great story KCW,

Sure sounds like your boss is giving you the okay in a round about way.

Enjoy the freedom now.

Ron

[bubba]

Recently I had to do an installation up a ladder at a Catholic Convent. I decided to wear shorts even though the nuns are used to me in a kilt.

Probably a good thing you wore the shorts. I got this mental picture of you up the ladder in your kilt and a group of nuns like curious penguins flocking around the bottom of the ladder. Now to try banging my head on the desk til that image goes away.

[Wompet]

Probably a good thing you wore the shorts. I got this mental picture of you up the ladder in your kilt and a group of nuns like curious penguins flocking around the bottom of the ladder. Now to try banging my head on the desk til that image goes away.

So, were these "Sound of Music" nuns, "Blues Brothers" nuns, or "Monty Python" nuns? Anyway, thank you for sharing that disturbing mental picture with us.

To help get the above out of your heads, watch this Utilikilts "mockumercial" from a couple of years ago, "They Work" Yes, it's similar, but there are no nuns.

[Sherry]

I think you (we) will win more converts, not with appeasement, but with gallantry such as Graham diplayed. You have to think of your goals & how best to achieve them. If your career goal means that you must wear a "corporate uniform," then so be it. We all have to balance what we want to do with what we need to do in some manner.

Sherry

[mudd]

Ron, you are dead right about comfort in sitting, I would say especially so in a vehicle. I do a fair bit of driving and find kilt really nice to wear.

How do you get settled in the car without messing up the pleats for the rest of the day? I’m having’ a hard enough time keeping them neat just sitting in a chair for that matter. My wife is wondering why I stand around so much when I wear a kilt.
I’ve been thinking of wearing a kilt or two on a drive to California coming up soon. I dread the idea of what my back end will look like after several hours driving. :eek:

[Nick]

I'm allowed to wear kilts to work, but my boss gives me greif about it almost every time (not full time yet). She hasn't actually done anything about it, and I know she won't. I work in the back at a university bookstore, so there's no uniform or dress code, really. I can take the verbal abuse. I wish I had that kind of acceptance, though.

[GlassMan]

That's part of the joys of being my own boss. Not only is there no one around to give me a grief about wearing a kilt. But since we're a small business I've declared the kilt our company uniform (those previously employed grandfathered as being allowed to wear their choice of trousers or kilts). But the next new hire will be told right off that the kilt is the uniform. Now I just have to figure out how to finance the clothing allowance to allow new hires to buy something better than an eBay cheapie.

[davedove]

I don't get any grief when I decide to wear the kilt at work. The worst I seem to get is people giving me the "Why would he want to wear THAT?" look.

The director of our organization walked into the men's room the other day while I was standing at the urinal and did a double take. He joked that he thought he'd walked into the wrong restroom when he saw the "skirt".