Where do you work?

[longshadows]

I work as an administrative assistant in the computer science dept. of the University of Southern Maine. Since I'm a "low-paid, clerical type" (and no threat to anyone) and since this place has a pretty relaxed dress code anyway, I just started wearing a kilt one day about six weeks ago and never stopped. I didn't ask permission, figuring it's "easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission."

The first day, there were a few, "Wow, is it a Scottish holiday?" sort of responses. After a few more kilted days and no more comments, there were a couple of "what's with the kilt-thing?" For the past several weeks, about the most interesting comment I've had (from a student as I was walking across campus on a chilly day) was, "I hope it's warm up there."

Anyway, yesterday, being National Tartan Day, I dressed up with tweed jacket and tie, but no one even seemed to notice or ask any questions. Now, I guess I'm just "the old fart in the kilt" and have become a part of the campus scenery. (I keep hoping the campus newspaper will be so desperate for something to write about that they might consider me an interesting news item. )

Regards,

[Southern Breeze]

I'm a landscape designer and the crew foreman. I've been wearing the kilt daily at work for several months now.I usually wear a Stillwater standerd (blackwatch) or my Workmans Utilikilt.

[beverlonian]

I work on on oil production platform in the North Sea so wearing a kilt at work would not be practical.

[Sherry]

My oldest is a university student, so he has no "official" problem with wearing the kilt to classes, & only gets an occassional ignorant reaction.

My DH is in finance & business brokering, & doesn't care to set a fashion statement in such a conservative market, so he never wears his to work.

[Kilted KT]

My bills get paid by working for a global computer service outsourcing firm called EDS ( competitor of IBM global services ) where I help fix the systems behind most of the major travel websites when they break. Fairly concervative, and kilts are not commonly found. Wearing it to work on the 6th was a huge step in the right direction.

My job of choice is CEO of SimpleSage, LLC, a small business development firm. I help small companies with any issues they may have, be it developing marketing plans, designing web sites, improving existing business processes, writing operational agreements and all points in between. Eventually this will be my only "job", but not just yet.

[pdcorlis]

I am an instructor of photography and department head at a community college in the inland northwest. My immdiate boss (division chairperson) fully supports my wearing a kilt anytime I choose... I'm a lucky man!

[Jerry]

I,m a retired instrument tech. I would have never been able to wear a kilt at work because of safety concerns. I worked around hazardous chemicals and rotating machinery. Sibce most of what I'd call work is around my home, I often wear my kilt at "work". Just finished putting up a chicken pen,while wearing my blackwatch tartaned Sportkilt.

[UmAnOnion]

corporate sales guy - so out & about meeting clients all day, dealing with mid/high level corporate types so have to do the suit & tie 90% of the time. we do do casual fridays here & I spend most of that in the office but woudlnt feel 100% comfortable wearing a kilt in the office - boss is a bit of a psycho & loves to make smart assed remarks so giving him fodder is not something i aim to do...
although i did do a kilt at a St Paddy's day party this year which got rave reviews from several of the attendees and might lead to bigger & better things in the future...

[mkmound]

My bills get paid by working for a global computer service outsourcing firm called EDS ( competitor of IBM global services ) . . .

I was once on the account team for the other side of that competitive relationship . . . it's interesting trying to sell to a customer who's also a competitor!

I still work for that company (greetings, Magnus!!!) . . . and some of you in IT may be familiar with its mainframe relational database ending in "2". I work on the sales and marketing side, but assist the development lab give birth to its new releases, aka help run beta programs. It's fun to play with the new toys!

I go to work kilted 2-3 days a week. Most of the time I'm in the office, but I am starting to wear the kilt sometimes when I visit customers or do presentations for users groups. In our last release, there were major changes in how we deal with character data and represent it internally, and the context could make a difference in how a particular character was interpretted. I came up with (what I thought was) a brilliant visual example . . . "kilt" in Scotland, with pictures of a great kilt, casual kilt, PC outfit, vs. "kilt" in Seattle with pictures of UKs . . . the message being that the context of a word can change the impression that people get. At least it gave me an "excuse" to wear the kilt while presenting. (I promise that I was purely interested in the educational aspect! :rolleyes: )

At the conference last month where I met Verlyn, I was kilted most of the week. I recognized one of my customers, and greeted him. He then recognized me, as I had worn the kilt doing that presentation at his shop a year earlier.

I wore a kilt yesterday for Tartan Day, and was mildly disappointed that no one said anything.

Regards,

Mark

[Tiran]

I am a recent grad, with a Bachelor of Communications specialized in Public Relations. Well technically Im not graduated yet, I need 4 months work experience, and I am having a devil of a time finding a job. So for now I work at Kinko's as a supervisor/project co-ordinator. Which means I tell people what to do, make decisions when the ***** hits the fan and try to keep my manager of the floor and away from the customers. Dress code doesnt allow much variety for anyone, we all wear dress slacks or kakhis, male or female.
I did get the opportunity the other day to go to an agency opening and wore a navy dress shirt with the cuffs rolled up, my blackwatch and green hose and dress shoes. Got lots of compliments, 2 leads and positive feed back from everyone I talked to. I figured I havent had any luck in the job hunt yet so why not make sure they remembered me.
I actually had a company tell me I was better suited for nonprofit/advocacy work and not corporate, so I might have a good shot at wearign a kilt to work some day.