Do you wear a kilt to work? Then what do you do?

[Southern Breeze]

Landscape designer here. I've been with the company I work for now almost six months. We can't wear kilts or shorts because, as the owner puts it, "It's not safe". I'm doing the exact same thing I did job wise at the other company I worked for previously. There I was allowed to wear the kilt.

I'm not going to push the issue though, it's not that big a deal in the greater scheme of things.

[Thunderbolt]

Landscape designer here. I've been with the company I work for now almost six months. We can't wear kilts or shorts because, as the owner puts it, "It's not safe". I'm doing the exact same thing I did job wise at the other company I worked for previously. There I was allowed to wear the kilt.

I'm not going to push the issue though, it's not that big a deal in the greater scheme of things.

I've heard the "Not safe" argument before. It's always about OSHA or other State safety regulations. But, when I ask for documentation, I never have gotten anything. The closest I've got to safety regs not allowing a kilt is a "loose clothing hazard" but not anything specifically prohibiting a kilt.

I suppose that when confronted with something that makes managers uncomfortable, the first response is a "regulations" or "safety" argument.

T.

[Downix]

I work phone tech support for one of the top 10 PC makers in the world. I checked, if I walked in with a kilt, just be sure I have hose on because "they don't want to see hairy legs".

[crboltz]

I teach technical theatre. On class room days, I generally wear kilts, when I'm in the shop teaching construction or in the theatre high on ladders, its pants or shorts (after all I'm a modest kind of guy)

-Chris

[Derek Conley]

I envy you folks; I'd get written up in a heartbeat if I tried to do such a thing.

"out of uniform" comes to mind.

[scotchmaster]

I sell and market Scotch Whisky and while the Kilt is not required it is welcomed. I sell more whisky when I wear it. I would say I wear the kilt 90% of the time. People like it and when I don't wear it they ask why.

Frankly it is much more comfortable than pants. I would rather wear it.

[CameronTaylor]

I sell and market Scotch Whisky ...
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You lucky dog

ON heavy equipment, depending on who I'm working for a kilt wouldn't be an issue but I'm not going to trash a garment like that on the machines I run.
Levi Strauss makes jeans for that.


CT - not even a UK.

[Clockwork John]

I work in education. I'm not a teacher, I'm a paraeducator. I work with emotionally disturbed high school students. My boss last year said he doesn't care what we wear, as long as we can do our job, which can involve pysically restraining students. He asked that I not go regimental, but he said that as long as I'm comfortable with the idea (and possible reality) of physically subduing and restraining students in a kilt, it's fine.

[Frank McGrath]

I just changed jobs. Lost my Forklift Tech job. Now an assembler of door closers for light rail cars. Still would not wear my kilt to work. Never know when I would have to travel to customers location. And anyway, I'm saving it for the company Christmas Party. :beer: Will combine the kilt and Argyll for full effect. One of my coworkers has seen me in the kilt. He already thinks I'm nuts.

[KiltedSurveyor]

I'm a land surveyor. As a one man outfit (robotic survey instrument), I can wear whatever I wish. If I am on a site without too many hazards (barb wire fences to cross, blackberry bushes, bodock or honey locust trees, poison ivy, stinging nettles, etc...) I will usually wear mine. I'm pushing my wife to make more "work" type kilts, and am trying various ways to deal with the coming colder weather and still go kilted.