Dress Code?

I'm fine with it then, I suppose. Just don't show up every day wearing the same ratty old hat, looking like you just woke up, even if that's the case.

 

At my full-time gig, it's business casual Monday through Thursday in the office and just plain casual on Friday. When covering a game, it's just casual.
Ties and suit coat are restrictive enough when you're in an office or covering one of those "formal" events. Wearing them while tromping up and down the sidelines with a camera and notebook, sometimes in the rain, is just stupid.

 

If it's over 90 degrees and I'm outside, it's shorts and a t-shirt, unless I'm at something that calls for something otherwise. Usually I'm just covering a camp or something, so who really cares.

If I'm in the office, I wear shorts and either a polo or button down shirt.

Basically, our is don't look like a complete freaking mess and dress for the assignment.

 

We have a lax dress code, but from time to time it was getting abused. Sports is its own animal, but news side reporters had to cover up, mostly because of out of college female writers about a year ago. Thongs are nice on the job, I get it, but the protrusion from the low rise pants was too much for our older people. The males couldn't concentrate between that and the revealing halter tops.

LOL. Of course the sports staff ogled more than most.

 

I brought this up in another thread, but I actually think a return to suits, tie and a fedora wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. But there's bigger things to worry about in this industry.

 

Pants are for sissies and sleeves are for cowards.

 

I feel bad for the ad guy who has to anchor our daily Webcast. I use shop lights to light the room and he's wearing a tie. I'm sure the other people in the office love the fact that the AC has to be off for a few minutes while the show is rolling.

 

Which brings up another point, probably worth its own thread. I'm all for papers using the Internet as much as possible, but why do so many papers think that translates into doing amateur-level TV? Find a niche. Do something that TV can't do. Quit trying to duplicate what TV does, when that industry has a 50-year head start.

 

Did I used to work with you?

At my old job, it would routinely be around 110 degrees in the summer, so if I had an office shift, I would wear flip flops. Well, until the crazy desk guy we had narked me to the publisher about being unprofessional. Of course, this is the same guy who at 3 p.m. would be screaming the fuck word loud enough for folks 100 yards away at the front of the office to hear. Apparently that wasn't unprofessional.

 

From Esquire's "The Rules":

• It's 16 percent more difficult to respect a man once you've seen his toes.

http://www.esquire.com/style/Summerrules0707

 

Well, I'm convinced.

 

"We wear caps and sleeves at this level, son."