It's in Black and White

I've recently gotten a new job (I will divulge more once I’m officially settled in and happy). Yesterday I attended a day of training and we went through everything. I mean everything. I did four hours of online induction only to spend nine hours going over it all again. Plus it was a two-hour round commute to the training venue. And there's more! But I do have a point...kinda. 

Yesterday, we went over dress-code. Um, does anyone feel like they're stuck in the black and white jail?

Not like that...

I actually I have a number of choices. Block black and white or block black and black… (For this company, block black and white means all-white and all-black. No stripes, spots, patterns or fun.)

Hey, I don’t mind having to stick to the corporate model (and we ARE allowed to wear any shade of nail polish we want, guys can wear any non-outlandish tie they want, and hair is subject to our manager’s rules -- WOOPIE DOO!).

She said if we can’t handle that, maybe we shouldn’t be working for them. Harsh to some, but fair enough to me. I went to a private school so adhering to strict uniform requirements is basically second nature. I would suggest that if you can’t follow a few simple rules (for a few hours a day) and only live to bend them, then you have serious problems my friend.

Yet I still think something is very wrong with the B&W picture. 

I mean, what is so corporate about black and white anyway? It’s not formal it’s boring. Imagine if we lived in a world where the dress-code stated that we must wear fluorescent purple or that guys must have a bowtie that spins. It might not be ‘corporate’ but I bet the rate of work-related suicides would go down.

Laters,