Thing of the day thread

[woolybug25]

To work? Tennis shoes (because tech companies are extremely casual) or chukka boots. I'm not stylish, but I like the boots.

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[zelezo vlk]

I actually feel much better that you don't approve.

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[woolybug25]

I actually feel much better that you don't approve.

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Athletic shoes are for athletics. Worn anywhere else is for the poors.

This is why society is failing.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Athletic shoes are for athletics. Worn anywhere else is for the poors.

This is why society is failing.

Well I work in an office and industry where everything is very casual. I don't agree with it per se, but dressing in any way other than casual gets looks, and not in a good way. Plus, it's convenient since I go to the gym right after work.

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[IrishLion]

Oxfords, not Brogues.

 

[wizards8507]

Oxfords, not Brogues.

The two aren't mutually exclusive you barbarian.

"Oxford" refers to the closure of the shoe and is contrasted with a "Derby" or "Blucher".

Brogue refers to the perforations.

These are all Oxfords but have different levels of brogueing. From left to right, full brogue (wingtip), semi brogue, quarter brogue.

 

[woolybug25]

 

[Irish#1]

It's more then tech companies. I work for an Aerospace and Industrial distributor. Most people wear jeans with polo's everyday. While I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, I still wear dress slacks and shirts to work. I have one guy on my staff that I swear wears the same jeans everyday. He keeps a ratty sweatshirt at his desk because he gets cold easily. Basically he looks like he's wearing the same clothes everyday.

 

[zelezo vlk]

It's more then tech companies. I work for an Aerospace and Industrial distributor. Most people wear jeans with polo's everyday. While I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, I still wear dress slacks and shirts to work. I have one guy on my staff that I swear wears the same jeans everyday. He keeps a ratty sweatshirt at his desk because he gets cold easily. Basically he looks like he's wearing the same clothes everyday.

They pump the AC like crazy here, to compensate for all the machines and people. So yeah, I'm one of those people who keeps a sweatshirt with me at work. Also, it's Texas. The AC is always blasted if it's on.

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[woolybug25]

It's more then tech companies. I work for an Aerospace and Industrial distributor. Most people wear jeans with polo's everyday. While I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, I still wear dress slacks and shirts to work. I have one guy on my staff that I swear wears the same jeans everyday. He keeps a ratty sweatshirt at his desk because he gets cold easily. Basically he looks like he's wearing the same clothes everyday.

Good for you for having the moxy to be professional. The other guy you mentioned is clearly a poor.

The casual work environment is destroying American values. This used to be a country where men wore suits, drank bourbon and sexually harassed their hot assistants. Now?... People are wearing fucking tennis shoes, calling the PC hotline if they see a coworker having a dinner at a bar over the weekend and the assistants are overweight and angry.

We need to make offices great again.

 

[wizards8507]

It's more then tech companies. I work for an Aerospace and Industrial distributor. Most people wear jeans with polo's everyday. While I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy, I still wear dress slacks and shirts to work. I have one guy on my staff that I swear wears the same jeans everyday. He keeps a ratty sweatshirt at his desk because he gets cold easily. Basically he looks like he's wearing the same clothes everyday.

It's not about fashion for me, it's about quality. Sure, I could buy $80 shoes from Rockport or Bostonian and wear them to shit and then throw them away after six months. But I'd much rather get $400 shoes (on clearance for $200), resole them for $50 once a year, take good care of the high-quality leather, and have them last for a decade or longer. My shoes are all on cedar trees and bagged in flannel and I wear them no more than once per week. I'll be wearing the same shoes in 2030.

 

[woolybug25]

It's not about fashion for me, it's about quality. Sure, I could buy $80 shoes from Rockport or Bostonian and wear them to shit and then throw them away after six months. But I'd much rather get $400 shoes (on clearance for $200), resole them for $50 once a year, take good care of the high-quality leather, and have them last for a decade or longer. My shoes are all on cedar trees and bagged in flannel and I wear them no more than once per week. I'll be wearing the same shoes in 2030.

See fuckos... This is what a gentlemen looks like...

 

[Irish#1]

They pump the AC like crazy here, to compensate for all the machines and people. So yeah, I'm one of those people who keeps a sweatshirt with me at work. Also, it's Texas. The AC is always blasted if it's on.

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Good for you for having the moxy to be professional. The other guy you mentioned is clearly a poor.

The casual work environment is destroying American values. This used to be a country where men wore suits, drank bourbon and sexually harassed their hot assistants. Now?... People are wearing fucking tennis shoes, calling the PC hotline if they see a coworker having a dinner at a bar over the weekend and the assistants are overweight and angry.

We need to make offices great again.

The thing about him is his tennis shoes are ratty as are his jeans. The shirts he wears appear to be 10 years old. The owner refers to him as our homeless guy. He can afford some decent clothes as I pay him a good salary. He decides to spend his money on every little tech gadget that pops up. I can't tell you how many times he's come into my office and told me about some gizmo he just bought.

 

[Irish#1]

It's not about fashion for me, it's about quality. Sure, I could buy $80 shoes from Rockport or Bostonian and wear them to shit and then throw them away after six months. But I'd much rather get $400 shoes (on clearance for $200), resole them for $50 once a year, take good care of the high-quality leather, and have them last for a decade or longer. My shoes are all on cedar trees and bagged in flannel and I wear them no more than once per week. I'll be wearing the same shoes in 2030.

I understand we all have our thing, but WTF do you do that you would wear out a decent pair of shoes in six months? From your pic you sit in a cube farm, right? You jog in those things at lunch? lol

 

[wizards8507]

Good for you for having the moxy to be professional. The other guy you mentioned is clearly a poor.

The casual work environment is destroying American values. This used to be a country where men wore suits, drank bourbon and sexually harassed their hot assistants. Now?... People are wearing fucking tennis shoes, calling the PC hotline if they see a coworker having a dinner at a bar over the weekend and the assistants are overweight and angry.

We need to make offices great again.

Don't even get me started on "flexible work arrangements," aka "working from home." Working from home is a pinko conspiracy designed to destroy the American family by assuaging the guilt felt by working mothers who abandon their children in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. :smilewink

 

[wizards8507]

I understand we all have our thing, but WTF do you do that you would wear out a decent pair of shoes in six months? From your pic you sit in a cube farm, right? You jog in those things at lunch? lol

I don't mean "wear out" like holes in the bottom, I mean "wear out" like "looks hideous because most made-in-Asia shoes are made from leather paste and not the actual skin of a dead cow." Juxtaposed with the quality and durability of American- or Italian-made top grain leather, it's not even close.

Plus, leather soles are way more comfortable than rubber soles once broken in.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Don't even get me started on "flexible work arrangements," aka "working from home." Working from home is a pinko conspiracy designed to destroy the American family by assuaging the guilt felt by working mothers who abandon their children in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

You don't think working from home could prove beneficial to the early years of a child's development? I will say that my experience of work with people who have those arrangements has been mixed at best. And most of the time, it was not for reasons of children needing help etc.

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[woolybug25]

Don't even get me started on "flexible work arrangements," aka "working from home." Working from home is a pinko conspiracy designed to destroy the American family by assuaging the guilt felt by working mothers who abandon their children in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Clearly a conspiracy to lower wages by destroying the concept of a nuclear family. Making it the norm for dual income families instead of one where one parent raises the children and the other provides. Sucking the lifeblood of American ideals from the home.

 

[wizards8507]

You don't think working from home could prove beneficial to the early years of a child's development?

That's not working from home, that's child-rearing. If someone was ACTUALLY working from home it wouldn't make any difference to the child because the parent should be doing their damn job and not cutting PB&J sandwiches into dinosaur shapes.

I will say that my experience of work with people who have those arrangements has been mixed at best. And most of the time, it was not for reasons of children needing help etc.

There's a difference between working from home and "working" from home. My entire team (myself excluded) works from home once a week and 90% of the time they're goofing off, occasionally wiggling their mouse so that their status doesn't show "Inactive." Some of them are even Facebook friends and it's completely normal for them to go to the beach on a day they're "working" from home.

 

[woolybug25]

You don't think working from home could prove beneficial to the early years of a child's development? I will say that my experience of work with people who have those arrangements has been mixed at best. And most of the time, it was not for reasons of children needing help etc.

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No, because the premise is that the parent is working, not parenting. The expectations of actually working are still there. Wouldn't it be better for a child's development to actually have a parent home actually parenting?

 

[Irish#1]

That's not working from home, that's child-rearing. If someone was ACTUALLY working from home it wouldn't make any difference to the child because the parent should be doing their damn job and not cutting PB&J sandwiches into dinosaur shapes.


There's a difference between working from home and "working" from home. My entire team (myself excluded) works from home once a week and 90% of the time they're goofing off, occasionally wiggling their mouse so that their status doesn't show "Inactive." Some of them are even Facebook friends and it's completely normal for them to go to the beach on a day they're "working" from home.

For the most part working from home is not productive, myself included. I have a couple of people on staff that I would trust to be working if they worked from home because I know their work ethic and the amount of work they turn out. My wife has a great work ethic. She goes to work to work and not socialize. She worked from home while on medical leave. She was amazed how much more work she got done from home because she wasn't getting interrupted. When she quit they offered to let her work from home all the time. She told HR no thanks as she was done working for an idiot boss. She's an exception.

 

[Irish#1]

This is why I come to work everyday. My ND home away from home.

 

[zelezo vlk]

That's not working from home, that's child-rearing. If someone was ACTUALLY working from home it wouldn't make any difference to the child because the parent should be doing their damn job and not cutting PB&J sandwiches into dinosaur shapes.


There's a difference between working from home and "working" from home. My entire team (myself excluded) works from home once a week and 90% of the time they're goofing off, occasionally wiggling their mouse so that their status doesn't show "Inactive." Some of them are even Facebook friends and it's completely normal for them to go to the beach on a day they're "working" from home.

No, because the premise is that the parent is working, not parenting. The expectations of actually working are still there. Wouldn't it be better for a child's development to actually have a parent home actually parenting?

I suppose that I agree, but I would add that my first boss made it work, but that was more out of necessity than anything else. However, we also had an irregular schedule, where as long as the work was finished, the owner of our small company would allow pretty much any hours as long as they added up to 40 by the end of the week. Everyone else that I've worked with who tried to work from home has acted as Wizards shared: like tools.

ETA: Irish that is awesome!

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[IrishLion]

The two aren't mutually exclusive you barbarian.

"Oxford" refers to the closure of the shoe and is contrasted with a "Derby" or "Blucher".

I actually did my research before I posted because I knew someone would hit the "WELL ACTUALLY."

I just thought it was an appropriate time to use the (convoluted) knowledge that Harry Hart taught me in Kingsman.


I should also note that I actually have no aversion to brogues (brogueing? Broguing?) haha.

 

[zelezo vlk]

What kind of shoes do you wear?

Shoot I forgot to ask in turn. Do you mind sharing?

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[IrishLion]

The thing about him is his tennis shoes are ratty as are his jeans. The shirts he wears appear to be 10 years old. The owner refers to him as our homeless guy. He can afford some decent clothes as I pay him a good salary. He decides to spend his money on every little tech gadget that pops up. I can't tell you how many times he's come into my office and told me about some gizmo he just bought.

I'll tell you what: teach me the job and hire me, and I'll let Wooly and Wiz pick out my entire ensemble.

I'll just blow the entire office away with my stunningly good looks, my above-reproach style, and my cunning wit.

 

[wizards8507]

I actually did my research before I posted because I knew someone would hit the "WELL ACTUALLY."

I just thought it was an appropriate time to use the (convoluted) knowledge that Harry Hart taught me in Kingsman.

You can't trust British people, everything is backwards over there.

 

[Irish#1]

I'll tell you what: teach me the job and hire me, and I'll let Wooly and Wiz pick out my entire ensemble.

I'll just blow the entire office away with my stunningly good looks, my above-reproach style, and my cunning wit.

I don't think they could handle two of us! lol

 

[zelezo vlk]

You can't trust British people, everything is backwards over there.

What with all those extra u's and driving on the wrong side of the road.

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[woolybug25]

Shoot I forgot to ask in turn. Do you mind sharing?

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I have traditionally wore Cole Haan and/or Stacy Adams, but I recently got a pair of Crockett & Jones Balfours as a welcome gift to my new firm. I'll probably resole these for the next twenty years. They are brilliant. Just need another pair in brown.

Fishing - Patagonia Riverwalkers
Hiking - Danners
Home - Cobian flip flops
Chillin - Toms