Novocastrian

Oakvillian will be wearing a dapper business suit, dbd33 won't be.

As usual, I shall dash dramatically through the door at a dead run, with my right hand pointing to heaven in celebration.

welshchem

Last time there was a canadian bloke in a Geordie top sat in the pub as a red herring. There was no dashing though.

Novocastrian

No that was me. I was just observing and I didn't like the look of you.

And shouldn't that be a black and white herring?

Ben W Bell

I'm in a white shirt today. I was going to wear a blue shirt and a London Underground tie for easy identification, but the shirt had a grease stain (and when I fastened the top button I realised I couldn't breath).

Atlantic Xpat

Wearing a tie to work? How very British of you. We don't bother with that sort of stuff out her in the boonies!

Oakvillian

yes, very tediously formal... dress-down friday in this office means your jacket doesn't necessarily have to match your trousers, and on Summer Fridays some people <gasp> don't wear a tie.

Me today: white shirt, dark red tie, dark grey suit, black shoes.

mc_dub

last time I worked for this company in the summer I came in wearing shorts and a basketball top, nothing was or is ever said about dress code here

welshchem

Summer time in the labs can be a bit scary. It's not immediatly obvious whether people are actually wearing T-shirt and shorts under their labcoat or not. Day to day though as long as it's not open toed sandals (acid drips sting) it's fair game.

Oakvillian

Wot, no white socks and Birkestocks? How do you survive?

welshchem

If you're in work and don't know what Birkestocks are (like me). Using Google image search with the safety off is not recommended.

Zoe Bell

ewwwwwwwwwwww

welshchem

Now imagine Oakvillian in that gettup and you've got the mental image that I've been trying to scrub from my head for the past 15 minutes.

Oakvillian

I'm intrigued and more than a little worried......I'm going to have to wait until I get home before I can do an unfiltered google search - should I hold off until the effects of tonight's ale have subsided?

Thinking about it, it was a bunch of physicists and mathematicians, rather than chemists, whom I observed doing the whole socks-and-sandals thing en masse. And, thinking further about it, they were mainly Austrian (I was in Salzburg) so with all due respect to any Österreichers here, that may have had more to do with it than their chosen specialist subject.

welshchem

To put your mind at rest...

Typing Birkestocks into google images gets you 2 pictures of sandal-esque footwear followed by ~8 pictures of a lady in a fishnet body stocking (actually in some of them she's out of the fishnet body stocking)

Zoe Bell

well bits of her are