Categories: uncategorized
Date: 15 September 2004 13:00:00
I'm not going to work tomorrow!!!! I have an ethics workshop. At 2pm. So I thought it prudent to take the whole day off. Makes sense to me.
This morning I finally made a trip to the uniform shop with one of my coworkers. Did I mention that I have to get a uniform? And that I don't like it. APPARENTLY the designer for the uniform shop went to Paris and on his/her return reported that in Paris the fashion is to have blazers in the... er... straining in the front region style. So out of the thousands of perfectly normal (and some abnormal, not to mention those horrid old lady shiny polyester blouses with flowers on them) clothing items what did my boss choose? You guessed it. Along with the prototype hipster trousers and skirt (I'm a bit confused by the concept of a hipster skirt... surely ah never mind) also influenced by Paris and a horrible white shirt with bumpy bits on it and 3/4 length sleeves. The shirt would be ok if she had chosen one in the normal non bumpy fabric but anyway, I digress from the topic at hand.
The topic at hand is that I left home FORTY FIVE MINUTES early to go to this uniform shop. And what happened? For a start they didn't have anything for us to try on (which was the whole point of the trip so that my boss can order the horrid things). Apparently because this is such a hip and happening new range and they only have one of each size of everything, there's nothing at the shop itself. Great. They eventually dug up two pairs of the trousers (both size 12), a skirt (size 10) and two shirts (size 12 and 14). We obliging disrobed in the disturbingly unsecure changing rooms and tried on a pair of trousers and a shirt each. Like all good uniforms, the trousers were too small around the waist and the shirts were way too big. Well, except in the er frontal region. Cos that's the fashion in Paris. Haven't they heard of minimiser bras over there?
So what do we have? erm... well the size 12 shirt sort of fitted me... and nothing else. Would we be allowed to try on some other trousers in a different style to check the size? No sorry, your boss has stipulated the styles so you are only allowed to try on those ones. So there's nothing else to try on? You only have two shirts to offer. And you plan to outfit a 600 employee firm by the end of the month. Great. Er... well... um... great... see you later.
On the positive side the experience did motivate me to be somewhat blunt when discussing the uniform with my boss.
Yay: S and I went to the uniform shop today.
Boss: Oh yes, how was it?
Yay: (retells story about the rude woman and the woeful lack of things to try on)
Boss: well how was the uniform apart from that?
Yay: We don't like it.
Boss: er... oh...