Oh god, I'm still slightly traumatized from the time I had to tell a minion that denim slacks still violated the no-jeans rule.

Enforcing rules you think are stupid is the worst.

Good luck, sumi!

Today's wildlife sighting: four otters in the downtown part of the slough! No pictures, I was too slow with the phone. I knew there were otters in the marsh, but they are usually pretty elusive, so this was quite a treat!

Now I need to get a battery for the Volvo so I can give it away.

Otters!

Oh god, I'm still slightly traumatized from the time I had to tell a minion that denim slacks still violated the no-jeans rule.

I had that told to me! But it was a) when I worked in a grocery store and b) at my yearly review after I had worn the pants for a year. The woman who had to tell me thought it was stupid, and said she thought management just wanted an excuse not to give me a good raise, since I worked there for 9 years (all through high school and all through college).

It's been a long time since I've had to worry about a dress code. Damn it's good to be a developer.

Otters! That so totally rocks.

In my office the denim trousers would only work on the rare days when we are allowed jeans.

I wonder if denim skirts are allowed. . . .

When I was in the 7th grade, I had a teacher who in retrospect was a fashionista (even if that term didn't exist in 1983). Once, on a field trip, one of the girls in my class caught all kinds of grief from another teacher for wearing jeans. Fashionista teacher jumped in and corrected her, saying that "jeans" is a style of pants, NOT a type of fabric, and one can wear corduroy jeans, for example, and what the girl was wearing were denim trousers and not jeans.

IIRC, the girl still got a note sent home for wearing jeans on a field trip when she wasn't supposed to, so apparently strict style definitions were not part of St. Bernadette's grade-school curriculum.

And we wear jeans all the time here. I'm wearing them today, with a sweater. I don't wear them with t-shirts or fleece jackets or anything (although I *may* wear my Cosa Nostra Grammatica t-shirt to work when I get it).

...am working still in my pjs. But it's technically a snow day!

Damn it's good to be a developer.

I don't know if that's because you're a developer, and not because you've worked where you've worked. This is my fifth company, I think, and the first where developers can wear jeans every day. And the every day is only about a year old.

I've also never worked (or heard of) anywhere where denim was allowed and jeans not, so trouser jeans are not a separate concept I've had use for. It's not that jeans were prohibited at these places, it's that denim was.

On the Lucky website they have two Easy Rider jeans. One pair is $80, and the dark wash is $99. I'm not sure what that's all about, and am trying to hang on in there until they make it back into stores, because I currently wear two sizes of this style, and I don't want to have to buy both sizes to experiment, especially not if there's some difference between the two washes that I'm not getting.