I have no idea how long shorts should be in an office, because I've never worked in one that allowed them? I think longer than fingertips is a pretty common length for school stuff?
I went for a run at dawn and it was already kinda too hot and muggy. Then when I got home and looked at the time it was actually time to drive to work. So, came in late, and now it seems without my phone. Monday.
I hate that, I end up feeling so out of it all day without my phone...and then I feel annoyed because my phone should not be so important! There were years and years where I did not have a cellphone, let alone a smartphone, and was Just Fine.
Zen, glad you are not losing your mind, but that does sound obnoxious. Like when your eye it twitching, only it's coming from INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
Somewhat relatedly, in the entire history of the universe, has anyone ever received an automated call that starts out saying, "This is not a sales call" and the call was actually not a sales call?
Actually, yes! Once after college I answered the phone at home and ended up taking a survey about songs on the radio, and then agreed to go to a thing where they had like, 100 people, and played snippets of songs and we had to rate how much we liked them, or if we had heard them too much, and got paid some amount of money for it ($60 maybe? Something that was way more than the nothing I was making until I found a job!)
The rule at schools here is "shorts must be longer than the fingertips when standing." That usually equals mid-thigh.
That is funny, because on me (I have short arms)my fingertips are higher than my crotch! I will have to make sure that is not true for her!
ETA: I have really never seen an adult staff member wearing shorts, but faculty wear them, and I have never really prohibited students from wearing them either.
The rule at schools here is "shorts must be longer than the fingertips when standing." That usually equals mid-thigh.
The nuns would make us kneel and the skirt had to touch the floor.
In the office we try and not offend our co-workers, but heat is an issue so we tend to wear very little with sweaters at hand to shield against the A/C.
In lunch delight news, my plan for lunch was steamed broccoli with a dressing of oil, lemon juice, and oregano. Just before I closed the fridge door the mangoes called my name so I grabbed a plastic container of mango and added it to the broccoli. Winner! It was so delish.
I've never understood the no-sleeveless dictum. But then I drove a manager to sputtering once when I pointed out that the pantyhose-must-be-worn rule didn't make much sense when we weren't required to wear sleeves all the way down to our wrists.
In Utah, a lot of work dress codes are kind-of-subtle versions of Mormon clothing rules, ie, the famous "magic underwear", ie, garments. That's why bare shoulders on grown ups make the locals twitchy, because it's not something righteous people would be doing and it's a blatant statement of someone Not In The Church. Of course, there are also rules saying garments can be laid off in special circumstances, which often get interpreted as "It 98 freaking degrees out there! Get these layers off!"
Sophia, so your dress code explicitly states sleeveless us prohibited?
No- I just feel naked!
ETA: Our dress code says we should dress appropriately and neatly.
Ah, ok. Sleeveless is office appropriate here so I was confused.
Ah, the vague "appropriately", ie, You'll know you're inappropriate when you get the verbal warning.
That is funny, because on me (I have short arms)my fingertips are higher than my crotch!
I was definitely just standing here measuring on myself, and decided that shorts (or a skirt!) to my fingertips would be borderline student-inappropriate, and definitely adult-inappropriate.
