Dress Code BS

It’s hard to implement a new guideline specially when there is already an existing guideline. In this call center the guideline before was to go to work in your casual wear, and this has been going on since the business started. You can literally go to work wearing jeans, T-shirt, and snickers.

But just recently the management rolled out a memo advising all employees to go to work in their “SMART CASUAL” wear. They defined “SMART CASUAL” by not wearing torn jeans, slippers, t-shirt, mini skirt, etc. But they did not exactly define what to wear.

The guards were even instructed not to let anyone on the call floor if they are not in “SMART CASUAL” attire. But the guards doesn’t even know what “SMART CASUAL” means. Let’s see what the dictionary has to say about smart casual:

A lot of agents were extremely dissatisfied with this new guideline, because they had to suddenly adhere to this new rule. But there where some people who still went to work in their regular outfit but the guard did not stop them from coming in.