I’m an upper manager in a Fortune 100 company, so while it isn’t forbidden, it’s not advisable.
Back in the late 90s, our business unit finally decided to go with “casual Friday” all week. The day after the sector president made the announcement, i was walking down the hall when i encountered one of the scientists who worked for me. He was wearing an open lab coat and running shorts. That’s it. I gave an impromptu tutorial on what the president meant by “casual”
I’m in a coat and tie every day at court. It’s expected and customary, and I’d feel embarrassingly underdressed if I weren’t.
I’ve seen automats in movies (most notably Dark City, a favorite of mine) but never in real life, and alas, haven’t had the chance to eat in one.
I call McDonald’s “Mickey Dees” or “that new Scottish place.” My BIL, who’s a big fan of its food, nevertheless usually refers to Taco Bell as “Taco Hell.”
That poll about how you leave the seat? I’d really like to be able to vote at as to see the results without clicking on it each time. Folks, it’s nice to let everyone vote, especially if non-relevant people might be interested in the results.
So I suppose that the actual answer of mine to that poll would be ‘when I find out about it, if I remember.’ In any case, I didn’t vote, because none of the options seemed right to me and I thought the probable answer was ‘it depends’.
I can’t remember whether I’ve ever eaten at an automat. I think I might have once in my teens in New York City (it would probably have been in the 1960’s); but the memory’s so vague that I don’t know whether it actually happened.
I’d already been in the working world for a while, when the fairly-rapid shift from “business attire” to “casual business attire” happened in many/most white-collar businesses, in the mid-late '90s.
I think that both attire codes were fairly easy for men to deal with; once casual attire was adopted, it was a fairly straightforward new norm: dress shirts (no tie needed) or polo/golf shirts, khakis or the like; jeans were acceptable at some places, if they were clean and didn’t have holes.
But, for a lot of women, “business casual” wasn’t nearly as straightforward, at least in part, I think, because women’s fashion is simply a lot more diverse. There were places I worked at, which wound up having to establish a host of detailed “acceptable/not acceptable” lists; I still remember the all-company note that came out, where they had to tell people that “we do not consider tube tops and halter tops to be appropriate for our work environment.”
We used to typically leave the lid up (but the seat down) on the toilets. Our previous cat loved to play with water, and after several incidents in which we discovered wet toilet seats, and “drowned” cat toys in the toilet, we began to habitually keep the lids down. Said cat has been gone for six years now, but we still keep the lids down.
If you’re a guy, my understanding is that your prostate gland is a big factor, and it becomes more common past age 50. I’m 59, and unless I’m feeling sick, I rarely have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. My GP and endocrinologist are both heartened by this, and a little surprised, as well.
It also depends upon hydration. According to every doctor I’ve spoken too and most websites, we tend to be chronically dehydrated since we often only drink when we feel thirsty to some degree. When I’m consistent about drinking 64 oz of fluids or more (not only water) I tend to get up at least once in the night even before I turned 50.
I am not currently a woman who lives with a man, and so voted. However, I am a woman who has lived with men as well as with other women. And I would like everybody to put both the seat and the lid down when they’re done; so the cats don’t fall in, miscellaneous objects stored in the area don’t fall in, and, for the downstairs john, so the dog doesn’t drink out of it.
In other people’s houses I try to notice where the lid and seat were when I went in there, and to leave them that way.
My husband sometimes pees standing up, and sometimes sitting down. I am completely indifferent between these two actions. I assume he has good reasons for each choice. Or, hell, maybe it’s completely random.
(He doesn’t pee on the seat, either way, which i would care about.)
My preference at home is seat down, lid up. My cats sometimes drink out of the toilet (fine with me) but I’ve never had an adult cat fall into the bowl, make a mess with it, or cause any other problem.