# Looks Like I'm Going To Need Some New Work Clothes... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465 "2006-01-04T22:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/21 "2006-01-09T16:00:22Z")
Heh…[I’m at work](http://www.sirblah.com/photo/view.php?album=Misc&pic=Misc013.JPG&picindex=12). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/22 "2006-01-09T16:03:39Z")
Looking on the right side of that picture … did you really need to brownbag your lunch today? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/23 "2006-01-09T16:19:33Z")
Congratulations! My commute is over an hour. My company allows me to work from home whenever the weather is threatening, and when I have personal business to attend to near my home during business hours. But they won’t allow me to do it full time, or even on a regularly scheduled basis. I’m grateful for what I’ve got, but I envy you nonetheless. When I’m working at home, I usually wear gym shorts (my attic office is pretty warm). I usually don’t answer the land-line phone; co-workers call my cell. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/24 "2006-03-25T00:01:25Z")
Update Time – Well, the three months are winding down, and everyong in our group is in agreement: No fricking way in hell do we want to go back to the office. No way, no how. So naturally, we’ve all been waiting very impatiently for word if this was going to become a permanent deal. We had our weekly conference call today, and our boss (who can’t keep a secret to save his life) spilled the beans. He was told not to let us know 'til next week, but he there’s no way he could hold out. On the issue of the work-at-home program becoming permanent, management says… …“we don’t know yet”. BUT, it seems they need more data and such to find out. So they’re extending the trial for another three months! WOOOOHOOOO!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/25 "2006-03-25T03:11:37Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] Heh…[I’m at work](http://www.sirblah.com/photo/view.php?album=Misc&pic=Misc013.JPG&picindex=12). 🙂 [/QUOTE] I am intrigued by the Wet Ones. Okay, so I have a plastic box with wet wipes in my car. Very handy for hand washing, dabbing at dropped lunch, dusting the dashboard, whatever. Yes, I eat my lunch in my car. I am weird. I need to get away from the office. Besides, afterward I can have a cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/26 "2006-03-25T03:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] BUT, it seems they need more data and such to find out. So they’re extending the trial for another three months! WOOOOHOOOO!!! 😃 [/QUOTE] You lucky, lucky bastard. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/27 "2006-03-25T04:20:26Z")
Where is your copy of Weekly World News, huh? And you call yourself a telecommuter? Slacker. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/28 "2006-03-25T04:22:41Z")
Oooh, hey that map thingie you have on your site looks like you are either plotting World Takeover or it is some rorschak thingie. that looks like an airplane. Oh, and I am disappointed that you don’t have your dead pool list posted on your office wall for all to see. You call yourself a Doper. Slacker !! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/29 "2006-03-25T05:08:22Z")
Isn’t working at home fun? I’ve been doing it most of the past 20 years, and it’s gotten to the point where I simply cannot bring myself to punch someone else’s clock any more. The hardest part is the self-discipline, to actually get any _work_ done; but once you get the hang of that, then working in your PJs all day more than makes up for it! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465/30 "2006-03-25T16:25:06Z")
**Savannah** – To by honest, I’m not really certain. I know I kept the Wet Ones in my cube at work, but I don’t think I ever used the things. Considering I only brought home what I consider “work essentials”, I have no idea what they’re doing there. **Shirley** - if you were to go through that box just to my right in the picture, you’d find all sorts of crap from my office – including a copy of the _WWN_ and the printout of my DP list that I kept on my cubicle wall. 🙂 And the map refers back to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7134489&postcount=35). And while it still looks like an airplane, the west coast trip we took in 1983 made it look more like an airplane with an engine flameout. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-im-going-to-need-some-new-work-clothes/338465.md?page=1)