Good point , sorry.But “enjoyment” just caught me off guard, that was not a word I was expecting in the results.
Alternately, you could throw in a bunch of other colors in the next load, and tell people you’re helping out with a live Ishihara Color Test experiment.
Try mechanic’s hand cleaner- Goop or GoJo to get out the ink. Get it from the car parts section of a Walmart or go to an Auto Zone or similar. The stuff works wonders sometimes.
I may have multiple boxes of shame.
If I was going to bother adhering to dress code I’d wear a clean shirt. If I wasn’t I’d wear a ratty T shirt. So I’d just keep the shirts to wear around the house. Now if I had bunch of shirts all the same with stains in different places, I’d wear one in, bring the rest, and change shirts frequently during the day to mess with people.
I hate clothes shopping, I don’t give a damn about my appearance, and I will dress as casually as I can get away with at any given event. When I become ruler of the world, one of the first new laws will be that T-shirts and sweatpants or shorts are suitable attire for all occasions, with some dire penalty for giving people a hard time about dressing that way. But I still stick to the social norm that clothes with preexisting stains are not suitable for wearing in public. It sucks, but you have to buck up and get some new work clothes.
I was going to suggest taking them to a dry cleaner and seeing what they can do.
Oh man, what a bummer. If I did that mine would be ripped too from trying to kick myself in the ass. I’d wear them around the house and especially for any dirty tasks like painting but I would not wear them in a business environment. Sorry, dude.
As mentioned in the OP, some of these clothes may have only a couple of dots on them. I wouldn’t want to look like a leopard, but pants with a dot here, a couple of dots there isn’t going cause me any concern, especially if – as I mentioned above – you could balance it off by wearing a non-dotted shirt. He’s in IT, not the anchorman on the local news.
Initially, something along the lines of “what’s with the stains?” What would come next depends on your response. If you showed a modicum of awareness and assured me it was a one time thing, I’d leave it at that (secretly wondering how a grown man comes to work in stained clothes). If you continued to dress that way, I’d find out how I could legally get rid of you, as I would think you weren’t worthy of working at my company. But again, that’s if *I *was the boss. I assume you already know what your actual boss’s reaction is going to be, no?
- Don’t throw them out. They probably can be dyed.
- They can be clothes you use for dirty work like painting.
And if you ever got a job working as a housepainter or the like, this wouldn’t even be a thing!
Yeah, might as well go full tie-dye now.
“Work clothes” are the clothes I care about the least. If I were absolutely certain that no one at work would be bothered by the stains, I wouldn’t bother either. I’d wear unstained clothes for any time I needed to be client-facing, but if the boss don’t care why should I?
Then again, I’m not a fan of a required business casual uniform. It doesn’t flatter me, so I look like a slob (but a corporate-conforming slob!) anyway.
If it were my good clothes like the jeans and shirts I normally wear, I’d try my damndest to salvage them, and retire/replace anything permanently stained as I was able.
How big are the stains, and where are they?
If they really are only 1/4" max and aren’t right smack dab in the middle of your chest or the center of an ass-cheek, I’d keep them and see if a dry cleaner could get them out, or at least fade them a bit. A stain like that on the inside of a pant leg or the underside of a shirt sleeve wouldn’t bug me, or your coworkers or TPTB, like as not.
You could dye the worst offenders, and then maybe keep the others as spares for inevitable (at least in my world) ‘Oh shit I have nothing clean that fits’ mornings.
Replace them. Going out in stained clothes – no fucking way. Especially something I’d wear to work. Unless you’re a janitor – and you’re not – get new ones. Depending on the type of stuff that’s stained, keep them for around the house, or doing yard work or whatever. Ugh. I can’t believe it’s even a question.
Well, I see that wolfman isn’t getting much love here for his casual attitude toward dress. Fuck all that. I’m absolutely totally in wolfman’s corner on this, attitude-wise at least. And fuck all the bosses in the world, and all the clients, who give a shit (may every last one of them rot in hell).
(Note, I’m the same unrepentant incorrigible slob who, in a nearby thread, doesn’t care what anyone thinks if I tuck in my T-shirt or not.)
That said, one may need to face the disgusting facts of life that so many above posters allude to: Bosses and corporate pooh-bahs love their roolz that they make, and OP may just have to choke down the fact of being a corporate peon, and cough up the dough to replace those threads. Bosses are just too in love with themselves and their precious powers, so they just have to be asses about unproductive shit like that.
If this OP is such a good IT person as he says, perhaps this might be a productive strategy here:[ol]
[li] Cough up the dough and buy all new clothes.[/li][li] Demand a raise from your boss. (Say, enough to pay you back for all that clothes over 6 months.)[/li] If (2) fails, update your resume and start looking. (Your new clothes from (1) will help here.)[/ol]
FYI, this webpage from the company that makes Shout stain remover suggests using acetone to remove the ink. (I was doing a Google search to see if the color catcher sheets would work but apparently not.) So you might be able to save the clothes for the cost of a bottle of nail polish remover.
And if you don’t want to try, bring the clothes to a dry cleaner and ask them to do their best. Because I advise you not to wear ink-stained clothes, no matter how skilled you are.
That means “you can wear them”.
You can’t wear them any more.
You can’t wear them any longer.
Nice. How’s your command of the Dutch language?
Yes, basic standards of cleanliness are just examples of power-mongering by The Man.
Why would you want to go around looking like you’re too stupid to wash your clothes properly?