Last Day

[eggwards]

Last Day, originally uploaded by eggwards.

Here's me on my last day working for my old employer, rocking the kilt. It got a lot of attention, even halting a management meeting in it's tracks. My hair looks terrible.

I'm also glad to get away from those horrible rose-beige cubicles.

Comments

[bigmacbear]

When I first started full-time at Kodak, my first cube was built from a motley assortment of rose, lavender, and purple panels over a purple rug (in tiles, which, some months later, had to be taken up and replaced with broad rolls of carpet). The entire cube farm (about the size of a football field) was so decorated, leading to everybody calling it the "Purple Palace".

My new office has uniformly off-white cubes.

[furrytxcub.livejournal.com]

You look very sexy in a kilt!

[paladincub21.livejournal.com]

that is very yummy

[theevilnub.livejournal.com]

What, no fur vest... or torch? That would be fun to bring to an office!

[gmjambear]

The statement "What are they gonna do. Fire me?" comes to mind.

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

Kodak?

Football-field sized cube farm?

Sounds like Building 205 to me -

Where are there uniform off-white cubes?

[brchase.livejournal.com]

So did you have anything underneath?
Did anyone try to find out? :-) hehehe

[bigmacbear]

Sounds like Building 205 to me -

Building 11 Elmgrove. Now known as Kodak Manitou since they sold off the rest of the Elmgrove Plant to developers. Building 11 was sold to Heidelberg, who in turn gutted, remodeled, and expanded it before selling it to Philip Morris as an investment. When Kodak bought back the copier/press division from Heidelberg they actually re-used those purple cubes instead of spending the money to use the same cube design Heidelberg used.

Where are there uniform off-white cubes?

Cingular Wireless in Bothell, WA, just northwest of Redmond (home of Microsoft) and northeast of Seattle.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

The new job has grey cubes, which isn't bad, but they are a bit smaller than my old one, and they are designed to be shared with a cube mate. I'm not that crazy about them. The new office is huge, but they do break it up with some higher partitions and such. you can't see all the way down the building from your cube here.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Thank You very much. I need to say hello sometime soon...you need to update us with what's going on!

Good luck with the apartment snafu.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I tried to stick to the actual dress code guidelines, which did not mention kilts, so technically, within guidelines, except that you are requested to wear undergarments.

I was management, i had to set an example, right? :-)

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly, but I was also trying to push the boundaries, because my example whenever the dress code would come up would always be, "but I'm still allowed to wear a kilt." In the end, I proved myself right. I couldn't wear capri pants, but kilts weren't mentioned, and that's open territory in my book.

And I just wanted to leave them with something to remember.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

People asked, but they weren't going to create an HR nightmare for themselves. I did wear underwear, since it was in the dress code, but most times that I wear the kilt, I'm wearing it properly.