I think God just told me to quit my job

[RumpusCat]

I'm a professional in a law firm in NYC and my boss just came in and told me that we are getting uniforms. UNIFORMS? I'm support staff (think like IT) but can I restate that I work in a law firm?? And that I'm a professional?? In addition, I just learned that they're going to install internet blockers on the network that will prevent us from going to any sites that aren't work-related.

I feel like I'm being demoted to the level of a Kinko's employee here. I can do better. What do you guys think: divine message of quit-itude or 'stop whining and get back in place, peon!'?

[Ravenseye]

1. depends

what is the 'uniform'? Would you as support staff have the ability to override the internet blockers on yourself?

I'd probably start looking for a new job, but keep that one till I had a new one.

[RumpusCat]

7. Slacks and an embroidered shirt

That we wouldn't be able to take home. We'd change once we got to work and change out of them before we left. My boss described the look as 'Riker's Island.' :scared:

[Ravenseye]

10. You can't take them home?

Did you say this was a law firm? What the fuck?

I'd probably tell your boss

"I don't wish to have to change into a uniform when I come to work. If we proceed with this, I will give serious consideration to looking for alternative employment"

or some such...

[RumpusCat]

17. Isn't that crazy?

I *thought* I worked for a law firm but apparently I fell into some kind of time warp and now work in a 1950s factory or something. x(

[skygazer]

32. Riker's Island?!

Run! Run like hell! That remark right there is too creepy.

[Deja Q]

2. Dunno. I keep thinking the same all the time.

But my job is all I have. So I stay.

Lacking self-esteem helps too. Mustn't have your workers give a damn about things or else quality problems might go away. :crazy: Which is odd, I care more about the finer details than anyone else...

[mikeytherat]

3. What kind of uniforms?

Does it involve a hat or vest? If so, definitely time to go!

mikey_the_rat

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. If you have to wear a " Hi , My Name is " badge

then get Slim Shady with it ;)

[TheBaldyMan]

5. get another job before you move

you can wear a dumb uniform for that long, probably won't be that long.

[SaveElmer]

6. Probably just an embroidered shirt...

That is typical of many companies

[jmowreader]

15. Not of professional services companies, though

[dr.strangelove]

22. For law firms in NYC, it is very common

my firm does not, but I know at least a dozen where the staff wheres a logo polo style or rugby style shirt.

[billyskank]

8. Rule #1

Don't quit until you have an offer in writing for a job you'd prefer.

Apart from that, I see no reasons why you shouldn't look to move.

[genieroze]

9. Find another job first, this maybe the universes way of telling you that

you can do better.

[LynneSin]

11. I can appreciate the internet blockers but uniforms?

that's just bonkers. Dress code should suffice

[elehhhhna]

12. show up in your underpants and they may catch a hint.

[RumpusCat]

16. Lol, might have to wait for the weather to warm up a bit first

[elehhhhna]

26. think longjohns.

[ET Awful]

13. How many pieces of flair do you have to wear?

I mean . . . if it's more than a dozen pieces of flair, I'd be out of there.

:evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

14. holy shit.

I work at a lawfirm in NYC. :hi: Is this the new trend? this is really scary....on edit: im "support" too, but a paralegal.

[RumpusCat]

19. Litigation support here

So I'm more in the IT side of things than the paralegal side of things. Still--uniforms in a lawfirm?? They don't even make the mail guys wear uniforms most places! :wtf:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

23. I think the uniforms are totally off the wall.

the folks in our mail room are from an outside company and they dont even have to wear a uniform. Also, with you being in Lit Support, how do they know what websites you need or dont need? i mean, what if you're researching something and need to see these "unapproved" sites :grr:

i hate this shit.

do you work in Manhattan?

[johnnie]

18. Oh cool

Ask your boss if you can all get these uniforms.

[hfojvt]

20. I wear a uniform shirt

but I also take them home. Of course, I work janitorial and it is useful to be readily recognized as a staff person. If your company is big enough, it also could be a security issue - it keeps someone from walking off the street and pretending to be the new IT guy and going through confidential files.

[RumpusCat]

27. Working in Grand Central Station

Means that I have to all but submit to a full-body cavity search to just get INTO my office every day (look out! Terra!), so I doubt a polo shirt's gonna make much of a difference, lol. Good point, tho'!

It's the not being able to take the uniforms home to launder ourselves that really punts this from 'Geez, that's freaking annoying and a bit insulting' to 'that's just creepy--why??' :shrug:

[hfojvt]

31. that seems odd too

Usually it is an advantage, like at Kraft they had uniforms (but not for the temps, all we had were shirts). Considering how messy it can be to make pudding, it was nice to not have to do your own laundry. But in a law office? Bizarre. It almost seems like a partner has a good friend or relative in the uniform business and is giving them some business.

I guess I would want to hear their reasoning, or think that somebody is just yanking your chain.

[dr.strangelove]

21. Well the uniforms suck, but the internet blockers are common

in most MYC firms. We have them in our firm. DU is only on the list of approved sites because I asked them to put it there, it was blocked at first.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

24. really? the only sites blocked from our firm are sex sites

so sometimes that means innocent sites with sexual cocntent are blocked, but its rare...

[dr.strangelove]

35. I know of at least a dozen firms where most sites are blocked

some firms only allow research and news sites, nothing else. My firm allows a little more than news and research, but anything realted to sex, gambling, shopping and many entertainment sites are blocked. Also, many plugins are blocked so films and audio will not play unless you enter a password, which you only can get if its work related. No ebay, no song/video downloads and no surfing google images at work.

[tjwmason]

36. I'm sure you've explored the prohibition...

:P

When I was at university a chum of mine spent his vacations in Saudi (his parents lived there temporarily), the state internet blockers blocked everything from Essex and Sussex (English counties) on the grounds of the "sex" in there.

[Common Sense Party]

25. Na na na na, na na na na, say-ay-ay Goodbye.

The writing is on the wall.

I just recently divorced my employer, due to irreconciliable differences.

I feel better than I have in months.

[RumpusCat]

28. Irreconciliable differences

I like that! :rofl:

[Nikia]

29. I wear a uniform at work

In some ways it is nice because I don't have to worry much about what I look like at work (I also wear a hairnet since it is a food processing facility).
On the otherhand, I have a much better case for divine messages to quit such as the couple times that they tried to kill me-accidently. I am waiting for a better divine message such as actually getting another job from the many that I have applied to.

[trof]

30. OK, why uniforms?

Did they give a reason?
It certainly makes your work wardrobe "choices" easier.
;-)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. If God says to flip off your boss on the way out, don't do it.

Sometimes he just likes to fuck with you.
:evilgrin:

[tjdee]

34. You can start looking--if you get something with better pay, God's telling

you to quit, LOL.

The uniform sounds stupid, but since you're in IT, perhaps it's so the legal people will know that it's YOU who's fixing their stuff so they can feel free to ask you any IT question anytime. Or, so that your smelly wonk vibes don't touch any of the pretty, clean lawyers. :silly:

Good luck whatever you do.