As a comcast call center employee I also regret to inform you that one piece leotards are also unacceptable. effectivly ruining my summer collection

I work for at a comcast call center I cann also tell you that one piece leotards are not acceptable.

Start blogging about that one.

Then capri pants make every woman on the planet look short in a dumpy way by the way they crop the line of your leg, and they make your calves look fat to boot. It's like someone said, "What is the most unattractive piece of clothing possible for 99% of the female population? Let's make THAT popular."

This is exactly how the Taliban got started.

(Digression: I once had a paying gig registered voters for the Democrats. The only writing allowed on my clothing? Political slogans. But I wasn't allowed to wear jeans. Dress codes suck everywhere.)

Comcast probably started with the the requirement of "professional or business attire" and with a lot of employees asking about lots of edge cases eventually the "professional or business attire" gets defined as a list of allowed and prohibited clothing.

1. How does the dress code help keep 'diversity' in the workplace? Isn't that the opposite effect?

and 2. Show up nude. It did not explicitly forbid it. If they complain, say it is for religious reasons. :P

(Sartorially speaking, they're never OK.)

Skorts are never appropriate for human life. I'm no clotheshound, but seriously, ugh.

I'm just amazed that such a dedicated team of human resource professionals and fashionistas are unfamiliar with the correct spelling of the word "sheer".

My boss and her boss argue over whether denim is ever appropriate in an office.

I have an 11-year-old daughter and I can tell you that capris and skorts are definitely in style with her set at the moment.

Anyway, at least Comcast has written guidelines. My employer defines its dress code as "business casual," but doesn't give specifics. A couple of years ago, they had a whole silly debate because two supervisors couldn't agree whether open-toed shoes (for women) fit the unwritten guidelines.

Business casual is annoying. I wear a sportsjacket to work everyday (I'm at the overdressed end of business casual), but my leather workboots (which look dressy, because I keep them well-oiled) apparently wouldn't fit Comcast's rules. I'm a college graduate, but I don't dress well enough to work for Comcast.

Anybody know if Comcast has hairstyle guidelines?

I live in a lab so I am not customer facing and I wear shorts and a tee-shirt every day. I can see though that if you were customer facing that you would at least need to be dressed appropriately.

But the days of "suits" are over for good I hope.

And yes, I'm under 40.

Skorts are shorts with a wraparound panel that makes the front look like a skirt while the back is shorts. Also, Satan invented skorts to burn the eyes of the holy with their ugliness.

Only Audrey Hepburn gets to wear capri pants. And only because the Nazis starved her during her teenagerhood in the Dutch resistance so she could never gain weight on her once-emaciated adolescent frame.

NOBODY ELSE GETS TO WEAR CAPRI PANTS, OKAY???? They're SO unflattering.

@uricmu: I work for a software development company; yesterday I came in in shorts, a golf shirt, and flip flops. I blended just fine.

I never understand the flip-flop/sandal thing. I saw a guy at work one time with sandals on. It was close to 100 degrees outside so i'm sure they were comfortable for him but it intrigued me. I could look around and find a dozen women with the same if not worse footwear, ie flipflops or other sandals but the fact that they are women, it is acceptable If the company had spoken to this guy about sandals then I sure hope he pointed out the dozen women within armslength that had the same footwear on.

Employee will always wear appropriate undergarments

I kept expecting someone from HR to show up, make me drop trou and tell me my trunk briefs had to become boxers immediately.

@uricmu: No, not every company in America has this sort of dress code.

Plenty of successful companies have no dress code at all. Individual choice and discretion works just fine.

And in a twisted way, I'm a big fan of the latter. Mostly because I'm a skirt person, and hate pants and shorts. But some occasions just aren't skirt appropriate. I think the last time I wore a skort was when moving.

and skorts are almost the same as shorts, so it does make sense.

Lets get to the REAL question- are sporks allowed?

I have a pretty open minded dress code, but I must be blunt, most of my employees are just not worth looking at, regardless of what they are wearing.

So if I had a hot looking babe as my administrative assitant I would let her wear whatever in hell she wanted to wear just to give me something to rest my eyes upon.

Alas my AA is, well, almost my mom's age and uglier than a pile of (edited).

'Fingertip length' varies depending on how long one's arm is... but it always is a hell of a lot shorter than knee length.

college is funny, some people come to class dressed for the beach, in PJs straight out of bed(probably just woke up five minutes before class sometimes), half naked, yeah, early fall and late spring is really intereating, I've even seen girls walking around only in towels in the dorm (security is really bad in the dorms, I don't live there but its co-ed, no one ever questions me if I just walk in, especially if I'm with a friend who lives there)

And besides, even in this day and age the vast majority of women working for Comcast are likely not the ones doing the field work (at least I hardly saw any even though I lived in a large apartment building). Hence, they're probably working in an administrative office so as a customer you never see them.

a skort is a skirt with hidden (not visible) shorts underneath, right?

Who gets the job of skirt vs. skort checker?

Sorry, but how that affects us as consumers?

As long as a company provides good service, I don't care if employees work in bathing or santa suits.

Well, they a bit too casual. So I agree with this policy.