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[rikibeth]

ow motherfucking dress code ow tomorrow I totally have to buy ballet flats the only goddamned dress shoes I HAVE are heels and I was standing and teaching for eight hours and fuck fuck OW.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, today went very well. Despite the administrative SNAFU that sent five people who were supposed to be part of someone else's group to my site, and I couldn't even keep them, and the minor inconvenience of the fingerprint techs showing up first thing when the Book says they're supposed to come after lunch. I worked around it. I got the papers all filled out. I am totally applying for HR positions after this.

owmyfeet.

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[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a long-term gummint employee, even with the stricter dress codes*, there are dam' few women in heels in our midst. Even when I went to the national officer in Baltimore, I didn't see much over a couple of inches, and most were lower than that. Flats are numerous.

You'd be good at HR, I think.


*There's a lot of variance--people who are likely to be seen by the public have much tighter limits. But even there, "dress shoe" does not have to mean heels.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have no doubt that flats are ACCEPTABLE. What flats AREN'T are IN MY CLOSET. Because I have been wearing Doc Martens and Converse high-tops pretty nearly exclusively since about 2004.

And I have been living on hope and pennies found in the sofa until tomorrow's paycheck arrives. Even $10 for a cheap pair of flats from Payless was JUST NOT THERE. Especially since I couldn't claim unemployment starting from the fist week I was in training, but the pay takes 11 days to turn up.

So, ouch, heels.

If I were sitting behind a desk most of the time, I wouldn't even fret, because the heels I have are even pretty comfortable for short bursts of walking. They work GREAT for dancing for hours at a stretch, even! But for standing and teaching? They SUCK.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Standing is killer, and I'm bettin' that's concrete floor under the carpet. It usually is.

I can see how with mostly doing restaurant work, the Docs would rule the shoe rack.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Given the type of building and the age? I'm thinking it's hardwood. It's a converted Victorian house, Italianate, of the sort often turned into law offices.

Still doesn't make the tilted posture easier for my hips.

And, dammit, if I wind up working somewhere with even a LITTLE sense of flexibility in attire, I'm rocking the pencil-skirt-and-20-eye-Docs look. I've done it on my own time and it kicks ASS.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Even the gummint offices are nicer in New England!

Given the way Docs are built, they do qualify as an orthopedic shoe, I believe. So a note from your doctor (if you can find one who'll be talked into it...)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

This isn't a gummint office, this is a kindly independent social service agency that's allowed the Census to borrow their conference room this week for training.

And my daily meeting location for my crew is going to be a library room in the local community center, during their business hours. Outside of those hours I'm looking at the Dunkin Donuts.

The office folks for the Census have a spot in a downtown tower. Flossy building, marble lobby downstairs, reasonable upstairs except of course it's double-crowded, and our departmental mailboxes are taped-together cardboard, but, what the hell, they're organized. And the meter maids have been schooled not to ticket us if we've got our placard on the dash.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that your feet hurt, but I'm glad that you're doing so well at Human Resources.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

::rubs your sore feet::

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

::melts into a puddle::