PJs for my conference call

[siercia]

We always joke in my office that it mus be awfully nice to be one of our developers (who almost exclusively work out of home offices at remote locations) and get to work in your PJs if you want to.

I don't know if they actually do that, but taking the 9:30 PM conference call with the new HK customer in MY PJs sure was nice.

And now that it's over, I'm going to go watch me some Burn Notice.

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Come on, I went through a low period where I wore the same jeans to work for like 2 weeks straight and no one noticed. You could wear PJs to work.

[siercia]

Ok, so the sad truth is that I HAVE work PJ pants to work. They look enough like fleecy yoga pants that I totally got away with it.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Many years ago, one of our colleages told Andrew that he didn't want Andrew to get a web cam for video conf calls because he didn't want to see Andrew in his PJs. Andrew said that he wasn't wearing PJs, at which point, colleague said TMI (or words to that effect). Andrew was actually fully dressed!

With many of us now having and using Skype with web cams, working in PJs is dangerous!

[bloomchen.livejournal.com]

As someone who does work along from home most days of the work week, I have been tempted to do the jammies thing occasionally, but I have forced myself to get dressed before I "check in" to work most mornings. When I don't get fully dressed in the morning it's because I am running late getting J out to the bus stop. Then it's either send him out there alone and have the other fully-dressed moms feel sorry for him that HE doesn't have a mother who cares enough to wait with him for the bus (along with the other 3-5 mothers and their assorted kids, so it's not like he's alone). Tool does not have the same sort of mother guilt, so when I go into Boston on the 7:15 train most Tuesdays, J does just fine being out there sans parent, but of course when I am the responsible one I let mother guilt drive me out of bed. On the rare days I do throw day-old clothes on either instead of or over my PJs, I comfort myself in the fact that I will, in fact, take a shower and dress myself a little later that morning, once Tool is up and out and I have done some work, and before I go out into polite society. I also feel a little less self-conscious because one of the other moms works out after she shepherds her kid on the bus, so she is at the bus stop every day in her grubby workout clothes. Guess I'd feel like I had a pass, too, if I were actually going to burn some calories once my kid went off to school, instead of sitting on my butt checking email and doing mindless database work...

[bloomchen.livejournal.com]

My colleague L, who also works from home but miles away from me on the South Shore, is in the same situation as me. Sometimes we will place a morning check-in/gripe call to one another, and at some point the question of what we're wearing "to work" that day comes up. It's sort of like chicken to see which one of us will crack first and admit to the other that we are still in our PJs or who will challenge the other by saying that we are not only dressed, but dressed up for an appointment that day. In any case I try to make an effort to be "at work" fully, including dressed enough that I wouldn't hide in shame while shopping at the local supermarket, but not so much that I wear long blouses and closed-toed shoes like our walking-Talbots-ad office manager would want from me. (And for whom I specifically wear nice sleeveless dresses and blouses during the summer, and sandals as much as possible, just to get her riled up or to force a comment.)