Vanstone defends jeans and polo ban

I made it myself!!!! just found a cool photo of wesley on the interweb….

Wesley rocks my ass to russia

Hey – AD. Where did you get the Wesley Willis “cut the mullet” T-Shirt. I want one big time. In fact, I’d settle for any WW merchandise. The dude had style and is sadly missed…

those mullets do look feral… I got one once for a gig I played and wore a wesley willis tshirt saying cut the mullet.

piercings are fine…. in fact they look quite good…

Not so much the piercings – but the ridiculous skunk mullet hairstyles??? These people do NOT look cool – they look foolish. Talk about the Emporer’s new clothes – some moron in Italy invents a well-fuct up hairstlye and tells the world it’s trendy – lo and behold – every wanker worth their salt appears with a multi-coloured, multi-layered mess on their head.

I’m not saying they should be banned because individuality and diversity should be encouraged – but I am saying that people should know better than leave the house with that shit on their head.

Back on track it – may be worth reflecting that this is the Dept with arguably the worst reputation and public image. Are the staff as responsible for this image as the Minister? It seems that Vanstone is on some crusade to try and restore some credibility to HER reputation at the expense of a whole dept.

If they magnetised the walls of the lifts, then the metallistas wouldn’t even get as far as the office floor. Project for ya, Big Al.

somewhere near the forehead….

Right then.

Lets ban all body piercings.

Agree?

I’ll check if you have a Prince Albert then.

The dress code is all about getting some form of control over the workplace. It’s a fair argument that there are more important things to change but it starts and finishes with the corporate culture. This includes management culture. People need to understand that the workplace is not a democracy. You don’t have some ‘right’ to wear whatever you want in the workplace.

I diddn’t mind the t-shirts and jeans as much as the metallic shit some people think looks good hanging out of their head. We used to go to great lenghts to make sure that the pierced ones never got anywhere … and some of these people were reasonably bright too … sure it was probably a waste of reseorces bringing someone else up to speed for an opportunity to take on a big project, policy issue or promotion – but you kind of got a warm inner glow knowing that you’d denied some shit-bag with a pierced eyebrow or nose ring the opportunity. Some of the brighter ones even got the hint after a while and left the metalwork at home.

Thongs are footwear. G-Strings are the revolting underpants. This is not america.

Some PS departments are more formal than others. If they’ve introduced a dress code, and banned specific items, there must have been a need for it. Sloppy dress would be having a subconcious effect on how people felt about their jobs and their organisation.