Customer Service week/Dress Code

[collwen]

ioldanach mentioned yesterday in his journal that it was Customer Service Week. We're having it too. There's a fiesta theme... and yesterday we got little boxes of Hot Tamales cinnamon flavored candy. With a note- "Your Customer Service is HOT!!!"

There's also red and yellow streamers and balloons (orange balloon as well), for the "fiesta" theme and signs with dancing chilies on them.

Usually they will have lunch one day for us, but no idea when. And last year they had a chili cookoff, but they should have told us about it already if they were going to have one (so we could get ingredients and cook....)


I also came in to find an email about our dress code- They're loosing up the requirements. Basically, the "casual" level of dress code is now the base dress code. We can wear jeans, sneakers, and casual shirts... as long as it's clean, neat, and tasteful.

Comments

[pickledtink.livejournal.com]

Man I'm jealous. I wish I could dress down sometimes other than Friday.

[purpura.livejournal.com]

I think the dress up codes are largly ridiculous. I feel your pain.
I love your icon, btw.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

yeah... especially that except for the days when a customer group comes in or an upper level manager comes in... no one else *ever* sees us, except at the cafeteria where it's mostly manafacturing people that are in raggier clothes than us on Fridays.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

Well, for the longest time we'd maybe have a week during the summer for dress down and just Friday (and IBM holidays where the managers weren't around to complain) the rest of the year. Then last year I think they did it for a couple of weeks. This summer they did it for a couple of months over the summer and it must have gone over well enough for them to decide to keep it- until someone does something stupid to mess it up.

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

Holy moly, I think I can SMELL your icon!
Gorgeous!!!

[smoni.livejournal.com]

Cinnamon flavoured sweets are nasty! Why would they give them to you - it'll just put you off!

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

I kinda like playing dress up, since all I get to wear at work is scrubs.

[sunatrya.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain on that one...
then again, I don't have to do my hair or wear makeup... the hat and mask make it kinda pointless.

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

We have an OB here who sweats into his patients with every c/section. No kidding, he claims to have an endocrine disorder and despite the extra sponge head wraps we have specially ordered for him, he still drips into their abdomens.

Lovely.

Your mention made me think of him. Are you an OR nurse?

[sunatrya.livejournal.com]

yep. Albany Med.

We have a transplant guy who is ALMOST that bad... we wrap his head in NGRs. But at least he admits he is a contamination hazard.