Working in Your Underwear

It's interesting to me how most jobs have a uniform, even the ones that don't. Think about it. Some are pretty obvious. Car mechanics, fast food workers, custodians, painters, police, firemen,t he military, you can always pick them out of a crowd based on what they are wearing. But can't also generally tell a lawyer from a construction worker, a banker from a pool cleaner, or a programmer from a CEO? Of course you can. And in some stores it's even just a subtle hint.

Take your favorite clothes store, for example. Do you think they give the employees a discount on clothes just because they are nice? No, way. They expect their employees to be in "uniform" wearing the latest fashions from their racks, so when you walk in you want to buy the same thing. It's a walking advertisement and uniform. So, have you ever wondered how that works in an underwear company? I have.

Heck. What guy hasn't wondered why Victoria's Secret doesn't put their salespeople in lingerie and blow the lid off their sales? The real question, though, is how do they behave in the corporate office? How committed are they to their products? At least one CEO is completely behind what he sells, and he wants all of his employees to know it.

http://www.theindustryradar.com/Home/?currentHome=/Accounts/article/layouts/Underwear_CEO.xml

Dov Charney reportedly has a habit of conducting business in his underwear. No, he's not a telecommuting, and no, I don't mean that in the sense that we all conduct business in our underwear. Apparently, this guy conducts business in ONLY his underwear. One of his employees is even claiming that she was fired for investigating the possibility of filing suit against him. But none of this is really the funniest part of the deal.

What I really want to know is whether or not the lawyers involved in working on this have yet developed a drinking game centered around the word "brief"?

"So, Bob, I filed that pre-trial brief today on the Charney case."

"OH. That's two shots, Bill, and isn't the whole case about his pre-trial briefs anyway."

"Good one, Bob. By the way, it's three shots to you now."

If they haven't they should because I guarantee you that I would not want to be sober if I had to work with photo evidence in the trial of a CEO in his whitie tighties. You've always got to have an out, and, "I was drunk at the time," seems like as good an excuse as any to me.