Contributed by Wonder Boy

With all the discussions lately about appropriate corporate dress codes it reminds me of a “institutional dress code refresher course” I took while working at the University of Washington. Apparently the dress code had been sliding a bit in the patient care areas as some of us were wearing exercise warm ups, cargo pants and fleece sweatshirts while taking care of patients. They had no problem with us wearing black t-shirts (it was Seattle) with our scrubs nor did they have a problem with visible Tats or piercings. They were willing to overlook these items, but their biggest concern seemed to be with underwear.

(Extracted loosely from my memory of the UWMC Official Employee Handbook).

Concerning undergarments: Underwear or lack thereof shall not be visible.

I am not sure what scares me more the verbiage “lack thereof” or the person that had to set the non-underwear precedent in order for the policy to be put in place.