Formal Friday at Schlager Group
Last week several of us were lamenting how we never dress up any more; our office dress is always casual, since we don’t receive customers and rarely meet clients or partners. And then it came to us: why not institute a formal day at the office? Thus was born Formal Friday at Schlager Group. I think it’s funny and warped and appropriately off-beat. Our only advantage as a small company is to be nimble and flexible and able to turn on a dime. And that can extend to the way we dress, no?
In any case, here is a photo from our first Formal Friday. Our two offsite employees and our interns are missing, but the rest of the gang is here. Three guesses which one is the middle-aged male boss.
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:05 pm
We are fierce!
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Our clients and customers are definitely missing out!
February 1st, 2010 at 11:40 am
Wow… I’m totally disappointed in you, Neil. Normally you are such a leader … a talented and experienced editor turned publishing pioneer.
And then you go an introduce “Formal Fridays?”
tsk… tsk… tsk…
At LernerMedia we rejected that concept years ago. We’ve moved on to John and Yoko-esque “work-in-bed-all-day Wednesdays (sometimes extending into Thursdays),” and “bottomless on the boat” workaholic weekends. In fact, when working in Paris we stay as p.j.-less as possible.
The venerable and often-quoted “some scientists” say, “Clothes inhibit creativity!” (However, they do offer modest protection against overheated laptops.)
Only media work (and an array of local laws) forces us to done the restrictive vestments of traditionalist, repressive, Puritanical, Illuminati-controlled civilization. It’s a little known fact that those UN black helicopters also secretly deliver jackets and club ties to War Lords destined for Davos.
We look forward to the Milestone Documents of Bohemian lifestyles!
February 1st, 2010 at 11:58 am
P.S. … if you start making colleagues wear x number of pieces of flare (flair?), they should call me. We’ll mount an intervention –starting with lunch at Mia’s.