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00:00:06:18 Welcome back to HoTTT TopiXXX.
00:00:09:17 I am Jim Dupree and our next topic is office wear.
00:00:12:28 Some people like to keep it classy like me,
00:00:15:00 put a little tie on.
00:00:16:10 Other people think it's okay to walk into a board room with
00:00:18:14 you know the pajama pants and a snoopy T-shirt.
00:00:21:13 And who wear short shorts?
00:00:23:08 Well, Janet in my office wears short shorts
00:00:26:10 and it is not a pretty sight.
00:00:28:11 So our next topic, what is appropriate
00:00:30:19 to wear in the workplace?
00:00:33:04 Acos we'll start with you.
00:00:34:15 I think you should wear a jacket and pants
00:00:38:05 or a skirt at all the times.
00:00:40:04 Even if you are a man.
00:00:41:28 Well, especially if you're a man.
00:00:43:28 Especially if you're a man, a skirt?
00:00:45:16 Well, if you like.
00:00:46:25 What about a skort, which is I believe a combination of...
00:00:49:13 I don't like skorts.
00:00:50:28 You don't like a skort.
00:00:51:18 They don't make sense.
00:00:52:28 Is it that it's a combo like... like there is other combo.
00:00:58:07 You're trying to cover something up.
00:00:59:24 It sort of like you are wearing a skirt you want people to know
00:01:01:28 that you're wearing a skirt.
00:01:03:03 But you want the comfort of being able to somehow...
00:01:05:15 I don't know, move in any way that you want.
00:01:07:28 But you're at work.
00:01:09:07 If at work, there is no need for you to lunge, right?
00:01:13:11 What about a sclouse which is a combination of blouse and skirt.
00:01:16:13 I like that.
00:01:17:25 That would be okay. Yes.
00:01:18:17 Jesper, what is appropriate.
00:01:21:03 What should people be wearing into the office.
00:01:23:26 Well, I mean I can only speak from a historian's perspective
00:01:27:10 and like we historians have long been considered quite square
00:01:31:10 and boring and it's something we're trying to overcome.
00:01:33:28 I am not doing a very good job of it with this ensemble
00:01:35:28 but we tend to...
00:01:37:28 But underneath I saw what you're wearing.
00:01:39:13 -Yeah it was pretty. -Underwear and it's.
00:01:42:08 -Yeah but... -What lies beneath the surface.
00:01:44:03 That's true. That's true but I think even on the surface.
00:01:46:15 I think like these days like a cool concert shirt like
00:01:50:27 obviously, like... you know you don't want to be wearing
00:01:53:12 Nickelback, but if you were wearing sort of like the Boylese
00:01:57:19 likely to or the national or one of these, sort of like Brooklyn
00:02:01:07 based Bands or maybe like a green T-shirt
00:02:04:00 but just has like Idaho on it, you know something like that.
00:02:07:18 Even though, you don't care about Idaho
00:02:10:29 but you're wearing it anyway.
00:02:12:09 Some of that pretty shows your attitude.
00:02:14:01 Now Professor Kuling, I want to turn to you
00:02:16:20 for what's inappropriate.
00:02:18:01 I mean I worked for a brief while with somebody named batman
00:02:22:08 and he had a very classy suit that he wore when he was doing
00:02:25:12 work out of the office, but when he came back and he had to fill
00:02:27:28 all the paperwork he would strip down to nothing
00:02:30:07 and I found that very very uncomfortable.
00:02:32:04 So nudity is probably is not acceptable, but what are
00:02:35:17 some things that are just inappropriate office wear?
00:02:38:06 I think anything that sort of draws attention away from...
00:02:41:24 or two areas that we're not really interested in,
00:02:44:11 like thumbs or wrists, or bottoms of feet.
00:02:48:27 I am not really interested in that kind of things.
00:02:50:25 I think you need to wear things that are appropriate
00:02:52:21 to the task at hand.
00:02:54:00 I mean in my office there is a reason I keep all my heaviest
00:02:57:04 books on the top shelf but then Suzy my secretary, she has to
00:03:00:28 wear appropriate short skirt attire to climb a ladder to get
00:03:04:13 me all the books that I need to do my professing and learning.
00:03:08:10 And is that why you keep a camera on your shoe.
00:03:10:02 Exactly, that's the reason we invented the shoe Cam.
00:03:12:09 Acos, I want to turn to you and I want to ask,
00:03:15:11 what are you supposed to do when somebody is
00:03:18:12 wearing inappropriate?
00:03:20:14 How do you deal with that situation in a polite
00:03:22:04 and respectful way in the workplace.
00:03:24:19 I think it's probably best to send an message to them
00:03:29:29 and cc everyone.
00:03:31:21 Right, right. Would you advocate maybe caring around
00:03:35:20 a couple of blankets. I mean I know...
00:03:37:20 To cover them? To cover them, just toss a blanket over top.
00:03:40:16 Well, I mean that might disrupt them in their task.
00:03:43:15 I mean... if we were working in a factory say, and they were...
00:03:47:05 I don't know stamping money or something like coins,
00:03:54:20 that might really interfere with what's going on.
00:03:56:22 So I don't think a blanket would be...
00:03:58:10 I don't think that blanket would work.
00:04:00:02 It would be good fire safety at workplace.
00:04:01:21 Yeah, for the fire safety, I don't think the blanket would
00:04:03:29 work, but I do think that... you send them an email message
00:04:07:23 and you try to be polite.
00:04:10:06 But make sure it's in all caps.
00:04:11:18 -All caps? -Yeah.
00:04:12:28 -And cc... -And cc everyone.
00:04:15:00 Should you take a picture and also include that in the email?
00:04:17:02 You know well, that's a good idea.
00:04:18:06 I don't know. Actually I done that once.
00:04:20:13 And it worked, actually it works.
00:04:21:18 So I am going to... yeah, the picture is good.
00:04:23:11 On the flip side, Jesper, if there was someone in your office
00:04:26:22 who was maybe not dressing sexy enough and you wanted to see
00:04:31:01 a little more, how would you let that person know?
00:04:34:11 I just don't... I don't feel that I am really equipped to ask
00:04:40:00 them myself but what I do is I've the fashion police
00:04:43:27 on speed dial.
00:04:45:03 They are trained professionals and they can do both.
00:04:50:02 They can get a dowdy, house frau type woman to sex things up
00:04:54:24 and they can get someone who is wearing a couple of Band-Aids
00:04:59:22 and a G-string to put a skort on, something along those lines.
00:05:04:28 A skort or sclouse.
00:05:06:12 Yeah and they're trained professionals.
00:05:09:02 If I go in there, there's just going to hurt feelings.
00:05:12:25 But if I call the fashion police on speed dial,
00:05:16:02 nine times out of ten the results were satisfactory.
00:05:18:10 Right. Professor Kuling, do you ever feel pressured to dress
00:05:22:06 down so that you can relate to your students, maybe put on a
00:05:25:29 little FUBU or some fat gear or maybe some pants
00:05:29:24 that say juicy on the rear end.
00:05:32:25 Yeah, I tried that in the first week usually with students.
00:05:36:01 I show up pretending to be one of them.
00:05:38:18 You know I dressed down in a way and disguised myself among them.
00:05:41:28 What with the pipe? What did you do with the pipe?
00:05:43:26 The pipe... we only smoke out not in the classroom.
00:05:46:22 We smoke elsewhere, the students and myself.
00:05:49:09 Okay.
00:05:50:18 Which pipe are you referring to?
00:05:51:29 The pipe... you had a pipe...
00:05:53:22 I do have the pipe.
00:05:55:17 If we were to have a single uniform for everyone,
00:05:57:28 or one size fits all solution.
00:06:00:13 I want to get just quickly your opinion, what colors should that
00:06:03:06 uniform be, maybe a jumpsuit kind of thing.
00:06:06:01 -Gray. -Gray?
00:06:06:28 Gray.
00:06:08:03 Jesper.
00:06:08:28 I would say, violet.
00:06:10:25 Acos.
00:06:11:25 I think neon, like a neon pink.
00:06:14:19 -Beautiful, neon pink. -Yeah.
00:06:15:25 We're going to have to leave it there,
00:06:17:28 but there is more HoTTT TopiXXX coming up after this.