Florida City Workers now with better hygiene than before!

[IDrinkaRum]

City workers in Florida town are required to wear underwear and deoderant!!!!

Told Mr. Rum that city workers had to wear underwear. His first response:

"Their old dress code didn't require them wearing underwear?"

Yeah, he's had no coffee this morning.

[fireheart17]

Wait....so there's council workers who don't wear underwear? O_O

[Slytovhand]

That's just funny!

I'm presuming 'city workers' means public servants in the office or similar, otherwise, I don't see why they wouldn't have a uniform...

As for the underwear... I can so see a sexual harrassment case being filed if someone gets fired for it... after all - "You're fired, you're not wearing underwear" - "Prove it! "

[DesignFox]

I think this is hysterical. The mayor voted against it saying that forcing people to wear underwear takes away "freedom of choice" *ROFLMAO*

So, the mayor goes commando?

I love the absurdity of this.

[blas87]

The day someone tells me I can't go commando will be the day that person's house ends up covered in granny panties.

[Rapscallion]

In the case of a city maintenance dude bending over and trying to show as much builder's cleavage as possible, I could see the potential for wanting him to wear underwear, but...

Maybe they have a hygiene-challenged colleague in mind for the deodorant rule?

Actually, I know. They've got too much time on their hands.

Rapscallion

[Boozy]

I disagree with any workplace policy that is inherently unenforceable. They can't check to make sure their employees are wearing underwear without opening themselves up to sexual harassment lawsuits.

Why institute a dress code that invites employees to break it? If my company felt the need to tell me to wear underpants, you can bet I'd start showing up commando. They'd never know, and it would make me feel "cheeky." Hardy-har-har.

[Slytovhand]

and it would make me feel "cheeky." Hardy-har-har.

Ummm - you are aware of the 'pun wars' thread on CS, aren't you??

[guywithashovel]

I saw this on CNN Headline News yesterday. I thought it was pretty funny.

Maybe they've been having trouble with some employees showing up without any deodorant on. At an old job, I worked with a guy who was like that. He was a maintenance worker. He was never rancidly offensive, but he would sometimes have a tint of B.O. about him. It was kind of like he only bathed every two or three days.

Perhaps Brooksville had some employees like that, and decided to do something about it. Then, while they were at it, they decided to throw in the underwear thing.

[IDrinkaRum]

I'm thinking there were city workers bending over and someone saw that they weren't wearing anything and they complained to bosses of those city workers. That's the only thing I can think of.

[Greenday]

Did anyone notice that they also banned any piercings that aren't in the ears?

[telecom_goddess]

What the living hell is people's problems with piercings? Why is it ok in the ears and no where else???? This is rapidly becoming part of the culture and business/government need to step up and recognize that fact.

Now for the going commando thing....I hope women weren't doing that while wearing a dress or skirt

I think going commando in general is just nasty anyway.

[AFPheonix]

To be fair, gauged nose piercings are freaking gross.

But otherwise I couldn't care, especially if they're piercings I'm not going to see anyways.

Unless of course you're a MRI technician....then you might want to take them out, or perhaps opt for bone or wood

[Slytovhand]

Now for the going commando thing....I hope women weren't doing that while wearing a dress or skirt

Yes, Paris!

[lovlybones]

If they were worried about people's pants falling down while working, why wouldn't they make a belt rule instead of wearing underware?