"Casual" Fridays

I appreciate "casual" Friday dress here at the office, but I am curious to know where and why this originated. Today, for instance, I am wearing jeans, a sporty type shirt, a baseball cap, New Balance sneakers, I am unshaven, and feeling like a bum, yet this is acceptable just because it's Friday. If I were to come in like this on a Tuesday Morning, I'd either be sent home, written up, or fired. It's strange how people think. I don't schedule appointments on Fridays with vendors because of this dress policy. If for some reason, a vendor HAD to come here on a Friday, I would dress appropriately that day. Often though, people stop in unannounced and I feel like a bum talking business in jeans and a t-shirt. I feel like I should be talking baseball and drinking a beer with them instead. I wonder who invented casual dress Fridays and why Friday was chosen. My train of thought is this; we are already being rewarded by it being the end of the week. We are off the next two days. Casual Wednesdays or Tuesdays would make more sense because we'd be looking forward to something to get us through the long week. Come Friday, we are already looking forward to it, dressed casually or not, that's the reward. I say CASUAL WEDNESDAYS for all!!!!!

I suppose it's the same as Halloween. if you were to ring someone's bell tonight and panhandle candy, you'd get a door slammed in your face, get sprayed with pepper, or get a visit from the police....or maybe even get your ass kicked if it was my bell you rang.

Have a good weekend everyone!!!!!