The Necktie Experiment…
To be honest, it didn’t start out as an experiment at all.
Monday was rough. The reasons aren’t really that important. Let’s just say that a lot of things were all combining to put me in a severe bad mood. So, on Tuesday when I returned to work, I thought I would wear a necktie to bring me out of the funk. My logic was that if I dressed up and looked a little fancier, perhaps I would feel a little fancier. (It should be noted that my office has a business casual dress code.)
It worked. Kind of. I did feel a little better. But what was more interesting was my co-worker’s reactions. Some were curious. Some were concerned. Some had no idea I was even wearing a tie. It’s funny that if you work with people long enough, they never really ‘look’ at you anymore. Anyway, I continued the tie-wearing through Thursday. On Friday (our casual day), it was back to no-tie.
So what did we learn? Not much. We learned that I can bore my readers in just two paragraphs. Will I do this next week? Still too early to tell. But I’m guessing that my co-workers expect that I will not. Hmmm…
April 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I think the dressing up does work. For instance, if I wear nicer clothes I do tend to be more focused on work. And if I wear active clothes, I sit on my butt less. I should wear jogging suits every day! My butt gets a lot of sit time.
April 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I’ve had to threaten to start wearing makeup and doing my hair again to be heard around here…
Yeah, I think there really is something to it!
April 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
A few weeks ago, I wore my suit jacket with the pin strips. Because I love it and I was cold that day. All day long people complimented me on how “dressed up” I was. Even though the rest of me looked like I rolled out of bed.
By the way, I noticed that old template is back up. What’s up with that? You’re the one who has inspired me to go looking for a new one!