My co-worker came into work today wearing flannel pajamas! We are in a professional office, no jeans, WHAT do

Question

you think is going on here?

She's acting completely normal... no one has said anything to her about what she's wearing (which I am not surprised because this is a very no-nonsense, no talking unless strictly business related atmosphere).

I don't know her that well, not well enough to ask her why she's wearing them.

Have any of you ever seen a co-worker come in like this?

If so, what kind of job?

Why do you think she is doing this?

Answer 1

She's still asleep, dreaming. Maybe she'll get more work done today. I say leave her alone. Sleepwalkers are dangerous.

Answer 2

Well If it was me, I would ask her. I have never really care if people get mad at me or not. But if you don't dare to ask her just ignore her. In the end it's really her business ( although she looks crazy) and she seems to be working fine. Maybe she is on a dare or something. Once a guy lost at some bet with a friend, (everyone knew about this in the bookstore, that I worked in college) and he had to come to work in drag. You can imagine the clients faces that day. But we got away with it because it was Halloween. But you described as a very serious job , so I doubt this, maybe she is just in a phase in her life :)

Answer 3

Perhaps working in such a professional environment, and being totally focused as you all are she has just totally not realised she didn't get dressed for work....nah I'm guessing this is a girl who is out to have some fun and guess what?you're all too stuffy to see the funny side, Go Flannel pyjamas I say!
p.s. you didn't mention but was she wearing fluffy slippers too? ;-P

oh but just to be sure she isn't "section 8" I would go home and check my stove for a pot containing my pet rabbit before fronting her...cheers ;-D

Answer 4

I don't know what kind of company you work for, but even in my semi-casual work environment, that would not work. Someone should report her to her supervisor. Maybe she got the ok to come in to work in her pj's. A friend/co-worker of mine had a fire in her apertment building in the middle of the night in January, and she went out in her pj's of course, and she couldn't go back in to get clothes. She was not allowed back into her apartment for 3 days, and so she sat in her pjs in her mother-in-law's apartment. She could not come to work in pjs. If we don't allow it, I don't see why your company, which seems stricter on the dress code, allows her to do this. Don't ask me why she is doing it, but she may have a very good reason that we don't all know about. Don't stress too much about it. If you really want to know, then corner her when she's leaving or something and just ask.

Answer 5

Maybe she has lost her marbles. Yes at my old job ( bakery/grocery store) on Friday we could wear whatever we wanted and most people just wore jeans and this girl always wore these filthy looking flannel pj bottoms and a dirty old t-shirt. I think she took the term "dress down" day a little to literally.

Answer 6

Send her @ss back home to change. I work in a professional environment and I wear jeans all week and so do the attorneys only if they are noting having depositions or meetings of some sort.

Answer 7

I worked with someone who came to work on her birthday dressed like a full-on clown...literally! (This is in a hospital, at the reception desk of the Radiology Department, mind you!). She was immediately approached by management and asked to change....she refused, and was fired on the spot and escorted out by Security. They found her 20 minutes later in the "newborn nursery (she had snuck back in to the building). The police were called in then, because she was obviously "unstable" and guilty of trespassing.

If this woman came in to work in pajamas...what about her actions are considered NORMAL?

Answer 8

No clue...but ignore it. Didn't your mom ever tell you that if it's not hurting you and you tell that's called TATTLING!!!???

And yes, actually, I have seen a guy come into work wearing pajama pants once, but he wearing alligator skin boots with it....in some weird odd way, he totally pulled it off! Go figure!

Answer 9

well in the job which I was forced to resign from we would have been sent home to change and docked a days pay. Just say something to her nicely and dont make a scene.

Answer 10

Where do you work??? And where can I get an application?? :)Sounds like casual Everyday instead of casual Friday!! Do you have random drug testing there?? I work in an office building and would be mortified to come to work in my friggin PJs!!