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Oct 2018
9:30pm, 23 Oct 2018
744 posts
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Reinhold Messner
*Background and Social Context*
As everyone knows, mumsnet (or is it netmums) is the place to go if I have a question about whether my outraged response to pressing personal situation is, in the opinion of other forum users, reasonable or unreasonable. For example, I might ask a question about my stepmother giving my 7 year old daughter an iPhone with the parental controls switched off, briefly describe my outrage, and pose the question, "AIBU?" (am I being unreasonable?).
The response I want is, of course, "YANBU OP" (you are not being unreasonable, original poster) and will make sure I write the original question in a manner that leads all responders to giving that as a reply in order to confirm that I am not being at all unreasonable.
I'm not a mother, and therefore not able to ask the massed ranks of Middle English mothers if I'm being unreasonable. So without further ado, I have a question for the massed ranks of people who sometimes go running, or don't, or whatever, but are at least registered on this forum.
*Pressing Personal Situation - A Description*
The "Head of Facilities" at my out-of-town business park office (the head office of a major utility, where customers never visit although "professional" visitors are regular) has given what can only be described as a Gypsy's Warning that staff may not pass through the building's reception area in "running kit", on their way to/from the Great Outdoors to the office showers. Instead, offending employees must ask Security to give them access to a sort of back door from the basement (this is no exaggeration), which brings you out by the air conditioning units under the building, from where they can go about their athletic activities. The reasoning is that having people visibly going running at lunchtimes, "gives the wrong impression about the company".
I am outraged.
There hasn't yet been a similar warning given about people who cycle to work, walking through reception in "cycling clothes" and I'm not aware of there being an outright ban on tracksuits (for example if I were going to drive off-site before doing some exercise). Equally, there's no clear ban on shorts, and women are allowed to wear above-the-knee skirts - so it's obviously not knees that are the problem. The overall office dress code is generally relaxed - there's an adjoining call centre where basically anything goes, and in the posh half where I sit short sleeves, "smart" jeans and visible tattoos are commonplace.
AIBU?
(Also has anyone else ever come across this, and what did you do to persuade the office drones that you weren't a threat to society?)
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Oct 2018
9:38pm, 23 Oct 2018
20,025 posts
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fetcheveryone
It doesn't sound like you're being unreasonable to object to this policy, but then I share my office with two dogs and a tumble drier.
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Oct 2018
9:39pm, 23 Oct 2018
43,766 posts
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The Mighty Fleecy
That is fucking outrageous. Start a petition. Or fuck it, just flout the rule. It’s probably unenforceable anyway.
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Oct 2018
9:39pm, 23 Oct 2018
37 posts
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jomo_richmond
It feels unreasonable to me, especially if cyclists are not been advised to do the same. I work at a financial services fim in the City and quite a few runners enter and leave through the front entrance and take the lifts in sweaty running gear - and we often have external clients in. Never been an issue.
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Oct 2018
9:42pm, 23 Oct 2018
745 posts
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Reinhold Messner
Might be different if you had a cat? It would appoint itself Head Of Facilities then just disapprove in your direction, shorts or not.
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Oct 2018
9:44pm, 23 Oct 2018
39,406 posts
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Velociraptor
How very odd :O
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Oct 2018
9:47pm, 23 Oct 2018
15,583 posts
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Carpathius
So... the impression that their employees go out for a run at lunchtimes, or even have lunchtimes, is an undesirable impression? Fuckwits.
Don't see how it's enforceable, get a few of you together and contest it.
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Oct 2018
9:48pm, 23 Oct 2018
746 posts
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Reinhold Messner
Yes, well my own attitude is that I'll just ignore the issue and carry on doing it until I get my security pass revoked, in which case the HOF can explain to my boss why I'm not working.
The difficulty is that after Greenpeace got in (circa 2002), Security pretty much run the show so it might not take long...
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Oct 2018
9:53pm, 23 Oct 2018
9,554 posts
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Serendippily
NYANBU but the magical mystery entrance via the aircon units sounds kinda cool, particularly if it bypasses a ferocious security
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Oct 2018
9:57pm, 23 Oct 2018
747 posts
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Reinhold Messner
Oh the basement entrance is infinitely more convenient! The door's right by the showers and everything 
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