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Oct 2018
10:05pm, 23 Oct 2018
5,112 posts
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Dooogs
1) It's a ridiculous decision - I'd ignore it.
2) "Gypsy's Warning" - would you mind explaining this one to us? Not sure I'm comfortable with that terminology.
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Oct 2018
10:09pm, 23 Oct 2018
748 posts
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Reinhold Messner
Dooogs: I think it's a reference to old boooks, in which a "gypsy" (as was) would have a quiet word with someone that if they don't stop whatever they're doing, they'll be in for a nasty surprise, or suffer some consequence. The point being that the gyspy is a messenger rather than the enforcer.
I could imagine Thomas Hardy having gypsies who gave warnings, but can't think of any examples.
Does that help? Urbandictionary is useful - that's pretty much how I use the term.
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Oct 2018
10:13pm, 23 Oct 2018
5,114 posts
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Dooogs
Fair enough, RM - I wasn't familiar with the phrase.
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Oct 2018
10:14pm, 23 Oct 2018
17,353 posts
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ChrisHB
Ridiculous!
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Oct 2018
10:30pm, 23 Oct 2018
848 posts
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MzG
YABU to not post your question in it's natural habitat, Mnet, which welcomes (ahem) posts from all sorts, across the internet. Children and XX chromsomes not required 
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Oct 2018
10:44pm, 23 Oct 2018
7,350 posts
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CStar
The Office Manager tried that at my old company. When I, as a senior-ish member of HR, pointed out that a)coming in the back past the smokers was not an option I was going to take and b) we were trying to promote what my colleagues would insist on calling 'wellness', the whole idea was quickly forgotten.
So no YANBU. Tell them to politely to shove it WTSDS.
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Oct 2018
10:57pm, 23 Oct 2018
36,037 posts
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McGoohan
back in the 80s, I worked in Leeds. We had to wear 'image wear' which was branded company-supplied suits and shirts. As a result of this, the Director in Charge (or DIC) didn't want us going out in this clothing of an evening getting pissed in pubs and bringing the company into disrepute.
Fair enough. But he also objected us to us coming or going from work in any other clothing - because we were also supposed to be projecting a positive image outside as well. He followed me into the toilets once as I got changed from jeans into my suit and I was torn off a strip. Being in my early twenties back then I didn't feel confident enough to tell him where to stick his image wear.
Jesus, he was a twat.
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Oct 2018
11:19pm, 23 Oct 2018
18,590 posts
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Lizzie W
Perhaps another runner in the company dresses inappropriately* when running so you're all being penalised. Certainly unfair if other sweaty lycra'd bods are free to waft through.
*I'm thinking the visible bra / skimpy shorts type of thing
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Oct 2018
10:23pm, 24 Oct 2018
17,357 posts
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ChrisHB
Probably the sight of a runner makes some manager feel guilty about their lack of fitness so they want to banish them.
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Nov 2019
1:58pm, 8 Nov 2019
42,007 posts
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McGoohan
How did this turn out, I wonder?
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