Costumes at work?

manther225 · October 2009

We are doing a fall foods lunch thing tomorrow at work and everyone wants to wear costumes. I voted NO on costumes, but everyone else wants them. I have a hard enough time finding a costume for a party with friends, much less one that is work appropriate and comfortable enough to be in for 8 hours. Just wondering how common it is. I feel like a Scrooge.

Do you and your co-workers dress up at work for halloween?

Mrs42509 · October 2009

I did once years ago and I went as a chef/cook though I didn't wear the chefs hat at all felt stupid lol just wore an apron over my normal work clothes.

You could try to dress up as one of your co workers that would be funny. Another easy thing would to be a sport player or fan and where sports attire.

mrs.jacinthe · October 2009

When I worked in an office, we did, and it was a HUGE deal. I mean, people really put effort into it. However, if you're looking for somehting appropriate and easy, head to walmart, hit the scrubs, find a matching pair in surgical blue or green, then head over to the first-aid section for a mask and gloves. All set.

manther225 · October 2009

I don't really need ideas, I was just wondering if this was the norm. I think it is weird to dress up at work.

stillwaiting12 · October 2009

I work in a small office of 6 so nothing is really weird here any more! There was a girl who worked here but didn't come back from maternity leave who was Halloween CRAZY so she always made a huge deal of it and she would dress up and the office manager has dressed up before too so I dont really think it's weird. It could be fun!! The 2 partners never dressed up, but they are party poopers. The rest of us would at least wear something halloweenie (I just like saying halloweenie) or a costume.

vbmeg · October 2009

I work in an office of about 80 people and we dress up. Of course not everyone participates and I don't think they make people feel like they have to. If you want to, you dress up. If not, no big deal. We have a costume contest and the 3 higher ups in the office are the judges. They don't dress up themselves but they get a kick out of it. My team of 6 people are doing a group costume this year.

SRH51708 · October 2009

No! And I'm happy about it!

MrsAngel2008 · October 2009

Many people in my office dress up each year, it's part of a fund-raiser for our charity. One group in particular always does a theme for their department, which I think is a bit heavy-handed--they do have people opt out, but there's pressure to be part of the group. My costume this year would be comfortable to wear all day, but I don't think I want to dress up for work (I've told co-workers what my costume is, and I'll wear it to a party Saturday night, but at work I'd feel uncomfortable)

And we do have people who are offended by the halloween holiday in general (religious objection) and they generally try to work from home on the dress-up day to avoid the whole thing.

I'd say if you're not comfortable in your costume, then don't dress up--leave it up to individuals to decide what they're comfortable with.

MrsAngel2008 · October 2009

I forgot to add, some people here only put on their costume for an hour so they can be in the costume contest, then they wear their regular clothes the rest of the day--would this be an option for your costume?

kyfirewife · October 2009

Absolutely not. I mean, it depends on your line of work, but in our area, heck no.

Someone always does, nothing major, maybe a witch hat or something, but it comes off as very unprofessional and out of place in our office.

AshNicole331 · October 2009

We never have until this year. On Friday we're having a Halloween party and everyone is (supposed) to dress up and they can bring in their kids/pets to "trick-or-treat" office to office. It's pretty corny but I'm corny, so I love it

I think I'm just going to keep it simple and go as a black cat...wear all black, throw on some ears and I'm good to go!

kelklump · October 2009

Oh - our work gets into it. The president of the company dresses up every year and passes out candy. Its funny to see what he comes up with. We also do floor challenges and this year our theme is the 80'. My boss is so into it, she created her own little mini thriller dance and taught us all, so we are all dressing up as zombies and doing the thriller dance. I dont mind them for work since we are only in them for a bit, however, my DH is driving me nuts trying to find the best costume ever. We have a big party to attend on Friday and I can say we dont have much yet. Its going to be a long night tonight!

trickeytricky · October 2009

Every year for Halloween we have a Chili cook-off and costume contest. Of course we don't make people participate, and I would say that out of 100 maybe 20 people make chili and 5-10 dress up.

h20goalie · October 2009

I work at a sports club and the people here love to dress up! Even the people who come to work out wear something small for the day. We are doing ours on friday and even have a contest for best costume and they also have lunch provided for us. We also have a small trick or treat for the kids around 10. I would say about 45% of our staff dresses up and tend to always have fun!!!

karenmw · October 2009

I am a total scrooge when it comes to dressing up at school. One of the other teachers asked me what I was going to be for the Halloween festivities tomorrow. I told her, "Grown". Ya, I told you. I'm a brat.

mrs.dilligaf · October 2009

We had dress up day Tuesday. I was sick and missed it. Darn.

Apparently, my *favorite* co-irker dressed up as a hippie. Someone said, 'Love it, flower child!' She said, "I'm not a flower child, I'm a hippie!" Smart one, she is. Confused

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