{"id":692,"date":"2007-10-31T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/10\/31\/the-halloween-workplace\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:38:00","slug":"the-halloween-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/10\/31\/the-halloween-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t seen anyone dressed up for the holiday here at NASA. I guess it&#8217;s not too surprising, we are conducting serious business here frumph frumph frumph. But I have my bunny ears nearby in case of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The places I&#8217;ve worked have had varying policies about employee Halloween costumes. I <i>think<\/i> I wore a costume at B&#038;D Comic Shop, but it was so long ago, I can&#8217;t clearly remember. The &#8220;Thrifty Nickel&#8221; encouraged dressing up, though many years, no one bothered but me; I usually wore a Starfleet uniform or my Jedi outfit. One of the last years I was there, one of our more conservative salespeople unaccountably chose &#8220;Tinkerbell&#8221; to make her sales calls in, which led to a panicky alteration of the costume when she discovered how much leg even the tame Disney version would show.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall any costuming at Decipher, which was a bit of a surprise &#8211; you&#8217;d think a bunch of game geeks would garb up. My last Halloween at BCT was a smash, though. I dressed up in drag, and was convincing enough from behind that one of my bosses mistook me for another co-worker.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone here dressing up for work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t seen anyone dressed up for the holiday here at NASA. I guess it&#8217;s not too surprising, we are conducting serious business here frumph frumph frumph. But I have my bunny ears nearby in case of emergency. The places I&#8217;ve worked have had varying policies about employee Halloween costumes. I think I wore a costume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,69,13],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-costuming","tag-decipher","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}