Dress to digress

So I saunter in casually to work today dressed in jeans, a tshirt and a black denim jacket with a badge proclaiming 'i like kids...but I couldn't eat a whole one' and discover that I am the only person who is in casual clothes. Because, this department doesn't have a casual Friday. Well, they do but the dress rule doesn't extend to jeans. Which, as far as I'm concerened means that it ain't casual (unless trackydaks are ok - there seems to be no mention of them). And no one bothered to tell me because I'm the temp. And no one has mentioned my unintentional yet brazen flouting of the dress code because.....I'm the temp.

5 minutes ago I pulled aside one of the staff here and asked him if, in fact, there was a casual Friday in this department. He replied that there was but he was wearing a suit as he was feeling lazy - it took more effort for him to dress down than dress up. It's the opposite for me. And it seems that my idea of casual was different to every other secretaries' idea of casual (who all look like they had a scrag fight with Supre, 7 Angels and Dotti and won).

I have been on the internet since 9am at this office. I have sent a couriered document and taken about 8 messages - which has been the sum of my workday. And the irony is that the recent IR laws that have been forced through like reluctant poo don't affect me at all - I work in the industry that drew them up to be cast-iron draconian bullshit in the first place.