SMART-CASUAL,ANYONE?

- It's my second week, it’s been fun here -

My big boss waived his hand and greeted me good morning. He stopped for a while and smiled.
"I think you'll set a new standard on our dress-code, Bimo. You set a new definition on our smart-casual code"
"Really, M? Why you said so?"

He paused then asked me back
"How do you defined smart-casual?"
"Well, I am smart. So I just dressed as casual as possible"

He laughed and gave a tap on my shoulder.
"Ok, then"

Waktu gue cerita sama nyokap gue tentang gue sudah diterima kerja di kantor. Nyokap gue tersenyum dan langsung bertanya kapan beliau akan menemani gue beli kemeja lengan panjang, celana bahan dan sepatu rapih. Gue tersenyum lebih lebar untuk bilang bahwa gue tidak butuh itu semua. Gue memilih sebuah perusahaan dimana standard rapih gue akan diterima. Gue bilang, cukup polo shirt, jeans and sepatu olahraga will do buat gue. Gue continue untuk bilang boss gue itu rambutnya cepak berbuntut, pake anting kiri dan kanan, pake spatu boots kalo kerja dan selalu pake kaos. I sensed a little bit of dissapointment dari nyokap gue ketika gue bilang itu. Dia sepertinya dari dulu selalu memimpikan anaknya bisa tampil rapih dan necis. I am sorry, mum. It's just not me.

Cara gue berpakaian memang adalah salah satu cara memberontak gue dari aturan yang bokap nyokap gue persiapkan buat gue. Gue gak bisa bilang betapa senangnya gue ketika gue keterima di Ntu dan gue bisa ke kampus dengan celana pendek, kaos oblong dan sendal jepit. Dan bagaimana hal ini amat sangat berbeda dibanding gue di ITB, ketika gue harus pake baju berkerah, celana panjang dan bisa diusir keluar kalo pake sendal jepit. Gue merasa gue win something over my parents rule. Gue di sebuah tempat dimana bagaimana gue berpakaian tidak dihitung significant.

Salah satu alasan gue menerima pekerjaan di company ini ya karena dress-codenya itu. Smart-Casual, they specified. Yes, they always said "Smart-Casual" (tolong diingat gak semua mereka yang bekerja di Engineering field bisa berpakaian sesantai mereka yang kerja di Entertainment industry). But most of my colleagues use a short-sleeve shirt, jeans and a very shiny shoes. Of course, in my first day gue tampil dengan kemeja, celana bahan dan sepatu rapih. But then in my second week, I use my new navy classic converse shoes, a blue polo shirt and jeans. I have a tendency to follow the lowest acceptable standard of clothing in my environment. ( gak heran, beberapa orang teman dekat gue selalu menghighlight usaha gue yang selalu gagal ketika gue ingin tampil rapih).

In short, in my second week here. I am happy here. At least, I make my presence felt by actually re-defining "smart-casual" (Another reason would be the fact that the drafting program has not been installed in computer yet, so I actually have nothing to do other than reading the training manuals).

- Gue memang punya standard kacau tentang berpakaian and thanks to someone who actually made me re-think how I should dress, at least, properly -

Catlio
From his workstation