In my days as a mailroom drone, I was known to carry out my duties in a kilt. The dress code was a little more lax then so I was able to get away with it. But now, Dean Peterson, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, wants the organization to allow kilts as a uniform option.

The proposal was rejected last month at a postal workers’ union convention. Above everything, Peterson is just looking to be comfortable while performing his job.

With his build, Peterson said, his thighs fill slacks to capacity, causing chafing and scarring.

I know the chafing all too well myself.

One of my previous kilts was an original style (ORIGINAL original, not the current original) Utilikilt in Postal Blue.

Around this time last year, a co-worker on my team decided to leave for greener pastures. (No, really – she decided to go back to school and I understand there are several rather spacious grassy knolls there.) A couple of months earlier, our boss did the same, but do pursue some freelance work.

In the interim, their duties were split between myself and our then new intern until our new boss came aboard. After that, we brought the intern on as a full time employee.

Now, just shy of a year later, the intern-cum-employee is leaving us for a new position that I imagine pays much better. Of course, I wish him well and I’m sure he’ll still send me the occasional YouTube link over IM.

And true to form, I’ll watch it three hours later, but I digress.

Makes me wonder who – if anyone – will be next to go voluntarily.

These are my links for 26 Jun:

• Do you have to be gay to tell another guy his eyes are pretty? (Salon Life) - My gaydar says my good-looking co-worker is gay, but he pretends otherwise.
• At Yahoo, being paranoid comes with the job (CNET News.com) - To Arturo Bejar, the name of Yahoo’s security team made perfect sense when he came up with it eight years ago: the “Paranoids.”
• Machinist: Tech Blog, Tech News, Technology Articles - Salon - Tech researcher danah boyd explains the chief cultural differences between two uber-popular young people’s social networks.