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Some of you may remember me lamenting the fact that my job's newer uniform jackets don't have breast pockets, especially since that's where I used to keep my phone all the time and it made for convenient and relatively covert podcast/audiobook listening. My plan at the time was to save up a little extra money and buy my own uniform jacket, then alter it to my taste: Cut the sleeves down so I don't have to roll them up, use the sleeve cloth for a front pocket, all that fun stuff. I'm reasonably sure I can get a jacket that's more-or-less indistinguishable from what the hotel has anyway.
I mentioned my plan to my boss a little while back, and she said I should check it over with our Food and Beverage director, just to make sure everything was above board and that I'd be okay to do this. On Thursday, I finally got the executive function to do that! I ran into F&B in the hallway after clocking out and brought up my plan. "Yes," I admitted, "I am apparently just that attached to having a front pocket on my uniform jacket."
F&B looked at me and said, "How about instead, you just take home one of our uniform jackets and add a pocket to it? No, you know what? Take two!"
And damned if that isn't a much cheaper option, even if it does mean I won't be cutting any sleeves down. The only problem so far has been that I haven't been able to find even one uniform jacket in my size to take home and alter yet 😂 I took a jacket home on Thursday, only to find out when I got to Joann's that it had been hung up in the wrong section and was a size too small. Then I had to wear it on Friday anyway, because no jackets in my size were clean! (Though I did at least put the too-small jacket to good use in finding a relatively close fabric match at Joann's; if I'm not cutting off and repurposing sleeves, fresh fabric would have to do! Still much cheaper than buying myself even one new jacket.)
I mentioned my plan to my boss a little while back, and she said I should check it over with our Food and Beverage director, just to make sure everything was above board and that I'd be okay to do this. On Thursday, I finally got the executive function to do that! I ran into F&B in the hallway after clocking out and brought up my plan. "Yes," I admitted, "I am apparently just that attached to having a front pocket on my uniform jacket."
F&B looked at me and said, "How about instead, you just take home one of our uniform jackets and add a pocket to it? No, you know what? Take two!"
And damned if that isn't a much cheaper option, even if it does mean I won't be cutting any sleeves down. The only problem so far has been that I haven't been able to find even one uniform jacket in my size to take home and alter yet 😂 I took a jacket home on Thursday, only to find out when I got to Joann's that it had been hung up in the wrong section and was a size too small. Then I had to wear it on Friday anyway, because no jackets in my size were clean! (Though I did at least put the too-small jacket to good use in finding a relatively close fabric match at Joann's; if I'm not cutting off and repurposing sleeves, fresh fabric would have to do! Still much cheaper than buying myself even one new jacket.)
