All the talk today is about jeans day!

m: We are going to be collecting the money for jeans day, will you keep it in your desk since your desk locks?
me: Yes.
m: I'm gonna get a five day pass, are you going to wear jeans on Friday?
me: I don't think I should have to pay money to come to work.
m: It's only a dollar.
me: I know.
m: Plus you get it back, because we'll use the money for parties and stuff.
me: I know.

Back when the Germans called the shots, our senior management used to give us jeans days as an incentive of sorts. "I know we just announced a round of lay-offs, but you can all wear jeans this friday!" We would an email with a picture of a pair of jeans encouraging us to "wear our favorite pair of jeans to the Fund Operations JEANS DAY!"

I would definitely rather pay a dollar to wear jeans then have to go through that ridiculousness again, but I think that for the time being, my Friday pants will be "like jeans" but not jeans.