Employers are sometimes crazy.

Ugh. Corporate stupidity.

wow really?

they can't tell you what to have in your pockets.

Did they say anything about having it clipped on your belt? Not in your pocket?

www.plurk.com/StereoNach... yes...they actually said we are not allowed to have them on our person, including in our pockets.

And y'all hafta take yer pacifiers out before board meetings.

We have a similar rule at Disney. It's not all that uncommon.

As I understand it, there's security issues having to do with data theft. Anyway -- can you leave it in your car?

www.plurk.com/Tanarian , I'm not sure it is data theft; it is apparently OK to have it vibrating loudly in a drawer. I only drive myself to work a limited number of days. I'll likely be fine without it.

Man-bag you hang on your coat-hanger?

Man bag?? Okay gents, we don't carry man-bags or murses or any of that other nonsense. It's either a backpack or a purse.

All right, then! Purse!

What's wrong with jes a "bag"?

"Handbag" is acceptable, though.

Purse is what women have been calling it for ages... No reason to change that just 'cause a guy is carrying it, right?

No reason at all. It's a perfectly acceptable term with medieval/Ren garb, after all.

sorry news for Linus, but the turn this thread took is why I love plurk

I laugh everytime I see a purse marketed to men labeled as "messenger bag" or some nonsense. Its a damned purse! I'm always talking about getting one, this new rule might be a signal that it is time.

I got a bag for my 11" notebook computer and tablet and happily call it a purse. That it drives my kids nuts makes it extra wonderful. "Kids, have you seen Dad's purse?"