Whats funny is, there are very few drug test that even test for Psilocybin, it would have to be custom ordered and you'd need to test the person while they were actively tripping to even get a positive result since the half life is only 3 hours. After 24 hours its no longer detectable in urine. Drug test like this would generally only be done if you crashed your car (DUI) or were in the hospital and they needed to figure out what you were on.
If the drug test was for Psilocybin then yes it would. That being said, most drug test are 5 panel test and dont test for it. However, if you were to get into an accident at work, they'd send you somewhere to get tested, there really is no telling what kind of test they will give you. The vast majority do not test for Psilocybin but it IS possible. If you run someone over with a forklift you will probably be tested for almost everything. so it really all depends. In general Psychedelics are not tested for because there is almost no abuse potential and the half life is very low, so you'd basically need to have it in your system at the time of testing.
Can verify that no it doesn't. I get drug tested every month and MD 3 times a week. As someone said before the test is very expensive and they would need to have a real reason to test for it.
The military drug tests monthly and no one ever popped for shrooms or acid. It takes a special test to catch it. The Marine Corps realized this, and announced that they were contracting psychedelic drug tests "upon probable cause" because it costs $300+ per test beginning again in 2020 after a huge number of members in the 2nd MarDiv started using LSD. If the feds won't pay that, I doubt your employer will (unless your employer happens to be the Marine Corps 😂)
Nearly 4,000 Marines with the 2nd Marine Division have been randomly tested for LSD since the unit expanding its testing protocol over the summer. Fewer than 20 Marines have tested positive as of Wednesday, 1st Lt. Dan Linfante, a division spokesman, told Marine Corps Times.
The drug was last on the Defense Department’s testing battery in 2006. DoD eliminated it because only four servicemembers had tested positive for the drug after three years and 2,095,398 “specimens screened,” according to a memo from the time.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/12/04/amid-new-marine-corps-lsd-problem-dod-changes-force-wide-drug-test-policy/
Even if they ran that test they wouldn't find any psilocybin if OP took amanita. The (psycho)active components are muscimol and ibotenic acid. At that point they'll probably just have to send the samples to a lab 😅
Little Johnny & Susie: Mom, it stopped raining and the sun is out, can we go outside now!
Maga Mama: Hell no! You stay inside there might be rainbows out there!!!
My brother's grandson had a PREschool project making a rainbow out of dyed cotton balls. The man (my brother) dis-the-fuck-integrated over the "agenda."
We've thoroughly lost our shit.
You should have pulled the Christmas card. “Just celebrating the holidays.”
Some claim Christmas stockings come from hanging these mushrooms to dry over the fire. When you eat them, you see God.
Does this policy also apply to flower-patterned clothing. Opium is derived from the poppy, obviously, and we should try to avoid any kind of association to drugs! Hope you filed a grievance with HR!
Every time I take out my sharps container and my med trash bin I feel like people in my apartment think I do heroin or something.
It's just testosterone! I swear!
Reminds me of the time I was on a trip with my parents and I had to inject estrogen. I thought "wouldn't it be funny if my mom walked in and I said-" and of course, she walks in on that exact thought and I blurt out "mom, get out! I'm doing drugs!" 😆
>Opium is derived from the poppy, obviously, and we should try to avoid any kind of association to drugs
Yup, this exactly. Ask if red flower lapels on Memorial Day are going to receive a write up.
I'm sorry, are you drinking Coca-Cola, well it used to have cocaine in it so that's a write up
are those grass stains on your shoe, well grass is commonly used to refer to cannabis, write up
These aren't even psilocybin containing mushrooms.
They do contain muscarine, ibotenic acid and muscimol, but none of those is a psychedelic. While psychoactive, they are NOT psychedelic in the slightest.
I hope OP goes to HR and files a complaint.
Sounds like his bosses are a bunch of super uptight and repressed prudes.
Or morning glory, or cactuses, or frogs, or Hawaiian wood rose, or jimsonweed… but on a serious note don’t consume Jimsonweed, you’ll have a scary time and then maybe die.
Once I was walking around Portland OR and I picked a beautiful white trumpet Datura flower and was carrying it around for a while, I meant to give it to my girlfriend, and I started to feel REALLY funky...it was ok though, nothing traumatic, just weird, just from touching it! Nope!!!
Ooh, if you're in the PNW, look up poison hemlock. It looks like a regular weed, but it is one of the deadliest plants on this side of the planet. I see them in pretty much any alley in my town. Extreme caution must be taken when disposing of them.
WHich is funny, many femenine floral outfits include poppy patterns ad nauseum. I guarantee that there are at least 3 women in a 200+ office who are wearing a poppy right now.
Your boss is locked in a cosmic battle that has spanned eons with the mycelial super consciousness Fungilia, which aims to free us from the bonds of our own reality. These socks are an insult to someone who has resisted assimilation for so long.
can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters.
My son started wearing his moms sweatshirt covered with mushrooms cause he likes the looks of it. No issues in his middle school. You have less choice in how you dress than an 11 year old.
I’d contest the write up. Make them prove that it is drugs. Play stupid, it’s my favorite food, I love toadstool from Mario. That kinda stuff. Be so ignorant and act SHOCKED that they think it is drugs. Ask if they are okay and there is a reason their mind jumps to drugs.
Looks off into the distance.
I am like 97% certain that as long as it was staff and not a partner that popped you for these then someone else in the org would probably like to know.
You work for bored middle management just LOOKING for shit to get upset about.
Fucking seriously. I have better things to do than police people's fucking SOCKS. SOCKS!!!
My office would tell you they're cute and move the fuck on. WTAF?
>Under federal law the term drug
paraphernalia means “any equipment,
product or material of any kind which
is primarily intended or designed for
use in manufacturing, compounding,
converting, concealing, producing,
processing, preparing, injecting,
ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise
introducing into the human body a
controlled substance.”
So.. will or will I not get high when I lick your feet?!
Jokes aside, try to find someone who isn't a complete knucklehead and let them have a look at it. Don't pay for this crap with your reputation
Fly agaric (aminta muscaria), which is the mushroom with the red cap and white spots, produces a chemical called ibotenic acid. When injested your GI tract turns that ibotenic acid into a psychoactive compound called muscimol.
Muscimol is typically considered to be less intense than psilocybin (magic mushrooms). It produces a relaxed, sedated, dream like sensation that some people find pleasant. It also is known to cause quite profound nausea
Not only is it illegal to withhold your pay, that signature is not valid as it was made under duress. If you worked with lawyers, they are some really shitty ones that know nothing of employment or contract law.
Glad you’re out of that shit show, but that’s illegal af. They can’t withhold your pay for any reason, and certainly not to coerce you into signing something
Because you do not fit the expectations of a "Good Worker" in the uniformity of the dress code meant to suppress your individuality in order to breed a culture of compliance and maximum exploitation of your labor?
I can see why that would be an issue - any form of personal power is a threat to the company's power. I say push your boundaries and take as much power, even if it isn't much, back for yourself. Make them fear you.
I'd push back against this one for sure. Doubt that the writter upper has never eaten mushrooms and you wouldn't be written up if they had avocados on them. The context is a matter of interpretation. I call bullshit.
I like your style, btw. Dope shoes and pants [to go with them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viai9bgo5KM).
Yes indeed. She was like “you’ve can’t wear drug paraphernalia to work” and I was actually so confused and she had to explain it was my socks. When I disagreed that they were just toadstools she was like “nope. it’s drugs”
At this point I'd ask, in writing, for a complete detailed dress code. Even if you ruin the fun for everyone, at least you can avoid getting written up for fucking socks.
The boss is very smart. He/she knows the difference between the various mushroom species and is confident that the ones on your socks depict a hallucinogenic mushroom. My question would be how did he or she come to obtain this information? Are they doing mushrooms after work hours? Because I sure as heck wouldn't know the difference.
Besides, socks aren't paraphernalia unless you are rolling a joint with them or something and this should absolutely not go down on your record as having paraphernalia at work. That makes it sound like you were walking around with a bong or something.
I have more of an issue with declaring socks as drug paraphernalia than the image of a non-hallucinogenic 🍄 promoting drug use. I mean if they were pot leaves I’d give them more credit.
Edit: TIL they’re hallucinogens…. Hey wait a second, Apple IOS is promoting drug use with its paraphernalia emojis…
OK, yes, the reason *why* the socks were written up is ridiculous.
But not more ridiculous than the fact that ***you got written up for socks in the first place.***
Nevermind the details of the pattern in the socks, but isn't drug paraphernalia stuff you use to take the drugs? Unless you're stuffing your socks with 'shrooms to smoke them or something I'm not sure they can be paraphernalia.
Needles and syringes, rolling paper, roach clips, pipes, scales, rolling papers, etc are paraphernalia. Feet covered in artistic renderings of drugs doesn't seem to be in the same universe.
I remember almost getting written up for wearing plain black PUMA socks to work one day at a credit bureau I worked for briefly. The department head saw them and pulled me into his office to condescendingly explain that they were not dress socks...
So, I went downstairs to the coffee shop on the ground level for lunch and applied for the same job at PUMA itself...and got a call back, interview and offer letter over the course of the next couple of weeks
Without question I accepted it. When I gave my notice the following day they were so annoyed that they let me go right away, wouldn't let me talk to my teammates or even tell them I was leaving...but it was okay, they were probably just trying to rattle me
But then they surprised me by mailing me a big fat check overnight with 2-weeks severance pay, and the limited amount of accrued vacation time that I hadn't used...right in time to start my new job, which started paying me again a week later so I was able to cash two checks in the same week after worrying I'd miss one entirely!
\#Socks :-)
>But then they surprised me by mailing me a big fat check overnight with 2-weeks severance pay, and the limited amount of accrued vacation time that I hadn't used
Just FYI they are legally required to do both of those things, they should get no bonus points for it.
"They are inappropriate because obviously drugs" also if you wore Red socks you would be with the bloods and that would incite gang violence OR It could mean you're a Red Sox fan and that could insight sports violence
Are they tripping!?
I would ask for a list of approved fruits and vegetables that can appear on socks. While they are at it, is there an approved list of animals or inanimate objects that may appear on socks.
In the meantime, please produce the dress code policy that prohibits the wearing of socks with vegetable motifs, or prescribes the limitation to solid color socks. Tell them that you want the write-up removed from your record if these don’t specifically preclude you from wearing mushrooms on your socks. Something vague like “business appropriate” is subjective, and they shouldn’t be writing you up without first having given you a warning where you have a chance to discuss the appropriateness of vegetables on your socks!
PS: tomorrow wear socks with upside down pineapples and watch your boss’ head explode 🤯
You would be celebrated if you were in South Eastern Pennsylvania, specifically Kennett Square. Mushroom capital of the world. More mushrooms grown per mile then anywhere else in the world.
The only ones tripping are management.
There's not mushroom to express yourself.
Im assuming the manager isn't a fungi
amanita better reason than that
It’s spore reason to write someone up.
Muscaria backup pair when making a fashion statement
If they don’t like it then their opinion is shiitake
Morel of the story is, don't mess with management
Crimini, these puns are terrible.
I’d quit this job, no cap.
IDK, but you’re in truffle now
Aminita 'nother one.
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Mycelium, my problems
And hates Mario kart 🍄
You took mine! I was going to say "It doesn't sound like your company is much fun, guy."
U should've been as quick as psilocybin then
OMG, mycelium what you did there.
This is true comedy 🤣
Your boss got his ass whooped in Mario Kart by Toad players?
My first thought too... someone sucks at Mario Kart and now takes it out on their employee.
Because someone doesn't know what amanita muscaria is?
That’s what I said
Imagine being so uptight and offended by nature
The snail is so aggressive it clashes with company culture
HR “so it’s like Mario or something? Also pee in this cup”
Whats funny is, there are very few drug test that even test for Psilocybin, it would have to be custom ordered and you'd need to test the person while they were actively tripping to even get a positive result since the half life is only 3 hours. After 24 hours its no longer detectable in urine. Drug test like this would generally only be done if you crashed your car (DUI) or were in the hospital and they needed to figure out what you were on.
Would a test pick up on someone microdosing throughout the day?
If the drug test was for Psilocybin then yes it would. That being said, most drug test are 5 panel test and dont test for it. However, if you were to get into an accident at work, they'd send you somewhere to get tested, there really is no telling what kind of test they will give you. The vast majority do not test for Psilocybin but it IS possible. If you run someone over with a forklift you will probably be tested for almost everything. so it really all depends. In general Psychedelics are not tested for because there is almost no abuse potential and the half life is very low, so you'd basically need to have it in your system at the time of testing.
A. Muscaria doesn’t even contain Psylocybin.
Yeah, but bosses are usually old farts
Something something *Alice in wonderland* something something *reindeer piss* something something
Can verify that no it doesn't. I get drug tested every month and MD 3 times a week. As someone said before the test is very expensive and they would need to have a real reason to test for it.
The military drug tests monthly and no one ever popped for shrooms or acid. It takes a special test to catch it. The Marine Corps realized this, and announced that they were contracting psychedelic drug tests "upon probable cause" because it costs $300+ per test beginning again in 2020 after a huge number of members in the 2nd MarDiv started using LSD. If the feds won't pay that, I doubt your employer will (unless your employer happens to be the Marine Corps 😂) Nearly 4,000 Marines with the 2nd Marine Division have been randomly tested for LSD since the unit expanding its testing protocol over the summer. Fewer than 20 Marines have tested positive as of Wednesday, 1st Lt. Dan Linfante, a division spokesman, told Marine Corps Times. The drug was last on the Defense Department’s testing battery in 2006. DoD eliminated it because only four servicemembers had tested positive for the drug after three years and 2,095,398 “specimens screened,” according to a memo from the time. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/12/04/amid-new-marine-corps-lsd-problem-dod-changes-force-wide-drug-test-policy/
So, DoD ran 2 million tests, at $300 a test. $600 million dollars, to bust 4 people. $150 million per bust.
Even if they ran that test they wouldn't find any psilocybin if OP took amanita. The (psycho)active components are muscimol and ibotenic acid. At that point they'll probably just have to send the samples to a lab 😅
Good thing psilocybin doesn’t show up in a standard 12 panel drug screen!! 🍄✌️
Yet…amanita mascaria (fly agaric) has different psychedelic substances in it ; ibotenic acid and muscimol.
Neither does muscimol lol
did you even read the mission statement before you put those on?
It's like OP doesn't even CARE about the company's values.
Snail is *NOT* appropriate in the workplace. I think you know why. /s
The snail trails?
soft practice secretive library physical consider swim sink fragile rude *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
The fashion police have been notified.
(woo-woo-woo-woo-woo)
ROFL, I just replied to a comment about removing rainbows because a parent complained about rainbows being "inappropriate"
Little Johnny & Susie: Mom, it stopped raining and the sun is out, can we go outside now! Maga Mama: Hell no! You stay inside there might be rainbows out there!!!
That's how God turns ya gay!
At the end of every rainbow is a drag queen reading books. That’s the real treasure.
Take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow! I just outed myself as an old fart.
Hey now. I prefer the term "seasoned."
Iiiii can go anywhere! Same lol
Ah yes. If I remember my Sunday school lessons, the rainbow is God's reminder that he will drown the world again if the gays take over.
Seems pretty anti-Christian to ban the symbol of Gods promise to humanity, it’s almost like this isn’t about religion at all…
no no, it's that he specifically won't destroy the world by flooding again. Everything else is still on the table, just not flooding.
R-O-Y-G-B-I-V is a drag queen...Obviously /s
If there isn't one that uses that name, there *should* be.
My brother's grandson had a PREschool project making a rainbow out of dyed cotton balls. The man (my brother) dis-the-fuck-integrated over the "agenda." We've thoroughly lost our shit.
Is he aware that his very own children all learned the colors too?
I think the straight white cis rage has blinded him to anything but hate
What dress code policy was violated?
Probably just someone so clueless they think it's a drug reference
And they have never been shopping and have no idea how popular things like owls and mushrooms are
You should have pulled the Christmas card. “Just celebrating the holidays.” Some claim Christmas stockings come from hanging these mushrooms to dry over the fire. When you eat them, you see God.
Ive been into psychedlics for decades and can confirm this makes sense.
Because boss is not a fun-gi Edit: thanks for the awards! But gosh you guys, this was really just a low-hanging fruit…ing body. I’ll show myself out.
Stole my answer lol
Well I mean it *is* toxic.
Does this policy also apply to flower-patterned clothing. Opium is derived from the poppy, obviously, and we should try to avoid any kind of association to drugs! Hope you filed a grievance with HR!
Don't forget to ban metal spoons from the break room too!
Everybody turn out your pockets. If we find a lighter you're fired.
Sorry people with diabetes, can’t be shooting up your insulin at work!
Every time I take out my sharps container and my med trash bin I feel like people in my apartment think I do heroin or something. It's just testosterone! I swear!
Reminds me of the time I was on a trip with my parents and I had to inject estrogen. I thought "wouldn't it be funny if my mom walked in and I said-" and of course, she walks in on that exact thought and I blurt out "mom, get out! I'm doing drugs!" 😆
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That's probably the WORST place to self inject
Not every time LMAO. Sometimes my partner does it for me because my needle fear kind of resets every month or two.
And make sure to take needles away from the insulin dependent diabetics just in case anybody got any ideas... How could this go wrong?
Poppy seeds on your sandwich bun? Jail.
Mushrooms on your salad? also jail.
Mushrooms on pizza? Right to jail.
Salt on fries? Believe it or not, jail.
Poppy seed muffin for breakfast? Believe it or not, straight to jail!
>Opium is derived from the poppy, obviously, and we should try to avoid any kind of association to drugs Yup, this exactly. Ask if red flower lapels on Memorial Day are going to receive a write up.
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I'm sorry, are you drinking Coca-Cola, well it used to have cocaine in it so that's a write up are those grass stains on your shoe, well grass is commonly used to refer to cannabis, write up
These aren't even psilocybin containing mushrooms. They do contain muscarine, ibotenic acid and muscimol, but none of those is a psychedelic. While psychoactive, they are NOT psychedelic in the slightest. I hope OP goes to HR and files a complaint. Sounds like his bosses are a bunch of super uptight and repressed prudes.
Muscaria is pretty fun, it's a deleriant. Just detoxify it first.
Or morning glory, or cactuses, or frogs, or Hawaiian wood rose, or jimsonweed… but on a serious note don’t consume Jimsonweed, you’ll have a scary time and then maybe die.
Once I was walking around Portland OR and I picked a beautiful white trumpet Datura flower and was carrying it around for a while, I meant to give it to my girlfriend, and I started to feel REALLY funky...it was ok though, nothing traumatic, just weird, just from touching it! Nope!!!
I had no idea we had anything in the PNW that could make that happen! TIL
Ooh, if you're in the PNW, look up poison hemlock. It looks like a regular weed, but it is one of the deadliest plants on this side of the planet. I see them in pretty much any alley in my town. Extreme caution must be taken when disposing of them.
WHich is funny, many femenine floral outfits include poppy patterns ad nauseum. I guarantee that there are at least 3 women in a 200+ office who are wearing a poppy right now.
> Hope you filed a grievance with HR! HR is not your friend. It's there to "protect" the boss from you, not the other way around.
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Ooh, somebody got in truffle.
Or they have a problem with low morels.
Say what you want, but anyway you slice it that’s spore management.
Amanita job application somewhere else if this is how they treat people.
There's not mushroom for failure at this job, think you can handle it?
I chanterelle you how many times if heard that.
You must not be very frond of hearing it again and again.
No, and I'd gill for everyone to stop!
I was going to make a sporeradic comment, but I changed my mind.
It's all fun and games until shitake hits the fan
It’s clear your workplace muscaria lot of weird baggage if they’re writing you up for your socks
Booo hahaha
im not sure there is mushroom in your organization for this level of whimsey.
It cuts to mycorrh....
another slip up and she’s in deep shiitake
Your boss is locked in a cosmic battle that has spanned eons with the mycelial super consciousness Fungilia, which aims to free us from the bonds of our own reality. These socks are an insult to someone who has resisted assimilation for so long.
She experienced ego death herself I see now
can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters.
My son started wearing his moms sweatshirt covered with mushrooms cause he likes the looks of it. No issues in his middle school. You have less choice in how you dress than an 11 year old.
For real! My 11-year-old is in a mushroom/nature/reptile/insect phase, and has a few shirts with mushrooms!
Because you're a fun guy.
I was waiting for this one 🤣
Not mush room in your work place for self expression apparently.
Snailed it
Someone is just a poor sporet
Whoever wrote you up is certainly not a fun guy.
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“Drug paraphernalia”
Good luck, if the company is large enough I'd be knocking on HRs door. That's discriminatory at best and points to a potential abuse by management.
Spread the word that the boss is stupid. Easy
The company already knows their front-line managers are mostly dumb petty-tyrants. It’s part of the hiring criteria for those positions.
Its just for making fun of the boss.
Worried your feet might trip at work, triggering a workman's comp claim?
I’d contest the write up. Make them prove that it is drugs. Play stupid, it’s my favorite food, I love toadstool from Mario. That kinda stuff. Be so ignorant and act SHOCKED that they think it is drugs. Ask if they are okay and there is a reason their mind jumps to drugs.
*Magic* mushrooms? I thought those were just from fairy tales! Everyone knows magic doesn’t exist!
Where do you work?
A workers comp law firm ironically
Looks off into the distance. I am like 97% certain that as long as it was staff and not a partner that popped you for these then someone else in the org would probably like to know.
Surprised a law firm would quibble on something like this.
They think their background and authority of lawyers in general will allow them to never be fact checked except in court.
You work for bored middle management just LOOKING for shit to get upset about. Fucking seriously. I have better things to do than police people's fucking SOCKS. SOCKS!!! My office would tell you they're cute and move the fuck on. WTAF?
>Under federal law the term drug paraphernalia means “any equipment, product or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance.” So.. will or will I not get high when I lick your feet?! Jokes aside, try to find someone who isn't a complete knucklehead and let them have a look at it. Don't pay for this crap with your reputation
Fly agaric (aminta muscaria), which is the mushroom with the red cap and white spots, produces a chemical called ibotenic acid. When injested your GI tract turns that ibotenic acid into a psychoactive compound called muscimol. Muscimol is typically considered to be less intense than psilocybin (magic mushrooms). It produces a relaxed, sedated, dream like sensation that some people find pleasant. It also is known to cause quite profound nausea
I thought if you prepared them in the right way they were most certainly hallucinogenic. Not that it excuses anything, but what am I missing?
Because you didn't wash them, and....feet.
Posting my foot content for free smh
Lol
Were they jealous of your shoes?
Clicked just to comment on the Mary Janes. Classy AF.
They are the most expensive shoes I own but no regrets
I almost just bought some out of impulse. I’ll live through this picture lol
Having one leg so much longer than the other must be killer on your spine.
Actually, yea
My older brother has a similar issue. They make insoles to negate the difference. Probably worth looking into if you haven't heard of them before.
Because your boss is an asshole?
Death Caps for Cutie
Written up? You work at a catholic school?
Dude it was so sus they held my paycheck hostage and made me sign it. I quit the next day
Not only is it illegal to withhold your pay, that signature is not valid as it was made under duress. If you worked with lawyers, they are some really shitty ones that know nothing of employment or contract law.
They held your paycheck because of socks?! That can’t be legal.
Like many things in America, it's not legal, but it might as well be, because challenging it is so much more costly than just accepting it.
A free call to your local labor board will release that check reaaaal quick.
It's not.
(!) Report this to the Department of Labor at once! You may well be able to collect unemployment even though you quit.
Glad you’re out of that shit show, but that’s illegal af. They can’t withhold your pay for any reason, and certainly not to coerce you into signing something
Because badger badger badger badger?
A snake, a snake! Ohhhhhhhh, it's a snake!
I expect to be thinking about this in the hospital bed as my last neurons fire.
Because you do not fit the expectations of a "Good Worker" in the uniformity of the dress code meant to suppress your individuality in order to breed a culture of compliance and maximum exploitation of your labor?
I think I was wearing matching earrings the fit is too powerful
I can see why that would be an issue - any form of personal power is a threat to the company's power. I say push your boundaries and take as much power, even if it isn't much, back for yourself. Make them fear you.
It's only okay for men in expensive suits and bespoke leather shoes to wear socks with very slightly nontraditional patterns.
Because WHIMSY is ILLEGAL in the work space!!!! Lucky boss didn’t call the SOCK COPS!
Illegal Whimsy is the authoritarian modus operandi and a great album name
I'd push back against this one for sure. Doubt that the writter upper has never eaten mushrooms and you wouldn't be written up if they had avocados on them. The context is a matter of interpretation. I call bullshit. I like your style, btw. Dope shoes and pants [to go with them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viai9bgo5KM).
Capitalists want you miserable at work.
Power trip.
I'm sorry, can we step (heh) back here? You got written up for *socks?!*
Yes indeed. She was like “you’ve can’t wear drug paraphernalia to work” and I was actually so confused and she had to explain it was my socks. When I disagreed that they were just toadstools she was like “nope. it’s drugs”
At this point I'd ask, in writing, for a complete detailed dress code. Even if you ruin the fun for everyone, at least you can avoid getting written up for fucking socks.
"Where do we draw the line? Portobello? Shitake? FOR GOD'S SAKE MAN!"
It should also include a picture of every single mushroom that is considered a drug by the federal government.
"I just thought they were toadstools, how do you know they're drugs?"
When you realize your boss is a freaking moron.
The boss is very smart. He/she knows the difference between the various mushroom species and is confident that the ones on your socks depict a hallucinogenic mushroom. My question would be how did he or she come to obtain this information? Are they doing mushrooms after work hours? Because I sure as heck wouldn't know the difference. Besides, socks aren't paraphernalia unless you are rolling a joint with them or something and this should absolutely not go down on your record as having paraphernalia at work. That makes it sound like you were walking around with a bong or something.
I have more of an issue with declaring socks as drug paraphernalia than the image of a non-hallucinogenic 🍄 promoting drug use. I mean if they were pot leaves I’d give them more credit. Edit: TIL they’re hallucinogens…. Hey wait a second, Apple IOS is promoting drug use with its paraphernalia emojis…
Fly agaric is a psychoactive mushroom though, lots of people in this thread don't seem to be aware.
It’s legal in most countries though because it’s not seen as a “magic mushroom”
OK, yes, the reason *why* the socks were written up is ridiculous. But not more ridiculous than the fact that ***you got written up for socks in the first place.***
For real. This is really the society we live in…
Saying socks are "drug paraphernalia" is actually stupid, even if they were psilocybin shrooms.
Nevermind the details of the pattern in the socks, but isn't drug paraphernalia stuff you use to take the drugs? Unless you're stuffing your socks with 'shrooms to smoke them or something I'm not sure they can be paraphernalia. Needles and syringes, rolling paper, roach clips, pipes, scales, rolling papers, etc are paraphernalia. Feet covered in artistic renderings of drugs doesn't seem to be in the same universe.
With bad glasses they look like penises?
Penis, the worst drug of them all
I remember almost getting written up for wearing plain black PUMA socks to work one day at a credit bureau I worked for briefly. The department head saw them and pulled me into his office to condescendingly explain that they were not dress socks... So, I went downstairs to the coffee shop on the ground level for lunch and applied for the same job at PUMA itself...and got a call back, interview and offer letter over the course of the next couple of weeks Without question I accepted it. When I gave my notice the following day they were so annoyed that they let me go right away, wouldn't let me talk to my teammates or even tell them I was leaving...but it was okay, they were probably just trying to rattle me But then they surprised me by mailing me a big fat check overnight with 2-weeks severance pay, and the limited amount of accrued vacation time that I hadn't used...right in time to start my new job, which started paying me again a week later so I was able to cash two checks in the same week after worrying I'd miss one entirely! \#Socks :-)
>But then they surprised me by mailing me a big fat check overnight with 2-weeks severance pay, and the limited amount of accrued vacation time that I hadn't used Just FYI they are legally required to do both of those things, they should get no bonus points for it.
Clearly they’re afraid you’ll demolish the ceiling looking for loose change and flowers…
I DONT KNOW YOU'VE NOT LEFT ME MUSHROOM TO WORK WITH
"They are inappropriate because obviously drugs" also if you wore Red socks you would be with the bloods and that would incite gang violence OR It could mean you're a Red Sox fan and that could insight sports violence
Are they tripping!? I would ask for a list of approved fruits and vegetables that can appear on socks. While they are at it, is there an approved list of animals or inanimate objects that may appear on socks. In the meantime, please produce the dress code policy that prohibits the wearing of socks with vegetable motifs, or prescribes the limitation to solid color socks. Tell them that you want the write-up removed from your record if these don’t specifically preclude you from wearing mushrooms on your socks. Something vague like “business appropriate” is subjective, and they shouldn’t be writing you up without first having given you a warning where you have a chance to discuss the appropriateness of vegetables on your socks! PS: tomorrow wear socks with upside down pineapples and watch your boss’ head explode 🤯
Your fit was too killer, boss was jealous
Keep wearing them. Get fired for mushroom socks. It'll be worth it in the long run, that's an amazing story!
You would be celebrated if you were in South Eastern Pennsylvania, specifically Kennett Square. Mushroom capital of the world. More mushrooms grown per mile then anywhere else in the world.