Earlier this week it was 99 degrees in D.C. and I decided work should be pants optional
Yes, it is true, I’m leaving Stars and Stripes.
Why? The heat. And I don’t like wearing pants.
It’s been a great ride at Stripes. I’ve learned a lot over the past year and a half and progressed as a journalist. I can’t thank my boss Joe Gromelski enough or my fellow Web staffers like Rick Vasquez, Emily Brown and Mel Bender.
I wouldn’t trade that time for everything. Stripes was a great time, and I won’t forget it, but now it is my time to become one of the few, the proud, the pants optional.
Update: Another reason I decided to leave was because of the wildlife and fauna at my new job.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
So what’s next, apart from the pants coming off?
June 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Congrats, Pat. Excited to see where whatever’s next goes.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I figured you were leaving when I saw you direct someone else on twitter to what I thought was your job. lol.
What are your exciting plans? And where exactly do you think you can escape the heat AND not have to wear pants? Doesn’t sound like my type of gig, but it does sound interesting.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I sorta saw this coming through a series of cryptic tweets over the past few weeks. Looking forward to finding out whatever you have up your sleeve.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Good luck. Wish you success in a new gig. And should run into failure, I hope you fail spectacularly.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
A lot more information is coming this week. I didn’t want to mix leaving my old job with what my next frontier is.
An official announcement should be coming in a few days.
June 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Congrats, Pat! I think we all long for a day when pants will be optional at work.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Congrats, Pat… my PT job is pants optional and it’s fun.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I’ve been shopping around for a plasma blaster for you. You never know …
June 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
The Plasma Blaster is like the Holy Grail.
If one can obtain it, he can master all the XML, CSS, OBGYM he wants to.
But the thing is, no one has ever found the Plasma Blaster. Godspeed.