And so it shall be. Tomorrow, July 1st, is the beginning of my end. Yes, tomorrow I will be wearing light bluish-gray trousers with elastic waistband, and a short-sleeve pink button down shirt w/red accents. It is, in a phrase, unfathomably gay.

Yet I know you are all with me in spirit, yes?

Apparently so, for I have heard requests for pictures of the new duds from around the world! You are all bad people, and will burn in hell for teasing me. And yet, it somehow seems fitting (the hell part).

The thing is, I have never actually revealed my company on this blog - you may find it interesting that I made writing about my work experiences permissible part of my contract, back when I started the job 5+ years ago (although I only started blogging a couple years ago, I started writing the Salaryman Adventures in late 2000.) They basically told me to use discretion and not sell any blueprints to the Soviets, and I have honored those conditions. Posting a uniform is a gray area in my mind, insofar as that if you don't know what major electronics company has a manufacturing base on Awajishima, neither should you be able to guess by our new metrosexual uniforms.

Plus, what am I? Your puppet? A dancing bear? Your biiiiiooooooootch? Must I heed your every whim and post humiliating photos of myself for your pleasure?

As a Japanese Yoda would say, "pondering, I must."

Gatson came by the house last night to install the English version of MS Project, and he told me about our new work uniforms, which we will be issued around the end of the month and have to wear from July 1st. I came into work today and confirmed the new design with the other guys in the office:
- Pink shirts with red collars
- Light green pants

An alternative title for this post is, "The REAL Reason I'm Leaving This Job and Country."

Apparently there is a leak at our company at a higher level, because they are ripping this decision to threads over at 2ch. Pretty funny shit, but it would be a lot funnier if it were happening to someone else...

BTW, there's still no news about which board member's gay fashion school dropout nephew designed this abortion of a color scheme.