Funny, nobody said anything when I wore my "The Only Reason Some People Are Alive Is Because It's Against The Law To Kill Them" or "Be Patient, I'm Reloading!" shirt to work.
“The Workplace is not the place to discuss politics or religion”.
I would add it's best to keep it out of your barber shop/beauty parlor as well...
Regards,
GtG
Man, if I wore that shirt to work; I think my co-workers would tackle me in the parking lot and rip it off me.
I work as a lead engineer for a contracting team; and our contract is under review every year. So, if one of us screws up; we all find ourselves without a job. If the reason that our company didn’t win a renewal, was due to a complaint about my attire - whatever company picked up the next contract, would most likely pick up the rest of the team, but not me.
Depending upon your employer, these rule may be incredably inflexable, or very lenient. When I worked in a high tech company (out of view of customers), we wore shorts and T-shirts on a daily basis. The only guides we had were that they could not be ‘hate’ T-shirts, nor condone violence (thus removing the “Halo” and other video game shirts). But, we knew better than to invoke either religion or politics. Our team consisted of Hindu, Christian, Buddhist and Jewish members. We got along great, but our T-shirts were personally screened by a fairly observant manager.