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Suit Up Or Ship Out?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the create-it dept.

ilovestuff wrote to us with a disscussion starter from ZDNet Australia about the changes in dress code at IT jobs. How much is everyone else going through?

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  1. Theres a limit here by ReVMD · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's been a long time in coming, but no real surprise, working in the City in London has always required you to wear a suit no matter what job you did, which is why I avoid the city now.

    However outside the City its always been much more smart casual, which generally means no jeans or t-shirts, I can live with that.

  2. Gah, no thanks... by CoolVibe · · Score: 5, Informative
    I am notoriously incompatible with ties. Also notoriously incompatible with people wearing them. I am especially incompatible with people that demand that I wear a tie.

    If there is a dress code, I'll pack up and leave, or not work there in the first place.

  3. suit up or ship out (my email to the editors) by Naikrovek · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'll ship out, thanks.

    I'm no slob. I dress in clean jeans every day, I iron my t-shirts, and I buy and use deodorant, as well as soap and shampoo.

    But I'll be buggered if I'm going to work for a company that thinks that professionalism has anything to do with the clothes you wear.

    Trends like this have nothing to do with the collapse of dotcom culture, and everything to do with office managers grasping at the straws of job justification in an economy where things are not so stable, and their jobs could easily fly out the window like anyone else's.

    I work for Yahoo! Australia & NZ, and I'm happy to say that I could wear a sleeveless hunting shirt with military boots, dread-locks and 15 year old cargo pants with more holes in them than I have centimeters around my waist. No one would even blink. Why? because they all know that I'm 100% capable of doing my job on any given day, no matter what I'm wearing.

    Any employer that treats me differently -- or believes differently -- shows an immense lack of trust in me, and therefore cannot be trusted by me. A company less interested in its employee's happiness and more interested in its image will die a slow, painful death, and management will wonder why none of their employees will go the extra mile the whole way down.

    So here I am, taking your bait and replying. At work, at midnight, in my jeans and my ironed t-shirt. Why? My employer goes the extra mile for me, which means I do the same for them.

    jeremiah johnson.