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IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees
Poorly Dressed Anonymous Coward wrote to mention are article run in the Syndney Morning Herald saying that IT workers have been dubbed the worst dressed corporate employees. From the article: "Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders, followed by those working in technology start-ups, many of whom had continued to wear T-shirts to work as a consequence of the casual web culture of the '90s. 'The internet is now such a massive industry but people haven't caught up in terms of their dress'."
Who would be best poised to offer this? Which computer manufacturer has the best design/style sensibilities? Apple of course. Steve Jobs should put out a line of fashionable nerdwear with photos of electronic components on the interior labels.
Each line (named after cool-sounding components like "Capacitor", "Resistor", "North Bridge") has its own signature style and contains a 3 or 4 of each type of item (pants, shoes, shirts, sweaters, coats, blazers). Any combo within the line will look good. Buy two complete lines and you have a week's worth of outfits. Capacitor shirt, capacitor pants, capacitor shoes... you're color coordinated, looking good, and it took you no time at all.
Furthermore, they should have no complex care instructions (wash in warm, tumble dry regular), be seriously stain resistant, and be wrinkle resistant so they don't show the wrinkling effects of all-nighters. And most importantly, make them comfortable.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
forces their IT folks to wear clothes. Shouldn't the fur be enough?
I'll tolerate anything except intolerance.
If I wear jeans, how can anyone tell if I'm wearing a thong? :)
You are not the customer.
After Christmas last year I got a bunch of nice clothes. Black leather ankle boots, cashmere & wool sweaters, dress shirts, etc. You could say I was mildly metrosexual. When I started a new job the following January I was heckled by quite a few people in the company. One woman always said, "Hey that's a nice shirt... are you gay!?" The best part is the people who were actually gay in the office felt left out because no one was noticing their dress.
Who woulda thunk it!
... while another survey concluded that marketing is the most "Ghey" or "Metrosexual" (76%) of all departments. "I don't know what it is but the way those guys in marketing call eachother "bro" all of the time and complement eachother on their shoes and accesories is a bit ... yeah" said shipping supervisor Randy Beatty.
corporate stylist, Melanie Moss
OMG if your job title is corporate stylist you must immediatly proceed to kill whomever gave you that title and then yourself.
May I translate? Here in the great land down under, thongs are something you'd wear with your togs and sunnies, not with your dacks. Did that help?
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
Which way are you going? I said I noticed the inverse porportion law- not that the rest of society did!
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
There's an upside and a downside.
If you don't dress well, you won't get promoted to management.
I forgot what the downside was.
*AHEM* I have a penis, thankyouverymuch.
I'm gonna wear 3-piece tweed suits with a bowler and a handlebar moustache to work every day!
Just like physicists in the early 1900's. Seriously, ever seen how neatly employees at Bell Labs, Bayer, IBM and other famous places dressed back then?
(This coming from a person who's summer wardrobe consists of 18 black Haynes t-shirts from WalMart.)
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I walked into the local pharmacy the other week to fill a prescription. Behind the counter, next to the pharmacist, I saw a large florid-faced and bearded man wearing a polo shirt. I thought "That must be their IT guy. I bet he's wearing shorts." I stepped up to the counter and peered over. Yup. Shorts.
He noticed my glance and I could see him size me up. He too saw a large florid-faced and bearded man wearing a knit henley and shorts. Our eyes met and I knew that he knew were were of the same tribe, shamans to the silicon spirits. We smiled an went about our business.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
For he to-day that sheds his tie with me
Shall be my brother; be he e'er so vile
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
There are occasionally rumours here that a senior manager might demand we start wearing a shirt and tie, rather than the biz casual we now have.
If he tries that number with me I am going to tell him:
'Just because you have a male clothing fetish does not mean that the rest of us should have to dress to satisfy your sexual perversions'
Think that one will get me fired? 8)
A few million years ago, it would have been Golgafrincham Colonization Arc "B". Where there are nice clean telephone receivers. And well-styled hair. YAAAAY!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
And its also the uniform for Blockbuster.
I had the CEO of a company I was working at start to gripe about my ignoring the dress code. I pointed at the pile of dirt and dust and dead insects that'd fallen out of the ceiling tile I'd pulled aside to work up in there and asked him if he was willing to get into that wearing his suit? He said no way, it was too expensive to ruin. I asked him if he was going to pay if I ruined my good clothes in there? He said no. "Then why should I? Now, can I get back to finding and fixing this wiring problem, or do you want the demo you're doing this afternoon, the one you said was critical to the company's success this year, to flop when none of the stuff you want to show off actually works?".
Now *that's* accessorizing!
Why should I wear (and wear out) good clothes when there's no single women where I work?
Besides... if we male technical types dressed better, the women would be all over us, and we wouldn't get any coding done.
dress-code really doesn't matter.
I disagree.
Dress-code must be robust, readable and maintainable. Period.
Million Dollar Screenshot
This is completely off topic, but the comment on washing instructions for clothes made me think of it, and I had to share. Quite a few years ago I bought shirt. One day, for whatever reason, I actually decided to read the care instructions on the label in the back. I was quite humored to read, "For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roof rack."
In-the-middle-of-writing-this BONUS: If anyone cares, I decided to try and find the brand of shirt that had that label. It was HEET. The Internet freakin' rules.
Me
Yeah! Fight the man! We all think you're cool now that we know you're an individual who doesn't care about what others think! ;)
"Tech support guys know that they are zeros and will most likely always be zeros."
Speak for yourself, Dorkus Maximus. I have 18 Charisma!
It's worth ignoring numbers if you get to make an 'Americans are fat' joke. Those are always fresh.
Everybody knows that any non-manager who wears a suit at a tech company is incompetent. Even the smarter customers won't believe anything unless they hear it form somebody dressed in ratty jeans and an old shirt.
An engineer who ran for Congress. http://herbrobinson.us
You know, I'm surprised the boss objected to your purple hair. I think I would have kept it, and just made sure it coordinated with my tie. A guy with purple hair dressed like a punk is one thing, but who's gonna argue with a guy with purple hair dressed in a suit? ; )
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Thanks for cheering me up. Thank God It's Friday.