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'."

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Dress for the position to which you aspire

[Anonymous Coward]

The issue is that if you are a coder, who never sees a customer and you sit in your cube 60 hours a week working your ass off to make the companies product fantastic, it gets a bit annoying when some jerk-off tells you you can't wear jeans.

Then that is all you will ever be: the guy in the backroom who no one sees. If someone wants to be a backroom-hidden code monkey for the rest of their life, then good for them; that is respectable and they are doing their part to maintain that. However, I often find that these t-shirt-wearing backroom guys are the loudest complainers when promotion time comes and they are not promoted into management or a leadership position based on their "mad skillz."

Why promote the gentleman (or lady) who is nothing more than a good coder? You will lose your coder. Instead, you promote the guy who understands people, subconscious impressions (yes, partly based on dress), and who is outgoing. That is the guy who gets up in the morning, shaves, showers, combs his trimmed hair, and dresses for success, because you know that he is committed and that if a customer shows up unexpected, he is prepared. You don't dress like a backroom guy, waiting to be promoted to that big leather-chair office and the big bucks.

You should dress not for your current position, but dress for the position to which you aspire.

Re:Honesty and Dress Sense: Inversely porportional

[handslikesnakes]

No, it's because you're proud of a "skill" that's stupid.

Re:You want well dressed- pay well dressed wages

[mrchaotica]

In other words, IT is a career path in the same way that fast-food restaraunt management is a career path.