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Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom
buzzardsbay writes "Yes, it's all in good fun to point out the mismatched belt and shoes and the atrocious hairstyles, but honestly, I'm committing three of these errors right now! Is that why I can't get a key to the executive washroom? Or is it my rebellious attitude and pungent man-scent that's keeping me down? The shocker in here was pigtails on women... I love pigtails on women!"
Maybe that is the reason why. Schoolgirl outfits and pigtails go hand in hand. It may be sexist, I won't deny it, but women who do this probably remind the men too much of a strip club and they need all that concentration on how best to screw the consumer
Let's not even touch men with pigtails either
But in I.T. I'm only concerned with Feng Shui when I'm trying to make my code look like a landscape painting when rotated 90 degrees or when printed in my boss's continuous feed printer.
I thought the title said Bedroom for like 2 minutes.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I have the answer! You can't get into the board room because you're too busy fixing the CEO's computer that he broke again while he's in the meeting. I think we all know that's the real reason.
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Everyone knows only the devil wears Prada.
I got excited.... I thought it read....
Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Bedroom
I'm so lonely...
The real gaffe: getting your fashion advice from Slashdot...
This must be one of the most obnoxious sites I have been linked ionto in a very long time. .....
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" -- "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa
So you'd rather be a geek than an exec because the mandatory underwear isn't appealing?
H'mmm... Having been either a technical director or managing director of IT companies for fifteen years, I'm back being just a software engineer. Why? Mostly because I enjoy it more. But I'm sitting here at my desk about to start work, with my long hair and my beard and wearing a cycling jersey. Idiocy about corporate uniform makes me tired; it's just so old. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, stop now. If you don't feel comfortable in what you're wearing, wear something different. Life is too short, and money is frankly just not worth it.
But as a quick aside, the business suit is worn these days by lawyers, politicians, salesmen and the financial services industry - in other words, it's the uniform of the professionally dishonest. Is that really how you want people to see you?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
Alternative Hairstyle: Guilty. However, I think in my case the real reason has more to do with statements such as, "Greg, you would do well not to turn this into a matter of honor."
Although, "If you knew what you were doing, I wouldn't be here. Why don't you make yourself useful and go get me a cup of coffee. Black," probably runs a close second.
So, uh, "Bananatree," you like to wear kilts to work and keep your "lower" positioned? There's a reason people don't want you above them on the corporate ladder. Especially on a windy day.
Building a business, building a team, management -- they're all forms of creative problem solving every bit as "fun" or creative as programming is. In fact, imaging programming for a CPU whose instructions have unpredictable execution speeds and results.
You mean like programming for previous versions of Windows, with no memory protection or anything, where even thinking about opening paintbrush and notepad at the same time would make the system hehave *unpredictably*? Forget it.
Isn't that why they made sandals in the first place? Yes, without socks.
forget feng shui, business fashion is about violence, if you could imagine someone beating his subordinates with a bat or maybe shooting them in the head as they whimper on their knees, they are dressed for success.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Funny you should mention that. I just bought a new pair after wearing out the old ones (They lasted four years...).
My personal clothing style is
- Combat boots
- Baggy combat-style pants
- Tshirt
- Hoodie.
I've changed clothes, like, four times since I came here half a year ago.
True. I mean, didn't even get the following right:
"Quick, name one executive's bio photo that shows him or her wearing a billowy floral shirt? Zzzt! Times up! Wear these on vacation if you must, but don't show up to a quarterly meeting in one of these numbers."
Pfft. Evidently the author has never been to an APEC conference.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
even so, we're right anyway. the path doesn't matter, just the end result :p
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... he won't even admit he's jealous!
... it's crap.
Anyway, I concur with your opinion of the article
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Sometimes management doesn't understand that the little things are more important than the money.
Telling a PHB (or a lot of slashdotters even) there is anything more important than money is like telling a Muslim there is something more important than Allah.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
See, management would likely not let you in the boardroom because you probably look like you're going to go postal and kill everyone.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
In one job I had flexitime, but then we got new management in and tied a 5k GBP pay rise to loosing the flexi.
I don't get it, wouldn't you WANT the flex time to be looser? Getting looser flex time and more money would be fine by me!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
So I'm basically going for an "Agent Smith" sort of look?
I usually do. Then again the Matr. . ur . . I mean Agency work normally requires it.
Well of course you go for the Agent Smith look, you're Agent fucking Smith!
;-).
But the important question here is: brown suit with earpiece, or black suit without?
I'm a redpill, these things are important to us
>> My only real board room faux pas is my hair, apparently. You have pig tails?
I did once, but Lowe's security stopped me.
You managed to find an actual Lowes employee at Lowes? You have my admiration.
Lemme guess your profession: lisp programmer.
Personally I get a little more uncomfortable with mismatched braces. Goofing up parenthesis is too easy when they equate to half of the characters in your code.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
As a former Lowes employee, I find this comment amusing. The only reliable way to find a Lowes employee is to try to steal something :)
"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. [...] It's what drives men mad, being methodical." G.K.Chesterton
Looks like Harper is about to pop in that picture...
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First, let me say, be very cautious about fashion advice on Slashdot.
Second, your post is 100% spot on, if this was 1965. These days, not so much.
Find another job if you cannot work with your boss.
There are BOFH alternative approaches to the problem, of course...
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You work for him do you?
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