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Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013
nk497 writes "With businesses increasingly using digital tech like virtual worlds and Twitter, their staff will have to be given guidelines on how they 'dress' their avatars, according to analysts. 'As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation,' said James Lundy, managing vice president at Gartner, in a statement. 'We advise establishing codes of behavior that apply in any circumstance when an employee is acting as a company representative, whether in a real or virtual environment.'"
Don't you all think this is getting a bit ridiculous? The day I let an employer tell me what to do with my avatars or personal web space is the day hell freezes over. I don't think an employer has the right to tell me how to think, dress, or act when I am not at the office. They sure as hell don't have the right to tell my fake persona what to do either. You don't like it that I want to dress my Master Chief in hot pink high heels and a garter belt, well how bout you pick up that controller and get fragged in the face for a few hours. Seriously though, the bullshit that companies are getting away with such as firing people for blogging about inane crap on a web site that acts a virtual high school is kinda ridiculous. How bout you time wasting managers stop browsing social networking sites and get back to your doing your real job and get the products out the door so our company can make more money and higher better staff and maybe, just maybe turn the economy around. Or you can just act like note passing, tattle-tale sissies and see how far that gets you. /endrant
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