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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.'"
You forget.. We're Americans, our shit doesn't stink.
My avatar is a grey squirrel, you insensitive clod.
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My company requires me to maintain a rank 8 on my warlock.
What if my religion believes that all forms of torture are wrong? Heck mine could even be clothing optional, so just be glad my tie is the only article of clothing I left at home.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
ASL?
It's pretty much standard issue for a pool attendant.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Likewise, they would be unsanitary in an operating room.
I often get comments to the effect that my cheese factory looks like an operating theatre. My response is always that a surgeon only gets to kill one patient at a time, whereas I can potentially kill hundreds - so my theatre has to be cleaner.