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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.'"
Seriously, business dress codes are the dumbest thing that ever got to that spineless "monkey see, monkey do" "culture" we call business employee.
Nobody needs it, nobody wants it, and everybody who wears it, looks like he's following the dress code of a Chinese communist movement where everybody has to dress the same.
The worst sign of despair is the "Please hang me right now! I'm just a slave in the big machine of bureaucracy. My life is completely meaningless!" tie. You're practically the walking dead when you wear it. You just don't know it yet.
I'd rather come nude than in a business suit.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Where every ounce of personality must be annihilated and replaced with a grey-faced, grey suit. Is this really the world that people want to live in? And this for computer avatars? Should successful web companies such as ebay and dubli alter their websites to be a dull, monochrome gray to enhance their responsible status? Should everyone be made to wear glasses that automatically make everything a grayer shade of life?. Kind of depressing, that despite my satire and fun poking, this probably will happen. Individualism is not a great thing to happen the higher up in business you go, and the ambitious will follow these diktats should they think it'll help them up the greasy pole. As for me, I'm content to wear my jeans and tshirt and do my work. Doesn't affect it one little bit, let me tell you!