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Arguments that uncomfortable shoes put on young people is "corporate culture?" They fall a bit flat in the face of, "Could we please wear non-leather footwear t

• smsm42 10y ago
  I don't see why you don't have problem seeing uncomfortable pieces of cloth wrapped around your hips, torso and neck as culture, but the shoes is where you suddenly have a problem. What's so special in the shoes that they can't be culture while others can? When the last time did you see your banker barefoot? Would your opinion change if you came to talk about a million dollar business and you banker were barefoot and in his pajamas? Maybe it is sensible to slightly alter the dress code, maybe not - it's not the point. The point is the interns failed to even realize what the issue at hand it - they just assumed everybody by them are being stupid and only wait for them, straight out of the hight school, to set them straight. Sometimes it's exactly the case, but overwhelmingly more often it is not. Even where it is the case, changing the established culture is very hard, it's much easier to grow your own to replace it. Linux wasn't born as a division of Microsoft that convinced Bill Gates to change his ways. And if you ever want a bank where bankers are barefoot and wear pajamas, it may be a coolest idea ever that will upend all the banking world - but don't expect the president of Wells Fargo or Chase to be excited about it. That's just not how culture works.