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No one covers their tattoos (except because it's cold) or shaves (because they're required to, obviously a lot of people shave) in New York tech offices. And, u
by chris_7 9y ago
No one covers their tattoos (except because it's cold) or shaves (because they're required to, obviously a lot of people shave) in New York tech offices. And, um, there's a lot of tattoos and beards among New York tech hipster types.
Shorts are certainly more useful here in the summer (okay, they're basically mandatory if you don't want to be miserable some days) than in SF where it's usually sort of chilly.
Seems overly reductive.
- creepydata 9y agoYou've obviously never worked at a more conservative place. I worked at a place where tattoos must be always covered completely and beards have to be very well kept. Jeans were a hard no and they had just loosened their dress code so women could wear pants. Even the New York Yankees have to shave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees_appearance_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees_appearance_po...
- magic_beans 9y agoWomen couldn't wear pants!!??? Was this an airline? Or maybe the service industry??
- creepydata 9y agoIt was an office. I left there 12 years ago and the women could wear pants policy was new then. So it was around 2003-04 when they first started allowing women to wear pants. By coincidence (or maybe not) this is also the time when laws banning smoking in public places (bars, restaurants) first started to be passed. It was a conservative office. Customers were other business, not the public. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women_wearing_pants_are_still_controversial.html http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women...
- koolba 9y agoPure tech no, but I bet they'd all roll down their sleeves if they're interviewing at a financial services company.
- tptacek 9y agoI know at least one executive --- as in, is on the website --- of an east coast Fortune 50 bank with sleeves and a bushy beard.
- koolba 9y agoI'm sure they exist but by far that's the exception and not the norm.
- GenWintergreen 9y agoI've worked in sales before (in the investment bank), and was chewed out for the 3 months I tried to grow out a beard.