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I never got the point of dress codes. When everyone dress (boringly) alike I tend to view them as mindless drones and my respect for them drops to near zero. Sh
by jjuhl 9y ago
I never got the point of dress codes. When everyone dress (boringly) alike I tend to view them as mindless drones and my respect for them drops to near zero.
Show up in some unusual or creative outfit however and I'm so much more willing to believe you are an intelligent and interresting human being.
- cpsempek 9y agoTotally agree. I mean, look at all these dull, uncreative, mindless drones http://www.uh.edu/engines/Solvay-1927.jpg http://www.uh.edu/engines/Solvay-1927.jpg.
- lucb1e 9y agoI feel like a black and white picture doesn't really contribute to the conversation. I assume it's meant as a joke but either way, I try to downvote when something doesn't contribute (as opposed to when I don't agree).
- hobo_mark 9y agoHello? It's not just a black and white picture, it's the 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, the joke being that most of the "mindless drones in suits" in it won Nobel prizes.
- lucb1e 9y agoI figured they must be prominent people, but in that picture I don't see much. It won't be pink and purple but I can imagine tints of green and other colors that shake things up a bit.
- ivanhoe 9y agoWell, for one thing, Einstein never wore socks.
- gnopgnip 9y agoEveryone says that but overwhelmingly people in professional attire are treated better in social situations.
- chibg10 9y agoAmong what crowd though? I bet that's true for a random sample of the street, but I doubt it is for SF engineers, for example.