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Why stop at professional dress? Every citizen should dress in the exact same attire with a toned down color like grey, so not only lesser distractions to produc
by orange8 7y ago
Why stop at professional dress? Every citizen should dress in the exact same attire with a toned down color like grey, so not only lesser distractions to productivity, but cheaper and more efficient manufacturing processes. Same goes for buildings, cars and all other products. Let us just grey everywhere and focused efficiency and productivity.
- artsyca 7y agoThat's the whole point! Tshirt culture effectively leads to that dystopia where everyone wears a jumper -- it's ironic but professional adult dress done right preserves the individuality. I challenge you to see the wisdom inherent in this unpopular opinion
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- artsyca 7y agoThe whole premise of Zuckerberg and his contemporaries wearing the same tshirt every day is precisely to be good worker robots like you describe whereas dressing up ironically gives the finger to the technology industrial complex and frees one to express their own preference Before you 'yea but...' however understand that the trade-off is that we must agree to some form of standardization and effectively it's formal business dress
- artsyca 7y agoAlso, if it's coerced, it won't work either, but at this point tshirt culture is coerced just nobody has really tried going against it -- try wearing a proper shirt and tie as an engineer, people won't even ask if you're going to an interview any more like they used to
- orange8 7y agoHey! Can you not tell when someone is on your side? I said grey collared shirts and ironed trousers for everyone. Grey all things. Good citizens must be allowed to focus on productivity.
- artsyca 7y agoI'm telling you I want colors, and more of them, but there's a difference between living in a world that children made and being a true adult -- most of us in this industry are crashing and burning in our 30's and 40's and it's not pretty I'm on your side too orange8, but we went to different universities and had different childhood experiences and now our shared vision is getting cloudy with all this corporate hoopla imposed on us by the man
- orange8 7y agoI am sorry you've had bad experiences within the industry and maybe even childhood. Stay strong and seek those around you for help, even if its just a chat.
- artsyca 7y agoI've had terrible experiences in this industry too -- look at TechLead, his wife left him! but we're being forged into something stronger than steel -- that's why I wear a silk tie, not because I'm trying to be some kind of corporate drone.. as Simon Sinek says, 'Start with why' -- nothing matters per se, but for the meaning behind it
- artsyca 7y agoAnd that's another reason I wear a danged tie, so people can recognize that I'm a little different from the hoi polloi eager to please their managers with feature after feature and ticket after ticket -- believe it or not I'm an extreme programmer in the strictest sense, perhaps not a 10x but definitely a 1% mind body and spirit is geared towards computer science believe me, another reason I wear silk, as a nod to the engineers who came before me and worked on the enigma or the Apollo space mission
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