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Love the picture! I can't decide if the monitors being huge feels stranger, or people wearing collard shirts.
by nr2x 5y ago
Love the picture! I can't decide if the monitors being huge feels stranger, or people wearing collard shirts.
- nerdponx 5y agoI know this is maybe weird, but I kind of wish programmers and other "technical" people dressed up at least a little bit more for the office. It makes the work environment feel a bit tidier and more professional to me.
- ruined 5y agoyou can wear whatever you like in your home office. go ahead and dress up for yourself
- groby_b 5y agoPersonally, I consider it a mark of professionalism if people aren't blinded by trivial external markers (like what clothes their colleagues wear) And I say that as somebody who likes dressing up for work.
- Findecanor 5y agoI think it is relative, and mostly a question of balance. Every workplace has its culture and norms. Making a little effort to blend in is a question about showing respect for your co-workers. But on the other hand, how you dress is self-expression.
- nine_k 5y agoI, as many of my colleagues, certainly dressed up for the office, carefully selecting only the most witty but understated T-shirts.
- WJW 5y agoI've often wondered about dress code for programmers. From a quick poll conducted at lunchtime, we concluded that there definitely is a way to dress for acceptance among devs, it's just hoodies and witty T-shirts instead of suits and ties. Several people confirmed that they would probably be biased against applicants for dev positions coming in for an interview in a full on business suit with tie and slicked back hair (think "slick salesman" look). Perhaps not justified or fair, but interesting as a data point nonetheless. N=4 though, so don't take it too seriously.
- k__ 5y agoI remember going to a meeting with fellow students I never met before. It was at a time I applied for jobs after university and so I thought, I might wear a collars shirt to the meeting, to get in the mood. All of my fellow CS students (aged 25-50) were wearing tshirts and generally more casual attire. The first thing I was asked: Oh, do you study management?
- alar44 5y agoIt's not weird, it's controlling. Needing everyone to wear mono-colored shirts with buttons on it to feel tidy is a you problem. A company I worked for (that I did generally like working for) implemented a suit and tie policy for management and above. It didn't affect me but I started looking for the door immediately and left a few months after. Don't want to be in a company that is still clinging to 19th century values.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoBut buttons, collars, ties, and other artefacts of 1500s tailoring technology have such respectability and gravitas!
- raxxorrax 5y agoI always wear a collared shirt to work because I like them and they do look neat, but I cannot stand people that demand it from others. Hygiene is pretty important in the business I work since some of our devices come in contact with drinking water. But I can assure you that hygiene often does not correlate with outside appearances. Still, we have rules for people that have customer contact because people are still judgemental, even if they are often demonstrably wrong.
- iSnow 5y agoTo underscore, I would bet that washing hands frequently, wearing gloves when touching food and masks/hood when working near food is much more important than the difference between wearing a fresh white-collar shirt vs a sweat shirt you change every other day.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat is vastly more important. It is mandatory to wash your hands before visiting production as well as changing clothes. Regardless of how clean they look, they will contain foreign matter. The cafeteria is pretty much declared a hazard zone, not only because of that one colleague who has a weird cheese experiment going on in the fridge. Downside for management is that we are only allowed to drink water in our offices and are not allowed to eat outside the cafeteria. With time I have grown to like it that way, even if I am a coffee junkie. But it never smells bad in the office in exchange. There is still some strange association with cleanliness and neat shirts.
- jacquesm 5y agoI wished that people would stop focusing on exteriors so much and dealt with others based on merit rather than looks, age, height, weight.
- omnicognate 5y agoNobody said anything about looks, age, height or weight.
- jacquesm 5y ago> "I wish people dressed up at least a little bit more for the office. It makes the work environment feel a bit tidier and more professional to me." That's very specifically about looks.
- omnicognate 5y agoNo, it's about what people wear.
- jacquesm 5y agoWhich is all about what they look like, really you're being pedantic beyond irritation.
- omnicognate 5y agoThe distinction, and its relevance, are obvious. If you're going to feign ignorance I have better things to do with my day than argue with you about it.
- jacquesm 5y agoThen why do you argue about it? Yes, there is a distinction, no it is not relevant. Just like to a blind person it would not matter what you wore so therefore 'looks' and 'what you are wearing' are closely related, related enough to both be used in this context.
- regularfry 5y ago"Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform. Don't kid yourself." - Frank Zappa
- surfsvammel 5y agoI agree. But I’m old fashioned. I would never dream of going into the office without a collared shirt.
- fbanon 5y agoGo ahead, dress up if that floats your boat. But don't force it on others!
- dekhn 5y agoOne of the funniest things I've ever seen was behind the scenes at TGIF at Google. Sundar was wearing some nice bay area gear (ie, ready to climb a mountain or meeting a corporate board room) and there were a couple PMs nearby wondering what brand he was wearing and how they could buy it.