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>And if I’m dressed professionally, I get more done and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Are you a butler? No o

>And if I’m dressed professionally, I get more done and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Are you a butler? No offense. No one in tech would give two f...s about what you're wearing when you push git commits.

tjr 1y ago
For some people, what they wear has an impact on their own performance. It's not necessarily about how others perceive them, and it's not necessarily logical. Some people work better with music, or with a window to look out... some people work better in fancier attire.
- moralestapia 1y ago
  >and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Did you not read the last part of the sentence?
- wfhrto 1y ago
  > music > window > fancier attire one of these things is not like the other
  - yakshaving_jgt 1y ago
    Right. Two of these is things you can see, but only one is a thing you can hear.
- wiseowise 1y ago
  If only it was possible to dress up at home…
  - Aeolun 1y ago
    It only works if people see you. Dressing up for sitting at home feels silly.
    - wiseowise 1y ago
      So everyone has to suffer because Dick the fashionista needs to show off his attire?
- holowoodman 1y ago
  What I wear has an influence. Ties cut off blood supply to the brain, so in fancy attire, I'm less useful.
yepitwas 1y ago
I once moved to a company that still mandated relatively formal work clothes—suit and tie no longer required, but still seen fairly often. The first casual Friday I was struck now how energized I felt as soon as I walked in (and I didn’t participate, I wore slacks and a blazer that day). Reflecting on that, I realized that I actually associate jeans and such with “professional office that gets shit done”. Because that’s how it’d been everywhere else I’d worked. The “professional” dress code was having exactly the opposite effect on me, from what it was supposed to.

tjr 1y ago

For some people, what they wear has an impact on their own performance. It's not necessarily about how others perceive them, and it's not necessarily logical. Some people work better with music, or with a window to look out... some people work better in fancier attire.

moralestapia 1y ago
>and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Did you not read the last part of the sentence?
wfhrto 1y ago
> music > window > fancier attire one of these things is not like the other
- yakshaving_jgt 1y ago
  Right. Two of these is things you can see, but only one is a thing you can hear.
wiseowise 1y ago
If only it was possible to dress up at home…
- Aeolun 1y ago
  It only works if people see you. Dressing up for sitting at home feels silly.
  - wiseowise 1y ago
    So everyone has to suffer because Dick the fashionista needs to show off his attire?
holowoodman 1y ago
What I wear has an influence. Ties cut off blood supply to the brain, so in fancy attire, I'm less useful.

yepitwas 1y ago

I once moved to a company that still mandated relatively formal work clothes—suit and tie no longer required, but still seen fairly often. The first casual Friday I was struck now how energized I felt as soon as I walked in (and I didn’t participate, I wore slacks and a blazer that day). Reflecting on that, I realized that I actually associate jeans and such with “professional office that gets shit done”. Because that’s how it’d been everywhere else I’d worked. The “professional” dress code was having exactly the opposite effect on me, from what it was supposed to.