In my work (legal) i often find myself overdressed and overstressed about decorum and timetables. But corporate decorum, working 9-5 m-f, has a place. I remem

In my work (legal) i often find myself overdressed and overstressed about decorum and timetables. But corporate decorum, working 9-5 m-f, has a place. I remember one incident where a thursday meeting at a startup was canceled because a department head wanted to turn an already long weekend into a 4day holiday. I put my foot down. Fridays are not weekends. If they are, then thursdays become fridays and you'll start skipping them too. That meeting consisted of me in a suit, in an empty office, talking to two people via skype. I call that a victory because the meeting at least happened. (The truth is that all the low level employees on the first floor were there and working. They cannot afford to skip out on work.) Casual is all well and good until it creates unpredictability and disorder. Contrary to popular myth, things actually get done in meetings. Not every decision can be made while scaling the in-office climbing wall. Some decisions require people sitting down at a table to hammer through a series of points. Does that thing that happened last night on the server qualify as a breech? I don't care that tomorrow is a friday. Neither will your backers, nor the FBI, when they haul you in to explain why you couldn't be bothered to take a decision until after your ski weekend.