IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees 959
Poorly Dressed Anonymous Coward wrote to mention are article run in the Syndney Morning Herald saying that IT workers have been dubbed the worst dressed corporate employees. From the article: "Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders, followed by those working in technology start-ups, many of whom had continued to wear T-shirts to work as a consequence of the casual web culture of the '90s. 'The internet is now such a massive industry but people haven't caught up in terms of their dress'."
What ya need is... (Score:5, Funny)
Who would be best poised to offer this? Which computer manufacturer has the best design/style sensibilities? Apple of course. Steve Jobs should put out a line of fashionable nerdwear with photos of electronic components on the interior labels.
Each line (named after cool-sounding components like "Capacitor", "Resistor", "North Bridge") has its own signature style and contains a 3 or 4 of each type of item (pants, shoes, shirts, sweaters, coats, blazers). Any combo within the line will look good. Buy two complete lines and you have a week's worth of outfits. Capacitor shirt, capacitor pants, capacitor shoes... you're color coordinated, looking good, and it took you no time at all.
Furthermore, they should have no complex care instructions (wash in warm, tumble dry regular), be seriously stain resistant, and be wrinkle resistant so they don't show the wrinkling effects of all-nighters. And most importantly, make them comfortable.
- Greg
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Eewww. (Score:5, Funny)
If I wear jeans, how can anyone tell if I'm wearing a thong? :)
Don't dress too nicely (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, the fashion industry wants us to buy clothes! (Score:4, Funny)
Who woulda thunk it!
Marketing departments voted "Most Metrosexual" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What ya need is... (Score:5, Funny)
If I could get office-appropriate wrinkle resistant shirts A-F, and pants 1-3, and consult a simple n-dimensional style-matching matrix on the website, I might finally get to talk to a girl.
and, the website should have an easy to query API for style-match checking.
Re:Eewww. (Score:5, Funny)
Gotta get a promotion somehow.
Corporate Stylist??!? (Score:5, Funny)
OMG if your job title is corporate stylist you must immediatly proceed to kill whomever gave you that title and then yourself.
Re:What ya need is... (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa, whoa, whoa there. (*writing*) wash..in..warm... what was the next part?
Re:Eewww. (Score:4, Funny)
Your, uh, big toe sticks out.
Re:What kind of tyrant ... (Score:5, Funny)
Not if you're soldering, welding, or operating high-rotational-speed power tools.
Believe me on this one.
That... is funny! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Honesty and Dress Sense: Inversely porportional (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Goddamn right (Score:5, Funny)
There's an upside and a downside.
If you don't dress well, you won't get promoted to management.
I forgot what the downside was.
Re:How strange. (Score:3, Funny)
*AHEM* I have a penis, thankyouverymuch.
If I ever hit lotto... (Score:4, Funny)
Just like physicists in the early 1900's. Seriously, ever seen how neatly employees at Bell Labs, Bayer, IBM and other famous places dressed back then?
(This coming from a person who's summer wardrobe consists of 18 black Haynes t-shirts from WalMart.)
Tribal fusion (Score:5, Funny)
He noticed my glance and I could see him size me up. He too saw a large florid-faced and bearded man wearing a knit henley and shorts. Our eyes met and I knew that he knew were were of the same tribe, shamans to the silicon spirits. We smiled an went about our business.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
For he to-day that sheds his tie with me
Shall be my brother; be he e'er so vile
Re:How strange. (Score:5, Funny)
If he tries that number with me I am going to tell him:
'Just because you have a male clothing fetish does not mean that the rest of us should have to dress to satisfy your sexual perversions'
Think that one will get me fired? 8)
Re:How strange. (Score:4, Funny)
A few million years ago, it would have been Golgafrincham Colonization Arc "B". Where there are nice clean telephone receivers. And well-styled hair. YAAAAY!
Re:You're confused about style (Score:3, Funny)
Response to dress code (Score:5, Funny)
I had the CEO of a company I was working at start to gripe about my ignoring the dress code. I pointed at the pile of dirt and dust and dead insects that'd fallen out of the ceiling tile I'd pulled aside to work up in there and asked him if he was willing to get into that wearing his suit? He said no way, it was too expensive to ruin. I asked him if he was going to pay if I ruined my good clothes in there? He said no. "Then why should I? Now, can I get back to finding and fixing this wiring problem, or do you want the demo you're doing this afternoon, the one you said was critical to the company's success this year, to flop when none of the stuff you want to show off actually works?".
Re:How strange. (Score:4, Funny)
Now *that's* accessorizing!
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Re:Tribal fusion (Score:1, Funny)
So let me get this straight: you crane your neck for a better look at his legs, he sized you up, your eyes met, and then you smiled at each other?
Why do I get the feeling that you two walked away from that little encounter with vastly different ideas about what happened?
No single women (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't dress too nicely (Score:3, Funny)
Heh. I am gay, and I don't get asked that. Instead, I had one guy -- a customer -- ask once, "You always dress so nice. Are you English?" (We're in Ohio.)
Re:How strange. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Caught Up? (Score:5, Funny)
I disagree.
Dress-code must be robust, readable and maintainable. Period.
Re:Don't dress too nicely (Score:2, Funny)
It is a subtle distinction.
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In-the-middle-of-writing-this BONUS: If anyone cares, I decided to try and find the brand of shirt that had that label. It was HEET. The Internet freakin' rules.
Me
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Re:What ya need is... (Score:5, Funny)
On Monday I try out the mechanic thing... a few looks come my way.
Tuesday, I put on my "Manager at McDonalds 4 Life" outfit for a thrill.
Wednesday, I put on my finest scrubs and carry a stethoscope.... quite the head turner.
Thursdays, I wear a suite and carry my briefcase full of "legal" papers. (they have the word legal written on them)
Friday, only the best with the airline pilot wardrobe.
I would wear my tech clothes, but they look like everybody elses.
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Re:You want well dressed- pay well dressed wages (Score:2, Funny)
Speak for yourself, Dorkus Maximus. I have 18 Charisma!
Re:Dressing fashionably maybe not so easy (Score:2, Funny)
And Proud of It (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't dress too nicely (Score:1, Funny)
If women weren't confusing, how many of us would be up late reading Slashdot?
(BTW, that's not such a strange combination for a woman. Between the "I want him to ask me out so I'll send good vibes at him" absurd subtlety and the smells-and-angles-details scary bluntness they have when discussing sex with their female friends, it's a combination you should probably get used to.)
Re:How strange. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You want well dressed- pay well dressed wages (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks for cheering me up. Thank God It's Friday.
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