IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees

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'."

Translation

[Psionicist]

Translation: I work for a PR firm and I would really like you to buy more different clothes so my employer will get more money. Be a good consumer and buy a real shirt, not a polyester one. Then the firm will be happy, and you will perhaps get laid!

Seriously, Paul Graham has an essay about this (sort of) here: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [paulgraham.com]

"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

Re:That... is funny!

[thecampbeln]

[and now for the REAL translation... thongs = flip-flops, togs = swim suit, sunnies = sun glasses, and dacks = underwear ...from a Cali lad caught in the land of Oz.]

Re:Eewww.

[Anonymous Coward]

Easy. NSFW [whale-tail.com]

Re:Eewww.

[_undan]

In Australia, 'thongs' are a form of footwear. You call them flip-flops.

Re:further marginalization

[daigu]

I don't know what company you work for. I work in an advertising agency. If you looked at average salary of employees by department - outside of executives and creatives - IT would be at the top of the list.

Re:Maybe

[Original Replica]

Good job. Next time bill for a four hour minimum. If you can fix it in ten minutes when they were stumped for days, you should at least be able to take the rest of the day off.

Re:Dressing fashionably maybe not so easy

[danielrose]

Same boat. I now get all my stuff custom made at http://www.mysuitshop.com/ [mysuitshop.com]
Prices a comparable to buying something thats a bad fit off the shelf at a big and tall store, and the quality is heaps better..

Re:What ya need is...

[Fulcrum of Evil]

1) Look like you have a lot more money than brains,

On the east coast (McLean), I noticed that women really eyed me closely when I went around in a suit. Wear a sports jacket and the women just look at you like meat.

I kinda like it...

Follow Steve Jobs' example...only wear black

[digitaldc]

Noone will ever criticize your sense of fashion. You are automatically haute coture.