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Comments: 2 +-   Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks from the Boardroom-> on Tuesday February 26 2008, @10:31AM buzzardsbay

Submitted by buzzardsbay on Tuesday February 26 2008, @10:31AM
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buzzardsbay writes "Yes, it's all in good fun to point out the mismatched belt and shoes and the atrocious hairstyles, but honestly, I'm committing three of these errors right now! Is that why I can't get a key to the executive washroom? Or is it my rebellious attitude and pungent man-scent that's keeping me down. The shocker in here was pigtails on women... I LOVE pigtails on women!"
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  • Sir,

    please forgive my impertinence, but I just couldn't let it lie.

    The true shocker is the one about oversize Hawaiian shirts. NOTHING screams 'trust me, I am sober-minded and focused on the bottom line' more than an oversized Hawaiian shirt. Doubly so if teamed with combat shorts.

    My personal favourite was a t-shirt with a reprint of a 1930's Daily Worker front page. A friend wore, on his last day in an especially uptight helpdesk employer a t-shirt with a cartoon on of a guy reading the jobs page, on which
  • I have only seen first-line support types and academic IT staff committing any of those gaffes. Then again, that list is distinctly Columbocentric (aimed at Americans), which probably means I haven't seen those gaffes in the corporate sphere purely by virtue of location (London, UK).
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6