Author Topic: Dress codes? Bwahahahahaha! (Read 482 times)

StSanta · « **on:** October 12, 2000, 04:05:00 AM »

Picked this up from CNN.com. It's precious.

Seven tips

Exercise common sense when selecting your work wardrobe. Here's a list guidelines to help you remain professional:

Notice both your boss and his/her manager's style of dress. Emulate and dress to their level unless the boss has no fashion sense. Select other managers and copy their leads.

Bwahahaha! Your tongue, dear Sir, is brown from being firmly placed between the cheeks of your boss. Your lack of guts and initiative flatterns you. Aye, indeed, give up your small values for that boss of you; admit submission and inferiority

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Dress appropriately. Never wear sexy clothing, jeans with holes, orinappropriate messages on T-shirts. Be prepared to upgrade if an important meeting or event comes up unexpectedly. Have a blazer at work to dress up an outfit in a pinch.

Riiight. Appropriately huh? Upgrade? Seems like you need one

Listen to co-workers. If they think (or you feel) you're dressed too casually -- then you are. Follow the company's dress code, keeping in mind that dressing up leaves a more positive impression with upper management.

Uhm, there is no such thing as too casual. Only thing there is is too uptight, stright and oldfashioned. And, impressing the upper management is my goal in life.

Always dress up to deal with customers or clients, or for important meetings.

Ok, this is the face outwards, I can dig this.

Wear clothes that fit. A well-tailored size 16 navy blue suit will always give
off a better image than a straining-at-the-seams size 14 will.

Good thing I buy my clothes according to my measurements. If you can't figure this one out, dude, you need another lobotomy. Can't hurt.

Avoid high fashion and trendy looks. Miniskirts are never appropriate for work.

Dammit, I have to give up miniskirts? Nooooo!

Be aware of the message you send forth. Sloppy may feel great but may give off the impression you are disorganized and not "move up" material.

Here's my message: "here I am". Did you know that if you have a few extra pounds, it might signal that you're a fat obssesive-compulsive eater with no self discipline? Or how about red hair? Might signal Irish terrorist ancestry!

LOL, this is too funny. I mean, we have suits here too, but casual is definitely the norm.

Had a good laugh

. Poor yanks/Brits/whoever else who have to endure this bullsh|t.

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"

funked · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2000, 04:49:00 AM »

Some day you will have to work for a living. It might make more sense then.

(Not the stupid dress standards, but the reasons one would care about complying with them)

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Dowding · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2000, 08:06:00 AM »

lol

The phrase 'Dumbing down' seems to fit quite well here.

If you don't know how to conform in a business environment, you shouldn't be there in the first place.

I've been looking into becoming a business consultant - I went around Arthur Andersen in London and 90% of the employees wore smart casual clothes (barely a suit in sight). The informality is an american idea, apprently.

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AKDejaVu · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2000, 11:24:00 AM »

I'm working for a major international corperation. We have 20,000 employees locally and are nearing 100,000 world wide.

When I first started, I adhered to the "we don't have a dress code" policy quite well. After about one year, my wife put her foot down. I was no longer able to chose what clothes I wore to work... she did. Every morning I'd get up and they'd be ready for me.

After a while, I just got used to the clothes. It really doesn't matter to me one way or the other what I am wearing.

The funny thing is, that after 5 years, I wore jeans into work one day. They were pretty new with no holes and no fading and I still wore dress shoes with them. I could not believe how many people were amazed to see me in jeans. All of these people wore jeans or shorts every day. They'd just never seen me wear a pair. Now I can't wear jeans at all because I don't need that kind of attention.

BTW, whenever anyone compliments me on how well I dress for work.. full credit is given to my wife.

That said, I haven't noticed that it has gotten me any kind of jump on other people in my department. The company promotes based on merit and I've seen few exceptions to that rule.

AKDejaVu

Maverick · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2000, 01:44:00 PM »

StSanta,

Yep you might be making a statement of "here I am" by the way you dress for the workplace.

The boss might have another statement for you too. "I'm sorry, we have no openings at this time. Thanks you for your interest in our company." If after you are hired you decide to make an "identity change" the boss might say: "I am sure your new identity would be more compatible with a differant employer".

It's amazing how conformist a paycheck can make a person!

If it means being able to support my family I can conform to quite a bit!

Mav

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Gunthr · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2000, 04:19:00 PM »

Advice my Grandma gave me:

"Always keep your shoes shined and your hair combed. And keep your hands out of your pockets. Show the world that you are a somebody."

(geez grandma, I thought I already was a somebody)

Another bit of advice from my Grandma:

"When you go a-girling, always use a johnny-rubber"

(good advice for any young man)

Thanks Grandma

StSanta · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2000, 01:38:00 AM »

Huys.

I will in no way give up my individuality or right to choose what clothes to wear based on some suckers personal evaluation of what's right or wrong.

People here work for a living. In the financial market and custom related ones, suits are common, but other than that, casual way of dressing is the way to go.

I don't care about promotions or a big fast career - my job will be there to give me cash and be my life. of course it will be something I don't have a big poblem doing, but that is besides the issue.

Giving in to this stupidity is perpertuating it. Seriously; I am a person of principles. Often, it gets me into situations that are undesireable, but I could not live with myself if I caved in on what I consider fundamentals.

When I was 14 and had just moved to a small town in northern Sweden, I quickly became friends with a big guy my age. As it turned out, he wasn't very popular with the c00l d00ds, and quickly they began taking out their frustrations on me as well. Yet I refused to run away and ditch him when they gathered their mob for a slug fest.

It's the unreasonable people who change things. I might miss up on promotions in the future (big effing deal, it's only work and some money) but at least I can live with myself and state that I've been true to what I believe in despite the adverse effects.

The issue of dress codes when I first learned about it struck me with a chuckle and bemusement. Then, when I learned people were actually serious about it, it became sort of the embodyment of all the idiotic unwritten "rules" we have in our society about "proper behaviour". Insignifcant things where a power source, be it a large group or an elittist leadrship, force their values onto the individual in a form of assimilation. Belomng to the group and you have to wear the uniform! If you are not with us, you are against us!

This sort of mentality has adverse ffects on indivduality - and despite the egoistic and hugely narcissistic society we live in, despite all this, I feel that individuality is actually on the decrease. Less individuals, and more self loving egoistic sheep forllowing the shepherd.

DejaVu's story is somewhat different, with pressure coming from the wife

. The company he works for seems to be a reasonable decent one

. I bet if he wore jeans for a year, people would stop noticing it

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As for me, clothes aren't one of my hobbies - I wear whatever is clean, often in some colour combinations that would scare away even colour blind people

. But, I resent having to adjust, or rather being forced to adjust how I dress because some moron has decided it's "inappropriate". If my function internally in the company has little to do with finance or customer relations, my performance is not boosted by wearing a specific uniform - my morale will wear thin and that's all it accomplishes.

Hm, dress codes are common in the US? Maybe I should find another country to emigrate to

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StSanta
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"

Gunthr · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2000, 07:53:00 AM »

Well, if you can't/won't dress nice, at least keep your hands out of your pockets and for goodness sake wear a condom.

qts · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2000, 02:06:00 PM »

Hehehe!

We have casual dress on Fridays - which is a half-day - but casual dress is optional. I don't bother. Either I wear my suit, or I wear my sports jacket. Either way, it's suit and tie. The only time I dressed down, I *really* dressed down - lumberjack shirt and slacks. This caused some comment, but then I was expecting to get really dirty.