Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy

Subject: Re: Dress Code/from a TieGuy
From: Lynn Gold <figmo -at- RAHUL -dot- NET>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:04:29 -0700

Donald White wrote:
>
>The person who perpetrated the tie on mankind should have been sentenced
>to hang until dead. The rest of are under the same sentence.
>
>Why do we want to establish differences, such as "chiefs" and "Indians?"
>I was a Chief in the Navy, and seldom wore a tie (unless I couldn't get
>away with it).
>
>All of us in this shop wear jeans and T-shirts, and no one has any
>difficulty recognizing their supervisor and the company officers.

It's all a matter of corporate culture. I've worked in shops where ties
were "de rigeur," and in many more where you could tell who the important
people were by how poorly they dressed, as in "the more casual the clothes,
the more important the person."

The CEO was the guy in the t-shirt, cut-offs, and sandals. :-)

--Lynn

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