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If I were a prospective customer visiting a software shop and the
developers weren't dressed like developers, I'd worry that the company
might also be doing waterfall development based on 500-page technical
specs and measuring productivity in KLOCs.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Keith Hood <bus -dot- write -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I want to see companies do Formal Friday. Nowadays, especially in IT
> companies, everyone dresses like flood survivors every day. I think there
> should be one day a week when the workforce proves its capable of wearing
> both socks the same color.
>
> One place I worked years ago, they had one of the company bigwigs coming in
> for meetings with us and an important client. The boss said we had to get
> neatened up, and everyone was freaking out. We had a bunch of programmers
> who were fresh out of college, first jobs they ever had, and they had
> absolutely no clue how to dress outside the student union building. Some of
> them, it was literally the first time in their lives they had ever had to
> shop for their own clothing. The results looked like a real-life Mike
> Meyers movie. I didn't know whether to laugh at them or cry for them.
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