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From: Dimi Everette
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Catching Up
Date: Thursday, July 24, 1997 6:14PM
Re the dress question, I work in what I guess you'd call the medical
documentation field. My company (Coulter Corp.) makes blood diagnostic
hardware and software and is located in Miami, FL. I lived in the
Raleigh NC area for a while and got used to casual dress--I like it A
LOT. Coulter has "casual summer" and always has casual Friday, but they
frown on tee shirts and you can't weat any kind of shirt advertising
another company. And the biggest thing--NO SHORTS. It gets damned hot
down here, folks, but apparently a few ninnies ruined it for everyone
but wearing the kind of shorts where your butt hangs out. So instead of
specifying the *kind* of shorts that wouldn't be allowed, they just said
no shorts.
I was kind of dismayed at the "survey" results, though. I've been
getting wanderlust and had thought the CA, WA, OR areas would be more
lenient. Are my hopes being dashed?
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I haven't followed the threads thread (kind of a threadbare topic), but
since you snuck it in under a difffer subject, I see there's an issue I
can address. I've been in the Seattle area my entire TW career (11.5
yrs.). Almost all of the companies I've worked for have had fairly
relaxed dress standards, but even the most liberal have not allowed
shorts. Personally, I hope I never see the day when shorts are allowed
at work. The fewer distractions, the better -- it's about human nature,
ya know?
Regards,
John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2
Tacoma, WA 98477-0001 USA
253-924-7972 wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
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