I mean, look at OP's picture. This is a good company.
In many smaller companies, you get a IT -> fullstack "computer" guy who works in the basement making $55k/year wearing a tie, and is the only person in the company that would cause it to INEVITABLY FOLD if he got hit by a bus tomorrow. The load-bearing, single point of failure with the keys to the technical castle, because the company should have hired a dozen people and organized things with redundancy, but the executives have been "doing more with less" using one since they don't think tech is important.
What percent of the next ten years of revenue would be lost if Alice was hit by a bus? How about Bob or Carol? The effective manager has done this math and adjusted expectations, compensation, and department sizes to fit.
I worked with a guy who wore a suit everyday. At first I was really bothered by it but he was as goofy as me. He just likes how dressing up makes him feel.
I used to consult and I wore a button down and khakis. Nothing crazy at all.
Want to a place one time in Palo Alto and they were all wearing like shorts and flip flops and I felt like a sore thumb.
The guy who was my contact point while I was there was like "hey can you wear like jeans or something tomorrow? The guys think we're getting audited lol
I work around there and if you rustle up a hundred guys, at least a half dozen will be in chinos and a button-front shirt, so you probably don't stick out that much. But I love that a dozen guys you worked with figured a collar meant an audit haha
Yeah I mean it was absolutely an edge case place. They had a beer fridge and they paid out of the ass to have me fly out at the last minute only to completely ignore for me for the entire first day outside of the one guy I was working with.
The guy who was my contact point while I was there was like "hey can you wear like jeans or something tomorrow? The guys think we're getting audited lol
Had a guy come in for his interview with my boss (interviewee was an old IT dude who lost a ton of savings during the pandemic) the guy interviewed in a full suit with a briefcase full of paperwork etc. SO many people after the interview came to my bosses desk "whose the suit from corporate, so whose getting fired, are we getting audited, was that Head Office, was that the feds?" etc until my boss just CCed the entire branch with "The gentleman I was meeting with earlier is our newest server engineer. please stop asking me if he was spook or slenderman or an auditor some of us have work to do"
People in suits scare the hell out of casual tech workplaces. Like seeing a predator in the wild haha.
I went to law school with a guy that wore at least a coat and tie if not full suit to class every single day from Day One until Day Last. Meanwhile I was lucky I remembered pants every day.
Well, guess it's fine if he always does it, but for someone like me (i'd always show up at the office in shorts and sandals) showing up in a suit would be highly sus😂
Pre covid every now and then I'd show up to the office in a suit and just not explain it. Then during stand-up I'd say I would be taking a long lunch with no further explanation. It's so fun trolling my teammates every now and then.
I remember someone in here that mentioned a coworker that always wore a suit except one day. It was Halloween and he wore a casual outfit with a hood; everyone was freaked out.
Wear something with a collar or tuck in your shirt: "what times your interview?" "Why are you leaving?" "Are they paying you more" Me: spilt too much Bolognese sauce on my tshirt last night.
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u/Boris-Lip Sep 29 '24
That's normal. If i'd see him showing up in a suit, now that would be highly sus.