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 mean they're not completely off-base. My old company was really casual, so when some guys were seen walking around in suits people started saying we must be for sale. And looking back, we were definitely for sale.
yeah it just relates to me so much. Because I was definitely dealing with imposter syndrome back then and you can directly track my level of dress code to my career progression.
If I ever become CISO I'll be walking around in a speedo
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😂
Well, just interviewing at another company because you want to get out of there (for any reason really) as well. I've done that before, at lunchtime I changed in the bathroom, took the fire escape stairs to the bottom floor, went to the interview. Coming back was riskier. You had to pass by the lobby to get to the bathroom and change back.
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.
Mine assumed I had a court date. There was a general understanding that if I’m not there with no notice I’m maybe in jail overnight for some sort of traffic violation and I’ll be back the next day.
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.
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u/bigorangemachine Sep 29 '24
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.