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posted by takyon on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the suit-up dept.

R&D teams within HP Enterprise Services received memos this week reminding them about the company's rules regarding workplace fashion. "If you aren't dressed like the models in the posters that HP displays around its locations, then your appearance is sapping the productivity of the workers around you," was one summary of the memo by an anonymous source. Many employees have become comfortable wearing t-shirts and shorts on a regular basis, and it is believed that "scruffy-looking" engineers might alienate visiting customers.


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:32PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:32PM (#213878)

    If I were looking for top notch people

    To quote the wikipedia article for Wernher von Braun:

    Satirist Mort Sahl is often credited with mocking von Braun with the paraphrase "I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London." In fact that line appears in the film I Aim at the Stars, a 1960 biopic on von Braun.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:17PM (#213889)

    Regardless of helping design the V2, he did design the most reliable rockets that put us on the moon. It wasn't like he was the one pushing the big red button in WWII.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:53PM (#213916)

      No, he just made sure that thousands of slaves died during the construction of the V2s. He was a war criminal who was let of the hook by the US military. A great shame.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:34PM (#213946)

        So, I guess NASA and the entire space program should be banned due to it's connection to slavery.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @10:14PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @10:14PM (#213997)

          No, there are multiple standards. When someone we disagree with runs cubicle farms, its slavery. When we do it, its for the freedoms.

          It does not matter who "WE" is.