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HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees

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

scruffybeard writes:

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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:58PM (#213899)

    For many years I was a sort of on-site customer interface for HP to a big defense contractor. In that time I talked to a lot of people from their customer - i.e. DoD types. And on more than a couple of occasions they expressed to me that when they were talking contracts and money they expected to talk to someone well dressed, but when it came to talking about actual implementation details, if the rep wasn't in jeans and a t-shirt they weren't trusted to know what they were talking about.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:23PM (#213929)

    Here's the checklist:

    - black t-shirt
    - ponytail
    - sandals
    - weird laugh
    - lots of references to science fiction authors and movies

    Scoring: one point for each item on the list. If they don't have at least 4, then get them out of there - they don't know anything about software.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:45PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:45PM (#213968) Journal

      Beards! You forgot the beards! Superpower beards! Worth five points! Seven if gray.

      Or faint mustaches if female <3

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