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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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HP Enforcing Dress Code for R&D Employees
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @05:24PM
i love it when other people project their vanity on others.
what makes you comfortable must make everyone comfortable so why should anyone complain. Why should anyone be forced to work in a place with thousands of individuals, when you can work at a place with 1 individual ten thousand times
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @07:53PM
There was a dress code. A standard to be met. For years as a junior I met it with decent boots, black trousers with dark blue or black polo. Good enough to scrape in under the definition of smart casual.
You are right. These people do not have to work with thousands of other people. In most cases they do not want to work at all. I came to the conclusion after watching these people, yes we have several, that this was just another way to buck the system.
Workplace assholes. Until you have had to deal with a nasty one none of this may make sense or seem important.
Look, I sat near one guy who just stank for half the day. Block your nose kind of problem. Would it have hurt him to change out of his riding gear into work clothes? This is one of the situations for which a standard of dress is set.
If you disagree then feel free to say why.
Otherwise, then, we are paying people six figure salaried to do a job. Part of that job is to meet a miminum for how they present themselves. If they do not like it then they can leave. No one is forcing them to stay. Over 100K salary and they can't be bothered to put on neat casual clothing.