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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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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:25PM
Really? It's my “right” (choice) not to work for them and I sure exercise that choice.
I've worn my share of uniforms, all of them had at least one important function directly related to a core and essential part of being able to do the job, none of them would be considered normal clothes or mistaken for normal clothes, all of them were provided by the job, cleaned by the job, and replaced by the job as needed, and all were only for the job.
Except for a single function dress codes don't have anything in common with the uniforms of those jobs but instead shares all the characteristics of prison clothing: the utility in dress codes is not for the job or the worker but for the jailer/management.
Because heaven forbid you should wear a white shirt and tie or a proper suit better than some random “boss” or customer or even worse: scare away people with a clean plain t-shirt and jeans! Such accidental “rebellion” can't be tolerated and especially not if you're earning twice or thrice the pay as a consultant or emergency replacement :D
Anyway that single function (the exception) is as a warning to anyone thinking about working there; a warning that shouts “Get away! You're worth less than clothing here!” and a lot of people sensibly take that advice.
Just another reason why companies like HP are filled to the brim with self-propelled dead meat.
US companies are the worst when it comes to this bullshit, never had any issues with clothes anywhere except at Compaq right before they were bought by HP (and now Compaq is “dead”/assimilated and nothing of value was lost).
Memristors no matter how cool won't be enough to save HP (or any of them), good riddance when it happens.
P.S. I seem to remember Compaq also had some bullshit going on with weird rules regarding the company cafeteria, damn that was a thoroughly unpleasant company, worse by a long shot than anywhere I've ever worked (and for comparison long ago during my youth I had a summer job as a cleaner at a large pub where I had to clean ladies toilets after the weekends! They're far worse than the gent's, looks like a murder scene in a landfill. Lovely job compared to Compaq).
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