| ▲ | moralestapia 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>And if I’m dressed professionally, I get more done and I get better responses from others than when I’m wearing shorts and a tee shirt. Are you a butler? No offense. No one in tech would give two f...s about what you're wearing when you push git commits. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tjr 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For some people, what they wear has an impact on their own performance. It's not necessarily about how others perceive them, and it's not necessarily logical. Some people work better with music, or with a window to look out... some people work better in fancier attire. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | yepitwas 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I once moved to a company that still mandated relatively formal work clothes—suit and tie no longer required, but still seen fairly often. The first casual Friday I was struck now how energized I felt as soon as I walked in (and I didn’t participate, I wore slacks and a blazer that day). Reflecting on that, I realized that I actually associate jeans and such with “professional office that gets shit done”. Because that’s how it’d been everywhere else I’d worked. The “professional” dress code was having exactly the opposite effect on me, from what it was supposed to. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||