I don’t particularly agree with this guys personal and sartorial choices. I just learned over the years not to worry about things I have no control over. I have a job where I have to wear a uniform. there are some people who get away with bloody murder in the way they wear their uniforms. If I tried something similar I’d get in trouble, largely because I have a reputation of being a by the book guy. Do I worry about the disparity? No, It’s just the way it is, and I’m not going to change it any time soon. So I go in and concentrate on my job. Have you considered also this guys inability to separate his personal and professional lives is indicative of a greater ineptitude regarding his relationships? Perhaps something within the autism spectrum? From what i’ve seen there is a price to genius, and it often entails personal relationships. Just my .02 cents.
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Oh, I’d peg him as an aspie probably. But I might be biased having worked with so many PhD’s. Mainly due to apparent total lack of social judgement abilities. His management should have taken him aside pronto before the pictures were taken and handled this. Surely there are grown ups in the ESA somewhere...
The whining ‘apology’ was ridiculously effete though. Something trite like ‘I didn’t expect to have my picture taken’ or ‘we’d been working straight through for several days and I didn’t have a chance to go home and get cleaned up’ or similar would have sufficed.
I’ve never worked in or around any lab that allowed shorts on premises either. Usually safety rules and OSHA level regulations. I was always bummed I couldn’t wear sandals or open toed shoes.
I’m suspicious because this shirt is satin. Of my immediate and peripheral family there are 8 MS and PhD level science or other geeky type educational type peeps. I asked some of them if they’d wear this type of shirt to work. Universally the ones that have answered stated no. Because (all together now) ‘that’s gay’. Mainly because the shirt is satin. A couple of the more religious ones because the women are immodestly clothed. I don’t know any straight men who wear satin shirts. Much less to work. I offered to make hubby silk satin pj’s for Christmas one year. The look of horror on his face was memorable LOL.
Just sayin’...Hubby thought the print itself was really cool. On a poster or something. I agree. On clothing is dubious. Women won’t wear that (at least straight ones) and there’s that satin fabric choice...
I dated a brilliant guy, PhD mathematician. Peter pan syndrome writ large. He’d have done something like this, to ‘make a statement’ and ‘shake people up’. He also had a pocket nintendo he was addicted to and expected me to drive everywhere so he could play that 24/7 outside of work. I didn’t grow up where women drove men unless the man was deathly ill, blind, or crippled. I got tired of the little boy in the grown man’s body. Who knows what’s attractive to the women in this guy’s age group though.