Posted on 07/06/2016 8:19:15 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
My son’s a “millennial.” He’s 27 and his dress code is a suit (no sports coat allowed), dress shirt, tie and dress shoes, 5 days a week.. No “casual” day in his office.
The job market is about shutting your mouth and assimilating to the culture of the company. When you rise through the ranks and people get to know and trust you and respect you, then you might be able to petition for changes.
A man who knows how to dress himself properly — and carry himself properly — is a pleasure to behold.
These were interns. They were there to learn how a specific business operates. They were not brought in so they could dictate to the company how they should run their business. I would have fired them too.
Absolutely. And I even find the ‘biker dudes’, ect., attractive. Just men BEING men! Need to get back to that!
1000 dollar fine for 1st offence for not dressing properly on the New York Stock Exchange.
> They were not brought in so they could dictate to the company how they should run their business.
This is true, but it says that they were fired for petitioning, which isn’t exactly demanding but more like a formal method of asking as a group — firing them seems a little on the severe side for merely asking. (Granted there is mafia-style “asking”, but that would have warranted pressing charges as well.)
Lol true dat
Early in my engineering career it was suits. Now I spend more time in chemical plants and refineries where it’s more “business casual” in the form of flame resistant clothing, Red Wing steel toes, and ready to go into a process unit.
I was a VP of a small industrial instrument service company where I made sales calls. Since most of the sales calls were at plants, I would probably get laughed at if I showed up dressed like a banker. Many times the prospective client would ask me to look at something and propose a solution, which meant being ready to put on Nomex coveralls. That’s how I got business.
That worked, lol!
The only thing that has me scratching my head is that women were required to wear high heels. Many tall women prefer flats and flats can be very attractive and nice. My boss back in the 80s always wore Ferragamo flats and she was a total pro! As a short woman, I always wear super high heels.
In all my years working in Manhattan offices, I never, ever ran across dress-down Friday. Didn’t exist.
The general impression I have gotten from reading about this story is that the management at the company are a bunch of special snowflakes in need of a safe space from opinions that disagree with theirs.
No, no...not short, "fun size."
Well, I’m not exactly ready for the sideshow of Barnum & Bailey, you know!
Too bad it's their company and they get to call the shots, eh?
Funny, the general impression I got was that the management is a bunch of serious people who are trying to run a business in a proper way so as to get the most profit for their shareholders and provide a business atmosphere for their clients and for their workers and the "INTERNS" were all a bunch of spoiled self absorbed college students who are used to professors dressing like bums and teaching them that all they need to do to get their way is to protest and make trouble for the society they despise.
Interns are there to learn how a business operates, not to tell the business how it should be run in order to please them. I would have fired them too. Their attitude was typical of spoiled university students who think they know better than their elders and who think the world revolves around them.
The snowflakes were the interns who didn't want to follow the rules.
If you were an intern at the Reagan White House, you wore a freshly pressed suit and never took off your coat unless specifically told to do so by the boss. In the Obama White House I suspect that the interns all wear flannel pajamas.
Really? A small group of people are brought into your workplace to learn how to work, and the first thing they do is petition for changes in how the workplace is run, even though they have NO experience in the business.
You would permit this insulting action and accede to their demands, or would you toss them out on their COLLECTIVE butts?
I’d throw them out so hard their grandkids would come out dizzy.
LOLOL!!
Doesn't that depend on the request?
You would permit this insulting action and accede to their demands, or would you toss them out on their COLLECTIVE butts?
Why is it necessarily insulting?
Sure they could have presented it in a terrible manner, but something like We're in AZ and it's really hot... we'd like to not have to wear full business suits to reduce our chances of heat-stroke while the AC is being repaired
is entirely reasonable.
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