Comment Re: um...yay? (Score 2) 480
However, dressing like a professional doth not a professional make. HP would do well to remember that.
I worked for a software house around 2000. They said they expected "professional" attire, including collared shirts (men & women) and knee-length skirts or dockers and better for pants. No jeans.
Now, that might actually seem reasonable... except for the fact that I sat in a cubical doing my programming and seldom even saw my co-workers, much less anyone else. So who the hell was I supposed to impress? My boss? There were only 5 programmers in the whole place, each to our own space. I seldom even glanced at my boss other than once a week meeting.
Very occasionally a customer came to the office. And I saw one, only once. And I had advance notice.
So when I was alone there in my cubicle, why the hell did anybody care if I even wore anything from the waist down? Or up, for that matter? Since the dividers were 6' high?
Someone give me an answer that is based on reason, rather than tradition. If you can find one.