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Trump administration tells federal employees to wear "Freedom" pins—or else
(www.motherjones.com)
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I worked at a call centre where somehow neckties were mandatory (except on Friday, management was American) they stated that the formal wear would somehow percolate through the telephone (except on Fridays, but that's logical, right?)
One day it was tropically hot (not air-conditioned) I wore t shirt and just the tie around my neck, like a scarf (I had considered the Rambo approach, but deemed it too out there).
Wearing a dress shirt was not in the dress code, so I got away with it, though they changed that over time. Let's just say my tenure was not long lasting..
Of all the things that changed in corporate culture, I'm most happy for two things:
Even worse, after the Cult Of Agile (Scrum) came along, it was not only management fighting you on remote work, it was brainless drones that had adopted the Cult of Agile as meaning you must be in-person to "collaborate", even doing forced pair programming and by Gawd, you had better be in-person for the ceremonies, because that was what the Church of Scrum required. Even better was stupid performative stuff like everyone having to actually, literally, stand up at their desks, even if everyone involved could already all see each other and "the whiteboard". 🙄 So, even at a time when nearly every company had set up the capability of using VPN to remote into work, along came a process that had, among its core adherents, a dictate that explicitly prohibited being remote. Thanks, Agilistas!
As much as I hate and loathe brainless adoption of processes like the Church of Scrum, I absolutely hated the idea of having to wear a suit to do something like IT. Thankfully, it was kind of withering by the time I entered the workforce, depending on the company. But the idiotic uniform of wearing at least a pair of khakis, dress shoes and a collared shirt stuck around for way too fucking long at some places.
I worked in a call center years ago for college. Same deal - tie required. Thought it to be slightly odd at the time, but was happy to get out of the warehouse job I had previously.