F Minus by Tony Carrillo for August 07, 2023

you don’t understand – that’s all he got in the wardrobe

Used to work at an office where it was very casual (could wear shorts), and I would once and a while come in with a suit to be different.

Power move

Ron: “I am the boss on Fridays. … Now get back to work.”

We had a coder (developer) in our company that always used to wear a suit. Needless to say, the rest of us didn’t – being developers and all that. Anyhow, although he was good, he was no better than the rest of us, but he was always the one that got promotions. So clearly dress sense is important if you want to go up in the world. Image would appear to be more important that performance?

Back 50 years ago we used to have dress-up Fridays when we wore our best suits. How silly does that sound today?

We used to call management “The Suits”. When HQ execs came in to visit, we called them “Seagulls” – they fly in, crap all over us, and then fly home.

Wearing a tie has become a subversive act.

It is just proper business attire.