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Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews

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Rhino wrote:

> That reminds me of an incident where I was teaching a class at a
> customer site where I had never been. When we were organizing the
> course, I asked the customer who was requesting the course what their
> company dress code was so that I'd know how to dress for the class. He
> told me they were business casual. When I arrived though, EVERYONE in
> the class was dressed in suits! Naturally, I'd taken the customer at his
> word and wore business casual. (He was in the class himself.)

One possible explanation is that you had asked what their dress-code was --  
i.e. what they would wear on a /typical/ day in the office -- not what they 
would wear to deal with outsiders they didn't know.

I'm a little surprised that on the second day, you didn't turn up in your suit 
to find everyone else suddenly in business casual...

    -- chris 

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[OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Arnold <arnie@example.com> - 2013-12-02 13:17 -0500
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-02 21:11 +0100
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-02 22:29 -0500
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-03 08:44 +0000
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-03 09:09 +0000
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-12-03 21:03 +0000
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-03 21:32 -0500
      Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews lipska the kat <"lipskathekat at yahoo dot co dot uk"> - 2013-12-04 15:49 +0000
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-12-03 20:29 +1100
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-12-03 08:02 -0800
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2013-12-03 17:39 -0500
      Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-03 23:11 +0000
        Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2013-12-04 12:41 -0500
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-12-03 23:06 +0000
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2013-12-03 21:56 -0800
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-06 09:44 -0500
  Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-04 08:17 -0500
    Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-12-06 09:54 -0500
      Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-12-06 09:58 -0500
        Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-08 21:37 +0100

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