Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:12:18 -0600 From: "Chris Uppal" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <4emdnQDWpotfOQDPnZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@westnet.com.au> Subject: Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 23:11:22 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 Message-ID: <-d2dnTatPJvP-APPnZ2dnUVZ8qQAAAAA@bt.com> Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-nP1NKsbWKwn0iBMPIJxJvV9rFgYurGrIv9msSgOpd2tKar/rEma01cWXsM4MNar/1fxBzT/w6nAYcyc!QdIM40ojBG+ylajhIw2qaNXnT9dRj+8FTOenqF13r+NmKxeYpLYQVml2KMtNO88/dI0lLZLDDoyo X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2106 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26719 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