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Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews

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On 2013-12-03 4:29 AM, Qu0ll wrote:
> "Arnold"  wrote in message news:l7iiri$uan$1@dont-email.me...
>
>> I don't want to get off on the wrong foot and disqualify myself by
>> making the wrong choice of clothing.
>
> A few years ago I applied for a Java role at an animation studio.  They
> told me up front to come dressed casually and for some reason I
> suspected this was some kind of trap (you know, see if I actually
> respected them enough to wear a suit).
>
> When I turned up I was shocked to find both interviewers in tee shirts,
> shorts and sandals.  Then I looked around and the entire (extremely
> youthful) workforce was dressed similarly.
>
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.)

I never figured out why he misinformed me like that. I simply ignored 
the situation and wore a suit on the second day of the class. (It was a 
two day class.) If he ever complained to my boss about what I wore the 
first day, I never heard about it.

Maybe it was a terminology thing. I remember trying to help a customer 
with a DSL issue one time and I needed to know how many phone jacks she 
had in her house and what was connected to each one. She said she had 
three phone jacks but when I asked what was connected to each one, she 
claimed there was NOTHING plugged into any of them. I asked if she was 
calling on a cell phone; she said she was on a landline. I asked her to 
trace the wire from the phone to the jack and she did. I thought that 
would make it crystal clear to her what I meant by a phone jack. It 
didn't. She still insisted that each of the three jacks had nothing 
connected to them. Only later did the penny finally drop and she finally 
comprehended what I meant and gave me the proper information. Clearly, 
she didn't had some other term that she used where the rest of us say 
"phone jack". (And no, she did not have a problem with the English 
language. As far as I could tell, she was a lifelong American.) Maybe my 
customer just didn't know what "business casual" really meant and 
thought that if they were wearing two piece suits instead of three 
piece, that meant they were "business casual"....


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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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