Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Appropriate dress for IT interviews Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:41:35 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4emdnQDWpotfOQDPnZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@westnet.com.au> <-d2dnTatPJvP-APPnZ2dnUVZ8qQAAAAA@bt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 17:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="146b311d8c872b3a1cadee172d99558f"; logging-data="21151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19W21Pymd6+1CE1XnGYqIKVfudTmsGOXzo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 In-Reply-To: <-d2dnTatPJvP-APPnZ2dnUVZ8qQAAAAA@bt.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 131203-1, 2013-12-03), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:0TbjEVW6P4rDLFQi2XFck3njQ18= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:26727 On 2013-12-03 6:11 PM, Chris Uppal wrote: > 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 suppose that's possible. If it was very rare for "outsiders" to be in their building, they might normally have dressed business casual but been under orders to wear suits when people known to be outsiders were expected.... > 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... > Believe me, I was halfways expecting it ;-) In fact, I think one or two of them may have been in business casual but this is 20-odd years ago and I just don't remember. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com