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<p>I love this!</p>
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<p>You can also add predatory corporate executives and lawyers to the list…especially considering many politicians came from their ranks.</p>
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Well obviously you’re not living your life according to the expected plan. Get on that, will you? How dare you be unique and different? Jeez</p>
<p>(Some posters should be taken with a huge grain of salt.)</p>
<p>I’m a lawyer and I don’t wear suits.</p>
<p>*I’m a lawyer and I don’t wear suits. *</p>
<p>Ditto.</p>
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politicians are arguably the most uncivil group of people, and all of them wear suits</p>
<p>You can also add predatory corporate executives and lawyers to the list…especially considering many politicians came from their ranks.
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<p>Easy, there, with the broad brush painting and all that. :P</p>
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Opinions based on no actual knowledge tend to work that way.</p>
<p>But I’m sure the lawyers on this forum aren’t “predatory.” Actually in all my years in law firms, I’ve only met maybe a handful who would have fit that category.</p>
<p>The Senator I interned for didn’t wear suits most of the time. In fact, most only worse suits on the floor. They wore business casual in the office.</p>
<p>well I stand by my politician statement</p>
<p>romani - so your senator puts on his “theater garb” (aka a suit) when he goes onto the stage? I think that is a fair characterization. =P</p>
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<p>First, I did put in the “predatory” adjective so unless you all think ALL corporate executives and lawyers are predatory, I wasn’t painting with too much of a broadbrush. Sometimes, it pays to read every word. </p>
<p>Second, to Zoosermom’s point that I’m speaking with no actual knowledge, that’s very amusing. Especially considering I’ve worked for a few financial companies and a biglaw firm where working with corporate executives and lawyers was part of my job description.</p>
<p>Most of the places I have worked in have been business casual (I work in tech), in the financial industry.My first job was working nights, so no one cared,my second job started out as business formal (suits and ties) but changed over to business casual, where I work now jeans are fine,polo shirts, whatever, as long as they are clean and not ripped.</p>
<p>I have been working over 27 years now, and I don’t buy the argument that ‘corporate formal’ means chaos,most of the people I work with, young and old alike, understand the difference between what you wear at a club sat night and to work. Generally where there are problems is among some of the younger women, where they will wear some outfits that let’s say leave little to the imagination, but that is few and far between. From observation, sometimes this happens because there aren’t a lot of older workers in the immediate area, tech tends to be pretty young these days (maybe it always was…), and there just isn’t the kind of self regulation there once was, where an older person would take someone aside and quietly tell them what they were doing wrong, etc…same with behavior I might add:) and in the back office functions tends to be younger women.</p>
<p>I don’t mourn business formal, to be honest, I found it to be very regimented, that it tended to lead to the corporate cog kind of mentality (I had a friend of mine who worked at GM then at Toyota, back when Toyota first started designing stuff here, and he said it was night and day, GM had them in suits and ties and it was completely group think, he said when he went to toyota it was business casual with a lot of latitude (least where he was at). Not saying wearing business casual made Toyota more creative, but rather that those who enforce business formal tend to be people who create the group think atmosphere as well. Think of places known for business formal, and they generally won’t be places people think of as being innovative (for the record, back when the whole company was business casual, that didn’t apply to IBM research, those guys used to wear sweatpants and sweatshirts, and Bell Labs brain trust were likewise, um, non corporate, whereas the ‘ordinary staff’ back in the day was corporate formal).</p>