Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by holtalanm on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:08PM
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And my counter-argument to that is:
Why does it matter what the employee dresses or looks like, if they produce the same results?
I have never understood the reason for people forcing their views of how people should dress onto others. It is absurd.
Granted, there are levels of what is 'appropriate' for the workplace, but I think generally having a flexible dress code is important for employee morale.
My grandfather always shares his stories about leading the development team at Lewis (an old English insurance corporation) and British Gas.
In his view, they were slothenly, unkempt, often unwashed and unsuited nerds. They were allowed to be because they did a job nobody else at the time could do- and while the rest of the office was suite/tie/polished shoes- they showed a flagrant and blatant disregard for that. Because they knew that they could get away with it because they were "needed".
This is why he has a respect for me being clean/polite/respectful while "having the same skills" in his mind.
So I don't fully buy that tech was previously more professional; it might be a different culture in SV, but generally tech is as professional as anything outside of finance in the cities I've worked (in europe)