Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud

Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by Aeolun on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:00PM (#18455935)

Dawut? For real?

I honestly cannot imagine the words ‘sales’ and ‘no suit’ together in a sentence anywhere in the world, much less Japan.

I’m not even Japanese and I think by now I’d consider it more or less an insult.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by irrational on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:15PM (#18456030)

It depends. At my company (70,000+ employees the last time I checked) even the CEO doesn't wear a tie, much less a suit (usually he wears a t-shirt and jeans). A sales guy wearing so much as a tie would not be taken seriously.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by Aeolun on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:43AM (#18459546)

When they go to visit clients? In the office I can understand.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by irrational on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:50AM (#18459615)

Absolutely. I work in global sales for my company. No sales person would be caught dead wearing a tie or suit.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by ekianjo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:54AM (#18458097)

Maybe they did not mean it as an insult, they just came in their everyday working clothes I guess. The problem is that looked super unprofessional and left the impression to be a bunch of hipsters. After all, they are the image of the company, and dressing so casually in front on your client is... disturbing.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by Aeolun on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:44AM (#18459555)

Oh, I’m sure of that. I doubt anyone would deliberately ruin their sales prospects. But knowing it and feeling it are two completely different things.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by scirocco on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:49AM (#18457822)

In the Nordics few salespeople wear suit (especially in tech)

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