Google: Enemy of Good Fashion?

[Jefferson Smith]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135046-c,companynews/article.html#

Google Inc.'s global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, wants to see t-shirts replace the tie as standard business attire, saying the tie "constricts circulation to the brain."

In addition, the tie "acts as decorative camouflage for the business suit, designed to shield the middle-aged male physique, with its shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch, from feeling sufficiently self-conscious to hit the gym," Fleischer wrote in a recent letter to The Financial Times.

"Don't be evil," my foot. :rage:

 

[J. M. Stovall]

It looks like he's hiding his "shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch" there on the far left to me. Where's the t-shirt?

 

[Paisley]

Paunchy men in t-shirts look like giant toddlers. Personally, I prefer to do business with people who look like grownups.

 

[Sefton]

How about this part:"Wouldn't you like to know whether your business partners are fit? Why should you trust a man in business if he abuses his own body?," Oh,I don't know why you'd trust him. Maybe because he does his job well and has earned trust...just a crazy idea I guess.

 

[Nashoba]

Why is it so difficult for people to look professional these days? I mean vintage aside, is it so much effort to take an interest in ones appearance? What happened to looking presentable? The buisness world should wear business attire. If you work in a t-shirt and jeans kind of job fine, but if you work in the business world, especially a global company I just think that your appearance should reflect that. just one of my pet peeves. My dad was in the corporate world my whole life (he retired about 5 years ago) and I never saw him go to work in anything less than classy business attire.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Again, this is part of the push to have us all look like overgrown kids. It's as though these poor clowns who keep pushing this agenda are desperately seeking to cling to some last vestige of their youth by dressing like big, goofy 13 year olds.

The sad fact is, we do get older and our bodies change. It would be nice, in an ideal world, for us all to be able to spend 20 hours a day working out at the gym. In the real world, though, we have to work, take care of aging parents, pick up our kids, do the shopping, pay bills and keep up with a constant stream of home maintenance duties. Ouer bodies mature, and for some of us, our minds mature. We should dress accordingly.

 

[CharlieH.]

With pyjamas as standard school attire this only seems like the next logical step...

 

[Samsa]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135046-c,companynews/article.html#

The tie constricts blood to the brain?! Sounds like the author doesn't know what his collar size really is.

 

[John in Covina]

Bathrobe, slippers and executive hammocks!

 

[RondoHatton]

Google may be an efficent search engine, but how did they get that way with such stupid things said by it's corporate henchmen? Lowest common denominator dressing stooge! He would have us all looking like refugees from a Robert Crumb vision of Mao era Red China in Google T-shirt uniforms, planting rice for the upper crust he rubs elbows with. Bah!

The office I worked in with a dress code was one of the most professional (in a positive way), and despite the hurly-burly atmosphere of a weekly newspaper meeting deadline, was also quite human and enjoyable, with respect among employees.

A later office, a jerk water rinky dink outfit run by two spoiled brat brothers who sported T shirts & shorts with no dress code (except for logo t-shirts - fear of competition?, and sports uniforms, despite the COO brother-in-law dressing as if for a soccer game daily) was the worst, most degrading atmosphere of "what have you done for me lately", back stabbing, rat-out-your-cubicle-mate big brother climate, a place which confused "professional" with corporate lickspittle, who's motto "we be fun, you be fun" was a bad joke of a revolving door sweatshop. May their cruddy Chinese plastic statue toys based on a bad 80s remake-movie bomb at their release at ComiCon. Bif, bang POOP!