Why don’t they wear suits? And how do other businesspeople take them seriously when they don’t wear suits? It seems super unprofessional.

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    14 hours ago

    The word professional is so ambiguous as to be effectively meaningless, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to its original definition.

    No one but the most shallow and superficial among us cares what you’re wearing. Thinking a suit does anything but make you look self-important and pretentious is an anachronism.

  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    That’s the most “normal” thing about them.

    I find people that enjoy suits (not the status of them, but the actual physicality of them) to be unhinged.

    I hate EVERYTHING about them. Unless I’m going to a sibling’s wedding, there is no reason I will ever wear one again in my life. I’ve hated every second of every time I’ve done so, and cannot imagine someone in their right mind looking it at all.

    If I had to do it for work, I’d better consistently be getting $100s of millions a day. And even then I would quit after a week.

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        10 hours ago

        I do have a tailored suit. I rather kick a rock and break my foot then wear it.

        They fucking suck absolutely and people who enjoy them are fucked in the head.

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    1 day ago

    This is true. If you’re good at a tech job you don’t need to wear a suit because you’re valuable to the company. Most programmers don’t like to wear suits and don’t wear them if they can get away with not wearing them. Also as a way of setting them apart from sales/legal/management people. Tech bros mostly started out as programmers and kept that habit.

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      22 hours ago

      An entire class of BS artists exists that specialize in the ability to sound competent, regardless of their lack of any real competence. Talking heads like news anchors, political pundits, podcast hosts, etc. base their success mostly on the ability to fake authority on subjects because most people can’t tell the difference.

    • Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      20 hours ago

      I tend to find through my work experience that it depends on a couple of factors, which industry, which department, and how senior they are.

      For example when jumping on calls or attending client meetings, the IT peoples, Engineers, anyone technical really is pretty much never in a suit. I don’t have much to do with HR departments, but I to find their 50/50, could be the “chill” HR department where the HR lady is passing off active wear as work clothes, or the strict HR department where they are 100% in suits.

      The more senior you get, especially in sales and marketing roles, C-Suite, etc. the far more common suits become again, the only industry I don’t see this so prevalent in is the tech industry, however I don’t work with tech companies too often as they typically have their own people lol.

      I know in my role, I only wear a suit or a blazer 3 times a year, and that’s my companies conferences where we have a dress code for the first day.