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This advice is throttled around here. There is an implication to this: if you're bald, you're fucking screwed as a man. Attractiveness would not be achievable.
So .. The Rock? Jason Statham? Oscar de la Renta? Tom Ford's receding hairline? I mean, your point is just not taken. Plenty of men wear baldness well, and plenty of men with hair do not.
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It's an easy thing for a third party to check, easier than evaluating technical skill, and easy for a motivated person to fulfill. As such, it also serves as an easy filter that has a lot of false negatives, but probably fewer false positives than a non-subject matter expert trying to evaluate expertise. It also signals consideration for other human beings, not expecting them to jump through a bunch of expertise eval…
It's circular to call that considerate. You're saying it's useful because people care, I'm saying people care about something useless. You can apply the same logic to an obese person as chronically under-dressed/fashion-averse one: They ought to be considerate enough to show their attention to detail through managing their health better and careful calorie intake. I stand by my point that it's a shortcoming of our cu…
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Of course conformity is the reason for the suits, but I'd like to point out that if you're wearing suits 5 days a week it would be foolish to not buy a comfortable one. Good materials and a good fit can make for a very comfortable suit. More comfortable, I dare say, than the casual attire I must wear when working for west coast tech companies, lest I not conform to west coast tech company expectations. T-shirts and h…
Yeah, in an ideal world, I really don't give a damn what my coworkers wear. Seriously. In a less ideal world: As long as management doesn't get the idea to mandate dress clothes or GOD FORBID business casual, I'm fine. Fuck business casual. I will never ever ever ever wear a polo shirt. Polo shirts are for old hairy guys that play golf.