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Dress code: blue tie and male

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Re: Dress code: blue tie and male

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I'll keep an open mind about the company for now, because I've not found their side of the story (this occurred a few weeks ago), but Michael Dell should personally and sincerely apologize for his company. This doesn't match at all what I have long understood to be their internal culture.

Re: Dress code: blue tie and male

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I'll keep an open mind about the company for now, because I've not found their side of the story (this occurred a few weeks ago), but Michael Dell should personally and sincerely apologize for his company. This doesn't match at all what I have long understood to be their internal culture.

I'll keep an open mind about the company for now

Seems like a sound approach. The whole thing was a surreal read; something has got to be afoot.

Re: Dress code: blue tie and male

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post #3

Nearly impossible to read that article with that stupid bar thing hanging over the text on the left side.

Eh, that's one of the less offensive ones I've encountered. Narrower than most, and not animated.

edit: oh, it's just a bit buggy. make your window narrower, and it disappears :) that makes it way better than most I've seen.

Re: Dress code: blue tie and male

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post #7
post #3

Nearly impossible to read that article with that stupid bar thing hanging over the text on the left side.

Eh, that's one of the less offensive ones I've encountered. Narrower than most, and not animated. edit: oh, it's just a bit buggy. make your window narrower, and it disappears :) that makes it way better than most I've seen.

http://i.imgur.com/nw6TM.png

That's what it looks like to me with my browser maximized. How people design things like this and don't do a quick check to make sure it works well for different reasonable browser window dimensions is beyond me.

Re: Dress code: blue tie and male

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I'll keep an open mind about the company for now, because I've not found their side of the story (this occurred a few weeks ago), but Michael Dell should personally and sincerely apologize for his company. This doesn't match at all what I have long understood to be their internal culture.

If this is true, how were people not walking out?

“The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room.

Are you kidding me?

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