You're causing some old memories to bubble up. About 10 yrs ago I was working as part of a corporate IT dept of about 40-45 folks. When I started, everyone pretty much wore a tie Mon-Thurs. Fri was dress down day where jeans and tshirt were acceptable.

As the months wore on, the Mon-Thurs tie disappears from most. Although business casual was maintained Mon-Thurs. I had a collegue who lets just say he prefered boys to girls. He typically dressed to a "t" as they say. One day I was coming back from our monthly IT meeting. I hear the collegue disucssing with someone else.

He was mortified that a particular topic wasn't brought up at the meeting. He couldn't believe no one else had this particular topic at the forefront of their mind. I finally had to go over and ask about this topic that had him in a total quandry.

The topic was the dress code. I had to walk away so I didn't just laugh in his face. He actually quit shortly after that. First and last time I've seen someone so bent out of shape over other's dress at work.


>Perry;
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>Dress codes and programming languages – what an interesting idea!
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>A few suggestions for proper attire:
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>Cobol: Three-piece suit.
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>Fortran: Spandex bodysuit (for speed!)
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>Assembler: Straightjacket.
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>The Linux folks: A baseball hat with propeller on top.
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>Tom
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>>As usual a topic like this gets all kinds of comments, that are all based on the individuals experience.
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>>I would suppose this comment will start a hugh war here, but there's something else I noticed in attending .net vs vfp events. I remember noticing when I used to attend LA Fox monthly the dress of the majority of the attendees. There was an odd mixture. Back then I had a corporate type jobs wear the dress code was business casual or required a tie. Most of the attendees at the user group were substantially dressed down from this style. And i could gather from the converstation that most if not all of these folks worked for themselves serving small to medium companies.
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>>The dress at .net events I've attended is much closer to the business casual. And the more I think about it, when I've gone around to get some feedback on what folks are doing, the vast majority have corporate jobs or work for small consulting firms doing work for corporations.
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>>This might account for some differences in the vibe at the different meetings. Just the nature of the beast.
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>>But I definitly found a larger thirst for knowledge at the .net events. I think a reason for this might be the larger breadth of knowledge that you should have to be truly successful with .net. At the LA .net group meeting, 3 people stood up to talk about their sigs, 1) SQL Server 2) UML, focusing on the Rational toolkit 3) User Group followup - to practice the coding techniques learned in the main meeting.
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>>I just don't remember ever seeing this level of outside meeting when I attended the Foxpro meetings around LA.
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>>>>I went to the LA .net user group meeting 2 weeks ago. There were closer to 40 attendies. It was held in a lecture hall at UCLA. I believe one of the main organizers of the group is a professor there. At this meeting Robert Half was there to drum up business. I believe that means they paid for drinks and pizza.