In my experience working in a tech company, seeing someone not dressed like that is the oddity. You know they’re from marketing or finance when you see them.
Hey! It’s me!
Adam Sandler?
Ha! No. Senior engineer showing up to meetings looking like a bum who just rolled out of bed (because I did).
Principal engineer outfit…
Ours has a coffee stain.
Adam sandler looks a bit tired these days
This is Adam Sandler right? The other comments have me confused
He should be removed from his position as Prime Minister.
I was going to say Ben Affleck.
I’m literally wondering which one it is. Looks more like Sandler, but not fat enough.
He’s 58 years old, and isn’t known for his commitment to fitness. He looks pretty good for his age.
Pssh… This guy is chump change, maybe a senior engineer at best. You can tell by his footwear. The really highly paid engineers have Crocs with socks, if any footwear at all. 😆
CROCS!? Nah, cheap flip flops he bought 6 years ago with the sole practically worn down to solid sheets of plastic.
The really highly paid engineers don’t show up to meetings, they call in via zoom from their home.
Na, it’s jandles (thongs/flip flops).
Always a t-shirt and shorts in summer.
I used to wear flip flops to the office quite often, back when I went to the office.
If i see a man walking around in my office with a grey wizard beard and barefoot, I will auto assume it’s the senior developer and not a homeless dude.
At my last job we had to visit the company financial office to work on their expensing software and the receptionist actually called security because they thought our lead developer was a homeless person who got into the building.
Audible chuckle
This comes to mind…
I’m in this comment and I support it.
life goals
There was a meeting a couple of years ago between my company’s engineers and some NASA representatives. No one in my company really wears suits anymore and the NASA guys complained that it was “unprofessional” to not wear a tie when one of our leads went up to present in just a Tshirt and jeans. After hearing that, the lead went back to his desk and came back with a wooden joke tie hanging around his neck to continue. They stopped criticizing our apparel after that.
Epic
I think talking about fashion when you should be talking about engineering is unprofessional. And probably done by someone who doesn’t deserve to feed their family. “Why don’t we have anything to eat daddy? I’m hungry!” “Because daddy likes clothes more than food, so he’s not allowed to have a job ever again.”
I’m interested in knowing what this wooden joke tie looks like
A piece of wood that is roughly tie-shaped attached to a piece of string so the string can be tied around your neck.
Where the heck did this person get a tie shaped piece of wood?
It’s a running joke. Been around a while. I assume people have made some.
Someone who knows he has job security
Guy has plot armor
I’ve actually seen this go the other way before.
I met this dude from Serbia, I can’t remember his name, but he was the friendliest guy you’d ever meet, and was probably about 7 foot tall.
One day our infra team was having an issue with a custom Spark cluster, and he was brought in to help. He came in a full suit that looked tailor made, like he’d just walked off the set of Suits, a suited Galdalf in a room of hobbits dressed in t-shirts around a foot or two smaller than him. He was in the room for two hours, and whatever he installed or ran for everything up and running again, with some extra time to help with some other tweaks.
He worked near my desk, so I asked him if he wanted to come for lunch. He declined because he was busy, so I asked if he wanted me to grab him something. His response “…Cherry Coke”. Once he’d finished, he came over to us, and offered to take us out for food. He paid for everything, including a drink at a nearby whiskey bar he apparently goes to often. I asked him why he wore a suit, and his response was “I’m uncomfortable wearing loose clothes, and I like layered clothing that fits to my frame, so I always wear suits when I need to be comfortable”. In many ways, for someone his size, I guess it made sense.
I miss him sometimes, because he’d always say “hello my British friend” every time he saw me nearby, even though we both lived in Britain, and he definitely knew my name. If I had to guess, the dude probably had a solid mil in stock, and was getting paid a solid £150k a year + more stock. He was definitely rich, because he could afford an apartment in central London near the office. Dude worked probably 60-80 hours a week though, and if asked he was on a plane to the US, India, wherever someone needed a freakishly tall suited guy to fix a data problem.
I was hoping this would turn into some nerdy erotica…
I was on a contract for the government when my company hired a really good DBA. He hated dressing up. He was introduced at a meeting and wore a polo shirt, which I thought was fairly professional.
Government contracting guy said to wear a tie.
Next meeting, he wore a tie around his polo shirt.
He was fired on the spot.
There are times I fucking hate the government and this was one of those times.
The guy was fucking amazing. But my company fired him because the government didn’t want someone so sloppy on the team.
That’s ridiculous. I’ve worked as a government contractor for almost 15 years and the most strict I’ve seen the dress code be is “no shorts, collared shirt required.” Hell, at some sites I’ve worked the dress code has been basically “wear clothes.”
I’ve been to meetings where the only people not wearing printed tee shirts were the military members who had to be in uniform.
Those same government agencies then turn around and hire my company to pull them out of the fire after they royally fuck everything up. We charge a fuck ton, will never go onsite, and they should consider themselves lucky if the engineer is wearing pants.
no pants is okay so long as there’s a tie somewhere in the outfit
No underwear is ok so long as you’re wearing a top hat.
just not on a polo
This explains a lot about why government sites are such garbage.
Government sites are garbage for a lot of reasons, mostly due to old people not understanding how the Internet works and they’d rather build a camel than a horse.
Plus on many occasions they go with the lowest bidder for the sake of appearances. I remember a company I used to work for went with a very unrealistic low bid to get their foot in the door and then get the maintenance contract that came after implementation.
The project went as well as you’d expect with such a low budget. Experienced people left due to long working hours, unrealistic client expectations and no budget for any quality of life improvements available (I was one of them). The company lost the maintenance bid and will likely lose the best people they still have to the new company taking over the contract.
Government contracting is a fucking racket. Especially at federal level because the government is allowed to go over the contract budget by I think 25% so every fucking company that bids knows they are going to get that amount more than their bid.
Not only that, but because of how the procurement process works, they aren’t going to rebid the contract if you mess up.
Contractors don’t save the government any money. It privatizes government functions and makes a few people rich while taking away good jobs and benefits.
Honestly no database admin is anywhere near that level of “fuck you” influence in any organization. We are more talking about the guy whose name is on all the parents and who is putting together the tech demos which win the big money contracts.
sloppy
in actual work ethics as well or just in perceived social/office norms?
Mostly the latter.
I stopped dressing to “impress” after about 4 years in my field. The amount of crap I’ve fixed that was done by more tenured/“experienced” people is too much to count.
At this point, I’m wearing what’s comfortable. If you don’t like it, too bad. I’m here because you need me, not because I want to be.
I’m still paid fairly paltry amounts, so I dunno if I’m the “highest paid” person. Management certainly doesn’t listen to me, but they keep signing the cheques. If you want to pay me to tell you about problems so you know about what you’re refusing to do anything about, I’m okay with that. Your company, your decision.
Okay, I am the highest paid senior in my company, how should I look up?
Regardless of whatever else you do, you should always wear the most comfortable shoes you can find.
I can hear my ex wife screaming as I type this: Sandals with socks are peak comfort.
You should connect remotely from a country with a better climate, preferably with a beach bar as the background.
If complimented on the background order a cocktail while starting at the camera too probe it’s an actual beach bar and that you can
He has some max Payne 3 vibe
