On 8/11/2014 3:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The sad reality is that your physical appearance - including your clothing - can have a big impact on how people perceive you, so in many situations, wearing nicer clothing can have a definite impact. This is particularly true when dealing with stuff like sales where you're constantly having to deal with new people. That's not to say that clothing makes the man, but impressions like that can matter, even if it seems like they shouldn't. So, it makes a lot of sense for some folks to wear nicer clothes - or "professional" clothes - as part of their job. However, for engineers, it's ridiculous. We shouldn't normally be interacting with anyone where it would matter. So, attire like t-shirt and jeans should be fine. Our clothing should have little impact on our job. And in most cases, if an engineering manager is pushing for that sort of thing, I think that it's a very bad sign.
Yea, various things about appearance definitely have a subconscious effect on perception. That's a fairly deeply ingrained part of human nature, unfortunate as it may be.
But what really gets me is when people have it as a fully *conscious* belief, not just subconscious. Then my "WTF" meter just redlines.
