Experiment...

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I've been reading JWZ's rants again. He's made me remember how much I hate the traditional corporate mindscape. To celebrate the complete Charlie Foxtrot (that's polite code for "cluster fuck") that permeates my workplace and prevents individual thought, I recently hit upon the unoriginal idea to make a statement about the way a company that prides itself on teaching technology has become firmly lodged in 1970. I think it would be fun to mock the anti-progressive group-think by dressing up as a faceless drone, an IBM employee, a Man In Black. I want to do the full black suit with black tie and impeccable white shirt. I want to have five of them that I wear, one per day. I will print the day of the week that each suit should be worn on the tag, so I can complete the conversion of my brain into little more than a heat sink for the rest of my body.

The problem is I don't know if it'd draw any attention. Worse yet, I'm frightened it might garner me praise.

Help.

Comments

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Just because they've done away with the uniform doesn't mean they've done away with the mindset...

Color me cynical.

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[frostyw.livejournal.com]

Possibly. We're coming from a Global Services "managed operations" account ,which means we've never set foot in an IBM facility, and we may never. IBM's take on dress code in our instance is akin to "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." (within reason)

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Actually, to be fair, most of the IBM folk I've worked with are from Global Services' J.D.Edwards practice. And they're mostly pretty laid back and cool. And the "When in Rome..." thing applies. I just think that Big Blue does have "corporate drone" inertia going in aspects that may not display in the individuals (especially not in the individuals who are going 'out into the world' so to speak), but that are definately apparent in other aspects of how they do business.