Do you guys have a dress code in your office?
Do you think that having a dress code is important?

@1989 Sure, you can take it to the extreme... And believe me, if I could I would program naked myself :)
But I'm actually asking seriously... Would a place that have a dress code have better results compared to a place that lets you dress casually?

@1989 My exact thought... That is why I can't understand how come some companies have a dress code??( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

It's a gray area, from what I've found in an experience of mine. The company had no formal dress code, but still I got management complaints about it (simply because someone upon me didn't like it, meanwhile women had no issue whatsoever). I'm for the freedom of expression about your clothes, others doesn't think the same, because they limit themselves to a concept called decency .-. fuck it

@thepra may I ask what you where wearing that got you the complain?

Dress code is only relevant if you have a client facing role or if your office has clients wandering round. Because clients have very small minds and higher ups think that sucking dick should be office wide. Otherwise it's irrelevant.

@helloworld couldn't have said it better

@MaxS meggings

Everyone knows that good developers use shorts and Hawaiian shirts ;)

@thepra I'd love to see that! Haha

@Archer04 apparently meggings is the new shit

@MaxS meggins and Hawaiian shirts? Sign me up now!

@MaxS they are actually leggings, because technically, they are the same as meggings, but affordable.

My work is generally relaxed, but boss asks us to be smart casual, mainly because clients tend to come in. I think that's fair. If clients weren't involved I'd say it doesn't matter within reason.

He will also be okay with shorts during hot weather

@Hedgepig shorts is sometimes the difference between life and death

@MaxS you can always use a skirt if shorts are not allowed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Archer04 I heard a story about a guy who was yelled by his manager for coming with shorts while the female co-workers came however they wanted to...
He came with a skirt the next day and no one spoke a word after that.

My old job required shirt+ decent pants (not jeans / slacks). Current job has none really, except to look presentable. I wear qwertee tee's every day and never got a comment.

@MaxS train drivers did the same a while ago http://bbc.com/news/av/...

@Archer04 hahaha priceless

@MaxS @Archer04 some school kids did that too this summer in the UK

Just had my first linux support engineering job day today and the dress code is: wear whatever the fuck you want (well, at least decent enough so not like nude or idk). I wear suits full-time but most engineers there just wear casual clothes :)

@linuxxx how was your first day??

@MaxS It was very good! Very relaxed atmosphere, lot of humor, windows disliking and yeah, just good I guess!

@MaxS Oh damn and welcome!

@linuxxx I would assume that for a Linux related job you would be asked to wear TUXedo :p

I might be the odd one out, but I find jeans and button down shirt or more business to help. I work directly with the client, true, but I feel that it promotes an air that we are at work, so no fucking around... Just my thoughts

@owithg that is exactly what my question is about, brother :)
Do you really feel that short pants and a T would make some workers not give a shit about work?

And thanks! :)

I worked for a company expecting us to wear the same corporate tee-shirt (cheap quality with enormous and ugly company's logo) every fucking friday. We were a team of 10-15 devs in a small office, never facing any client. Except by 2-3 of us, nobody was actually wearing the shi(r)t.

Then they asked us to spend a week in the main company office in Paris, and there... OMG, there were about 150 people in a small building, with maybe 100 of them wearing the tee-shirt. I felt like they were bots or clones.

Even after that week I never wanted to wear the shit and heard some complains about it from my n+1.

Now the good question is : was that policy effective ? Where they experiencing better work conditions because of that so-much-corporate-mindset ? And my opinion is... Hell no. For the most part and based of what I saw there, the team from Paris was full of pretentious jerks who litterally were competing with each others all day long instead of working together.

I did a month and left.

@Masta I would have done the same man.
Corporate stupid rules give me the chill's.

No,
It is only important when someone you don't want to fire abuses the lack of dress code.

@1989 are you saying you would get distracted? Or aroused? Or both?

What the fu l are meggins?

The better you are, the worse you get to dress. Lol
Me, jeans and t shirt everyday.

Yup... Tshirt and gym shorts and a baseball cap. Perks of working from home full time :)

@voodoo7175 working from home should be butt naked... Just saying