Tie Poll

[andrewducker]

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[andrewducker]

I work in finance, and it's clearly a rank and customer-facing signifier. Dying out slowly though - we moved to make ties optional a few years ago and less and less people are wearing them.

I was still somewhat surprised to discover that only 6% of male US workers wear ties every day:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/101707/Business-Casual-Most-Common-Work-Attire.aspx

[artkouros]

What's a tie?

[andrewducker]

A device designed to remind men that they are owned by their corporate masters.

[xenophanean]

Hear, hear. Death to ties!

[anef]

ID tags work just as well and are available to the female of the species.

[cybik]

I work in a private school in a non-teaching role. The male teachers wear ties. The male technicians don't - partly as a health and safety thing, but also partly because we don't have to be so neat and tidy.

During parent teacher meetings, the teachers wear academic gowns.

[khbrown]

Geek dress code = clothes?

[autopope]

That was in fact the dress code at the Santa Cruz Operation (before they sold their name to the ack spit SCO group).

It was introduced after an incident in 1987 or 1988 when clothes were notably absent from the person of a senior developer, who hadn't been warned that some investors were visiting.

(The next day, two pieces of email did the rounds. From HR: "COMPANY DRESS CODE: clothing is to be worn during office hours on company premises". From someone anonymous: "Q: What's the best thing about meeting the visiting Microsoft VP's on your way to the hot tub? A: They won't shake your hand.")

[khbrown]

I knew it came from somewhere in hacker culture, but couldn't remember where.

[chess]

I do occasionally see management consultants and the top levels of management hanging around looking awkward in ties, probably because they're off to meet someone who still cares about them, but no-one wears them regularly.