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04-29-2025 03:48 PM |
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Originally Posted by Mosbonian
(Post 18050023)
Yes i am a boomer....but I wear a pair of meticulously shined black dress shoes to church every Sunday...plus when I was still working I wore dress shoes when we had customers in the office.
At the company I worked for when I retired last year if you showed up in casual shoes/tennis shoes when clients were in house you wouldn't be part of the meeting.....which was not good for your career.
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At a previous job that I held long ago, the owner would come into our offices once a year or so for a surprise inspection. (He worked in the offices, so I mean to say that he'd come into my private office.) He wanted your office to be neat and orderly, and he wanted you to be dressed formally. I wore suits and ties even when I didn't have any client meetings and was just sitting at a computer.
One year he marked down my grade because I was wearing dress boots with my suit. These weren't snow boots or work boots or anything gaudy. They were dress boots that could be worn with a suit. I told him that my boots were likely the most expensive footwear in the office that day, but he still docked my grade and told me not to wear them going forward when I was sitting alone in my office working on my computer. When I left and started my own company I relaxed the dress code considerably.
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