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Originally Posted by wazu

One of my first leadership jobs n I.T. I had a guy on my team who would read the newspaper at his desk every morning. Talking paper version of the KC Star. Executives would walk by and see it, then I’d hear how my team was slacking. Thing is this guy was an indispensable rock star. Passionate about his job and the go-to person. I ultimately caved to the pressure and asked him to cut out the paper reading as it was a bad look. He did so but wasn’t happy about it. No big drama, and he went on to lead the team after I left. But I’ve always regretted that I didn’t just tell my leadership to get over it.

I was kind of 'that guy' at my first job in IT. It was a help desk and they had very clear metrics for productivity (amount of time on/off the phone and average call length, etc.), and after the first 6 months or so I was routinely at the top of the list.

And it was a very 'we've always done it this way' corporate environment, so you were supposed to wear at least khakis and a collared shirt. They also did casual Friday, which made even less sense to me that you were required to dress up 4 days a week, but not Fridays, and not weekends.

I worked 2-11pm for a while, so after a couple hours, all of the managers and regular shift would leave, so it seemed largely pointless to dress up for that... plus on the weekends we could wear whatever we wanted.

After a while I started introducing black jeans or the occasional 'nice t-shirt' to my wardrobe when working the 2nd shift... I'd mostly just sit in my cube, so outside of walking into the office, it's not like you'd even know.... but one person in particular who would always dress like he was going to Christmas service at church took exception to it and would make passive aggressive comments and so forth.

My manager had to fight some battles on that and other things that could be seen as favoritism, which I felt bad about, but they also didn't really see the big deal either and we'd laugh about the petty shit behind closed doors..... they were far more concerned with my productivity, just like I was.