#long-haired hippies

[hasufin]

A quarter century

Almost 25 years ago I got my first job out of college. It was a pretty nice job, working for Sprint. It paid pretty good money - $46K, which was a lot for an entry-level position in Kansas City.

The biggest immediate stressor wasn't the work - I could do that, and I knew I could. It was the dress code. See, the dress code was "business casual". Which is an utterly meaningless term. You ask what it means and you'll get examples but no one can actually define it. It's "More formal than casual, but not a suit". Basically if you look comfortable it's wrong, and if you make a 55-year-old man feel like it should be uncomfortable it's wrong. But they can't explain what's right. And I'd already gotten in trouble at Uni for wearing sandals while working Helpdesk. Some professor was scandalized by bare toes.

So, anyway, I did get my uniform of khakis, slacks, polo shirts, and button-down dress shirts. Like you do.

But the funny thing was, one hard and fast rule at Sprint was no jeans. At least, not if you were going to work at the main campus. Why? Because Bill Esrey, the then-CEO of Sprint, absolutely hated jeans. He was observed running down a hallway once, to catch up to a cabling contractor - a guy running networking cable, a guy who didn't work directly for Sprint at all and who was doing basically construction work - to yell at him for wearing jeans. It was that important to him.

And here's the thing. Did jeans actually make a difference on the job? In a word, no. Could Esrey articulate an actual reason for why Jeans = Bad? He'd mumble some bullshit about professionalism and appearance... but no, he could not. Objectively, not only did jeans NOT detract from job performance, they actually helped most of the time. It turns out that in some jobs practical attire was more important than looks, and in the overwhelming majority of other jobs, it didn't matter what we wore in our cubicles anyway.

But Bill Esrey hated jeans, and he was the CEO, so that was that.

Today, it's telework. For most office workers, it doesn't matter whether we sign on to our conference calls from a cubicle in an office or from our desk at home. Our actual job performance is at least as good, and not spending hours each day playing in traffic has significantly improved our quality of life.

But nonetheless, a bunch of older CEOs and the like don't like long hair^H^H^H jeans ^H^H^H^H telework, and they're in charge.

For now.

[miguxadraws]

teaching pomni how to dance

what type of music would they dance to? i dont even know! but i think dancing with your partner or teaching them how to dance is the peak of wholesomeness!! actually adorable...

astral circus AU belongs to @chelledoggo

[dreamtwinsxxx]

Sunset with nice friends 🌞✨

You can find more here ❤️

[hushedhippie]

Smoked a joint & talked to the stars. I think they heard me.

[vuhjungle]

unpopular opinion: body hair is beautiful

[schizzodoll]

from the mud

[luna-the-bard]

Am I cooking with this or

Bonus magma doodles featuring my friend’s oc Kala:

[of-ether]

A THROW BACK OF MY SHORT HAIR

sorry Im screaming but last time I went thru a breakup I cut it.. do i cut it again

[starlet-sky]

[beatleshalloween]

George and Paul!

McHarrison!

[hushedhippie]

Way off the deep end like usual🌀

[smalltownrobin]

She is so Robin Buckley's mother

[dont-hug-me-its-yuri]

I love Coffin humanizations because they are either a Victorian style vampire dude or a stoner hippie who doesn’t own a house and lurks in the woods

[thejoeypop]

[schizzodoll]

It’s like 199 degrees

[aivoluptulicious]

hippy woman, in her mid 50s