Gaffes Keeping Geeks Out of the Board Room - Socks and Sandals (
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We hate to pick on the Emerald City, but this is a particularly pernicious habit among the geeks of Seattle. Wearing sandals to work is bad enough, but throw some socks under them and you'll surely attract a few raised eyebrows. If it is cold, wear close-toed shoes.
| | Discuss Gaffes Keeping Geeks Out of the Board Room | | | | | | | Business people who use the Internet are looking for two things; Relevant... | | | | | | I've read this comment on Baseline before. I'm not sure what marketing effort it... | | | | | | ...Probably also extremely geeky and off topic...but Homer Simpson doesn't wear a... | | | | | | Your slideshow sucks, suit. | | | | | | Oh that's right. Now I remember why I don't respect business people. Because they... | | | | | | Of course, if you had stopped judging your geeks on their clothes, and let them in... | | | | | | "Kitsch" not "kitch". Idiots. | | | | | | Spreading short statements over 12 pages, and pretending the article is bigger by... | | | | | | I'm guessing they were thinking of Dilbert rather than Homer. Either way, can I have... | | | | | | The /. link was my first exposure to an article on Baseline. Amusing little... | | | | | | Personally I doubt if the author has ever been near a boardroom - except maybe to... | | | | | | Wow. Amazing waste of time. Won't be back. | | | | | | I agree | | | | | | I do think the comment about women and pigtails is relevant. Any girl over the age... | | | | | | The comments on this article are just amazing. I honestly don't think any of the... | | | | | | I do think your comment about women and pigtails is contentious at best, moron. | | | | | | Number one thing keeping _anybody_ out of the board room-- reading this tripe! If... | | | | | | Ideally you would change it to 0.0.0.0 instead, as 127.0.0.1 would attempt to... | | | | | | A waste of time, bits, pixels, and whatever calories I burned waiting for all the... | | | | | | Well this sucks ass. Have a nice day, I can see why baseline is free. | | | | | | Nice. You rock my socks... that are surrounded by my sandles. | | | | | | We're geeks. We like playing with computers - we'd no more want to be in the... | | | | | | Any boy over the age of 10 should abandon the idea of telling a grown-up woman how... | | | | | | having read the article and the comments. im moved to ask : this is a joke,... | | | | | | Honestly he's right people! These little things ARE part of the reasons why many... | | | | | | I'm the former president and still a member of the board of a successful,... | | | | | | Wow, nice job, morons. Next time use spell check to lookup "kitsch" as opposed to... | | | | | | From the comments above it's obvious few of these people will get to the boardroom.... | | | | | | I honestly found the article to be mostly amusing because I have NO DESIRE to be in... | | | | | | Name one exec with a Hawaiian shirt in his bio? Sure. John Lasseter. That took me... | | | | | | Around a hundred self-referential links, more space for the comments than the... | | | | | | Pigtails are cool! I'm all for them!
Now one ponytail from one side only, now... | | | | | | Oh, bother! What lightweight banter. As if any semi-intelligent geek actually needed... | | | | | | Come on,some seriously need to take a chill pill here.Nothing wrong with a little... | | | | | | Lame. And your 'slideshow' sucks - it runs automatically, and it skips to the next... | | | | | | Even though I agree with most of what is on this list, the presentation is so... | | | | | | Not to mention that we don't need to be told how to emulate the shmucks whose jobs... | | | | | | Many have been elected President, with the same skillset.
(those comps are pretty... | | | | | | There are ads on this page?
Wow. I guess AdBlock+ works better than I... | | | | | | I can appreciate what the author of the article is trying to say, but I don't think... | | | | | | A lot depends on what your career objectives are. I'm a business droid living... | | | | | | I can name a exec with flower shirt in BIO. Mike Ruley. CEO of Hawaiian Telcom. ... | | | | | | more mature means you hit puberty before boys do... ie: girls are "more mature" than... | | | | | | WTF are Chuck Taylors? | | | | | | AdBlock+ ????
your geek card has been revoked noob, try using your hosts file | | | | | | That pigtails are not suitable for people over 10 is your subjective opinion,... | | | | | | I'd just as soon stay in the computer room if it means avoiding dealing with... | | | | | | Chuck Taylors are casual shoes made by converse, you may remember them from... | | | | | | Your geek card's been invalidated, idiot. Try catching up to self-updating... | | | | | | Not only did this have more than a few blatantly obvious points to it, but the... | | | | | | OMG .. did this idiotic slide show ever hit a visceral emotional hot button in the... | | | | | | The presentation was poorly done. But the ideas are funny.
What a laugh. Who... | | | | | | Oh well, i didn't even know there were ads! jeez, i guess the page moved to the next... | | | | | | This could have been funny. I can't comment on the content because I could only... | | | | | | Good reply and very true. | | | | | | You know I actually read some of your articles, although they have always ticked me... | | | | | | >>> Post your comment now! | | | | | |
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We hate to pick on the Emerald City, but this is a particularly pernicious habit among the geeks of Seattle. Wearing sandals to work is bad enough, but throw some socks under them and you'll surely attract a few raised eyebrows. If it is cold, wear close-toed shoes.
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