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From: Martha Adams on 21 Feb 2010 23:07
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:15:09 -0000, Rob Cypher aka "The Anti-Bob"
<balst32(a)aol.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:13:00 -0800, Zapanaz
> <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl(a)foo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:07:46 -0600, Joe User <axyz(a)ardmore.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I work at a defense contractor that shall remain nameless.
>>>
>>> They decided this week to institute a dress code for the 'exempt'
>>> employees.
>>>
>>> It's not really outrageous -- it basically says that I can't wear blue
>>> jeans, or comfortable shoes, or tee shirts.
>>>
>>> My take on this is that in the current business environment, the
>>> company
>>> has too many managerial manhours available, and they can only burn
>>> those
>>> manhours by playing dress-up.
>>>
>>> The policy is aggravating, expensive, uncomfortable, and inconvenient,
>>> which pretty much descirbes my attitude to work in general.
>>>
>>> Is there any good passive-agressive, or subversive response to this
>>> type
>>> of thing? At least until the layoffs start. Layoffs always start
>>> within
>>> a year or so of this type of management activity, in my experience.
>>> The
>>> only better predictor of layoffs is a management initiative to reduce
>>> the
>>> amount of printer paper used.
>>
>> You could fly a small aircraft into their building

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>>> Is there any good passive-agressive, or subversive response to this
>>> type
>>> of thing? At least until the layoffs start. Layoffs always start
>>> within
>>> a year or so of this type of management activity, in my experience.
>>> The
>>> only better predictor of layoffs is a management initiative to reduce
>>> the
>>> amount of printer paper used.
>>
>> You could fly a small aircraft into their building

My reading of it is here comes change, but management is not in touch
with, well, a lot of things. For openers, maybe you want to know
more about the environment you're in, with an eye to the best way
out of it. A very interesting book comes to mind, which might offer
some insightful and relevant background:

Jim Collins, How The Mighty Fall.

If your company isn't so mighty, yet it's people who for better or
worse, are acting like people. So see Collins to get some ideas
about what management people may do in situations that might be like
yours.

And if you foresee some kind of an ejection thing over the horizon,
if you move faster than that, then an ejection risk magically
becomes a wise career move.

In this case, talking with people is good but be careful who you
talk to. You don't want anyone passing on your speculations and
plans, you certainly don't want your provisional thinking
*published into cyberspace* as I have known to happen.

Titeotwawki -- mha [2010 Feb 21

From: jim dorey on 22 Feb 2010 11:48
Rob Cypher aka "The Anti-Bob" wrote:
>>> Is there any good passive-agressive, or subversive response to this type
>>> of thing? At least until the layoffs start.

medical reasons, complain of cut off circulation, walk slower, start
regular visits to the company physician, complain loudly about
debilitating pin and needle pain when you take the shoes off. if they
prescribe shoes, walk slower, mince, put on a grump face, say it's hard
to smile when you're suffering debilitating back and foot pain. it's
likely the floors there are concrete, so you could easily say that the
sneakers let you walk without the jarring in your spine and teeth. save
your socks up, nice and ripe, pull your shoes off at the beginning of
the day, let the socks breathe, say that the businessman shoes make your
feet sweat and you hurt if you leave them on, so unless the company
wants to pay compensation for your crippled feet, they have to put up
with your funk.

never mention the comfy shoes, if there's anyone else there that doesn't
like them, probably people that don't already wear them for a good
reason, they'll be with you in racking up the medical bills.
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