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My office was recently moved from the Massachusetts tech hub at Kendall Square, Cambridge to Boston Financial District. Surprisingly, the office space is nowadays cheaper here 
So, here we are among the people in suites suits. When we enter an elevator they stare at us, unsure whether we are working for some kind of delivery service or are homeless people who somehow tricked the security and got in. We are struggling not to laugh when looking at their ties and shiny shoes.
Two worlds colliding...
modified 3-Oct-16 11:04am.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: suites
suits. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, they wear sofas, and use armchairs as shoulder pads.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Can't even spell it.
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I have allergic reactions too only speaking of it. The couple of times I went to work in shirt and jacket (no tie, I usually wear it only at wedding and funerals, which is a repetition) my colleagues wanted to take photographs...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I work in Prime Tower, Zurich, which is about as bankery as you get. Some of the younger types look like Donald Trump's two sons. All slicked hair and stripey shirts. I still have my ridiculous biker hair, and I get away with a basic trousers and shirt combo. Still, I feel uncomfortable around these people. They're too damn slick.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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If you really want to freak 'em out, wear either a Gadsden t-shirt ("Don't Tread On Me"), or a Black Lives Matter t-shirt over a hoodie.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I used to work for a company owned by a big-time lawyer in San Diego. The partner of the firm that was in charge of the office itself hated the fact that I wore tennis shoes at work every day, and even said something to my boss about it. When I heard about it, I figured I would meet the guy half-way and wear one tennis shoe and one dress shoe.
He was not amused. He was so not amused that he tried to get me fired.
When I found out about that, I started wearing flip flops.
The icing on the cake, though, was for Halloween, all of the secretaries (about 30 women) in the office had a "dress like John" contest. At the time I was riding a Harley and came to work wearing black biker t-shirts, a leather vest, jeans, and biker boots. I came to work dressed as a lawyer as my costume. Whenever possible, I would park my bike next to the guy's car.
I thought the law partner was gonna have a freakin' stroke. All of the other lawyers thought it was funny as hell.
He learned after a while that if you poke JSOP, JSOP pokes back.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My three years at Hughes Aircraft will funny in that way. Still a shirt/tie (no jacket) culture, but every Friday before Halloween, all of the s/w people came to work in their suits - preferably 3 piece.
Of course, being a Friday, and a suit, senior management was worried the entire department was out on job interviews (market was white hot then).
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: senior management was worried the entire department was out on job interviews
Management should always be worried that their talent will leave.
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awesome! 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I sincerely respect you 
In my office there are no rules except common sense, during winter I usually go to work in my leather biker jacket and hoodie, with t-shirt, jeans and black tennis shoes. All of my t-shirts and hoodies are either geek or heavy metal themed and nobody ever complained (except a couple of times but there were actually other reasons piling up and that was just a pretext, which I pointed out... along with the subtext "If I come to work dressed as you wish you pay as I wish or I'll put my good clothes in service of another company and say goodbye to the 4 years of experience for your pitiful salary". They stepped down).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Hi All,
Made it to lunch with out killing anything!
Having to use my phone as I can't remember my login
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Hint "Password"
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: I can't remember my login
It's you mother's best friend's first pet's maiden name - and it contains at least three numerals and sixteen special characters!
Was that any help? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: Made it to lunch with out killing anything!
I'm really quite curious - what did you eat for lunch?
I don't think that it is possible to eat anything that hasn't ended its life to enrich yours.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Well? You must have made it back to pub time by now. How'd it go? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just posted my 200th article[^]
I think I'll take a small vacation now. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
Marc
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Not all of your article's images are showing for me.  Edit: As Johnny J pointed out, it appears to be a caching issue (Chrome?, who knows).
Other than that, congrats?
modified 3-Oct-16 7:46am.
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Think that's a caching problem. Thjey weren't for me either at the beginning, but now they are.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Slacker007 wrote: Not all of your article's images are showing for me.
Yes, it's a CP quirk. Browser refresh eventually gets them all.
Slacker007 wrote: Other than that, congrats?
Hah! Thanks!
Marc
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You deserve it! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: You deserve it!
And now that my gf has her Masters degree, there'll be less free time in evenings and weekends!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: there'll be less free time in evenings and weekends
Oh you'll regret that I'm sure. congrats on 200.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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