what do you usually wear to work
well let's see it turns out that uh Tektronix i work at Tektronix and it's a very
uh low key place as far as dress goes you just wear uh let's see
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when i first came here i wore suits but after a while i got uh found out that that wasn't all that important i'm an engineer
oh i see
and uh so i get to wear just uh
how shall i say it uh walking shoes as opposed to dress shoes and
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well walking how shall i say it kind of
like Avia uh
walking shoes uh
well that's nice comfortable stuff
yes open shirt open at the neck you know no tie and uh
wow
just uh reasonable looking
how shall i say it uh
sports clothes or well some guys wear some people even wear Levis
wow that's nice
now being from Philadelphia i don't expect your dress code to be quite that relaxed right
well actually right now i'm a full time college student so my dress code is very very expensive yeah i usually wear jeans and stuff to classes or shorts in the summertime but over the summers i've had a job internships with the newspaper
oh okay
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and that's so generally then i dress
you know nicer usually nice summer slacks or more sometimes skirts stuff like that so then it's still
you know the emphasis is on comfort a lot because it's a lot of walking and
coming in out of the office but you still have to have a professional
image kind of thing to go out to meet people and interview people and stuff like that so
yes
yeah well i uh
i just recently
applied for a different job in the company here and
oh really
so i
decided well i'd wear a suit and it it was very interesting uh like i said most of the people at at this company don't wear suits uh most of the engineers and technical people are just very casual almost the same clothes that that you'd wear to school
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wow that must be nice atmosphere then
well it has been although the new president and CEO of the company is
from a much more formal eastern uh background
oh
and so the result is that uh so anyway i wore this suit and i went over to uh uh to one of the buildings that has a lot more of the financial people in it and it and
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i i was almost converted because uh the effect of that suit on the way people responded reacted and responded to me as opposed to
the uh just to kind of
how shall i say it they know you're there but they don't uh you don't there's no notice at all but when i wore a suit that day uh
it was obvious that people didn't know
whether i was a worker bee or a manager
wow
so people uh how shall i say it made a
made much more effort to notice you acknowledge your presence say hello
and uh things like that so
that's interesting it's like a mini little study there that's really interesting
yeah
and so this dress for success thing i think is uh by and large i've i'm kind of uh convinced that uh by that just that one uh
uh experience and then having talked to several other people that that uh
unless you're in a an environment where they're going to make fun of of of better clothes that better clothes always pay off
right
hum that's interesting
doesn't mean they have to be
uh how shall i say it
they they don't have to be the the most uh
the absolute best
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but uh
a little dressing a little bit above the standard i think would uh
pay off so i'm in the process of telling my wife we got to go shopping for clothes again
that's neat that's neat
and uh
i i don't know no
i know eastern now the other thing we do here of course is a single not quite a single climate we have uh we do have some snow in the wintertime and it can be
quite warm in the summertime not hot like uh i lived in the midwest for a while
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oh
and i know that uh you know it can be
freezing cold in the wintertime and
and hot and uh sticky in the summertime
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we don't have that much it's uh it's a very mild climate
oh well that's nice that's good for the clothes budget i would imagine because here
yes it it is
gosh we had uh
the winter hasn't been bad this winter it's it it's only snowed maybe once or twice but it's been cold low twenties let's say and then the summer gets up to eighties nineties so
