Am I a Dinasour - Office Environments?

TheWanderer

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Went to have a chat with a director of a company earlier on in the week about possible opportunities at the company, a big thing he mentioned was that I would need to fit into the culture of the company.

The dress code on that day seemed to be shorts and zany comedy T-shirts or shit with Atari symbols etc on. Staff seemed to be just f***ing about chatting shit or playing ping pong, hangng about in 'break out' areas or on their laptops in the cafe, they seem to have loads of 'fun' days etc......I sort of decided I couldn't work there by this. Turns out they're not hiring anyways.

But Ive come away thinking, is this what modern office environments are like? I'm more of a tradional suit or at least a pair of slacks and buttoned shirt type of man, I like to keep work away from socialising, get to work, do a full days graft before leaving and getting home and taking the work clothes of is a demarkation point to try and switch off from work. To me if your staff have time to piss about, you hav etoo many staff.

Do i need to maybes broaden my thoughts on this to fit into new companies? This is my first real exposure of looking for employment outside of my company that Ive had.

Where do I even buy a funny Bart Simpson t-shirt???
 


Having seen googles office and worked on others, the cynic in me asks if these places pay the going rate or attract numbsculls cos you can play table football while you eat your couscous.
 
Went to have a chat with a director of a company earlier on in the week about possible opportunities at the company, a big thing he mentioned was that I would need to fit into the culture of the company.

The dress code on that day seemed to be shorts and zany comedy T-shirts or shit with Atari symbols etc on. Staff seemed to be just f***ing about chatting shit or playing ping pong, hangng about in 'break out' areas or on their laptops in the cafe, they seem to have loads of 'fun' days etc......I sort of decided I couldn't work there by this. Turns out they're not hiring anyways.

But Ive come away thinking, is this what modern office environments are like? I'm more of a tradional suit or at least a pair of slacks and buttoned shirt type of man, I like to keep work away from socialising, get to work, do a full days graft before leaving and getting home and taking the work clothes of is a demarkation point to try and switch off from work. To me if your staff have time to piss about, you hav etoo many staff.

Do i need to maybes broaden my thoughts on this to fit into new companies? This is my first real exposure of looking for employment outside of my company that Ive had.

Where do I even buy a funny Bart Simpson t-shirt???
more and more people seem to be following the google model. My BIL works for a bank and they have days where a friggin' petting zoo comes in, f***ing goats running about the office.
 
Miserable git, nobody wears suits, shirts etc now generally unless its for meetings. Everyone here wears jeans, polo shirt etc and its a much better working environment. :D
 
Having seen googles office and worked on others, the cynic in me asks if these places pay the going rate or attract numbsculls cos you can play table football while you eat your couscous.
Funny you should mention that, as according to glassdoor the wages on offer werent great.
 
I saw a bloke on the tube the other day in a suit with a novelty bugs bunny tie on.. I had a double take

you know he is the Zany one in the office
I had a Tasmanian devil tie. It was 1995 and my first office job when I was 19.

There are still the odd one around wearing them cartoon ties. Mind I'd love to see someone wearing them Fred Flintstone jeans you got in Geordie Jeans.
 
I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.

Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.

F'kin awesome :rolleyes:
 
I had a Tasmanian devil tie. It was 1995 and my first office job when I was 19.

There are still the odd one around wearing them cartoon ties. Mind I'd love to see someone wearing them Fred Flintstone jeans you got in Geordie Jeans.

Ferk me I had both above items.
Xmas musical tie was a must too.
 

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