Am I a Dinasour - Office Environments?

I've just changed after 18 years from the large US IT company to a small Irish software company that was founded 28 years ago. Am still trying to work out the dress code. Most people seem to be wearing slack (ugh) and shirts with a few wearing what they want and a few more wearing jeans and a polo shirt, which is what I've gone for. Have even heard the dreaded "casual friday" term being mentioned

Killed me last week not being able to wear shorts when the weather was so nice. Definitely prefer the culture in the old place, how can you not like having access to a pool table all day. New place has toilets that are for directors use only ffs
 


Posh/ODvM said:
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:
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I've recently become an Agile service manager - all the various teams in our office have to have 15min stand ups, my team don't of course, some who are spread across the country do, so you'll get random blokes standing up while on the phone, fecking idiots, its meant to be a framework, not a set of rules
 
TheWanderer said:
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.
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Sounds like an advertising agency to me. They are all weirdos if so !!
 
I work in an office like this. Break out space, ping pong table, beer fridge, exposed brick walls. The dress code is very relaxed but no one wears novelty tshirts for the simple fact that we’re not f***ing spenks.
 
Posh/ODvM said:
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:
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I retired just after we stared with Agile. What a relief that was.
 
TheWanderer said:
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???
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Just wear the shite you do when we are the lash mate. I regularly chuckle to myself on your appearance. You'll fit rite in. Anyway, what you spouting off about now? Demarkation ? Ya loon.
 
Mackem00 said:
I've asked if I can start bringing my dog to work. Sadly it's a negative so far.
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I took some students on a visit of procter & gamble (something like that) over at silverlink a few year back and in one of their call centres that delt with dog food or pet insurance the staff were allowed to bring their dogs in
 
ravydavygravy said:
I know a company in Boro that has a climbing wall, squash court, pool tables and to top it off a fireman's pole to get downstairs quickly.

The zany bastards.
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I have been fighting for a common room in our place for years. We have a large cupboard that was converted into a kitchen where you can fit two people.

There is a lot of benefit in having some social environment where you can go for a cuppa and get to know some of your work mates. There are a couple of groups at my work, those I play 5-a-side with and those who are generally out any piss-up opportunity. If they have a problem and think it is in my area they know me well enough to ask me to pop down their office and help debug. Those I don't know submit a formal request that gets triaged through the same ticketing system we use for all users from all departments. One is far quicker and better all round than the other.

I'd love to have a pool table or something where people could know each other better and everyone have that culture of helping each other out. Enforcing it with zany ideas makes me want to vomit. If given the space, those who want to socialise will without gimmicks, but in IT you will always have plenty who just want to be left alone and no amount of team building days, cuddly toys or fancy dress is going to change that. It just makes them hate people all the more.
 
TheWanderer said:
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???
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Office wanker.
 

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