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Old 12-16-2010, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Syracuse IS Central New York.
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I think some people are trying to justify their jobs. This goes way too far in attempting to monitor employee behavior. The color of someone's underwear?? Really now

UBS Gives Employees 43 Pages of Strict Appearance Guidelines
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Old 12-16-2010, 10:52 AM
 
Location: The City That Never Sleeps
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Welcome to the New World Order. Nazi banks and corporations. Hand in hand with the politicians and government. They get tax breaks and bailouts, of course they will impose fascist dress codes. Pretty soon they will all wear black or brownshirts as their dresscode. Wait and see...
Just keep giving them more funds, bailing them out - rewarding greed and encouraging these anal, oppressive policies. That code is hysterical, but ominous.
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Old 12-16-2010, 11:38 AM
 
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None of those seem very outrageous to me. I think the underwear thing is more so it's not showing lines and being tacky. The only one that is weird to me is "Don't wear new shoes" for women.

Over all those are pretty much the guidelines we have at my office, though our dress code is more relaxed
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Old 12-16-2010, 12:17 PM
 
Location: NJ
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This is my favorite:

"Do match your tie knot to your face or body type"


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Old 12-16-2010, 12:21 PM
 
Location: The City That Never Sleeps
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Can we do both an IQ and EQ test on the person who put together that code?
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Old 12-16-2010, 03:01 PM
 
Location: CasaMo
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Welcome to the New World Order. Nazi banks and corporations. Hand in hand with the politicians and government. They get tax breaks and bailouts, of course they will impose fascist dress codes. Pretty soon they will all wear black or brownshirts as their dresscode. Wait and see...
Yeah. One of the worst consequences of the New World Order.... Dress codes at work.
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Old 12-16-2010, 04:52 PM
 
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Welcome to the New World Order. Nazi banks and corporations. Hand in hand with the politicians and government.
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That code is hysterical, but ominous.
One of the more obvious symptoms in the mild mental illness that manifests itself in embracing conspiracy theories is the willingness to see patterns in noise that more rational people don't.

Thank you for the example... corporate dress code = New World Order.
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Old 12-16-2010, 05:14 PM
 
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http://www.letemps.ch/rw/Le_Temps/Qu...resscode_F.pdf

Full document, enjoy. In French, sorry.

Creepy bits - men's fingernails may not exceed 1.5 millimeters in length and they should never wash or iron their own shirts.
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Old 12-16-2010, 05:48 PM
 
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Although bizarre, it's actually written for their retail bank employees in Switzerland, so is not currently relevant to U.S. operations. Dress to Impress, UBS Tells Staff - WSJ.com
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Old 12-17-2010, 01:01 AM
 
Location: In the Redwoods
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Creepy, to say the least!

I loved the dress code at my last job... no ripped jeans, no wife-beaters, no saggy pants, and no butt-cracks showing. You'd think those would be obvious, but more than one employee broke a rule or two over the year. And back when I was a supervising librarian, we had to call out a shelver on her low-cut jeans - difficult part was that she's hard of hearing, so we had to find someone who could sign "your underwear is showing when you shelve books in the children's room." So dress codes ARE a good thing, but obviously these UBS rules are going too far.
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