Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 02, 2006 06:53 PM
"I've always been of the opinion that I'd rather not do business with someone stupid enough to be judging me by my looks rather than my abilities. Who cares if my socks don't match my sandals?"
HA! You really want to oversimplify this issue, don't you Mr. Sense-of-Aesthetics-Impairment?
It turns out that the way some people dress may reveal some very scary personality problems. Lack of sense of style/fashion/aesthetics is ultimately lack of sensitivity to a very wide range of human and social peculiarities. It is indeed inability to communicate. It is indeed an impairment.
So when we look at individual that wears sandals with socks and a pony tail, we're basically looking at a man who has no frigging idea of what is going around him. We're looking at a man who is not too far from being autistic. Does Raymond produce good code? Definitely. Yeah. But we don't care about how many cards or toothpicks Mr. Geek can count. He is weird, he is not sociable, he can't be left unattended, we had better avoid hiring him at all as much as possible.
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Re:Peter Quinn has it backwards...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 02, 2006 06:53 PMHA! You really want to oversimplify this issue, don't you Mr. Sense-of-Aesthetics-Impairment?
It turns out that the way some people dress may reveal some very scary personality problems. Lack of sense of style/fashion/aesthetics is ultimately lack of sensitivity to a very wide range of human and social peculiarities. It is indeed inability to communicate. It is indeed an impairment.
So when we look at individual that wears sandals with socks and a pony tail, we're basically looking at a man who has no frigging idea of what is going around him. We're looking at a man who is not too far from being autistic. Does Raymond produce good code? Definitely. Yeah. But we don't care about how many cards or toothpicks Mr. Geek can count. He is weird, he is not sociable, he can't be left unattended, we had better avoid hiring him at all as much as possible.
Oh, and by the way: K-Mart sucks.
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