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This guy must know his stuff
(lemmy.world)
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There's an interesting cultural difference that I've observed. My grandpa was a senior engineer and he was proud to dress immaculately. He went to work in a suit and he never wore less than business casual even when going to the beach. I don't think he owned any shirt that wasn't a button-up long-sleeve. I'm an engineer (with a different specialty) and I only wear a suit to job interviews. Generally when I'm at work I'm in jeans and a short-sleeved shirt.
I wonder if it's a matter of generations or countries or both. When and where my grandpa was young, a suit was very expensive and hierarchies were rigid.
I think it's 90% because of silicon valley and the tech industry. Software developers often make more than licensed engineers of other disciplines these days, so why would a young engineer model themselves after their professional body and older members instead of the disruptive adjacent industry?
I'm a software engineer myself but I have only ever worked on the east coast. Maybe that's the difference?
I'm on the east coast myself, in my 40s, also tech (mostly hardware/design, but some software in support of that hw or just doing something experimental).
I will 100% show up with a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. If I have a meeting or its the fall/spring, I have a sportjacket, but I've admittedly shown up in a zip up hoodie before (though that was specifically in a space I was doing some concepting in, not a boardroom).
Client meetings with their c-suite will get a collar, but its a golf shirt in the summer.
That said, I work from home pretty much exclusively, so its all t-shirts now. I wouldn't even worry about straight up Donald Duck'ing it if it were more comfortable (its not).
I think its just generational.
Lol I've only heard "porky piggin' it" before!