Hipsters

I can understand why you claim non-conformity while looking exactly like your peers. I can also understand why you swarm on the next new thing like locusts on a corn field. Hell, I even get the horrible hair cuts and the pseudo-intellectual retoric when you go to First Fridays and claim you know something about art. What I do not understand, is what I witnessed coming back from break.

He was standing there, wearing a day pass. The day pass was a dead give-away that he was a candidate for employment with my company. Our dress code, sadly, is business casual. I suppose by the "no jeans or tees" definition of business casual, he was spot on. However, if I was his interviewing supervisor I would have turned him away.

The obnoxious cap he was wearing was poorly covering his greasy, unkempt and stringy hair. He was wearing brown slacks, tacky shoes, a green paisley shirt, and a bright pink tie.

Seriously?! I know I am pulling a pot-kettle thing here. I dress a bit different, especially for someone my age. But fuck a goose! Did he get dressed in the dark?

I guess my point is, I don't understand why someone would come to a company like mine, dressed like that, and expect to be taken seriously. Thats all.

maybe I'm just getting old.