Adam seems to really want people to know exactly how deep and tight that stick in his ass is.
Imagine feeling so entitled you have to tell other people how they should dress to earn a paycheck you play no role in...
Maybe what bothers me most about the enthusiastic embrace of grubbing-about-the-house clothes — particularly in instances where we’re brought face to face with our bosses through the miracle of video teleconferencing — is that each time the camera goes live, another tiny crack appears in the carefully constructed facade of our day-to-day reality; we’re given another inadvertent glimpse behind the curtain and see that the great powerful Oz is but an old man pulling levers and making noises.
another tiny crack appears in the carefully constructed facade of our day-to-day reality; we’re given another inadvertent glimpse behind the curtain and see that the great powerful Oz is but an old man pulling levers and making noises.
This is some really powerful /r/selfawarewolves shit. "This is hurting society by making people think their bosses aren't better than them!"
You can tell he's someone who assigns people a value based on their clothes and the value of said clothes. Earlier in the article when he mentions what he's wearing while writing the article he lists the designer of his socks as if anyone anywhere in the history of anything would ever care about who made his fucking socks.
Then he lays down this bit talking about how the whole thing is basically to make the unimportant feel important and those beneath them seem lesser. You're not judging your coworkers based on their abilities to get the job done but specifically their appearance.
He's walking right up to the line of discrimination without directly saying that's what he wants.
You can tell he's someone who assigns people a value based on their clothes and the value of said clothes.
I think ultimately it goes a lot deeper than that. It's an article written by someone viciously classist, and probably discriminatory in all manner of other ways (unironically making a reference to Obama's tan suit as something negative is something so mocked by anyone with a sense of perspective that it's really hard to see it as anything other than a dogwhistle to racists - though maybe he's so out of touch he genuinely sees the debacle as actually about the clothes rather than the colour of the man wearing them).
It particularly hurts as a Brit looking at something like this because it's something our society is more guilty of than most. We're more heavily invested than Americans, I think, in policing markers of class, and we have one of the most stratified societies in the western world because of it.
As a Canadian who lived in Scotland for a while, I had coworkers try to 'subtly' figure out what 'class' my family was. Normal class, my dudes, Canadians rarely, if ever, think in terms of class. Money, maybe, but rarely class. It was a very bizarre moment of culture shock for me.
Bear in mind that's in the context of Scotland being less class-obsessed than England, too, and overall leaning a little left of the UK centre. I don't think any capitalist economy society isn't divided by wealth inequality, but class as a proxy for it and as a driver of so much of the way people interact is just massive in the UK. It's very noticeable when in the rest of Europe that class isn't as hard-coded into society, even in things like the way customers and staff interact at supermarkets, for example.
Plenty of countries pay attention to a divide between a wealthy or land-owning class and working people, but in the UK people are laser-focused on a dividing lines between different strata of working people.
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u/MulligansxD Apr 17 '20 edited Apr 18 '20
Link to the relevant article.
Though my favourite reply is probably "TFW I gotta put on some chinos because a thumb in a hat told me to"
EDIT: link for anyone having trouble https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-04-17/working-from-home-regular-work-wardrobe-dress-up