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Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post-
an employee dress-code introduced to maintain certain standards and general group discipline.
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I understand that it's useful for some folks to dress in particular ways so we know who is a member of the police etc
BUT what "standards" ?
and what on earth is "group discipline" and why does wearing a rubber chicken on your head (or some other nonsense) help this?
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Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostEven when I was a boy in smart short-trousers I was frequently appalled by the shabby dress of teachers, both male and female. Surely young pupils embarking out on learning and hopefully a fruitful and rewarding career are entitled to a bit of respect never mind a good example?
Why not pay a visit to an astronomy department of a university or other such place where really intelligent folks congregate and see what "example" their clothes convey?
any audience with a sense of occasion and propriety.
You really are out of a P G Woodhouse novel
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostI think this says more about you than anything else.
Why not pay a visit to an astronomy department of a university or other such place where really intelligent folks congregate and see what "example" their clothes convey?
However one does need to be particularly intelligent or charming to quickly realise that people do remark on the appearance of others whether we like it or not. First impressions are very important. Assuming one is not poverty-striken shabby dress in employment indicates a lazy, slovenly mind, and/or inability to care for the opinions of others.
Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
You really are out of a P G Woodhouse novel
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostWhich means exactly what?
I understand that it's useful for some folks to dress in particular ways so we know who is a member of the police etc
BUT what "standards" ?
and what on earth is "group discipline" and why does wearing a rubber chicken on your head (or some other nonsense) help this?
b) Every 'team' requires 'group discipline' or it is not a team but a bunch of self-centred individuals all heading in different directions. Any 'team' is little different from an orchestra, or at least should be.
'Rubber chickens', and mandatory first-name badges etc, are management gimmicks and have nothing to do with uniformed order and self-discipline. In fact such absurd abominations are an insulting abuse of proper group organisation and practice, imv.
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostWodehouse, surely? (unless there's another of whom I'm unaware; I know about V. G. - Violet Gordon - Woodhouse but she was a harpsichordist rather than an author)...
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Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View PostEven if highly improbable, one surely must give members the 'typo' benefit of any doubt and not be so overtly pedantic, ahinton!
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostYou don't go to cafe Oto do you?
There are many ways of doing things.
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostI understand that it's useful for some folks to dress in particular ways so we know who is a member of the police etc
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI very much doubt that he does, but cannot be sure. Curious, though, that within the space of a few weeks there will be performances there featuring pianists who have played major works by Sorabji, namelyReinier van Houdt, who premièred his c. 290-minute Piano Symphony No. 4 in Utrecht in 2003 and Daan Vandewalle, who has given a couple of complete performances of the not much shorter Opus Clavicembalisticum; no Sorabji on offer at Café Oto, though...
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostI think this wins the hotly-contested prize for Most Nonsequiturial Mention of Sorabji Ever.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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