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Dear engineers, you dress like shit

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Well, your website is also shit since you're not explaining what it actually is. How do you expect people to sign up for something that only insults you on the landing page without any more information?

If I want a black v-neck I'll just go to Wal-Mart and pick up a pack of them.

Also, f*ck you I won't do what you tell me.

Dear blackvclub, go piss up a rope.

We're busy doing stuff far more important than preening on a runway.

IMO this isn't really a problem that can be solved via Personal-Stylist-as-a-Service or a Trunk Club type offering.

Engineers dress like shit because they don't prioritize personal appearance very highly. The only thing that will fix this is to get an engineer to prioritize personal appearance more.

So all the site needs to do is help the engineers understand the benefits of not dressing shittily. It's like doing unit testing or adopting a new framework. Once they dig themselves into the learning curve and begin to see real-world changes they'll become lifelong converts.

(edit) .....Or not, in which case all they lose is the same amount of time they'd invest in unit testing or a new framework. But definitely the site needs to do something to convince the engineers.

Or not.

I don't know what's going on, but it seems to have something to do with black v-neck t-shirts.

T-shirts as a service - TSaaS? It's selling black V-neck t-shirts? What exactly am I looking at here?

Is this is a stealth project with a malfunctioning cloak?

I wouldn't get caught dead in a black t-shirt, not because I think there's anything wrong with them, but I'm a human being and choose my attire accordingly. I have odd colours, widdly bits and strings on my tops, frayed bottoms - from use, not from the factory - but I keep wearing them because they make me feel human in an ambient sea of machines and automation.

I'm not convinced "nothing but black t-shirts" is much better than what the average engineer wears.

I'll bite. I only wear black tees.

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