HP bans t-shirts at work

For a good reference: http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...

Pretty soon the savvier SV recruiters will pick off the best engineers.

Current simultaneous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9945543 (23 points, 6 comments, 3 hours ago (submitted 2 hours before this))

When I worked at Apple we spent more time designing our t-shirts than writing code.

Many companies retain "efficiency experts" for the stated purpose of improving productivity. One such observed that some factory workers did not have all the tools they needed and so were always fetching them from a cabinet. So his suggestion was to supply every worker with all the tools the required, in toolboxes placed readily at hand.

By contrast, Plantronics' efficiency expert convinced the management to forbid its workers from listening to music.

I expect at least some such experts are employed by The Man to keep the workers from seizing the means ofnproduction.