For context I have a pretty “Woke” dad, 99% of the time we have similar world views, but I ran into something today that kind of made me laugh.
Chatting with my dad about my interview I let him know I had grabbed some new dress clothes for the interview and he asked if I had a tie.
I told him that I can’t wear ties because all my dress shirts don’t fit right around my neck, so I have to leave the top button undone.
His perspective was that if their HR department wants me to wear a tie I could potentially not get hired for it
He was a little taken aback when I said that if the company doesn’t hire me because I didn’t wear a tie to my interview and they were “oldschool” then that’s a company I didn’t want to work for. He dropped the subject and respected that he wouldn’t win this, but it made me think:
What are something you’ve had to do because someone decided it was “more professional”?