I've done my part fighting false corporacy bro. It's always the same scenario played over and over a bunch of diddling directors and middling managers cuddling up to their overlords while the team is sold up the river based on their performance evaluations. You'd think we'd learn to DRY but we can't apply systems thinking to our corporate citizenship it's easier to be governed by morlocks.
Speaking of dress have you ever seen an engineering culture where people take their jobs seriously enough to dress up for work, outside of the movies? Huh me neither.
Ever wonder why the root word of investment is 'vestment' as in 'article of clothing?'
For me it was the millionth time I saw my manager wearing the same printed sweatshirt with an illustration of an astronaut that caused me to lose all hope for this industry as a whole.
Edit - I guess you may not see the correlation but it goes to attitude
Software people are so keen to fit in yet not seem organized that they refuse to dress up for work and this is a litmus test for whether they will ever be a strong group versus a collection of free radicals. Doubtful until a new generation able to see through the games comes through kinda like -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404186
The answer is always right under our noses but we refuse to see it. It's hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep as it's said.