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Originally Posted by Larry Legend
I actually find this business casual convo to be more logical from jmakins side.
People see the new guy dressing nicely, it reminds them they have decent clothes and can also dress nicely, so they do it.
I've seen this exact thing happen many times before.
People can be influenced by others, especially among fashion-conscious people but usually people for whom "business casual" is an obvious upgrade are usually extremely oblivious or apathetic. Also, the claim isn't that some people started dressing slightly nicely but that every single person went from being a complete slob to business casual. I've been at multiple companies with no dress code and it's rare to see anyone in sweatpants or that level of casualness, let alone everyone doing it consistently. Basically everyone wears somewhere between jeans/tshirts/sneakers and business casual, with very occasional gym clothes, yoga pants, sweaters, ties and dress shirts.
There are enough things that are strange - from everyone wearing sweatpants at work to everyone suddenly dressing well to caring about this to thinking that you're the cause of it to being proud of it to thinking that this is a normal thing that doesn't require further explanation - it's obvious that we're missing some context here. This is on top of the general strangeness about the job situation - new software engineer hire being given almost entirely project management type of work and there being apparently no senior person besides the manager with any kind of leadership or management skills. It's gone from strange but I could see it to too strange to be fiction territory.