Cisco's purple princesses gush workplace joy The faceless drones among you whose workplace misery is compounded by the need to adhere to a strict dress code are invited to gaze with envy upon this blog post revealing that Cisco is - in contrast to its reputation as "a boring, stodgy company" - actually a hotbed of individuality, personal freedom and radical hair colour. …
I don't... I mean... What?
Is this some kind of recruitment thing to show that Cisco is just as cool as Google/Facebook/et al? Or at least Larry "I'm on a boat" Ellisons Oracle... This whole article seems like it has been ripped straight from my little girls "Lego Friends" magazine.
But good for them I guess, no chance I'd be allowed purple hair here.
Having had to suffer that thing too, did you realise that if you ask nicely, Lego will change it back to the "normal" magazine that they send to boys? I have two of each and when Lego launched the Friends magazine a couple of years ago they automatically changed the girls' subscriptions to the new girly thing and both girls opted to change straight back to the same magazine the boys were receiving.
Not that either is really worth reading to be honest...
M.
Mine loves it though. My Little Pony, Disney Princess and Lego Friends all over the house.
Hopefully when the boys older the Mrs will let me get Mindstorms for him or at least Technic. Or some of that cool Halo stuff.
I swear to god if she didn't insist on coming with when we went to <insert favoured toy store>
They can inherit my sets :)
I inherited my brother's Lego - he's 12 years older than I am - and my children have inherited mine. Short of Meccano, is there any other toy where 50+ year-old parts are still worth playing with and work perfectly with the stuff coming out next year? I was in work by the time Mindstorms first came out and all my spare cash went on a mortgage...
Oh, actually, Hornby. The points had all melted, but nearly all the rest of my track from the 1970s is in use in the railway my eldest is building in my dad's attic. Rolling stock and buildings too, but the engines, not so much, though one or two of them ran on d.c. when we tried them and have been revived (not easy) with dcc receivers.
M.
FFS, this is news?
No, thus the article is filed under the Bootnotes section.
Are US companies really that controlling?
Some are. Disney is a good example of a company that likes to get into its employees' personal lives, even for non-public-facing jobs. On the other hand, I supported an agency at the Pentagon for several years while I had a fairly long pony tail (I'm a guy) and it was a non-issue. What constitutes "business appropriate" has certainly evolved over time.
I work for Cisco systems- the culture is really open and conducive to personal expression. It is probably one of the best places I have worked at thanks to how down to earth and helpful everyone is. I realize it is dependent on which group you work for, but as a whole this story doesn't really surprise me.
Anon for obvious reasons. But they'll probably be the next people to go in the next round of annual 'restructuring' that goes on at Cisco...
I enjoyed my time there, but it was pretty crap when the entirety of the team was chopped in one fateful morning. That said, I'd consider working there again.
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