Well-dressed employee constantly gets more work dumped on them, considers dressing poorly to avoid overload: 'I feel like I keep getting projects because I come dressed to work'

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• Dressing Bad on Purpose?

  
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• Commenters wondered if there might be more going on here.

  
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• Sometimes we assume competence based on appearance, like how everyone looks to the tallest person in the room if there's ever an emergency. It's not a reasonable assumption, but it's a base instinct. And sometimes we as humans cannot rise above our base instincts. So you have to play to those instincts sometimes. If you don't want your boss to give you more work, you might not want to project competence through your appearance. Or you could just like… tell them that you're overwhelmed. But subtle communication might be all you feel like you can handle, and that's okay. It's sometimes fun to test out the theories you have in your head. It might teach you something about the way people see you. That's what this employee was thinking about doing, but they wanted more opinions and takes on the question. Sometimes you need to put an idea out there just to see how it will feel. You never know what kind of insights and opinions strangers on the internet might have. They may even free you from whatever psychological pain you might be in. Keep on reading to see what happened here and take part in the discourse it inspired.

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