I got fired from a job I didn't even have for violating their dress code.

Here's what happened.

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This is from the 80s.

I was the East Coast expert on a big mainframe company network gear.

I was associated with the manufacturing plant but I did customer site visits to help field

engineering either install or more often fix installations that weren't working.

On customer visits it was suit and tie.

Since I often worked in computer rooms I never wore white shirts because of the dirt issue.

My default was an up and down striped button down shirt and a pale blue or green or something

like that. I flew to Boston to work with a sales droid on configuration of a system they were

trying to sell to a big bank. Sales droid says minor change.

First we need to go to this mandatory sales droid meeting headed up by the regional VP of sales.

I get there and it's a sea of white shirts and ties and me in my colored shirt.

I sit in the fifth row and the room has about 50 to 60 people.

The regional VP gets on stage doing his best to excite the troops to go out and sell millions.

Everyone's clapping and cheering and mid-sentence he sees me and stops.

Hey you, where's your white shirt?

I look around and figure he may be talking to me so I point to myself.

Yeah you in the blue shirt all of my staff everyone that works for me wears a white shirt.

Okay good to know thanks thanks get out and don't come back until you're wearing a white shirt.

You want me to go and not come back unless I'm wearing a white shirt?

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