This would have inhibited my early career
As a tech writer starting out in the 1970s, I always knew which s/w engineers to ask for help: The scruffiest-dressed ones with the most-unkempt hair. I knew they were good if they could get away with appearing like that, as it was clearly deliberate. Homeless people would have given them money.
HP should just keep snobbish customers away from those parts of the offices.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
