It was due to an advantageous loophole in the corporate dress code. About 2/3 of the software developers on my team did it. It was as much of an inside joke as the memorial stack of the useless, corporate-branded, brass-plated railway spikes that grew by one every time someone left the company.
Every time the c-level poured out more Flavor-Aid, we checked the height of the stack and estimated the days left until all of us would be fired for not resigning fast enough.
To name names: Corporation Service Company. If they buy your company, find a new gig ASAP.
Their primary business is registered agents. They are literally a company that provides services to corporations, related to their status as a corporation. Registered agents, annual filings, service of process, domain name registration management, etc.
At some point, they decided that intellectual property research and protection services were in their milieu, so they bought up the best team I have ever worked with, and summarily threw us all in the trash, because apparently all the value of the acquisition was in the code base rather than the personnel.
I would prepare a special place in Hell for the principals, if I could get there first.
It was due to an advantageous loophole in the corporate dress code. About 2/3 of the software developers on my team did it. It was as much of an inside joke as the memorial stack of the useless, corporate-branded, brass-plated railway spikes that grew by one every time someone left the company.
Every time the c-level poured out more Flavor-Aid, we checked the height of the stack and estimated the days left until all of us would be fired for not resigning fast enough.
To name names: Corporation Service Company. If they buy your company, find a new gig ASAP.