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Title: Etiquette, Jr. by Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley ISBN: 0-385-08927-9 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Library Binding List Price(USD): $4.43

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Summary: Some revisions required for developers
Comment: It is fairly obvious that these rules were written long ago. But still, they are mostly still appropriate for the modern day developer work environment. Let me explain...

> Be clean. Do not start off to work in an untidy suit or dress, with
> unpolished shoes, untidy nails, unkempt hair

This is correct. Wearing a suit or dress to write software is straight outta the old IBM mandate of dark suit, white shirt, black tie and neatly slicked hair. No self respecting developer would be caught dead looking like such a sales dweeb. The uniform of todays developer is a bright yellow tee, faded jeans, white socks and sandles.

> or with evidences of having recently eaten garlic or onions.

Gladly, evidences of having ingested jimmy bean or jagermeister the previous night is considered OK.

> Bath every day and, if possible, twice a day; nothing takes the place
> of soap and water. 'The nose knows.'

This rule is modified a bit if the developers work day is longer than 24 hours. A 48 or 72 hour work day is still considered one day in developer time. Thus, two showers per calander week is often sufficient.

> Always wear fresh underwear, for the same reason.

Likewise, this rule is modified if the developer is using the length of his skid marks to determine if he's been coding too long.

> Do not wear party clothes to work,

Very true. A leather thong and nipple clamps are inappropriate attire in the modern day cubicle.

> Do not eat except during lunch hours, and then only in the place
> appointed you to eat.

Yes, there was once an era with actual "lunch hours". In that era, eating at your desk while working wasn't the norm. This rule is completely out of place in todays work environment.

> Never pick your teeth in public; do not chew gum. Both are
> atrociously bad form.

Unless of course it's 3am, you're alone in the office and have been coding for no less than 1.5 skid mark inches.

> Do not chew the office's pencils or your finger nails.

True except "the office's pencils" is replaced by "your stylus". A chewed stylus will scratch the screen of your PDA.

> If you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth with your handkerchief. A
> person must always cover his mouth with a handkerchief to hide a yawn ~
> but, then, no one should yawn at work!

Grabbing a paper napkin off the stack acquired from the last trip to Del Taco to get an order of Macho Nachos will suffice. The yawning rule does not apply while reading man pages or perldoc as the developer would likely suffocate.

> After using your handkerchief do not examine it, but replace it where
> it belongs.

Unless the developer is in need of inspiration for a new logo to place on the sourceforge page of a new project.

> Do not leave it lying around.

Don't let a rival developer take credit for *your* new logo.