No More Short Skirts Ladies - Says A Law Firm

It has been reported that law firm Allen & Overy has sent out an official HR email to trainees regarding the dress code. Basically, the action was taken after complaints against the shorter skirts and very high heels of quite a number of women at office.

Dozens of trainee solicitors there arrived in very short skirts, which in turn revealed quite a lot of flesh - that was not appreciated in the office environment. The company had a few complaints that it felt like the girls are going clubbing instead of an office.

The email was sent to the company's 105 trainees to remind them of their expected dress code. So, if they will not increase the length of their skirts and reduce the height of their heels - they can have unpleasant discussions with the HR department.

Similarly, in 2003 JP Morgan issued a memo to its male employees to shave, polish their shoes and consider investing in an iron.

Well, I have experienced these sort of things in my work experience as well. In one of the places I worked we had no HR department. The influential lot used to insult the junior lot. There were no set rules in this case...things were different from everyone. I was told I was hardly a girl. Some of us were told not to wear jeans to work although it was ok for some to dress inappropriately as if they had come out from a club. Once in a while, the big boss also told my boss to shave off his beard.

It was a bit unorganized way of spreading discipline I feel but just wrote it down so that people would know that even MNCs can be quite lost.

Apart from that I do feel dress code and standards need to be clearly communicated and followed by employees, trainees and employers alike. Workplace must look like an office and not a club or party place. And now most places do have casual Fridays anyway to break the monotony so it should not be such a problem.

Massive Email Theft At Epsilon Can Harm Customers

This is some important information that everyone should know. Millions of customers of majors brands are being warned that they can be bombarded with spam emails after hackers stole important details of a huge database of many renowned companies.

Barclaycard, Citigroup, a subsidiary of Amazon are just a few of the big firms who are facing this dilemma after the hacking took place at Epsilon - an online marketing firm in Dallas, Texas on March 30th.

Others in the list include Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott hotel and Kroger supermarket chain stores. These companies are telling their customers to be ware and not to give any information to any emails.

Anyhow, as a result of this hacking, customers email addresses and names have been leaked. It is quite possible that they will spam mails or fake mails that will ask them for more important account information, bank account numbers, etc. Everyone should refrain from replying back to such emails.

Epsilon has given no details on how the hackers broke into their systems but it working with the law enforcing agencies to resolve the issue soon.