It’s time to take TS as a profession

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4327748&forum_id=2#38719920)

People who apply for jobs in British finance might come prepared with every educational qualification an employer could want. But then they show up for the interview and, whoops, they're wearing brown shoes. Formal dress shoes, of course -- they know it's a business interview and tried to style themselves accordingly -- but the shoes are brown. Nothing else in the interview matters. This applicant is out.

How The Company Sees It:

The interviewer doesn't necessarily care about shoes. But fashion is all about your knowledge of unspoken rules, and if you wear brown shoes, that shows you don't know how to represent yourself around clients. "Brown in town isn't done," said one person The Guardian interviewed on the subject. "It's just sartorially wrong." Another said, "I'll put on my black shoes. You're looked at like a bit of a spiv if not."

But Really:

I have this strange mental picture of an England in which most people live in helpless, quiet poverty. Unless you come from 20 consecutive generations of wealth, success is impossible. Ordinary people wake every morning in their council flats and wash their faces by putting a flannel under the cold tap, and then they take their ration card down to the home office to get their weekly allotment of Brexit. The privileged look down on them for silly reasons, like the color of their shoes. But surely I have no idea what I'm talking about, and in reality the situation there is much like anywhere else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4327748&forum_id=2#39727575)