Sysadmin Dress Code [closed]

What kind of dress code do you have at work as a systems administrator?

Business casual, casual, some days casual, some days business casual, formal? It's safe to say "it all depends on the type of day we're planning on having" - but what happens if you need to speak to some C level personnel? Do you have a spare set of clothes?

Solution 1:

Our office staff have a semi-formal requirement to wear "neat office casual", which is the normal step or so down from collar and tie, with casual Fridays. While I normally follow that trend, mainly because mine is the first office people pass on the way to the boardroom, I'm free to dress pretty much as I like.

I generally try to look reasonably respectable, at least to the point where I don't stand out too much from the crowd, because I figure some one those people walking past my office may one day be interviewing me for a job. ;)

I used to keep a tie in the office in for use in meetings with people from outside the company but I no longer do that, as I've never actually put it on.

Solution 2:

Someone told me one day : "Dress for the job level you're trying to reach", and it must be one of the best advice I've ever heard in my professional life.