This Woman Wore The Same Shirt To 264 Zoom Meetings. No One Even Noticed
I don’t know about others but the pandemic has made me a serial procrastinator. And I’m already very lazy, didn’t know it could get worse than that! With all the kinds of jugaad I’ve done and seen my friends/colleagues do to attend office zoom meetings and online college classes, there is very little that would take me by surprise. But never say never, right?
Recently, in a fashion experiment, Jem wore the same blue Hawaiian shirt with flowers and pineapples for every meeting in the last 15 months. That is around 264 meetings and what’s surprising is that no one from her office even realized this. Says a lot about how much attention we pay at an office meeting.
She had brought the shirt from Gap in 2018 and wore it for her first meeting on April 2, 2020. Since then, she wore the same shirt for every meeting – involving one with the Board of directors, for various meetings with the internal team, and even external people – but no one seemed to notice the repeated outfit. In fact, when she told her team about her experiment, no one seemed to realize it, or maybe they just didn’t care enough.
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In a video of her’s that went viral, she said, “Today was the 264th meeting where I wore this shirt. It was my last day at work. When I told my team that I had been wearing the same shirt, they didn’t know what I was talking about. They hadn’t noticed. The intern literally said, “On purpose?” So, there’s that,’ she said in a video that has now gone viral.”
She also added, “Literally wore this shirt to every single meeting with my internal team, external folks, the board of directors. [I] recorded webinars that are then posted on our website — and no one knew what I was talking about. They truly had no idea.”
The online folks that follow her, were seriously impressed with this experiment. Whereas the others commented on the fact that this experiment shows that we put so much time and effort into getting ready when actually no one even notices what we wear.
Well whatever might be the case, one thing is for sure that people don’t really think that much about how we look other than ourselves. And if it’s a online meeting, people run out of energy to give pretty quickly. So you could be dressed in your Sunday best or something like the cat dragged in. No one cares.
