Google's Peter Fleischer vs Ties

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Google’s Peter Fleischer vs Ties

Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, in a letter to the Financial Times on July 21 writes (signing with his Google job title, no less):

Sir, Your fashion editor analyses whether the tie has a future (...). Well, it has a rather bloody past, to be sure.

It constricts circulation to the brain. And it acts as decorative camouflage for the business suit, designed to shield the middle-aged male physique, with its shrinking shoulders and protruding paunch, from feeling sufficiently self-conscious to hit the gym. (...)

Why should you trust a man in business if he abuses his own body? (...)

I work at Google. Our unofficial motto is, “Be serious without a suit.”

Without further ado, I below present a gallery of Google managers who Mr. Fleischer accuses of constricted brain circulation:

Eric Schmidt, Google Chief Executive Officer