[John Rogers]

About 15 years ago when teaching an introduction to computers class, the students had to visit a local store in their out of class time and come up with a "computer system" to fill certain specs. At that time the computer "geeks" working at Comp USA and other stores were really a pain in the ass so I suggested that the students actually make two trips, one very well dressed and one in sweats and such. I also suggested the ladies try dressing in their "party" outfits to see if it made any difference and what did we find......The party outfits got the best service but were treated like they were dumb, well dressed got good service and were treated well and slobs were generally ignored!

Some of them actually went back later and raised hell but it never mattered I guess!