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    If you have a hugely negative reaction due to a company culture that quickly, it is a waste of your time to stay there all day just to tough it out when the job market is such an open market for people who can code right now. If you code (well) you have the ability to pick your job in some sense. Why waste your time with a job you don't think at all you will like.
    – enderland
    Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 23:47
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    Your third point is an interesting take on the managers possible agenda, however I don't think if he were to take the job that it would work. The team is usually limited by the quality of its slowest member, and restrained by the prejudices of its most vocal and whiny members.
    – maple_shaft
    Commented Aug 28, 2012 at 23:52
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    Re: "Maybe the company would have been very happy for him to come to work in a suit every day": I don't think that really addresses the issue. I dislike a noisy work environment, even if the company is O.K. with me sitting quietly while everyone else is loud. I imagine that people who dislike jeans and sandals would feel likewise.
    – ruakh
    Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 20:12
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    I agree that the OP should have quit if he really felt he couldn't have worked in a place where the majority of people didn't dress like him. However noise is genuinely disruptive, but nobody can say that the guy at the next desk wearing jeans really stops them working.
    – DJClayworth
    Commented Oct 24, 2012 at 16:39