‘Being yourself’
As you read earlier, the CEO of Hautzig Co. thinks it’s important to appear successful. He believed that your appearance says a lot about who you are as a person. In a professional environment, you should dress professionally. In his eyes you could never be taken seriously if you didn’t dress ‘seriously’.
Johan was also disgusted by people who always wanted to ‘be themselves’. Be yourself? You can do that at home, he thought. An employee of his company worked about 40 hours a week. Johan couldn’t imagine that it was a big sacrifice not to ‘be yourself’ for 40 hours. Not that Johan didn’t have an opinion about what people did in their spare time, but in the office he was the boss.
The boss who was now face to face with someone who didn’t take it all that seriously…