Dear Bob ... You say the issue of dress codes refuses to die. So I think you have to admit that while to you, it seems rather petty, to many other people, it is a major quality-of-job issue. I also disagree with your flippant, "women get the short-end on other issues, so let them dress however they want" attitude. By that, you are saying that double-standards are OK. Fine, then that justifies other, and more one Dear Bob …You say the issue of dress codes refuses to die. So I think you have to admit that while to you, it seems rather petty, to many other people, it is a major quality-of-job issue.I also disagree with your flippant, “women get the short-end on other issues, so let them dress however they want” attitude. By that, you are saying that double-standards are OK. Fine, then that justifies other, and more onerous, double standards. The idea is that a person’s business attire should reflect that they are not at home, not at the beach, not on vacation. It should also pay close attention to what the person’s function is in the workplace.I disagree with you that being ticked about management letting women walk around barefoot is petty. It is unprofessional. Just like your recent writer’s remarks about some of the outfits his female co-workers wear.– Not done with dress codes Dear Not Done …The question isn’t whether the 55-year-old female manager who wears a microskirt is right or wrong in her choice of attire. She’s wrong. The question is whether it’s worth an erg of your energy and a millisecond of your time to worry about it. My answer is that it isn’t.Women can go barefoot. Men can’t, at least where you work. In the workplace, unless everyone wears an identical tunic, femine and masculine attire are going to be different. This is just an example. My own perspective is that a barefoot woman looks feminine. A man in his socks often has smelly feet. That’s me and my taste. In the absence of smelly feet I don’t care either way. If the dress code, stated or otherwise, where you work says women in bare feet are okay but men aren’t, it might be unfair but again, it doesn’t pass the erg/millisecond test.Put more generally, there are problems worth the time and energy to fix, and there are problems that are best handled by ignoring them.On a more personal note, what concerns me is this: There are people who really are victims of serious injustices, and I applaud these people when they stand up and fight for their rights. Then there’s a different category – people who start with a need to be the victim of something, and so search for inequities they’re on the losing end of. If anyone looks hard enough they’ll succeed in finding them. But it’s a bad idea, because it’s takes the unhealthy mental habit of finding someone to blame for our own problems, and adding an intense search for a problem to blame them for.I’m concerned you might be headed in that direction.– Bob ——– Technology Industry