There’s a line where it’s not okay. Jeans and a collared shirt is becoming the new normal, which is fine. But I have to ask what’s your opinion on Southwest Airlines Dispatchers? Where they’re allowed to wear shorts from what I’m told and open toed sandals!
Billion dollar business deals happen all the time, in informal golf clothes. Perception is what you make it, you could add it’s what the company makes it. At one point UPS dispatched in full suits, that didn’t make anyone better at their job.
We don’t work together so it doesn’t matter but my general reaction is, don’t make your perception my problem, (applies to everyone). Some of the smartest people in an operations room are dispatchers, and when you look over and see jeans you’d be naive if your opinion changed. Maybe it’s a generational thing, I have no problem admitting that I’m a non-safe space millennial.
Also I wore jeans and a collared shirt on the first date with my wife sooo.