#FunFriday – The Best of HR & Social Media Geeky T-Shirts
A few Friday’s ago I spoke candidly about what I thought about Casual Fridays, and the message was pretty clear: The dress for your company should be driven by your culture, and your culture should be aligned with your business. When companies recruit and hire good, smart candidates that are a fit for their culture – they should know how to police their own wardrobe to represent the company.
With that being said, if your company does have a loose Casual Friday policy, or if you work somewhere where you can wear whatever the hell you want, check out some of your selections below, with my reviews. Alternatively, you can rock these at the bar on Friday night. Do it, and take a picture, and I’ll start a whole new page on my site dedicated to people in Geeky T-Shirts all over the world!
T-Shirt #1 – Social Media Venn Diagram
Geeky in their own right, Venn Diagrams are show logical relations between a group of things. The guy in this photo alone cracks me up – dude, haircut – ASAP. But anyway, how true is this geeky T-Shirt? It shows the relationship between Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter to Narcissism, ADHD, and Stalking. If you missed my post on Foursquare last week, I laid out the undeniable fact that “Stalkers everywhere are rejoicing and high-fiving each other at the sheer joy of Foursquare!”
This T-Shirt is available at Despair, Inc’s website. Get it. Love it. Take pictures.
Tweeter most likely to have this geeky shirt: Chris Hoyt
T-Shirt #2 – Peace – Love – Human Resources
Peace. Love. Human Resources – Makes you want to just hug it out eh? It also symbolizes everything that is wrong with HR. Not too long ago, Sarah White did a post on her blog about candidates being way too nice. This goes for the HR pros out there as well. We get it – some of you have to deal with employee relations and other touchy feely employment issues. For the rest of you, focus on applying Chris Ferdinandi‘s Renegade HR philosophy to Human Resources: Recruit great people, and help them do amazing things that drive your business.
If you are in human resources, don’t be afraid to mix it up, especially if you are in a systems role – projects don’t manage themselves. It’s not always about Peace and Love. It’s about getting the right people. Delivery. Protecting the door. Being overly protective of your company’s brand and culture. In the meantime, buy this geeky shirt anyway from Cafe Press – also available in pink and neon green – and don’t forget to take pictures.
Tweeter most likely to have this geeky shirt: Laurie Ruettimann
T-Shirt #3 – Darth Vader’s “I Want You for the Dark Side”
Are you a recruiter? Star Wars fan? You get the best of both worlds here with the Vader “I Want YOU For The Dark Side” recruiting T-shirt!
That is a great idea for a blog post by the way – talking about the parallel’s between Star Wars and Recruiting passive candidates. Maybe the HR Capitalist could make that happen.
As of this posting, this product is ‘currently unavailable’ from the Star Wars Shop. I’m assuming this is because the Twitter recruiter circle has bought them up already. You know who you are.
Tweeter most likely to have this geeky shirt: Geoff Webb
T-Shirt #4 – Corn On The Job
Blogger Rich DeMatteo has taken the geeky t-shirt to a whole new level with his Corn Heads Community on his blog. If you read Rich’s stuff, you know that he has a diverse following made up of HR/Recruiting folks, job seekers, vendors, professional resume writers, and students who will soon be entering the work force. He plans to bring these people together by granting them Corn Head status. That’s right – get a t-shirt with this fancy logo on the front, take a picture, and wallah – you are a… Corn Head.
Who would do that right? Lots of people. Check out the early adopters on his Corn Head page. Don’t laugh, yours will be there soon enough.
Tweeter most likely to have this geeky shirt: James Oley, Samantha Karol, Sarah White, Samantha Ogborn, and tons of others. It’s like a cult!
Have a favorite t-shirt that didn’t make the list? Already have one of these? Planning to invest in one of these shirts for your high school reunion? Don’t be shy, let us hear it in the comments section.
Love the post! And YES!! I will be sporting my CornHead shirt on the site soon!
Ha! Love the shirts, Jason. Thanks for the mention – and the fun article to read. I’m a huge fan of tee-shirts. HYOUGH.
I’m strongly considering picking up the Corn on the Job Tee.
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Hey Jason – thanks for talking about my Corn Head project and making people aware of my geeky t-shirt/community.
Sarah – better get your picture/bio in soon!
Chris – would love to add you to the Corn Head community!
Rich – I’ll get it over to you tonight or tomorrow!
Sarah – I can see you sporting any of these shirts… and more. I think you will be ‘out-geeked’ at sxsw though.
Chris – Thanks for stopping in and commenting. I highly recommend the Corn On The Job Tee, I’m in the process of picking up mine as well!
Rich – No problem. I love what you are doing over there at http://www.cornonthejob.com. Keep the good stuff coming.
Guys – this article was fun to read and we’re big fans of casual Fridays. Love the “Corn on the Job” idea – very clever and we’ll look into getting some of these around the office soon!
Thanks for the comment Sean! I’m sure Rich will appreciate your support. Hit up http://www.cornonthejob.com for your shirts and tell him you found him over at HR Think Tank!