cross-posted from: https://rabbitea.rs/post/280182
I think this is appropriate here!
‘I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair’
Imagine thinking it’s okay for a corporation has the right to dictate how you look and treat your body.
They don’t have the right to control what you do to your hair. They do have the right to put someone with a more professional look in a client facing front house position.
It is complicated.
On one side companies sometimes have policies on the appearance of their client-facing people due to wanting to project the kind of image some customers expects (humans in general are pretty superficial in passing judgement, even when they’re supposed to be hardnosed professionals, so some client representatives will have their judgment - which in the ideal world would be entirelly done on professional grounds - affected by the appearance of the front of the house personnel) rather than because people inside that company actually care about it.
On the other side, this stuff is widelly abused in the highly hierarchical structure which is the typical company to very visibly demonstrate the power of management through making the most visibly free-thinking employees comply (or leave, they don’t care: the purpose is for it to be seen by the rest so as to induce them to “do as they’re told” and even create an environment of peer pressure for compliance, the kind of environment were you have things like for example “a culture of unpaid long-hours”).
“More professional looking” has historically been used to justify racism and sexism.
Looking like a professional means looking like the person who knows how to do this job, whatever it is. Professionals come in all sizes, shapes, and colors. If I have a different mental image of “looking like a professional plumber” to “looking like a professional nurse” to “looking like a professional accountant,” that’s my bias and shouldn’t dictate who can be those things. Nor how they can wear their hair except for safety.
It’s not like she’s unclean, or doing her job poorly, or harassing the customers.
$20 says he’s a white cis male that earns under $15 an hour and fights against a living wage.
She’s Ms. Extra because she’s resisting bullying by an incompetent employer?
It’s not wholly unreasonable for a business to have some kind of appearance standard for front-of-house employees. But it is unreasonable to hire people for those positions literally sight unseen, and it’s a stupidly written policy if pink hair violates it while ridiculous wigs do not.
Besides, it’s 2023. Brightly colored hair is hardly an outrageous and rare sight to see. No one is going to stop frequenting a business because they were greeted by someone with pink hair.
No one is going to stop frequenting a business because they were greeted by someone with pink hair.
Some will but you didn’t want them there in the first place, any profit the company makes off their purchase was going to be negated into the red by taking up employee time with stupid requests and complaints.
This deserved 172 downvotes appearently… Lol :)
It’s a very very sensitive Lemmy user group…
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If you went over to the /funny sub and complained about the person in the post being funny what kind of a response would you expect?
Honestly I wouldn’t even downvote.
I think having an opinion is something I appreciate, even when it’s not a popular one or one I agree with.
Lots of little keyboard warriors gets upset when someone has an opinion they don’t agree with, but to me, that’s perfectly normal.
Look at all these lemmings swarming you! Emphasis on calm the fuck down lol.
I look at blue/pink/whatever hair like Asian character tattoos. I like Dr. House’s take on the subject. https://youtu.be/jUwo-IjufdM?si=1JQg1U-XE5ITAvrU
How do you not know that Dr House is the villain in that show? Im this clip his own colleague calls him out for it. This clip clearly shows how biased and judgemental he is without basis. He fucking abuses pills in this scene. THAT’S A CLUE.
Do you think Heisenberg is the hero, too?
Dude, ew. House is not a role model. Looking at his anti-social assholery is entertaining. But he is not a good or even reasonable person most of the time. He is a high functioning sociopath.
I like when House does the exact same thing this girl is doing. https://youtu.be/KFdrqn3tG18?feature=shared&t=12
… I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. How is that at all the same thing? He wore a costume to a costume party. This girl wore a costume to her client facing position while working. There’s no universe where this is the same thing.
Doing something to playfully point out the silliness of the policy…or she could sue. Seems like she did the less extra of those two options.
I have a friend who was upset he couldn’t wear shorts to the office while women could wear capri pants…he found women’s capri pants in his size and wore them. I guess he’s extra as well?
The fun part of this statement is I’m not sure if you’re talking about the commenter or the employer.
