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Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair

www.thelondoneconomic.com Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair

‘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’

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‘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’

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1y ago

Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair

www.thelondoneconomic.com /news/woman-says-she-started-wearing-terrible-wigs-after-work-banned-her-pink-hair-2-356130/

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- I think we can already tell which one you dislike more.
  
  "Women bad, they're so emotional, unlike me"
  
  Proceeds to emotionally tell everyone to calm the fuck down.
  
  While being the only emotional one
  DAMN YOU MOTHER
- 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.
  
  "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.
  
  We're not talking about racism. Nobody has pink hair naturally. This individual made a choice to appear a certain way. If that is contrary to the business's image they are trying to project then they have every right to terminate her or at least put in a back office role, not front house client facing.
  Also how does not fall under dress code? Basically the same thing and nobody finds that controversial for the most part.
  
  She had pink hair when they hired her. If the organization has rules about things like this then the hiring manager is the one at fault.
  
  Mistakes can never be corrected, got it.
  
  Only ones like you!
  
  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").
  
  Businesses have the right to not be represented by someone with pink hair if they don't want that to be their image. If I show up at work dressed up like a clown I'm probably gonna get a talking to. I don't understand what the controversy is.
  
  She had pink hair when they hired her. No one at the company bothered to engage with even a Zoom call to screen her appearance, so they are gonna do what now, exactly?
- If playfully poking fun at authority by demonstrating how the intended consequences of petty rules can be subverted creatively irks you, you're in the wrong community, hun.
- Imagine getting this worked up over someone's hair color
  
  Yeah, the only concern is whether the hair style could cause issues (notably a lot of hair can be an issue in some jobs), and even than you can manage most of the time.
  But an office is not one of those places.
  
  The fun part of this statement is I'm not sure if you're talking about the commenter or the employer.
  
  Yes
- 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?
- A rando on the internet doesn't like women, never seen that before
  
  $20 says he's a white cis male that earns under $15 an hour and fights against a living wage.
- "Ms. Extra" spends her own time and money entertaining people while thumbing her nose at those corporate slugs. I think people who make other people happy are probably not throwing a tantrum.
- 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.
- Does anyone younger than a boomer even care about hair color? I'm 37 and while pink hair might stand out to me, that's only because of the rules written by those with sticks up their backsides, half a century ago. Ultimately, I don't give a damn.
- Maybe people with opinions like this are the ones who need to calm the fuck down. Okay little Miss. CryBaby? I have a sneaking suspicion that this comment isn't the worst of your red flags either.
- shut up, Snowflake
- This deserved 172 downvotes appearently... Lol :)
  It's a very very sensitive Lemmy user group....
  
  Go back to reddit.
  
  🤦
  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.
  
  I asked what you would expect.
  
  I would expect no responses or upvotes if nobody agrees.
  But I understand what you are saying. You think downvotes should be used to express disagreement, just like upvotes are used to express agreement.
  
  Then you're completely irrational, and there's really nothing else to say.
  
  I'm the irrational one? Ok... :)
  Cu around.
  
  But I understand what you are saying. You think downvotes should be used to express disagreement, just like upvotes are used to express agreement.
  Never once said or implied this.
  
  Well if you would have stuck around, maybe we would have had what is called a normal conversation where two people talk and learn something.
  
  There's nothing to discuss. You think that being openly antagonistic about the subject of a sub doesn't warrant rebuke. It's not a rational position.
  
  Except that's not what you have done here.
- 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
  
  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.
  
  Which is the entire point of the show. This guy probably had a Scarface poster in his man cave.
  
  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?
  
  Guess Heisenberg should've worn a pink wig huh? 🤣
  
  What?
  Do you think this is some sort of aposematism?
  How the fuck did you even come up with that?
  
  Fuck your stupid pink and blue hair lol that's how I came up with that
  
  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.
  
  Donning anti-conformity attire, or a silly loophole around it, is still conformity. That was the point he was barely making in your clip. He should have shown up in his normal clothes. This girl should have just kept her pink hair.
  
  It's a costume party!! Not an actual job! How tf are they at all the same thing 😂 🤦‍♂️

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