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[REPOST] Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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"They think this is better?"
Yes, they actually do. They're probably conservative dickheads. They know that pink hair is code for "I am a tolerant and kind person; I might be gay but not necessarily; I support counterculture ideas."
They hate the counterculture ideas. They don't hate the color pink. Covering it up with a terrible wig makes it about something else.
Or anyway, so they think. What they've actually done is given her an opportunity to start conversations about the pink hair.
Keen insight. I wouldn't have known she exists otherwise.
Hah! It doesn't even take that. All you need is a middle-management who doesn't support the rights of their workforce, is inconvenienced should a customer gin up complaints about OP's hair-color (whatever it is), and is generally just lazy and indifferent, learning from upper mgmt that growth & profits are 99% the things that count, followed by limiting liability situations. The workers themselves are just an inconvenient expense in the equation.