Posted on 02/12/2015 4:41:44 PM PST by rickmichaels
A cashier at an Ottawa Loblaws grocery store has filed a discrimination grievance with his union, alleging he was told he could not wear pigtails to work.
Adam Stone, 22, told CBC News he expresses himself through his hair — and has worn various styles and wigs to work over the past year.
"I'm also openly gay and queer-identified. So I also feel it's a representation of my sexuality and my gender presentation," said Stone, who has worked for Loblaws for about four years.
On Tuesday, he said his store manager told him that his pigtails were a health and safety hazard since he works around food.
"He said it was crazy hair, and spiked out and that it was out of control," Stone said. "Then he said there's also some customers at the store who are very conservative and that it might turn away these customers."
Stone argued his pigtails comply with the store rule that if your hair is longer than your shoulders, it must be pulled back.
"I just find it fun. I don't even think my hair's that wild. I don't think anyone else would be having this issue unless it was a boy in pigtails," he said. "He didn't explicitly say that I looked too gay, but it was really the implication that I'm not gender-conformative enough."
In a statement to CBC News, the company's vice-president of corporate affairs and communication said that Loblaws was "committed to advancing diversity and inclusion." Kevin Groh said he was very concerned about the description of the conversation, and that it will be investigated.
"While there are certainly underlying food safety and hygiene considerations to be made, if the conversation occurred as described, it falls short of our commitment to fair, respectful, inclusive treatment of our many LGBT colleagues," Groh said.
I thought pig tails were braids. I thought those were pony tails.
Regardless, I have actually complained to management at Walmart when some freak (hair dyed pink and blue with gigantic mohawk spikes and assorted nuts and bolts on her face) tried to serve me in the music department.
I think we should help employers rid themselves of offensive employees if they so choose.
“I’m also openly gay and queer-identified. So I also feel it’s a representation of my sexuality and my gender presentation,”....
He probably needs to wear a big sign so customers can avoid him and the store.
Fire him and then fumigate the store.
Canada ping!
I wear bigass glasses...sometimes aviators...need em to drive, watch TV etc. The wife went with me when I got glasses once. She says I look like an old fart in my big glasses(I think they look cool especially the aviator shades). ‘I am an old fart’ I told her ‘so what’. I tried on a couple of pairs she picked. Because they were so thin you had to move your head to see through them at what you wanted to look at. With big glasses I can just move my eyes for a wide view without having to move my head.....I'd love to know who makes up the current styles and give em a good swift kick
My view is smaller lens >> less weight >> more comfortable.
I wear the smallest lens (vertical dim) that will take a progressive bifocal and a titanium half frame. But I have to wear glasses pretty much all the time.
Canada Ping!
That’s the problem with preaching peace, tolerance, and diversity - someone might think that you mean it.
Anyway the weight of modern glasses (I too wear them almost all the time) are light in comparison to what I wore in the 60s and 70s.
If you don’t like it you can lump it. Your employers make the rules.
Why can’t these weirdoes be weird on their own time?
Because they are attention whores.
Kinda like this:
LOL! That groovy 70s eyewear needs to make a comeback!
Wow - didn’t know Loblaws still existed. We used to shop there when I was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh area.
All the little liberals ran out and bought them when Hillary started wearing them. Young, old, male, female, doesn't matter - it's a loyalty proclamation thing that Hillary's people chose precisely because it stands out. And it makes them all look ridiculous.
It's not new for her, though. She's done army boots, big huge cheap bead necklaces, the chopped dyed blond look, ugly mumus, etc. But they're all ever about nothing but loyalty.
As for why you want to punch this guy, it's because he's got a smug jackass expression on his face. Probably because he's a smug jackass.
Exactly what I was thinking.
He’s a sodomite. He likes to play with other men’s genitals and anuses.
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