Mullets are probably OK, tho.
Posted on 07/01/2006 2:33:46 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
What are ‘extreme’ hairdos for amusement park workers?
By ROSE RUSSELL
FOLKS are intimidated about hair, especially black people’s hair. This was an issue in the 1980s, and hasn’t been in the news until recently when Six Flags amusement park in Largo, Md., targeted employees wearing “extreme hairstyles,” such as locks — also called dreadlocks — long braids, and some cornrows.
The park’s new general manger is a black man. But more about Terry Prather later.
Six Flags America’s 2006 seasonal handbook says workers can’t wear locks, tails, partially shaved heads, “or any hairstyle that detracts or takes away from Six Flags theming,” the Washington Post reports.
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If they don't like the rules they can work someplace else. What's so hard to understand here?
Mullets are probably OK, tho.
Exactly. And if people think that Six Flag's dress code is unfair, then they don't have to give them their money.
Problem solved.
Exactly. I mean is there a roaring demand by the public to be served by people in dread locks? Its Six Flags business after all, let them run it as they see fit.
I work for a very conservative Fortune 10 firm. We do not even have casual dress days. Its full business suit, every day.
That is what their corportate image is. That is part of who they are---the culture if you will.
If I object and want to wear shorts and loafers to work, I am free to do so. Somewhere else, that is.
Almost every work place and educational institution, and many social ones and even restaurants and such have dress codes. Everyone can choose to participate or not.
Turning dress codes into racial issues is ridiculous.
I wonder if they also have limits on body piercings?
Well said, and welcome to FreeRepublic!
What ever the corporation says it is !!!
My senses didn't fail me here.
What are "extreme" hairstyles?
What ever the EMPLOYER says it is!
I agree absolutely that Six Flags or any other company has the right to make determinations about how their employees are to dress and groom themselves. Presumably Six Flags has done some valid market research and knows what does or does not appeal to its customers. If they determine that dreads or rows alienate customers it is their right--nay, their responsibility to their stockholders--to dictate grooming for their public-contact employees. It's not any different than expecting them to wear a uniform. If potential employees don't like it they're free to seek work elsewhere.
That said, I as middle-aged white woman am not in the least turned off by blacks wearing long braids, dreads, or rows. I think it's attractive when men shave their heads altogether.
I find piercings more unattractive then just about any hair style.
Most companies in the hospitality business have rules governing employees appearance.
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Something that is not taught in school anymore is the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.
In this case you might say it is the park but in a broader sense it is the people who patronize the park.
For some reason dress code is the second biggest employee problem employers have. Even safety dress codes are routinely challenged until some one either is fired or has a hunk ripped out of their scalp when their hair got caught in the equipment. Then they quit arguing about it. For about six months.
I agree about the body piercings. I have stopped going to one shop, because the young man who is the cashier has pierced ears (two on one ear), a pierced eyebrow, a nose ring, and a tongue piercing. I really can't stand to look at him.
I don't find his pony tail hairdo particularly attractive, but it's not as bad as the piercings.
I wouldn't blame the shop owner if he or she decided this young man wasn't the image they wanted.
A woman after my own heart, I see! ;-)
The first time I saw a pierced eyebrow, I thought the poor little girl had a tumor. Then I wondered why she painted it silver. Then I realized she had two ball-bearings on a post stuck into her head.
I gagged all the way to my car.
I know just what you mean. I can ignore one piercing, if there's someplace else to look. But the multitudes get to me.
I don't have any problem with employers deciding what their image to customers should be. A minimum of piercings, somewhat reasonable hair styles, and clothes that fit don't sound like unreasonable standards to me.
My company used to be that way. Now most people dress like slobs. I still wear white shirts, suits and ties.
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