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’

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      They’re probably conservative dickheads.

      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.