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How do you feel about relaxed employee "uniform" standards?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Uniform doesn't just mean clothes, it means what type of hairstyle you can have, what jewelry you display, what tattoos are visible, and other forms of "personal expression".

Personally, I'm against this trend towards relaxed standards.

Disney just released its new "5th key" that is a "key of inclusion" (more left wing thinking) and they're relaxing uniform standards including allowing tattoos on display, piercings, and trans expression.

Personally when someone serves me in a service role, I want it to be about me, the customer, not the employee and their need for self expression or to tell the world their sexuality.

[–] BourbonKing (5788) 4 years ago

There are standards now?

I'm a Gen Xer and the standards I think most people over 40 yrs old are familiar with is "business attire" where you're at least required to wear a full/short sleeved business shirt and tie with dress pants (slacks) for men and business dresses with skirts that cover below the knees for women. When I entered the corporate work force in the early 90s this was the standard and it also included personal grooming standards. Beards, moustaches, and goat-tees were allowed but had to be trimmed. None of those big fluffy pussy beards like the dudes from Duck Dynasty. Hair could be long on men but you had to braid it into a pony tail or keep it within a formal look (no wacky Bob Ross/Phil Spector afros for white men or Shaft Afros for black men).

I think it started to change with the rise of Hi Tech companies and "casual Fridays" becoming a regular thing. When I started work we only had one Friday out of the month that was casual (jeans, golf shirt, tennis shoes) but no shorts or short skirts for women.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 4 years ago

I'm all in favor dressing comfortably and casually, but c'mon folks! show some dignity and self-respect. Remember, you are in public and other people have to look at you.

[–] BourbonKing (5788) 4 years ago

I forgot to add that if you really wanted to see how standards have dropped go to any big box retailer and look at the store associates with nose rings, neck tattoos, earlobe shower curtain rings, lazily colored hair and vagina beards. LOL

[–] chilone (18331) 4 years ago

What people don't grasp is this is just another step in the slow erosion of humanity, like disregard and even contempt for things like manners, spelling, punctuation and grammar, social and self awareness, etc., etc., etc. The more these decline, the worse our world becomes. But hey! Get all you can, while you can and the consequences be damned.