HobbitFoot comments on Sorry, but I’m bringing my iced coffee to the job interview

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wasn't talking about hair? I feel like we're starting to mix appearance requirements with non-appearance presentation.

And I don't care about hair other than it would be considered "neat" in the culture it came from. Given the multicultural mix of where I work, people wear a wide variety of different hair styles including afros, turbans, beards, and marks on their forehead. Even worked with a non-federally recognized Native American engineer who wore his hair long in a ponytail.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

You just said that iced coffee was enough to let you know someone wasn’t serious about client expectations and that you still work at a place that requires a suit and tie on occasion. I’ve never worked somewhere that had a dress code, even one that didn’t apply all the time, that didn’t mention hair.

Regardless, I find it hard to square the idea that iced coffee wouldn’t fly but an Afro would. But maybe I just live around a lot of racist people.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

I live in an area with a lot of various immigrant groups, so the hair requirement gets limited to neat and tidy without specifying length. There is also a lot more leeway if you aren't seeing a client or you're out in the field.

It sounds like you live around a lot of racist people, but also an unresponsive legal system. The number of successful lawsuits in my state regarding discrimination have generally beat out any desire to measure hair in the industry I work in.

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