Does your job tell you how to look?

[Scar]

Does your job tell you how to look?

Do they require certain kind of hair?

Have you ever got in trouble for wearing something inappropriate to work?

Etc... you get the gist.....

I am lucky I can look howeeeeeever I want, including wearing pajamas to work and slippers (as in the fuzzy kind). I don't really have to deal with "the public" though so that's a plus, I imagine working somewhere with customers makes a huge impact on whether or not you have to be presentable :-)

When I used to work for subway sandwiches they made me wear a long sleeved tan colored outfit to hide my scars. Then the boss fired me after telling me he found porn of me on the web, but of course used a different reason...... Who was the one looking up Gothic Pron on the Web??? Not me!!

I was fired from my first job as a stripper for having cuts on my arm, even though they were a super shady club and had told me to get a fake ID so they could hire me. Coincidentally about a week earlier the DJ had offered me a place to crash for the night and then tried to give me the date **** drug, upon turning him down he waited for me to fall asleep then mounted me in his underwear and tried to pin me down, telling me "know one will have to know about this" until I pushed him off of me and ran out into th streets, and slept outside of Pep Boys..... but I get fired..... the injustice!

At my most recent job before this one I was asked not to wear my "I Love Lucifer" or "Sin Like You Mean It" shirts to work when our religious clients wre in town :-) I, of course, obliged :-)

[drewblood]

funny stories Scar, except the strip club... what scum he was. I do like pep boys though.

I kind of dig this topic, b/c although I work for a fortune 500 company, I have been totally remote for over a year now. sometimes I work from a bar, sometimes I work from a mountain... so long as i get my work done, they dont care. I've never dressed very eccentric or goth... but I certainly never look white-collar either. I kind of like it, seeing how much differently I get treated now with long hair, whatever clothes I feel like wearing, piercings and tats showing. Just the general looks I get... worse service at restaurants.. people assume i'm dumb and poor. It's kind of comforting always being looked at as the underdog / being under-estimated. It's definetly helped change my attitude in regards to what to focus on when I meet someone new... compared to how I was 5-10 years ago. :thumbup:

oh, to answer your question though... if i was to walk into a dept meeting looking like i normally do..... hahahahhahaha.... oh man.

[VoldtaEngler]

My job doesnt tell me how to look. My job is to make people look like so they can get told what not to look like.

[Thistle Harlequin]

Hello no!

as long as I don't wear the same clothes everyday, and you shower and your clothes smells washed, you can wear whatever the fuck you want...though a female shouldn't really be wearing open-toe shoes at a tattoo/piercing shop.

That's totally disgusting and unsanitary, in her part.

[Bikerpunk]

Absolutely.

All jobs have a dress code.

[Amelia G]

I usually wear pants on days that other people are present in the workplace.

[Mr Karl]

well considering I deal with the public as a reprsentative of my company, if I have to be told how to look then I suppose I'm not qualified

[Pull~My~Hair]

long sleeve white collared shirt, tie, black vest, black pants black shoes,
no nail polish, no nails past finger tips,
no peircings (ears included),no visible tattoos,
no unatural hair color, hair pulled back, no jewelery. Natural makeup.

[Amerist]

I recall visiting a website of an excellent dresser Goth some time ago. It said on the front page that he wanted to explain to his friends what was up with his lifestyle ... and fully educated them as to "Who is that girl on your homepage?"

My work doesn't really address how I dress (haha.) In fact, there was a magazine article written about the place that I work and I was described as a Goth. Of course, I mostly wear vintage, extremely elegantly cut clothing and less of the freaky club wear when I am at work... So, I'm not exactly pressing the issue.

Not a single one of my co-workers nor my bosses has ever said anything about how I dress outside of work. I've been there almost seven years now. I'm pretty happy with my situation.

Boo to people who cannot accept that their employees have social lives.

[Evilbink]

Im a self employed artist, and I require myself to dress every day a certain way,or I will fire myself. Maybe I should quit, ya that'll teach me a lesson.

[theUnclean]

Although my current (possibly soon to be former) employer preaches alot of diversity shit, and the company is pretty cool about my face steel, I get snubbed by all. Fuk'm tho!
This is the 1st job in over a decade that allows me to dress more in line with my own tastes then some stupid fuckn 'code'. It's really nice, and I am very happy here...so stressn on work/job/career right now...

[evilstonermonkey]

i work in a cafe, so unfortunately i have to appear in a way that doesnt scare off little old ladies (who are tougher than youd think, but its nicer to say its about them than about all the moronic 30 year old god botherers who arent comfortablewith peple dressing in a way that isnt their own), but apart from wearing my uniform, keeping it clean, and not letting my facial hair get TOO out of control its all good.

[Bikerpunk]

i work in a cafe, so unfortunately i have to appear in a way that doesnt scare off little old ladies (who are tougher than youd think, but its nicer to say its about them than about all the moronic 30 year old god botherers who arent comfortablewith peple dressing in a way that isnt their own), but apart from wearing my uniform, keeping it clean, and not letting my facial hair get TOO out of control its all good.

Thing is, it only takes ONE.

These days, people are so ultra-concerned about ONE negative opinion they try and please everyone, which, frankly, pleases no-one. So "corporate" goes apeshit trying to make sure nobody offends...

Going to get coffee and seeing some girl wearing bandaids on her face which do a better job of saying HI! I HAVE AN EYEBROW RING AND A LABRET far more than the jewellery itself would do, for example. Or men wearing thick tennis wristbands halfway up their arm.....

[evilstonermonkey]

actually if a customer came in and complained about my goatee my boss woul tell them to shove off but you are right - for people with bosses who arent so reasonable, its a pain.

[SyntheticShock]

I work at Target, so I get the pleasure of wearing red and khaki, yay me. I dont mind it though, cause i wear black shoes and black shirt underneath my red, so it doesn't feel as tacky for me. Target doesn't care about hair color and all that, which is awesome, cause my hair changes frequently.

[VoldtaEngler]

I work at Target, so I get the pleasure of wearing red and khaki, yay me. I dont mind it though, cause i wear black shoes and black shirt underneath my red, so it doesn't feel as tacky for me. Target doesn't care about hair color and all that, which is awesome, cause my hair changes frequently.

I used to work at Target in Phoenix years ago overnight. Didnt require khakis but at least a red shirt of some type. So i always just kinda of wore a red sleeveless with patches all over it.
They didnt mind, my managers were fun people. We used to pull pranks on each other all the time. Best retail job ever had.

[SyntheticShock]

I used to work at Target in Phoenix years ago overnight. Didnt require khakis but at least a red shirt of some type. So i always just kinda of wore a red sleeveless with patches all over it.
They didnt mind, my managers were fun people. We used to pull pranks on each other all the time. Best retail job ever had.

Nice. I think I love working there because I love most of the people, so I don't mind the little things, like wearing red and khaki. If it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't work there.

[TheDeathKnight]

I wear what I want at work. But i have an artistic job, so they expect us to look weird...

[Morning Glory]

my first job was for a corporate grocery store, and they had a pretty strict dress code. designated work attire, no "weird" hairstyles, no "unnatural" hair colors, no piercing's, no tattoos, no beards for men. several times they got mad at me for coming to work with a scruffy face and sometimes made me go home and shave. otherwise I was in compliance with all the other things.

same policy at the pizza place. I got fired from there for having long hair and earrings.

my job at the movie theater was actually pretty chill. they didn't care about piercing's, so long as you didn't have multiple facial rings, but one or two would slide. they were pretty lenient about tattoos too. after changing the uniforms to short sleeved, my boss just asked me to not get any more. Oh yeah, and I had a gnarly beard.

once you get a job it's usually pretty easy to get away with some stuff, but it's getting hired in the first place that's a problem. It really bugs me that I can't look the way I want to at work, because I don't really consider myself to be all that offensive. having pink hair is not the same thing as hazing a swastika carved into your forehead. and I really hate that I can't get my hands tatooed out of having to worry about never being able to get employement because of it.

[Black Spiral Dancer]

We do have a "Dress-code" but since I rarely/never see a customer, I dress for practicality.

Jeans or Combat pants for comfort or ease of pockets. I'm always needing to carry pens/markers/various implements to get my job done.

T-shirt for cleanliness due to my job being dusty (can you imagine wearing a white shirt and tie whilst carrying a box that has been sittin g on a shelf for 2 years?).

Doc Marten 14 hole boots for safety as there have been numerous injuries involving people wearing trainers or shoes having their ankles hit by large metal objects. Being the First Aider at Work, I know how many there have been. It's happened to me before and with my boots I've just shrugged it off.

[KilLAtomiK]

my work dosent realy have a dress code but i work in a machine shop so its prety much common sense to just wear jeans and a t shirt stuff like that. At first i thought my bosses wouldnt like my shirts tho because all of em have devils and skeletons and whatnot. i assumed theyd have an issue with it since they are all xcore christians, they even have a monthly bible meeting in the break room for all employees who wana attend. They havent said anything to me and seem prety cool tho.

[Black Spiral Dancer]

I'm technically a Civil Servant, so we're meant to dress smartly (shirt, tie, dress pants, shoes, etc) but since I'm in the area where files are stored, I dress appropriately for the work I do.

[GnArKiLL]

Im a collge bum, therefore, i like like one
(not to be confused with a god awful college hippie)