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Originally Posted by pylon
I think you are missing a big part of my point torque. In our dealership, this is the type of thing we encourage our staff to do, as we take a deep sense of pride in being a charitable store. If it raises awareness, or money, any gesture is good. What Sleep Country is saying is "raise awareness, but not on my watch." They are telling this guy, his cause doesn't matter to them.
How is Movember really any different? If you saw the creepy horror show that is put on by us every November, well.... we look like a room full of creepy chester the molesters, Lemmy wannabees's, and the absolute worst, creepy 40 year olds that can still grow a patchy pimplestache. How is pink hair, really any different? I think a pornstache is way more gross and creepy, than pink hair.
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I think you're greatly misrepresenting (or misinterpreting) Sleep Country's stance on the issue to prove your point, given that we have both seen each side's story.
Sleep Country is saying "Please adhere to our policies on employee dress and appearance. Here, we'll even allow a work-around so you don't have to go and dye your hair." Telling him that his cause doesn't matter to them would have required an outright rejection of his new choice of hair colour and a demand that he go and dye it to a natural tone or be suspended/fired, with no compromise of 'Here, wear this hat.'
We do Movember at our offices too, raising money for cancer research. The difference is that it is a company-sponsored/encouraged event, much like it sounds like it is at your store.
Fact is this: Employee knowingly did something against company policy two years on the trot, company both times offered a compromise instead of any actual disciplinary action, employee opted to reject the compromise the second time around.
Cancer-awareness or not, this Daniel character prioritized his 'awareness' campaign (which does nothing unless he was simultaneously raising money, which would then be frowned upon if he was doing it on company time, and for good reason) over his job. That is his choice.
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Originally Posted by Dion
Employers should be more flexable when it comes to workers making crappy wages for a crappy job. Fortunately some are and do manage to keep thier employees. Suggesting he wear a hat is not being flexible IMO.
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Can you answer me this question: Why? Why should they be more flexible for just those employees? Why do you think they aren't already? If the employee in question had been a
salesperson for Sleep Country instead of a delivery guy, do you think the option of just putting on a hat would have been available?