Is Accepting A Certain Dress Code All Part Of The Job?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3664898/BA-feel-like-prostitute-forcing-wear-high-heels-make-look-sexy-former-air-hostess-tells-MPs-inquiry-dress-codes.html

[youngmafbog]

Within reason it is.

[wolf63]

Try walking on high heels and you might understand. They kill your back in the long term.

Lower heels should be considered.

[RandyMarsh]

A certain dress code, probably, specific requests to unbutton blouses and chemically treat hair, no.

[Baldric]

Do they have the right person in the cycling gear picture 'cus she doesn't look like flightcrew there?

[Zacs-Master]

If she didn't realise that being a trolly dolly meant slapping on the makeup and heels she must have lived in a cave.

[Togo]

Reminds me of the bloke who was advised to "dress for the job you would like, and not for the job you have". That is why he was at his industrial tribunal, for unfair dismissal from a bank, dressed as Coco the clown.

[ummmm]

Like YMB...within reason.

[Mamyalynne]

To a point a dress code or staff uniform is fine, but there are limits.

[youngmafbog]

Trolley dolly? More like trolley Boiler with BA.

Most of them have a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

[anotheoldgit]

Mamyalynne

/// To a point a dress code or staff uniform is fine, but there are limits. ///

Entirely agree, but no one is forced to take a job if they don't agree with the dress code.

No use a female applying to work behind the bar in a topless bar, if they are not prepared to take their top off.

[ToraToraTora]

why did she apply to be air crew? It is well known that they have uniforms etc, just another attention seeking nutter. If you don't want to dress up l0ve then do another job.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I`d have thought heels were unsafe on a plane.

[ummmm]

TTT...there are levels of dressing up.

Putting on makeup - fine
Being made to slap it on - not fine

Wearing comfortable heels - fine
Being made to wear stilettos - not fine

[Old_Geezer]

Only up to a point. Anyone not dealing with the public, nor interfacing with counterparts in a different company, should be able to wear anything within reason. Anyone acting at the public face of their company should be accepting of reasonable requests.

It is debatable whether an insistence on wearing something that could cause injury is alright though. It's not a case of not going for the job, it's a case of the position should not be demanding something unreasonable.

[ToraToraTora]

great ummm do another job then, don't apply for a job when you know the job requirements. It's like me applying to be a coal miner and saying on day 1 "what? you want me to go underground!" .

[naomi24]

Yes, a dress code is part of the job, but we’ve had this conversation before. Nicola Thorp was asked to wear heels between 2 and 4 inches high. 2 inch heels are not ‘stilettos’. Women like her – and that air hostess - get on my pip. If they don't like it they should go elsewhere and leave the job open for someone who would like to do it. Fuss over nothing.

(Naomi sits back and waits for further howls of protest).

[ummmm]

No it's not TTT and you know it.

Hairstyles change, fashions change, uniforms change.

[Zacs-Master]

In my experience they change shoes during the flight.

[ToraToraTora]

it's an accurate corellation ummmm, turn up as a brickie they want you to lay bricks, turn up as an air hostess they don't want oddjob.