One night I decided I wanted to get my nose pierced, nothing too outrageous just a tiny diamond stud. I assumed this was okay because one of our hostesses had a tongue piercing, among others, and the same uniform policy applied to hostesses as it did servers. So I get my nose pierced and go into work the next day only to be told to take it out right there on the spot. Of course I refused because, one it cost too much to just take out. Two, I literally couldn’t, it was stuck until it healed. And three, why should I be expected to follow your policies if you don’t enforce them on everyone?
Apparently, this restaurant had its favorites and I was forced to quit the next day. However, I walked out with my head held high and a giant middle finger. I would have taken it out it they insisted that hostess took hers out as well, but why would they do that?
A few months later, my friend told me that her father was the store manager at Lowe’s. That’s how I came to work where I do now. He didn’t mind the nose piercing whatsoever. So he gives me an inch and I foolishly take a mile and get another piercing above my lip. Now they have a problem with it and tell me to take both out. Fortunately, I’ve found alternatives to taking them out and it seems to be workings just fine and I’m keeping my job.
I just want to know why facial piercings’ are such a dilemma in places such as Lowe’s, which isn’t very professional. Yet it’s perfectly fine for some of my co-workers to have tattoo arm selves. I understand that piercings present a certain image, but why a bad one? Ear piercings are considered the norm on women, and growingly on men, simply because more and more people started getting it done. Some may say it causes a safety hazard and something could snag on it. However, I am only a cashier. I find it hard to believe something could find a way to snag on my face.
So that brings me to my central question. Why are piercings looked down above in the work business, and tattoos not as much? Piercings can be removed. Tattoos can’t.
