Woman Awesomely Trolls Racist Dress Code
The dress code did not mention colored contacts. (Photo: Facebook)
When it comes to hair in the workplace, women of color are used to dealing with double standards about what’s “professional.”
So when June Rivas was told by her boss that her hairstyles, including wearing a ponytail or headscarf, were inappropriate for the office, she posted on Facebook about it.
“So my boss didn’t like me wearing my hair in a ponytail every day … nor my hair in a scarf … nor my hair in pigtails. I filed a harassment complaint against her as our contract states ‘No dress code. Just be clean and pressed.’”
Rivas also posted a photo of herself looking fully professional in a tailored suit, blouse and headscarf.
(Photo: Facebook)
In response to the complaint, Rivas says, the boss enacted a highly suspect new dress code banning not only ponytails and pigtails but “straps, hats, sandals, cleavage, back out, lace, and even (and I quote) ‘cultural head wraps.’”
Yeah, we’re pretty sure you can’t do that legally.
Rivas has reported her boss to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but in the meantime she has decided to troll her boss by wearing a series of outfits that fit the letter of the law while actually being totally insane to wear to work. Hey, the memo didn’t say anything about wigs.
Photo: Facebook
You know, like cosplaying Storm from X Men, Sue Storm from Fantastic Four, and a Star Trek Vulcan. Totally casual.
Photo: Facebook
As she put it in her FB status, “I have come to work each day in an outfit that fits the guidelines she laid out…just…not QUITE the way she expected.”
The original Facebook post has since been hidden, although you can still see a full gallery of Rivas’s rebellious outfit choices here. We’re just hoping the post is gone because an official complaint is being processed, not because Rivas got in more trouble for being her bad-ass self.
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