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Originally Posted by nyreen
[SIZE="2"]However isn't it extreme that someone is seen as inferior because they have a stud in their nose or they dye their hair an unnatural color? >>
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In an ideal world, no. But body mods and hair dyes are associated with rebellion and counterculture, and whether it
ought to be true or not lots of people
do get uncomfortable around it, or at the very least consider it to be unprofessional, and being perceived as unprofessional in a business is pretty bad.
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I don't think someone should face unemployment because of the way they look. How they look doesn't reflect their work ethic. I'm sure I don't have to say that.
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That's not necessarily true. Refusal to comply with a dress code DOES reflect on work ethic -- if you can't comply with a very visible rule, then why should your employer trust you with things that they CAN'T see? It's not specifically about the way you look, which is mostly tangential; it's about your response to the rules.
Even discounting that particular part, it's largely a subconscious thing. Our brains are wired to instinctively think "same good, different bad." It's a bias that's very hard to overcome.
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I also don't think someone should be blacklisted from airlines due to their appearance. Do you mean just working there or actually flying? I really don't think that's okay.
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Specifically it's employees. Airlines will let pretty much anyone fly as a passenger as long as they're not causing disruptions. (But they'll boot people who are being disruptive pretty quickly because they don't want the other passengers to come away with a bad experience.)
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I don't really like policing how people present themselves. I don't have an issue with uniform but someone with unnatural hair color, tattoos and piercings could be better at their job than someone without any of that. My work is full of employees with tattoos, piercings and unnatural hair and none of us are viewed as less capable of our jobs. They're all hard workers.
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In the cases where it matters, it's rarely a question of one's competence, but rather of how third parties will perceive the company.