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Oh For Goodness Sakes!
Feb. 2nd, 2009 10:58 pmOk so after my job finished cracking down on unnatural hail and piercings - so no more pink hair for me, and no wearing the lip ring, whatever, I dyed my hair black, it's fine - we have now moved on to cracking down on uniform standards. Apparently our khakis must have creases down the middle. Whatever, I don't even own an iron. And no, I don't have those self-creasing pants. No one is allowed to wear the red shirts anymore - black polo shirts only, red polos are no longer part of the uniform. Black socks - this has always been the rule, and I have always totally ignored it. I figured no one would dare ask me to show my socks. And up until now, not once single person ever has.
Well, today, it just so happened that I was wearing black socks, and my manager Rich, the one I don't like anyway, said he had to see my socks, and so, I rolled my eyes and pulled up my pantleg, showing my black socks. However... this drew attention to the fact that my shoes are dark green. This is so not allowed.
Black shoes only. Black shoes with black laces. Must have non-skid soles. When I got hired I contested this, saying as a hostess there was no reason to ever be in the kitchen, and I, personally, never intended to ever go in the kitchen for any reason (and I never, ever do) but I was told it was the policy and everyone had to follow it. I promptly ignored this, and no one ever said a word to me.
Words have now been said. Now I'm not allowed to come back to work unless I have black shoes with non-stick soles.
I'm so irritated I don't even know where to start. I don't even know who I'm more pissed at, myself, for knowing I needed black shoes and just never getting any, or my job for having such a stupid rule to begin with. Yeah right any guest ever noticed that my shoes are green. Yeah right they actually care.
I can get cheap K-mart/Wal-mart/Payless non-skid shoes, which I don't want because they're cheap and probably suck, or I can order expensive ones from a catalogue, meaning I can't try them on, and have to wait for them to be delivered. And of course, since I actually got sent home from my shift, I can't just show up with green shoes again because now every manager is going to be paying attention to what's on my feet.
Sheesh.
Well, today, it just so happened that I was wearing black socks, and my manager Rich, the one I don't like anyway, said he had to see my socks, and so, I rolled my eyes and pulled up my pantleg, showing my black socks. However... this drew attention to the fact that my shoes are dark green. This is so not allowed.
Black shoes only. Black shoes with black laces. Must have non-skid soles. When I got hired I contested this, saying as a hostess there was no reason to ever be in the kitchen, and I, personally, never intended to ever go in the kitchen for any reason (and I never, ever do) but I was told it was the policy and everyone had to follow it. I promptly ignored this, and no one ever said a word to me.
Words have now been said. Now I'm not allowed to come back to work unless I have black shoes with non-stick soles.
I'm so irritated I don't even know where to start. I don't even know who I'm more pissed at, myself, for knowing I needed black shoes and just never getting any, or my job for having such a stupid rule to begin with. Yeah right any guest ever noticed that my shoes are green. Yeah right they actually care.
I can get cheap K-mart/Wal-mart/Payless non-skid shoes, which I don't want because they're cheap and probably suck, or I can order expensive ones from a catalogue, meaning I can't try them on, and have to wait for them to be delivered. And of course, since I actually got sent home from my shift, I can't just show up with green shoes again because now every manager is going to be paying attention to what's on my feet.
Sheesh.
