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Company Requires Pantyhose But Not Ties

Posted by: From Arkansas in Are You Kidding Me? on Jun 09 2008

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Okay, this one is strange. There is a company, a credit union, in Kansas where the boss had made it a rule in the office that female employees had to wear pantyhose. It was company policy! Unbelievable. For many years now, women in the workplace have said no to pantyhose. It is an especially large trend and not likely to come back. Women just feel more free without them rather than with them. The problem is that the head guy likes the look of them and wants women to wear them because he said that they looked “professional”. The women there believe that they should be able to choose what they wear. I agree with that.

Now comes la double standard. Said boss also has no problem whatsoever allowing the men in the company to go tie-less. What happened to being “professional” looking? Hmmm? Ah ha!! The double standard got to be a bit of a problem there. But the boss didn’t want to budge. But all things must come to an end some day. The company director of human resources had listened to loads of complaints about it so she called some businesses for their opinion. What she found out was that giant businesses like Microsoft, AFLAC and Coca Cola do not require the pantyhose. Of 17 local businesses, 75 percent allow women to choose what they wear as opposed to a dress code that requires it.

Did that do it? Nope. He still liked the way women looked in them and was not about to change it. But he did one thing more. He wrote to the Wall Street Journal about this question. Apparently, if he really wanted to keep what he had, he should have left it alone. The Wall Street Journal agreed with the women that companies should not have such rules, that it is optional in the workplace. Apparently, there is now change coming to the credit union.

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