It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [burningman-bcwa] my friend was made to wear a hat to work...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [burningman-bcwa] my friend was made to wear a hat to work...

I'm enjoying the conversation tremendously. It seems striking that
people in a cacophonous outfit like this would so instantly and
completely stand up for the status quo, but on reflection it's
completely predictable.

In ancient and medieval times, festival days involving social
inversion through the election of lords of misrule, etc. were
endorsed by authority because it was understood that if you play act
for a day now and then that the rabble is in charge and the ruling
elite is beneath them, it will keep them from questioning their (real)
roles the rest of the year.

So go ahead and pretend to be so wild and crazy and uninhibited and
psychologically free, put on that Santa suit, or take off all your
clothes and run around in the desert... that's cool, just as long as
you willingly put on the yoke (or the wingtips or ties or had or
double chin or whatever the uniform is this year) the rest of the
time!

I'm really not if favor of revolutionary fervor personally, the French
revolution got a bit out of hand, for one example. But I'm not really
in favor of play-acting either. I appreciate people that resist in
small ways, in day-to-day life. It's a hard job, good on those that
do it, I say.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Allen Sparks! <truelobo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure it's true that the buisness owners have a right to make the
> rules. I understand but when they are wrong about something should
> everyone just let them get away with it? I honestly could care less
> about the girls hair or if this was a socially acceptable move on the
> air ports part. I think it is the underlying issue that gets me in
> your response. We live in a country and time where contractors at
> Microsoft are getting cut 10% because the company said so/decided the
> contracts already signed were nill. Yet AIG employees are getting a
> 165 million in bonuses because their contracts state it and there is
> "nothing that can be done about it". My point is this; business's all
> over are making rules how they see fit, but it is our job as their
> consumers and even more so as employees to call them when they step
> over the line. Seems this girl found her line.
>
> ~Sparks
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Amani Ellen Loutfy
> <amaniellen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Really? It seems to me that any business has the right to have and enforce
>> whatever rules they deem appropriate. It's their business. Your friend
>> doesn't have to like the rules, and it sounds like they even gave her a
>> 'don't like it but don't change yourself' option, of wearing a hat. Sounds
>> reasonable to me. Powell's, by having a branch in the airport agrees to
>> the
>> rules set forth by the port.
>> Sorry, but suckitup.com.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Christopher Holt
>> <nekospecial@gmail.com>wrote:
>> She works at Powell's Books in the Portland airport, and the Port of
>> Portland gave her the options of:
>>
>>> A. dye her hair to a different color than pink.
>>> B. wear a hat until her hair color changed.
>>> C. be terminated from work.
>>> Since she didn't want to redye her hair or be fired, she chose option B.
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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