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Agreed - for most science center functions.  However, there are two places where it would be more critical to appear more conservative: Development and Private Events.

As "fuddy duddy" as it seems to us, the private events clientele I have worked with have generally expected staff working their events to be well-dressed, sans piercings, brightly colored hair or deep cleavage.  As far as Development goes, again, expectations of the audience count - would you go to a banker asking for money looking conservative or "artsy"?

Beryl




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>From: Jennie Dusheck <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 6, 2013 12:41 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Tattoos, Colored Hair and Piercings...oh my!
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>I think that once someone has a tattoo or piercing it's difficult to get
>rid of and might be unfair to hold it against someone if they were
>otherwise a good employee. Plus these have become so common. Fuddy duddies
>like myself are become almost used to them. But you could regulate what's
>IN the piercing.
>
>As for hair dye, this seems like a slippery slope. If you tell Joshua he
>can't have blue hair, can you tell Rose that her blue rinse is too much or
>Candy that that shade of red doesn't suit her? And you certainly don't want
>to require everyone to dye their hair the same color.
>
>
>On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Chris Harris <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> Science Central is refining our employee & volunteer dress codes to better
>> address tattoos, colored hair and piercings.
>>
>> Question 1:  For those of you that cover these in your handbooks, would you
>> be willing to share your dress codes with me?
>>
>> Question 2:  Do you have separate handbooks for each group (employees &
>> volunteers) or one handbook for everyone?  Why?
>> *
>> Chris Harris*
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