ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** 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 -----Original Message----- >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! > >ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers >Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. >***************************************************************************** > >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: > >> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers >> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related >> institutions. >> >> ***************************************************************************** >> >> Greetings, >> >> 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* >> Science Central >> Visitor Services & >> Volunteer Director >> 1950 N. Clinton St. >> Fort Wayne, IN 46805 >> (260) 424-2400 ex. 411 >> >> *********************************************************************** >> For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and >> the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. >> >> Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at >> www.exhibitfiles.org. >> >> The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. >> To learn more, visit >> http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. >> >> To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the >> message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to >> [log in to unmask] >> > >*********************************************************************** >For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. > >Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. > >The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit >http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. > >To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the >message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to >[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] (978) 749-9774 *********************************************************************** For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]