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UK user here.
HMV, a major music retailer has decided to ban employees from having visable tattoos or long hair to smarten up their employees.
I am presuming that long haired females will be getting the same treatment.
The latter point is why this policy is highly unlikely to be upheld at an Industrial Tribunal. The other two elements would be OK so long as both sexes can have a simple (single) ear piercing.
I read that article and it appears this was inspired by recent sale declines so instead of blaming management just take it out on the lowly workers!Never ceases to amaze me that they think long hair and tattoos are driving customers away instead of maaaaaybe incompetent management?lol.
Mârk
Not to meantion high CD prices and the advent of online shopping. HMV simply can't compete with digital downloads.
Did they happen to think that sales are declining because people like me buy my music on my iphoen directly from Apple? I press a button, poof, the song appaers on my iphobne directly, no CD to worry about, no having to trudge down to the store to buy it, no burning gas, no worrys about parking near the store. And best of all I get the songs I want instead of buying an album that had 12 songs 10 which you don't want. And fro retailers like this it's going to get a lot worse since Google, Amazon,
and others will be selling music too.
And when I buy my music from Apple I never see a sales person,
so it whether they have long hair, short hair, no hair,
tattoos, piercings, etc.
Besides many years ago when I bought records (yes i'm old enough to remember records) I alsways felt more comfortable in stores where the salesmen had long hair, beards, and were not wearing suits.
Of course most of those record stores are now gone,
being replaced by walmart, best buy, etc. The people who
run this music chain need to relealize times change, technology improves, and record stores will go the way of video stores.
Have you tried to find a blockbuster lately? Or a West Coast video?
So this record chain instead of blaming they guy with long hair and tatoos, blame Steve Jobs who ate their lunch before he died.
Maybe this chain, instead of blaming men with long hair and tattoos, should blame themselves for not getting in on the
online music sales before Steve Jobs did..
Where I live, people are buying more vinyl than cd's. Of course downloading music is #1
Around here the only places to buy music (CDs) is Walmart or Best Buy. NO stores around here sell vinyl anymore. There are
audiophiles who prefer vinyl, but they aren't easy to find.
I thhink that there is precedent for the tatoos and piercing ban but it would be interesting were someone to take a case of dismissal for having long hair to an employment tribunal.
And what is "long hair"? Shoulder length, belt length, both very different.
It never ceases to amaze me how those "in charge" always want to go after the people further down the totem pole. Also, how society likes to go after people who may not be "mainstream". Their ignorance knows no end.
Ted
I would point out in the 60s and 70s I spent alto of time
and money at local record stores. (None of them are left now.)
I gravitated to the stores with long haired guys in jeans (dressed casually). If the guy had short hair and wore a suit I was out the door taking my business elsewhere. (if they had short hair and wore a suit then they also were pushy about
trying to sell classical music, jazz, etc. I didn't want that
either which was another reason to go elsewhere.)
And I hate to think how much money I spent in those years
buying music. (Hint: it was alot.)
Now every one of those music stores are now gone, replaced
by Walmart and Bestbuy.
Such a shame really. Frankly I've always found HMV employees to be very professional and enthusiastic, and it's part of the whole tattoo/long hair 'group' that make them so.
Sounds like they are trying to drive people away. Ah well, we can forget about all this after they go bust.