[ParkPro]

Saw channel 36 last night and laughed til I cried. Watch this:

http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-052609-mw-carowinds.1c08e87f.html

[Thriller]

Rules are rules and thats all there is to it. If she wanted the job, she should have agreed to change her hair style!

[RctWeekly]

Well if its there policy you can't do anything about it

[bgwfreak]

I'm going to sue!

They don't allow goatees! It's discrimination!

The funniest part of this is Cedar Fair's circa 1982 examples of an acceptable hair cut for men and women. The woman definitely has the Farrah Fawcettt hairstyle going on.

[swampfox43]

It's not like Cedar Fair made up the policy when she applied for the job. Some company's have certain grooming policies, period. She appears to be a well educated, nice young lady and it's too bad it had to come to this.

I'll ask this question to the masses.
What do you think is the reason dreadlocks aren't allowed on employees at Cedar Fair parks?
Are they perceived as a "beatnik" or unclean? Safety hazard? I think they look pretty cool personally.
Any ideas?

[Edwardo]

I would assume it's because of the cleanliness factor.

This is in no way discrimination. Any company has the right to set standards of dress and grooming.

[kruss9610]

For 10 years, it was shave the beard about the middle of march - stop shaving Halloween weekend. Maybe I should sue for the cost of razors and shaving cream. No, I haven't shaved in the two and half years since.

And I didn't even deal with the customers. There was one guy in D&E under Paramount that somehow managed to keep a goatee through the entire year, but I am not sure how he did it.

She needs to get a life, this is industry wide. Busch used to have a policy against mirrored sunglasses. The sunglasses had to allow people to see your eyes through them.

[woot226]

Dreadlocks typically mean that you do not wash your hair often, this is a generalization, but thats how you get them. As for shaving, they still require you to be clean shaven, only way you can have facial hair is if you interview with it and accept your job with it, otherwise they will make you shave before you are allowed to clock in. As for the Busch gardens thing bout the sunglasses, carowinds has a policy very similar but they are not as strict about it.

and as it was stated, if she really wanted the job, she would have complied instead of doing this.

[RRRAPIDS]

"Carowinds allows employees to have cornrows and braids because those styles fall into the category of "fresh and neat." according to
the WCNC.com article.

I guess this young lady feels that if she cuts her hair, she will basically be bald because she has to start over with new growth. For those of you that don't know, dread's are all
natural to the root of one's hair.

I know of many people who keep their dreadlocks clean and well groomed. Although cedar fair mention's dreadlocks in their grooming standards, that's just their rules. However, I don't see the diffrence in them compaired to braids and cornrolls being that you can make the same type of hairstyles. To me it's discrimination in a way, but not because of etnicity. There are plenty of african americans, caucasians, indian, latino's, asians etc.. of all walks of life that work at Carowinds. I wish everyone as well as Carowinds(cedar fair) can learn from this and change their grooming standards.

But let me clear this up, all dread's don't look good on everyone. Some look matted down, have an odor, and look dirty....LOL! But for those who keep them looking flawless & fashionable, the park needs to give them a chance. I feel the girl's approach to the situation was ok. She just wanted to make a stand on her rights.

[Wormy]

While normally irritated over lopsided views of discrimination, I'm intrigued by this one, and have to look at it this way:

As a customer, would I be offended by a Cedar Fair employee sporting dreads? Not at all, and probably wouldn't even notice. Would I question the appearance of an employee that looked like this?



Most definitely. I'd be wondering if I stepped into a time machine.

Adult white male feedback for you CF. You may be asking for the black eye with this one. IMHO, your HR should quietly take this opportunity to update your standards.

That may be too many acronyms for one sentence.

[chargercrazy]

In this economy, if she really needed a job she would have agreed to change her hair. Part of being employed is complying with the employer's policies and procedures. The girl is in college, right? Shouldn't she have learned about being professional by now?

Good luck with that lawsuit. I doubt a lawyer is going to take up your case.

[swampfox43]

^I'm sure Al Sharpton is working on that now....

[RRRAPIDS]

The girl is in college, right? Shouldn't she have learned about being professional by now?

Good luck with that lawsuit. I doubt a lawyer is going to take up your case.
In this economy, if she really needed a job she would have agreed to change her hair.

???????????

What does that have to do with anything. Just because a person has dreadlocks doesn't mean they're not proffesional. I've seen Doctor's, Nurse's, Teachers, and business men/women with dreads. Who are you to determine what is proffesional . Let's watch what we say now. Do your research before you decide to make comment's like that. THANK YOU.

[Jonathan]

I think you misunderstood his post entirely.

[RRRAPIDS]

Compaired to the first comment I made about this situation, i completley understand where he is coming from. Yes, it's the parks grooming standards and if she wanted the job she would have done so. yeah....i know. I just didn't like the comment about since she is in College now, shouldn't she know about being proffesional by now. That's not cool. Anybody reading this outside of the membership boards would probably feel the same way. "Especially about the Al Sharpton comment."

Now let's talk about something else.