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Market Basket Dress Code Reform

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Anonymous
8 years ago

I personally have piercings & i have conversations with everyday people who are very open minded and its a form of art. I have three other jobs & at all, they are very respectable with uniform & professional but they also allow their workers to be themselves. Work should be somewhere you enjoy being, not somewhere you go to only because u need income for bills.

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Kevin Figueroa
8 years ago

I love having my goatee and my semi long hair #82

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Jose Mota
8 years ago

I am truly appreciative about this petition and I’ll do my best to spread this message onto my Market Basket, store #82 in Lynn, Ma

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Melinda gath
8 years ago

People shouldn't have to change who they are. The way they look does not make them work less.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

I want my clean shaven beard!

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Meriah houde
9 years ago

My market basket in Bedford Newhampshire is telling me that I can no longer take others shifts because I wear a clear nose ring. I don't even wear a metal one, just a clear. I have worked here for two years without being talked to until we got a new manager who has been making things horrible for everyone.

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Angela
9 years ago

Great place but their policy on men's ear piercings is sexist and they need to update for today's standards.

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Kendra
9 years ago

I worked at market basket from the time I was 15 to when I was 20 and worked all the way through the strike. As a young teen I always felt awkward and uncomfortable when my male supervisors commented on the fabric of my pants, the way I wore my hair or even the "correct fit" of my smock. I remember having to take out a fresh industrial bar piercing because my band aids looked "unacceptable". The dress code is so outdated and now as a shoppper and not an employee I see young teens being forced to alter their appearance in order to conform to the cookie cutter look that MB strives for. The facial hair thing, though it does not effect me as a woman is also ridiculous. One last thing to add aside from the dress code. The rule at MB that I found most annoying was not being allowed to have a water bottle and not being allowed to go get a drink and leave your post. If you're not letting me have a water bottle under my till, you need to let me go get a drink of water every few hours. I often worked 4.5 hour shifts with no break and no water. I once had a cold and tried to keep a water bottle with alka seltzer in it and my boss found it and shamed me in front of the whole check out. MB needs to loosen up.

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Tony Mercado
9 years ago

i shave the day of work and still get harassed to shave. couple of stubbles and my boss goes nuts. #ridiculous

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Angel garcia
9 years ago

The army already makes me shave it. Market basket shouldn't be the army

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Joel Vazquez
9 years ago

Since when was growing facial hair bad? We got people with creepy staches here

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Cmon guys cut it out let em have some facial hair

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Bryan Adorno
9 years ago

This would really help my day to day life especially keeping my beard nice and trimmed and clean

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Kevin Fauntleroy
9 years ago

seriously, i'm a guy and wanna wear a smock

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Elaina Desmarais
9 years ago

The uniform standards are understandable, but the hair and piecing policies should definitely be reviewed and updated.

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Lily Nutt
9 years ago

sexist, out of date rules. especially what job positions are available depending on sex of a person (i.e. male Baggers)

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Cat
9 years ago

Nothing too crazy but being able to express yourself is one of the joys that we have in life

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Devan DeMelo
9 years ago

This is why i dont want to work there! Will not cut my hair because of a job where im making minimum wage! No thanks!

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Richard Tibbetts Jr
9 years ago

We need these archaic guidelines to change

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Marilu Velez
9 years ago

I agree