Receptionist sent home from work for not wearing high heels

[Poot]

London receptionist 'sent home for not wearing heels' - BBC News

A London receptionist was sent home from work after refusing to wear high heels, it has emerged.

Temp worker Nicola Thorp, 27, from Hackney, arrived at finance company PwC to be told she had to wear shoes with a "2in to 4in heel".

When she refused and complained male colleagues were not asked to do the same, she was sent home without pay.

Apparently if you're female you now have to do the same tasks as men but with added hindrance as well well as less pay.

I wonder whether she was given the option of working whilst juggling or unicycling. They seem way cooler ways of making life difficult than trying to walk in crippling shoes.

 

[DotCommunist]

pricewaterhouse coopers. These cunts fund all parties in order to 'restructure' tax arrangements. Come the day the entire board are on a one way trip to the vets

 

[Pickman's model]

pricewaterhouse coopers. These cunts fund all parties in order to 'restructure' tax arrangements. Come the day the entire board are on a one way trip to the vets

you didn't read the article:

pwc may be cunts, but call them cunts for the right reasons: if this is accurate they didn't set the offending dress code.

 

[stethoscope]

PWC are cunts and Portico don't seem much better.

Look at Portico's website ffs:
http:// porticoportal.co.uk

PWC are still in the wrong though as they could actually directly employ their own fucking staff on decent terms and conditions rather than in-turn outsourcing from a privately owned 'corporate reception service'.

I'm surprised it even meets equality and disability legislation either.

 

[Poot]

you didn't read the article:
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pwc may be cunts, but call them cunts for the right reasons: if this is accurate they didn't set the offending dress code.

"Oh, I didn't realise you treated your staff in this way or we would never have taken you on...Now that someone's found out"

Still twats.

 

[pengaleng]

I've always worked wearing trainers, but I get special spaz privilege init

and have always worked in finance, so PWC prob wouldnt actually give a fuck, it'll be the temp agency or whatever

 

[Pickman's model]

"Oh, I didn't realise you treated your staff in this way or we would never have taken you on...Now that someone's found out"

Still twats.

yeh i agree. as i said, they're cunts and 'if the report accurate' - which it may not be - 'they didn't set the offending dress code'.

 

[pengaleng]

it doesnt sound like many have worked for temp agencies otherwise you'd know they are well more cunty than employers, you all hate capitalism too much as well, biased as bbc.

 

[Sea Star]

The way I see it its nothing to do with being smart and its all to do with sexualising women. PWC should be ashamed!

 

[pengaleng]

they didnt make the rules tho... no need to go full militant

 

[bi0boy]

Women cabin crew often have to take two pairs of shoes to work. One to wear in the airport and another one to wear on the plane that complies with safety regulations.

 

[DotCommunist]

call them cunts for the right reasons

I am. I wouldn't liquidate them for the high heels thing, I'd just make them wear heels for a month. Educational punishment. But the tax thing means only death, you stole from the people. You perverted the democratic proccess in order to do so. Take them down. To the vets

 

[dessiato]

The way I see it its nothing to do with being smart and its all to do with sexualising women. PWC should be ashamed!

Agreed, but they say it wasn't them, it was the agency setting the standard. Whoever it was it's more about sexualisation as you say.

 

[ruffneck23]

email the cunts via the contact us link on the website, perhaps, I keep on trying to draft a suitable message to them but somehow i keep swearing in it , grr

 

[pengaleng]

Women cabin crew often have to take two pairs of shoes to work. One to wear in the airport and another one to wear on the plane that complies with safety regulations.

oh fucking hell what a shame.
expected to wear safe shoes on a plane.

 

[Pickman's model]

I am. I wouldn't liquidate them for the high heels thing, I'd just make them wear heels for a month. Educational punishment. But the tax thing means only death, you stole from the people. You perverted the democratic proccess in order to do so. Take them down. To the vets

don't need to take them as far as the vets

 

[ruffneck23]

or

 

[skyscraper101]

On a non unrelated note, this was in the news yesterday too

Waitress shares photo of her mangled feet after working a full shift in heels

 

[pengaleng]

no one go full postal tho, but if you work in mac you are required to wear false eyelashes every day

it's like you all don't know about the world.

 

[bi0boy]

oh fucking hell what a shame.
expected to wear safe shoes on a plane.

It's more that they're expected to wear high-heeled shoes in the airport.

 

[DotCommunist]

pengs mentioned agencies, those bastards give you such cheap shit steelies (I say give, I mean take the price of out of your wages first week) you end up buying your own. A decent safety boot is like someone hugging your foot

 

[pengaleng]

this ain't even an argument I can deal with. my life is alright.

 

[Pickman's model]

or

too much work

 

[pengaleng]

pengs mentioned agencies, those bastards give you such cheap shit steelies (I say give, I mean take the price of out of your wages first week) you end up buying your own. A decent safety boot is like someone hugging your foot

happens to all people. agencies are slave drivers.

 

[ruffneck23]

too much work

true but im too short to throw a rope over a lamp post

 

[Pickman's model]

they didnt make the rules tho... no need to go full militant

 

[Pickman's model]

true but im too short to throw a rope over a lamp post

stand on a stool then

 

[ruffneck23]

im not standing on shit for anyone

 

[Pickman's model]

Is it legal to force women to wear high heels at work? - BBC News

 

[Pickman's model]

im not standing on shit for anyone