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Emily Benschoter, 29, has decided to fight fire with fire after her employer suggested she wear wigs to hide her out-of-dress-code pink hair, so she wears terrible ones.
Crazy hair day? A millennial is wigging out — literally — after her new Georgia employer suggested she hide her pink hair when she learned about the company dress code after she was hired. The unidentified hospitality industry employer who hired Emily Benschoter, 29, for a front-of-the-house role after a phone interview offered an alternative when she asked if they were OK with her brightly colored locks: wigs.
So the new staffer, who got the gig after a phone call and now wears terrible ones to “maliciously comply.” “Dying my hair for a job I work at for 40 hours per week wasn’t an option,” Benschoter, who has waist-length black and pink hair,“I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair, so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair.”has gotten quite creative with her picks, opting for the most embarrassing, shocking and cheap wigs.Emily Benschoter has to hide her pink hair at her new job — a dress code rule she learned after she was hired.Benschoter holds a front-of-house position at her hospitality job.The millennial said she’s “maliciously” complying with her unidentified employer’s dress code.“It’s dehumanizing that I can’t be accepted at face value because my hair is a non-traditional color. It’s so superficial that my hair color is an obstacle,” she told Newsweek. “I prefer my pink hair, it’s me to my core. So now I purposely pick wacky wigs which is quite funny,” she continued. “The worst the wig, the better.” In one of her videos, Benschoter can be seen wearing an atrociously messy brown and blonde wig that features bangs, shoulder-length waves that curl up at the end and sticks out several inches from her head.There’s even an un-brushed mullet style, one that looks like she snatched it off a Founding Father and another that looks like an homage to Edna from “The Incredibles.” “I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair, so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair,” she said.The TikToker has gotten quite creative with her picks, opting for the most embarrassing, shocking and cheap wigs.“When you have pink hair, but corporate does not approve, so you wear terrible wigs,” she wrote on TikTok. “I serve malicious compliance by wearing terrible wigs.” “It is a way to open up the conversation with the customers who think it is insane that I have to cover my pink hair,” she told Newsweek.
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