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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">bassie</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">PelvicDust</strong> said:</div><div>Is there anyone here who will disagree with this statement -<br />
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	Fucking with this guy over his shirt in the first place is a damn ridiculous move by the park and/or its hammerhead employees.<br />
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	(I hope the guy gets a good settlement and buys a shitload of weed.)<br />
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	Six Flags has an interesting history.  http://race.change.org/blog/view/companies_forbid_extreme_blackness</div></blockquote>
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	Do you think they would hire a white dude with dreadlocks???</div></blockquote>
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	Another amusement park won't hire a brown dudette with them.<br />
	(from 2008)<br />
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	CityNews.ca<br />
	Jessica Devnani was excited about the prospect of starting her first summer job at Canada's Wonderland, but in the end, she found no amusement in the park's request that she cut her dreadlocks, or find work elsewhere. <br />
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	"I went in for my interview and they hired me on the spot so a week later I went for my first day of training," she explained.<br />
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	When she showed up she was given the bad news --- the hair had to go.<br />
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	"I was angry they didn't tell me at the interview when they saw my hair," she adds.<br />
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	As a private company Canada's Wonderland is entitled to a hiring policy and they have a rule of no extreme hairstyles.<br />
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	A spokesperson for the company declined an interview.<br />
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	"They got my hopes up with the job and then telling me I had to resign," Devnani complains.<br />
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	Canada's Wonderland says it will look into better communicating its hiring policies and Jessica doesn't plan to take any action against them, but she just hopes it doesn't happen to somebody else.</div></blockquote>
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	The park has a right to require what is considers to be "appropriate" hairstyles on it's employees.<br />
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	If the person doing the hiring didn't tell Ms. Devnani during that first interview that a hair cut would be required (and in fact did know that that was company policy), then the person doing the hiring is a (for lack of a better word) bonehead.

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