No Cornrows or Dreds for Business Students @ Hampton


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cat daddy said:
Hair is a part of the dress code.
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I know...but that's the ONLY part I have a problem with. Crazy thing is anyone who knows me knows I'd never get cornrows or dreads...but its the principle...lol
 
jag4life said:
I know...but that's the ONLY part I have a problem with. Crazy thing is anyone who knows me knows I'd never get cornrows or dreads...but its the principle...lol
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:lol:

You know I was going to ask you if you had either of the two.
 



Seeing Spots said:
My friend's son graduated from FAMU with the 5 year BA/MBA and they were also required to take Japanese and golf! Now that's cultivating/preparing students for the real world.
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Well being in an MBA program myself.... and I can say from experience, we don't have a dress code @ WSU Barton School of Business.....
 
In Corporate America apperance means a lot. How many people wear stuff that doesn't enhance their apperance. Everyone can't wear cornrows or dreds, but you can't tell them that. What's more important a job or your hair? Get the job first, then do a good job and you'll be surprise what you might be able to wear. If you want to change Corporate America you can't do it from the outside.
 
People I am a lobbyist, lobbying for FOIA, Intelligence, and National Security concerns. My clients and the people I come in contact with want someone that resembles who is making the decisions. So that being said this is my appearance:

1. I am business casual meaing I wear a suit without a tie.
2. When meeting with a client I wear a tie; I keep 10 ties at work.
3. Depending on who the client is I choose from Boe Ties to long ties. I research my client and policy maker on how they dress.
4. I do not have a beard on mustache. Many of the policy makers and clients are former military so they are clean cut.
5. I am bald, but when I do grow my hair out, I line it with an eye brow archer nightly.
6. I keep my shoes shined and my shirts and suits are ALWAYS pressed.
7. I plan on buying a Range Rover Sport, but I will keep my 9 year old Prelude so that clients and my employer will think I am not living la vida loca.
8. I hate golf because it's boring, but I learned because my clients play.
9. I drink scotch, Glenlevit, single malted, 12 year aged, straight up with ice. Because it takes a long time to marinate so one drink is all I need.

Now, I've said all that to say AGAIN...your appearance should be based off of your occupation. If you are being interviewed, ask the potential employer what is the dress code and bodily appearance. This is a key to interviewing, asking questions that could potentially change your lifestyle. One thing all of you must know...there are hundreds of people that can do your job, what's more important, food and a roof over your head or your ear rings, hair, etc... Now if any of you on this page are so financially well off where you can say it doesn't matter, then you get a thumbs up from me.
 
Dr. Sweet NUPE said:
1. I am business casual meaing I wear a suit without a tie.
2. When meeting with a client I wear a tie; I keep 10 ties at work.
3. Depending on who the client is I choose from Boe Ties to long ties. I research my client and policy maker on how they dress.
4. I do not have a beard on mustache. Many of the policy makers and clients are former military so they are clean cut.
5. I am bald, but when I do grow my hair out, I line it with an eye brow archer nightly.
6. I keep my shoes shined and my shirts and suits are ALWAYS pressed.
7. I plan on buying a Range Rover Sport, but I will keep my 9 year old Prelude so that clients and my employer will think I am not living la vida loca.
8. I hate golf because it's boring, but I learned because my clients play.
9. I drink scotch, Glenlevit, single malted, 12 year aged, straight up with ice. Because it takes a long time to marinate so one drink is all I need.
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I think you forgot to add your picture and the number to the bottom:





1 - 8 0 0 - I M S W E E T S !!! :wavey:



I understand being descriptive and all, but DAYUM! :lol:

Kinda reads like a personal add...:goof:


The other stuff was on point, though! :D
 
Ntelekt said:
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I think you forgot to add your picture and the number to the bottom:

1 - 8 0 0 - I M S W E E T S !!! :wavey:

I understand being descriptive and all, but DAYUM! :lol:

Kinda reads like a personal add...:goof:

The other stuff was on point, though! :D
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Not a personal ad just being real...it's not the white kids coming in here looking crazy...it's us!! Last night we interviewed a retired Colonel from the Army who's black and he stated the same thing about appearance. By the way the President/CEO of the company is a Black woman.
 
Dr. Sweet NUPE said:
People I am a lobbyist, lobbying for FOIA, Intelligence, and National Security concerns.......
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That is great, on the other hand, and I am not diagreeing w/ you 'L' I wish I had that job or something like that so I would not feel overdressed going to work.... I am an engineer for a government contractor... and when the government comes in here, if they are not in thier dress blues or fatigues, they be rockin Jeans, long hair... almost the same type schit we wear to work erday....
 
udratherbme said:
That is great, on the other hand, and I am not diagreeing w/ you 'L' I wish I had that job or something like that so I would not feel overdressed going to work.... I am an engineer for a government contractor... and when the government comes in here, if they are not in thier dress blues or fatigues, they be rockin Jeans, long hair... almost the same type schit we wear to work erday....
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See this is what so many of you are missing...I have stated in every post..appearance depends on your occupation...
 



Well when you're in a private institution, you really don't have much of a favorable choice if you love both the program and the hair that much, even if it'll grow back. And at the same time, there are entities/industries in corporate America that really sees appearance as crucial. So it can make a difference or break a deal.

But one thing I must state. You can get in the door all day long, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're afforded the chances to express yourself or initiate change. Corporate America, assuming that's your aim is largely conservative w/rarily any aim for changing..
 
Ntelekt said:
:xeye:




I think you forgot to add your picture and the number to the bottom:





1 - 8 0 0 - I M S W E E T S !!! :wavey:



I understand being descriptive and all, but DAYUM! :lol:

Kinda reads like a personal add...:goof:


The other stuff was on point, though! :D
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Now you just wrong boy, you just wrong! *gasping**choking*LMAO

GOING TO TREE, TO GET THE SWITCH, TO WHIP INNALEK'S LITTLE BEHIND!

:emlaugh::emlaugh::emlaugh:
 
I think it's bogus. Hell I had cornrows when I first started in the business world. As a matter of fact the first programming job I got when I did my interview the person giving it was a white woman and she had no problem with it considering my resume...and the fact that I could demonstrate that I had no problems doing the job I was applying for. Really to me its saying you have to conform to the way "they" want you to be and the fact that people are cool with it is kinda sad. I guess if they start saying no women with short haircuts or weave everyone will conform to that too.
 
unknown1 said:
I think it's bogus. Hell I had cornrows when I first started in the business world. As a matter of fact the first programming job I got when I did my interview the person giving it was a white woman and she had no problem with it considering my resume...and the fact that I could demonstrate that I had no problems doing the job I was applying for. Really to me its saying you have to conform to the way "they" want you to be and the fact that people are cool with it is kinda sad. I guess if they start saying no women with short haircuts or weave everyone will conform to that too.
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Do you still have them?
 
You can get a entry level job with corn rows and dreds but guarantee you won't proceed very far with that look (no matter how long it takes you to work it up on a regular basis). It is no secret that every management/executive of color conforms to a certain standard. Business is not just America but it is global and everyone has a perception of people with dreds and corn rows. Doing business it not about qualifications but it is subjective and about do I trust this person with my money (even if its companies money). I doubt if I give my money to someone looking like Busta Rymes. People of color conform because it takes that issue of perception that the other person come into the discussion with off the table.

Its the same reason why David Stern is trying to change the NBA. It is a global game

Wearing dreds and cornrows to me is like wearing a do-rag to work? Actually I have one guy who works for me who will wear a do-rag under his skull cap up to his desk. I told him that the "do-rag" should never see any part of the company lot? Am I wrong for insisting the proffesional conform on this?

KCPVPanther
 
I wonder why Russell Simmons is so successful? It must be because he wears shirts and ties. :lol: Wow!! Some of you really conform for the world. :smh:
 
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