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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_20/b4228064581642.htm
Excerpt:

Go into the kitchen of a Taco Bell today, and you'll find a strong counterargument to any notion that the U.S. has lost its manufacturing edge. Every Taco Bell, McDonald's (MCD), Wendy's (WEN), and Burger King is a little factory, with a manager who oversees three dozen workers, devises schedules and shifts, keeps track of inventory and the supply chain, supervises an assembly line churning out a quality-controlled, high-volume product, and takes in revenue of $1 million to $3 million a year, all with customers who show up at the front end of the factory at all hours of the day to buy the product."

What's interesting about this story is the way it spins fast food work as something that takes skill. That's not how it's usually spun, but it makes sense to me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/jul/01/harrods-dress-code-sales-assistant?cat=law&type=article
Sales associate quits Harrods over makeup requirement in dress code.

Have you ever quit a job or chosen not to pursue a job because of the required dress code? Or am I the only one?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/01/change-your-life-tempo-in-relationships
Differences in "personal tempos" as an explanation for relationship difficulties (via wordweaverlynn)

Comments

makeup and jobs

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

When I was unemployed a couple of years ago, I went to several how-to-get-a-job workshops. We did talk about job interview clothes and I did ask whether I would have to learn about makeup. The workshop leaders said "makeup is a personal decision" and also that they mostly had to tell makeup-wearers to tone it down for job interviews.

I was prepared to wear makeup for a job interview, but would not like having to wear it for the job. I know nothing about makeup, so it would be a steep learning curve.

I feel somewhat like the woman in the article: if somebody is telling me I should wear makeup and that I'd look so much better if I did, I hear that as "you are ugly" and it hurts my feelings. I'd rather avoid the subject altogether.

I cope better with these appearance issues if I aim for "respectability" and "workplace safe" and not "beauty". Beauty is very fraught, but "workplace safe" is neutral.

So, I am shaving my legs in the summer so I can wear skirts and be "workplace safe". The fur will return in October.