Crazy hair day?
A millennial is wigging out — literally — after her latest Georgia employer suggested she hide her pink hair when she learned concerning 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 alternate when she asked in the event that they were OK together with her brightly coloured locks: wigs.
So the brand 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, told Newsweek.
“I’m a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair, so I got here up with an answer to maintain the job and my hair.”
The TikToker has gotten quite creative together with her picks, choosing probably the most embarrassing, shocking and low cost wigs.
Even her followers have gotten in on the sport, often buying her ones she has on her Amazon Wishlist.
“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 sort of funny,” she continued. “The worst the wig, the higher.”
In one in all her videos, Benschoter may be seen wearing an atrociously messy brown and blonde wig that features bangs, shoulder-length waves that curl up at the top and stands out several inches from her head.
An extended, curly brown hairpiece has an equally long beard that goes all the way down to her chest.
There’s even an un-brushed mullet style, one that appears like she snatched it off a Founding Father and one other that appears like an homage to Edna from “The Incredibles.”
“When you might have pink hair, but corporate doesn’t approve, so that you wear terrible wigs,” she wrote on TikTok. “I serve malicious compliance by wearing terrible wigs.”
“It’s a strategy to open up the conversation with the shoppers who think it’s insane that I actually have to cover my pink hair,” she told Newsweek.
