All rural areas are massively funded by the cities. The tax revenue in the rural areas doesn’t even come close to covering the basic infrastructure of roads and utilities.
Their community’s economies are also highly dependent on government handouts.
HARRISBURG, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — 16-year-old Autumn Williams says she’s still trying to understand how the blonde hair color in her braids was deemed unnatural at her Chick-Fil-A job.
She says she felt singled out and embarrassed. She’d only been working at this Chick-Fil-A in Harrisburg for three months before she was pulled aside for an apparent uniform violation. What she was told caught her caught off guard.
“She was like, ‘Hey, one of our supervisors came by and said they noticed blond in your hair, and he asked that you leave and come back when it’s taken out since it’s an unnatural color to you,'” Williams said.
This is the color Williams says she had at the time:
(Photo: Autumn Williams)
“I don’t know what blond is in my hair because my braids were brown, and there wasn’t blond in them, and my natural hair color is blond,” Williams said. “And the guy, when I had orientation, he never said anything about my hair color or it being an issue.” She claims other coworkers also had unnatural hair colors, but she was singled out.
When she asked her human resources supervisor for clarification about unnatural hair colors, he referred Williams to the employee handbook. But the handbook doesn’t specify what unnatural colors are.
(Chick-Fil-A Handbook)
She says the lack of clarification led to her quitting. Chick-Fil-A responded to our request for comment, saying: “The operator reached out to (Autumn) Williams today and had a good conversation.
In further detail, the operator explained that the policy was misinterpreted and said Williams was not terminated and she’s more than welcome to come back and work at the restaurant.”
“I was glad that I didn’t have to change myself to fit into someone else’s idea image of what it’s like to be a Chick-Fil-A worker,” Williams said. “I could still have my braids, which I felt there was nothing wrong with, so I was just glad that I was able to just stay true to myself and move on and find somewhere else to work; that’s fine with how I look.”
“It’s a protective style for us,” said her mother, Nina Burch. “There was nothing eccentric about the color that was in her hair. So I think maybe there needs to be some sensitivity training about what people can and cannot look like. But that just sounds so crazy to say because who’s to say what anybody can look like based on their race?”
North Carolina does not have the C.R.O.W.N Act law in place; however, the Act doesn’t protect against hair color. Since her decision to quit, Williams says she’s filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
I (a middle-aged white woman) have dyed my hair black, red, blond for decades and not even one single time has anyone suggested that those aren't "natural colors" even though they were obviously not MY natural brown hair color.
It’s even worse than it sounds: according to the article, she didn’t have an unnatural hair color, a supervisor said she had ‘blond’ in her braids, but her hair wasn’t even artificially colored and she didn’t have blond in her hair.
Ghilarducci said. “What is surprising is that all the effort of the government and the changes we had in the last 40 years has not helped middle-income workers.”
I’m deeply curious what “effort” they are talking about. The article was quite clear that the US just have continued, and improved upon, its long standing tradition of “fuck you I got mine”.
Moving over the responsibility for pensions on the individual.
Increasing the wage gap, and I bet when they say high earners that value is skewed but and low number of very high earners.
Tax rules that only help the ones who already are rich.
While we generally lost value in the switch from pensions to 401k/IRA, there’s a huge benefit to ownership.
— A pension is owned by your employer. If something happens to them, your pension may be gone. You don’t get anything if you leave a company before you’re vested, and then you start a vesting period over with nothing
— 401k/IRA is owned by you. You take it with you when you change companies. They can’t weasel out of it because the money is yours immediately. You keep your money regardless of whether you spend your career at one employer or many
I can emphasize empathize with the folks who feel that they’re not being politically represented - having all their rules drawn up by people in the city, several hours away.
I can also empathize with the folks who feel the cultural divide between them and the city folk has grown too deep.
What I can’t fathom tho, is how they think they’ll benefit more with being part of Idaho… Idaho’s minimum wage is almost half of what Oregon’s is. Oregon’s city folk make up the lion’s share of the tax base that pays for what little infrastructure eastern/rural Oregon does have. Oregon also has free health insurance for low income folks - Idaho does not. Cannabis legalization in Oregon has brought a ton of jobs to the rural areas, especially on Idaho’s border. Cannabis is still fully illegal in Idaho.
The only people, it seems, that would really benefit from the border change would be wealthy people that own large amounts of land in rural Oregon due to Idaho’s much less restrictive (or lack of) environmental protections.
As someone with 77% Mayan and native blood, I find it really fucking offensive that a Mohawk is deemed inappropriate. It’s literally one of the most accepted hairstyles in my culture.
I could see it being maybe a problem since the company sells food, depending on how large a mohawk we're talking. Not like it isn't easy enough to set a height limit just so it still fits in a hairnet.
I know damn well I'm not the only one that would actually be put more at ease if the guy selling me a car or whatever had dark teal liberty spikes and a nose ring. It would make them much more human and personable than "smiling snake in a suit," and therefore I would be more likely to have a favorable opinion of them and maybe buy something.
There’s also nothing that says you have to actually spike your hawk up every day for work. As you noted, there are plenty of practical reasons not to when you’re working. Most people I’ve known with substantial hawks only spiked it up in their free time. One guy I knew only did it when he was going to concerts.
It takes a lot of effort to get liberty spikes to set. And then you have to maintain it. I think it’s been close to a decade since I last put mine all the way up into spikes. It’s just not practical.
sigh This kind of ignorant discrimination goes on a lot in Japan too. A small percentage of ethnically Japanese people do NOT have black hair, but it is very much a standard. Some schools make kids dye it!
For me it’s only my moustache area. It’s funny trimming my beard and seeing the color change. Everyone jokes with my uncle that he’s adopted, as the only red head in the family, but there’s clearly some ginger genes in there
I find it absolutely hilarious that the generation that can’t stop talking about its sexuality is also the same generation which is having the least amount of sex.
Sexuality isn’t sex. Why are you unaware of a basic fact like that? Do you think you have to have gay sex to be gay? Are all virgins lacking a sexuality?
There is no generation that has pushed sexuality more than these zoomers to where it is literally the only defining part of their personalities. They have pushed something - that they aren’t even doing - to an obnoxious level. Every generation goes through it’s phase where it comically think its “invented” sex, but boy oh boy are these zoomers going past that. And the fact that they aren’t even doing these things is what makes this generation an even more of a joke than it already is.
It’s like we get it - you like to pretend to suck dick, but you’ve never actually sucked dick. It’s fine. We aren’t judging, but we just don’t give a flying fuck what you (don’t) do behind closed doors. You can find a hobby. (Not) sucking dick doesn’t have to be the defining trait of your entire personality. It is insufferable.
Old men have made this same rant for literally millennia. Just because you’ve forgotten what it is to be young doesn’t make young people any different than how they’ve have always been.
You know what’s really insufferable? People who make their entire personality “kids these days” and “back in my day.”
Oh no, kids are having fun and talking to each other! Better put a stop to that lmao!
But they AREN’T having fun. That’s the whole point of the article. That’s what makes zoomers such complete and utter jokes. We’d call them posers in my day, but I’m sure if a zoomer was called that now, they’d go crying into their room and need their emotional support ferret to coax them out again.
Yeah, they should probably be internet trolls instead.
You’re probably not the one to be telling people how to handle their shit if this is how you react to kids having perfectly normal conversations amongst themselves. It’s adorable that you think they’ll care about what some old fart thinks about them though, haha! The self-importance of old men can never be exaggerated.
Please teach us all how you regulate your emotions so well LMAO!
Don’t fret, you can buy a new ferret. You can train it to watch the same Hentei you get off on, but please don’t dye it’s fur the same shade of blue you have your hair. Remember how it gave the poor thing a bad rash? Not cool, bro.
Not sure what is crazier - your inability to function in the real world, or you repeatedly thinking that someone else is upset. That inability to read a situation usually means someone falls on the spectrum and that could easily explain your inability to function amongst others. No emotional support ferret is going to help you there… even with blue fur.
And it’s her natural color! Tons of black Americans have brown and even blonde hair, largely as a result of slavery. Penalizing her for her lighter hair color is just the cherry on the shit sundae of what we’ve put black people through in this country.
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