Engineer Calls This Scientist ‘Unprofessional’ Because Of Her Red Hair And Tattoos, She Bashes Him On Twitter

Why would anyone think this is even slightly okay? Just because someone chose to have tattoos and red hair does not mean in the SLIGHTEST that they are unprofessional or uneducated. It isn't a random guy's job to tell her what she can and can't do with her body!

Trying to remember where I saw the following conversation posted: A woman was talking with her male boss about a photo on Linkedin. He said that women shouldn't use slutty pictures as their profile. She looked at the woman in a white blouse with small, diamond earrings and asked what was slutty about it, since most women in their office wore the same thing everyday. They went round and round until he finally had to say, "but she's hot!" So a beautiful woman will be called a s**t because in her picture she appears as a beautiful woman. Stands to reason then, that a woman who wears non-traditional business clothes will be threatened because she doesn't wear traditional business clothes.

I'm a 20 year geologist who is transitioning to a Ph.D. in Geochemistry, and recently the company I worked for was purchased by an engineering firm. The engineers were absolutely adamant that we must all wear suits while we were in the field. Every geologist in the place let them know how stupid of an idea it was. Not only do I work in Florida, where wearing a suit and tie is considered suicide because of the heat, but its dangerous as hell to be in such a confining uniform while working around heavy equipment like drill rigs, and we are not engineers, we actually get our hands dirty and do actual work. There is no way any of us were going to buy suits just so we could get them covered in mud daily, and die of heat exhaustion.

I would have fired back with "I'm sure your bosses at Chevron would like a chance to ring in on what is more unprofessional...a woman with red hair and tattoos..or an employee that uses job search sites to pick up women. I happen to think they will lean towards the idea that the unprofessionalism is linked to the person that is most likely to earn them a trip to civil court. Don't make yourself a liability."

There's a magical place for all those unsolicited "candid feelings"

I wish she would have shared his name so we could all express our candid feelings on his creeptastic assholery. I mean, we would just have to, wouldn't we?

The internet is some of the most amazing tech in the world. And idiots like that guy are running around loose with loud 1850's attitudes being allowed to use it. Grrrr.

It honestly never matters what you actually think, just never say something like this. It's so rude.

Of course he instantly goes to insults when she tells him no. Classic.

Somebody don't hire you because of your hair color... Miss the opportunity to work for an enterprise like this is good for you!

unless you have tatoos who says 'i have you all' or a nazi or gang tatoos i have no problem with that

Funny coincidence: my mother also has dyed red hair and tattoos all over her arms.

Readers are confusing the bad behavior of a stalker with the relationship between dress and professional opportunity. Being stalked is horrible. Period. In some professions, how we dress affects our job opportunities. That is just a reality. If we have one of those jobs, *we* have to decide which is more important: the career or our desire to dress unconventionally.

Aww, small dicked man felt embarrassed the beautiful, educated woman didn't want his small d**k so tried to hurt her. Send the entire thread to his boss. He/she has a right to laugh and then admonish small d**k too.

Can we call this "man" a wee bit passive-aggressive? Just a bit? What a tool.

Get the education and rise to the top of your field, then you can wear what you want. Remember the lead scientist on Curiosity program who had topless women on his Hawaiian shirt

There are jobs where there is a dress code, but if you don't like it, you don't work there, both are okay.

My mother had a tattoo on her foot and was a third grade teacher. Both the students and their parents loved her and she was one of the most popular teachers at the school. One of the shift managers I worked with at Pizza Hut had tattoos all the way down both arms and he was a really great and professional manager. People need to stop basing someone's ability to do their job on their appearance. There are people with no tattoos or piercings who are terrible on their jobs.

His argument, boiled down to the basics, appears to be that she has some sort of obligation to dress and color her hair in a manner that he finds attractive. Total BS!

Most researchers I know don't look/dress business formal so she doesn't even stand out that much (I don't mean this in a mean way, just that she doesnt look out of place in the sciences). The only thing that picture of her shows is that she is definitely an Earth scientist (because no one loves beer like earth scientists/geologists)

NASA : sorry the rocket couldn't reach the orbit because of your unprofessional hair color.

Ma’am I think you are pretty and that person was stupider than a crackhead no one asked him to talk

She’s hot, confident, and clearly brilliant. I am a fan. She’ll be okay. ;)

Sad that we still live in this world where we judge appearances over intellect or even kindness

What got me the most was "you look like a waitress" What a jerk! My mother was a waitress for 30 years and made just as much money as some of those so-called educated a-holes.

My wife has bright hair and tattoos, is a vastly intelligent woman and works as a senior pediatric nurse and is the most caring person you will ever meet. People like this guy only have their work, no happy life, work is everything to them.

Here's the rule for STUPID MEN who can't figure out how to speak to women: IF YOU WOULDN'T SAY IT TO THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY WHERE YOU WORK, DON'T SAY IT TO A WOMAN.

Fragile masculinity at work

This reminds me of my brother who at 17 enrolled at a catering college a year late as it was in England and we had just moved over from Ireland and had to do 2 years worth of college work in 1 year. He finished at the top of his class and won an award for that and graduated with higest honours and a degree in Food Hygene as well as becoming a highly qualifed chef. He worked all over in hotels as a head chef. All while he went through his "Goth" phase. He was sporting a large black mohican hair cut and (When outside of work) was dressed head to toe in black.

The guy is probably butt ugly and jealous that she is a double whammy. Smokin hot AND super intelligent. People suck!!

It doesn't matter to me how do you look, performance is what I want to know. And about hair... if bugs are not falling from it I do not care.

People like him are slowly being replaced with decent people who don't look at someone and judge them by their looks. Maybe in a generation or two they will all be gone and we don''t have to expend mental energy on this.

I, too, am a scientist that "dresses differently" but I've never had anything like this happen to me because............................I don't use LinkedIn or any other social media. I'm not online, you can't find me in any personal capacity. How about that for a solution? People suck, avoid them as much as possible is my advice because they are NEVER going to change. In my personal experience, it has been OTHER WOMEN that have tried to keep me down rather than men, and that's in the field of physics. Misanthropy is the way to go. F**k everyone and their s****y opinions, and be happy with who you are and what you do.

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Well I agree that LinkedIn is not the place to hit on someone. However he started with a compliment (You look cute) and she could have replied more politely. His overreaction was probably just hurt ego kicking, but do you think he would have reacted this way if she replied politely something like "Thank you, but keep this on professional level only." in the first place?

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Workplaces have dresscodes. Get over it. No one cares if your rainbow bright hair and badly inked tattoos make you feel free or empowered.

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She's a cutie

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i do not think it's worth talking about this

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For her to get that much hate about it, I wonder if she posted the guy's name because publicly doing that is way worse than some douchey compliments/insults in a private message. If she just posted what we see above, with no identifying information then she's in the right.

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The guy said she looked cute and she replied by calling him pathetic... Wasn't it she who overreacted first? [I love her hair and tats btw and don't doubt her professionalism as a geochemist]