Work hired me and now threatening to fire me because i'm wearing
I just got hired but on the third day, they pulled me aside after work and told me that unfortunately they can't have me "dress up and wear makeup". They told me I look like a distraction to the young male customers in their late teens and that I should try to dress down. I told them this is how you hired me, I can't just not wear makeup and dress down.
I literally was wearing only mascara with a slim line of eyeliner. I wear little - moderate makeup, never a lot. So taking off my wee bit of makeup won't change my face. What am I supposed to do?
For clothes, I was wearing a black blazer and black jeans with 1 inch heels and a classy pink shirt. I'm freaking in my twenties and they're telling me to dress down?? How do I freaking do that? They're all in their 50s-60s and wear frumpy wrinkled shirts/pants but they DO wear heels and makeup.
I work at an office as the receptionist and this is how I dress professionally. There's no low-cut shirts, no cleavage showing, I didn't even wear SKIRTS. I was going to but now I won't dare. They were dead serious and told me that I should start dressing differently soon because it's not right for the teenagers. Give me a break!
What do I do? No makeup is dumb when they all wear 10x more than me. I don't wear much at all. It takes me three seconds to do my makeup. Eyeliner, mascara, done. What do I wear? Wrinkled baggy t-shirts and sweats? This is a professional building I work in, not some slum area, sheesh.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is this actually normal nowadays?