Ambrosio Spinola
12-05-2005, 09:25 AM
Why would they apologize? I have one of such guide books at my place too. You give them to newly hired folks so that they can learn what the company is all about. If they refuse to conform to the company´s standard they can always quit.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-12-05T063334Z_01_SCH523624_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-AUSTRALIA-BANK.XML
CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of Australia's largest banks apologised on Monday for a "grooming handbook" that suggested staff wear flesh-coloured underwear and advised against shiny stockings because they make legs look fatter.
The grooming guide -- which also recommended that earrings should be no bigger than a small coin and that women should wear no more than two rings on each hand -- was given to retail banking staff at the Commonwealth Bank.
"The guidelines are just that -- guidelines," bank executive Hugh Harley said in a statement. "I apologise to any staff who may have been offended or who do not feel comfortable discussing such matters."
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-12-05T063334Z_01_SCH523624_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-AUSTRALIA-BANK.XML
CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of Australia's largest banks apologised on Monday for a "grooming handbook" that suggested staff wear flesh-coloured underwear and advised against shiny stockings because they make legs look fatter.
The grooming guide -- which also recommended that earrings should be no bigger than a small coin and that women should wear no more than two rings on each hand -- was given to retail banking staff at the Commonwealth Bank.
"The guidelines are just that -- guidelines," bank executive Hugh Harley said in a statement. "I apologise to any staff who may have been offended or who do not feel comfortable discussing such matters."