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AIBU?

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Not to want to take an Orange Person with me to a business meeting?

278 replies

Hopefullyrecovering · 18/05/2012 16:32

The business is professional services. We went out to a client and the graduate in our team came with me. She was bright orange. Literally bright orange. I could see the client visibly wondering whether or not the orange would rub off onto him during the handshake. It looked grotesque and thoroughly unprofessional. There was an accompanying issue of shedloads of make-up. Which was similarly unprofessional This girl does not need it. She is perfectly nice-looking (I believe although there was so much orange, and fake lashes etc that it is difficult to tell)

So, AIBU? And if IANBU, how on earth am I going to raise this issue?

OP posts:
Frontpaw · 21/05/2012 13:29

I remember when I was told (in a 'nice way' but still firmly) that me wearing 'policewoman shoes' wasn't on.

I had slipped a bloody disk and was barely upright (and I didn't take any time off sick).

ImperialBlether · 06/06/2012 15:55

What did you do in the end, OP?

I asked my daughter who's a similar age - she's not orange but she does dress studenty and I can imagine she might struggle with corporate clothes at first - hard for them to think of spending money on such things, I suppose. She flinched and said she would FAR rather be told quietly than have people thinking it but not saying it.

thebestisyettocome · 06/06/2012 15:58

Tell her to tone it down. It's completely unprofessional.

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