No weaves allowed at work

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Byron from the job calls Risa after hours with new workplace rules, then says weaves and wigs are banned starting tomorrow morning. She refuses to take down a weave she paid hundreds for and dares them to fire her before learning coworker Jennifer set it up.

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Uh, hello, I'm trying to reach Risa, please, Risa d***s

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Hi Risa, my name is Byron, Byron from the job, how are you?

Speaker 2

I'm okay, how are you Byron?

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I'm good, listen I hate to call you after hours at your home

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But there has been some new issues that will be going into effect as of tomorrow morning

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And we're calling everyone letting them know the new changes that have been issued

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That will take effect first thing tomorrow morning

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So we're giving everyone a call so don't be alarmed

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Okay, there's no problem.

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I've got a few minutes to listen.

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Okay.

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As of tomorrow, what's going to happen is when you guys come in,

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you'll be issued a new key card,

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and that particular card will actually register when you come in and go out.

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Okay?

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Okay.

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All right.

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Second one is there will no longer be any personal Internet at the job any longer.

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You won't be able to.

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They're actually putting a block on all computers.

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All the computers will no longer be able to go to a lot of these sites that you guys go to

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here in the past okay okay all right the last one is uh Risa do you um do you wear a hair weave

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what do you wear a hair weave or a wig yes okay well here's one thing I then hopefully you can

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get this changed by tomorrow there's no weaves or hair or wigs going to be allowed uh at the

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job site from this point on so as of tomorrow morning everyone must be wearing their natural

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No, these are the issues that are going to be, that are instated,

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and these are going to take effect as of tomorrow morning, 7 o'clock.

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What does hair weave have to do with any of these changes?

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The first two I can understand, punching in and being on the Internet,

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yes, that's something that corporate, but hair weave and wigs?

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You're getting into changing people's appearance.

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I understand the higher-ups are looking down upon it.

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Wigs and hair weaves, they have to go.

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do have one. I suggest you start taking it down now and prepare your hair to be natural as you

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come into work tomorrow. I'm not taking my hair down. I've been here seven years and I've dealt

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with all the changes that y'all have made but there's no way that I'm taking my hair weave

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down. I'm sorry what's your name Byron? Yes my name is Byron and I'm sorry. Let's get back to

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your weave. Is there someone that you can call tonight to help you get your hair down and so

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look presentable with your natural hair tomorrow no my weave cost over two

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three hundred dollars and I'm not about to take that down I mean it takes a long

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time to take that down okay I mean is this something maybe you can take it

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down and just wear it on the weekends because as of now you're not going to be

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allowed to actually wear it on the property and how will you know if

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someone has a weave or not are you gonna do head checks or something okay I'm

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telling me that you you have a weave then I have to write it down that you

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have confirmed that you do and we got to make sure that tomorrow morning you're

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not wearing one but you don't know what my natural hair looks like from my weave

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are you heard how much I pay for it so it's a good weave ma'am it's not about

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how good you know with the quality of your weave or anything they don't want

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it they want natural hair I don't know what that means but they're going

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They're going natural, and so are you.

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Tomorrow morning, you need to come in with your hair completely down, okay?

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I won't do it.

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I'm not taking my weave down.

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Okay.

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What is that?

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Y'all going to write me up or something?

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Okay, ma'am, do you not want your job?

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Yeah, I want my job, but this don't make no sense.

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You're talking about personal appearance.

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I can understand y'all have a dress code and enforcing a dress code.

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That's one thing.

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But telling somebody to change their ***, you lost your mind, man.

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You're crazy.

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Ma'am, I'm not going to.

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I have to call bottom line is get your head out and get your butt into work tomorrow

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And let's not go back and forth anymore. Okay. Well, listen by ranch. You're not mine if you think and I'm taking my weave out

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I'm not taking out at all

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Risa is coming up in there with her hair and I'm gonna sit down in my desk and do my job

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Yeah, I'm gonna have to drag me out there

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wait a minute wait a minute listen are you telling me that you're coming in

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regardless with your hair on you right that's what I just say it okay why don't

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you go ahead and bring some boxes in because you may I'm not you bring this

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well I don't want to have to pack you to get your stuff and box it up and you're

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losing your job because you can't take what you can do that because I'm a call

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You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you stupid *** behind *** weed.

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You need to watch your language, young lady.

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Why do I need to watch my language? I'm at home.

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You call me on my own home phone on my time.

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I'm at my house. I'm not on your *** clock.

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I say what I want to say on my *** phone.

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Okay, can I say what I want on my phone, and then I'll let you go,

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and you can come in to work any way you want to tomorrow.

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What is it, Byron? What else you got to say?

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I want to tell you this.

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I want to tell you that your girlfriend Jennifer at your job

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phone call you this is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey morning show this is

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nephew Tommy baby from the Steve Harvey morning show Jennifer your co-worker got

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me to play my blood pressure up I'm gonna kill it come on and I'm gonna pull

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You know I got high blood pressure.

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You can't be doing that to me behind my weave.

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I pay too much money.

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That's the money I could be spending on my kids.

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Oh, ain't nothing like a black woman and her hair.

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Oh, man.

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Okay, baby, I got one more thing to ask you, girl.

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What is the baddest, and I mean the baddest, radio show in the land?

Speaker 2

Well, after this prank, it has to be the Steve Harvey morning show.

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God.