Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.British Airways is currently under fire — no, not for kicking passengers off flights during a heat wave, but for allegedly firing a customer service worker for having a so-called “man bun.“Sid Ouared had been working as a customer services assistant in Heathrow’s Terminal 5 for about two weeks and claims that during the final day of his training, his bosses fired him for “having a hairstyle that did not comply with their uniform policy.” According to The Independent, one of his bosses even told him he “looked like a girl.“He went on to say that “the fact that they dismissed me for being a man with long hair is ridiculous and sexist. They have discriminated against me. They basically said cut it, put it in a turban like a Sikh, or turn it into dreadlocks like a Rastafarian. I am not any of those things, and I can’t believe that they would make me wear my hair like something that I am not,” the New York Post reports.Ouared also claims that this never would have happened to a woman, and that “this stuffy old airline won’t allow me to have my hair as I like it.” As such, he’s claiming that he has been discriminated against by British Airways.The airline told The Independent, “We don’t comment in detail on individual employment matters.”
