You know they are worn for other reasons, too, right? Some people enjoy the colors, think it looks pretty on them, got bored and had nothing better to do than dye their hair, ended up with a strange color by accident, did it on a dare, or always wanted the chance to have blue hair before their old ladies. Freaking out the squares is often the last thing on their minds.
Not to argue. I’m interested.
What if you were to show up wearing a suit and tie, clean shaven with nicely styled hair, smell good, and sporting a 1/2 carat diamond stud earring?
There are a lot of successful men around these parts who do just that.
It’s been proven that men like pretty men.
Saw it on PBS. 
I tend to give more of my business to companies with lax piercing/tattoo policies.
If I have a choice of where to buy certain things, the one with the happier employees gets my dollar every time.
I have very short hair for a female (think, Jamie Lee Curtis) and I don’t get discriminated against in hiring. Why should a man with long hair?
Sigh.
Eh, I’m sure you’re right. Personally I can’t imagine anyone under the age of 40/45 getting all upset over this. I think (IMO) it’s the older crowd that tends to look down on the whole ear ring thing.
Why even back in my teenage years (mid-eighties) if a guy were to pierce BOTH his ears; he’d get laughed right out of school. And I must admit it seems kind of girly to me, but I wouldn’t look down on anybody for it. I especialy wouldn’t deny anyone my bussiness if they had a couple of ear rings on.
BTW, since when DID it become “cool” for guys to pierce BOTH ears? I missed the memo…
I don’t know about “cool”, as I don’t really see many guys with both done here. My justifications were: 2) I’m buying a pair of earrings anyway, no point in letting one earring go to waste now and every time I buy earrings, 2) I didn’t want to have the assymmetrical look, and 3) I’m too masculine for a gay guy. Needed to fem it up a bit. 
FWIW, though, my dad has 3 piercings on one ear and 2 on the other, although he hasn’t worn any earrings there that I can ever remember, unless as a joke or something. I just know there are holes there.
Slightly tangential question: I’m female, and I only wear one pair of earrings usually (I have my ears double pierced, but I don’t usually wear earring in the upper holes.) However, my earlobes are stretched to 6g (about 4mm. To visulalize thise, the earrings I’m wearing right now are made out of LiteBrite pegs). Would this be a problem at one of these conservative workplaces like in the OP? No one has noticed that my lobes are stretched unless I pointed it out to them. I think this is because the plugs are solid, as opposed to tubes that you could see through. How would they even phrase their complain, anyway? “We realize that you only have one pair of earrings in, but we don’t like them?”
Oh, for reference: My earring, picture of me with earring, and my ear pushed out so you can actually SEE the earring
Technically, yes. Another poster mentioned that it’s up to the manager to enforce it, which is also correct. It’s a violation of the International Food Safety Council (aka ServSafe).
Some places are able to get away with employees-wth-earrings ruling not just because of lax management, but also because of a lax local health/sanitation board. In some stores employees could get away with earrings/nailpolish/etc. because we were seldom audited. In other stores the local health/sanitation board would make surprise audits every time you turned around, so it was in the store’s best interest to enforce the ServSafe regulations.
No, I mean that it’s literally in all of the literature at work that females may wear earrings.
Are there any stipulations as to what kind of earrings (i.e., studs are allowed, but dangling earrings aren’t)?
Another thought: Perhaps the McD’s employee handbook was written before earrings on males became in vogue.
Still another thought: I’ve never worked at McD’s, so I have no idea if the positions there are clearly defined, as in a cashier is a cashier, someone who prepares Big Macs only works in back, etc. If that’s the case, then one could presume that it’s OK for a female cashier to wear earrings because she’s only giving the bagged meal to the customer, not preparing it – roughly the same as the female cashiers in my store.
I’m sure I could think of a couple other theories, but right now my brain’s shutting down for the night …
Football players, my man, football players.
And it’s been a good while.
BTW, SHAKES, since when is being 85 in one’s “teenage years”?
In my area, it’s not so cool for a guy to have an earring-gun-from-the-mall earrings in both ears, but it’s the preferred number of larger gauge (14g+ and professionally done), so.
I work at Blockbuster, and they let me wear my 0g ear plugs (0g=big enough to stick a normal-sized cigarette butt into), 16g nostril screw, 14g tongue bar, and I don’t have to cover the small tattoos on the backs of my wrists. I just have to take out my labret and have black hair instead of blue and purple (which, by the way, I only had because I loved the colors and how it looked. I actually hated the attention it got me).
No, in fact, McD’s believes in cross-training, i.e. having people who are able to work all stations. After a few months there, you’ve ideally learned how to do everything in the store. And from my original post, the earrings cannot be big enough to put a finger into.