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Wow! At our Subway the owner's wife sports a big diamond on the side of her nose, & if I recall correctly, her ears are pierced at least double in each ear!

As to whether or not I'd remove my piercings for a minimum wage job, I guess it would depend on how badly I needed the job. Piercings aren't 'banned' where I work, however we are asked to consider safety. I work in juvenile detention where the possibility (however slight) exists that you could be involved in something physical---either trying to break it up, or being attacked. That said, I keep my earrings (only pierced once, each ear) to very short dangle or posts, & since I have long hair, it's clipped up most of the time.

Never had the same problem with piercings but I did have a similer problem when I worked at burger king when it came to my hair. (Is male and has long hair).
A) I didn't cut my hair
B) As long as the peircing dosn't actually have a direct law or company policy (not single manager policy) prohibiting it, I wouldn't remove it. Unless the job prospects are horrible and being fired seems the most likely result for my actions or the lack of. But, that's just me.

The only way my hair will be cut is for the initial interview...afterwards I normally grow it back out. I never saw a problem with it, or piercing or tattoos unless some kind of saftey or health problem was extremely evident. (Ruby's job per say, where things could get violent, never had an earring pulled out before, but can imagine it would really hurt).

Anyway, Most people don't bother with me with these issues anymore, 'cause the moment they try to say something, I bring up the idea of discrimination. I never act on it, but it shuts them up pretty quickly. (Is very observant, and will use what others in the same work place are doing to my advantage).

I work in a call center right now and my bosses don't care. I asked my manager if there will be any problems if I get my lip pierced and she said as long as I can talk it's fine, so I got my lip pierced in the middle. At first it was kind of hard talking cause my lip swelled a little (and I was mercilessly teased about that by a co-worker) but then it went back down and it was all good.

... until I kept getting hit in the lip either playfully or by mistake and it was constantly scrapped against my gums, making it bleed constantly. It got to the point where I couldn't take all the blood I spit out on the sink and my receding gum line in my front lower teeth, that I had it removed, and I was so damn sad... I loved the darn thing.

Now I'm gonna get the sides of my lips pierced. The side piercings won't reach my gums, so no scraping. Yay!

Personally I dont think that thats really all that fair , and no esspecially not for subway. But I do work in another sanwich shop and I think I can understand part of the managers veiwpoint. Theres a guy I work with who has the stretched ears , and is still stretching them . So one day after stretching them , he cant take them out so the manager says ok , just cover it witha band aid. He didnt take them out untill the owner got on him, and then he was fired a short time latter for haing been found the be making food with no hair covering and with his boxers viable to the public.
They might be thinking that one thing lead to another , but still I wounldt do it for subway. They arent that great.

When it comes to piercings, it depends on a two things.

One is professionalism. For example, if you're working as staff at a really classy restaurant, having more piercings than the usual ear piercing probably isn't going to fit with the image the restaurant wants to portray. So where image is a concern, it's understandable that they would want you to take out piercings. But then again, if you wanted the piercing bad enough to get it, would you really want to work at the type of place that makes you remove them?

Second is safety. While simple small stud earrings shouldn't be a problem in most work places, any earrings or other jewelry that dangles CAN be a hazard, and hook style earrings do fall out. So, it's understandable why a manager wouldn't want someone to wear those things.

As for the hair thing, I think guys should be able to have long hair just like girls, with the same rules applied to both sexes (usually involves keeping it clean and tying it back/wearing a hairnet). Done properly, a guy with long hair CAN look professional (and very attractive wink ).

ive had to take my piercings out when i went to work and it didnt bother me a lot. i just felt naked w/o my labret in. so yea even if its minimum wage moneys is moneys and i needed the moneys