Would you remove your facial hair for a job ?

**MAJOR METAL** · #1 10-24-2008, 01:15 AM

Would you remove your facial hair for a job ? I have an oppertunity for employment that would require me to remove my beard ( one my face) but I find it difficult considering it has been the longest commited relationship I have been in.

standupright · #2 10-24-2008, 01:18 AM

i do it every day when i wake up. facial hair.....gone.....but...that was nothing to cutting of my hair that was halfway down my back after a graduated college and was getting a job int he corporate world........wish i would have saved it.....it had hemp braids and beads and all kinds of cool tree hugging hippy bullshite in there.

XtreO · #3 10-24-2008, 01:19 AM

selfblessed · #4 10-24-2008, 01:24 AM

Yeah. I am kind of over my "beards". I have dark brown hair and a freaking red beard.

T-Bird · #5 10-24-2008, 04:26 AM

Hi.

No, I most probably wouldn't.

That desicion has cost me dearly, but at least I think it's been worth it.

Regards
Sam

Baryonyx · #6 10-24-2008, 04:55 AM

Yes, for my previous job I have to be clean shaven or have a fully grown beard (no stubble beards allowed so you had to grow a beard in your own time!), and even though my job no allows you to have a beard at work, I never go beyond a light stubble before shaving.

Phalex · #7 10-24-2008, 06:24 AM

Definitely. Hair grows back, money doesn't.

DigMe · #8 10-24-2008, 06:27 AM

No, but I would remove someone else's.

Sincerely,
Barbers

FL Knifemaker · #9 10-24-2008, 06:29 AM

I would shave my butt and walk around backwards.

Phalex · #10 10-24-2008, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

I would shave my butt and walk around backwards.

I think you've given me a lap dance before! What the hey, it was dark, I was drunk.........

You workin this weekend?

hover · #11 10-24-2008, 06:55 AM

Yes. I've reigned in a lot of things I thought used to "matter" like longish hair and wierd facial topiary...but if you wanna be taken serious, especially amongst business clientele, you gotta play the game and keep yourself groomed. I sport about 1/4" stubble beard at the most, and the hair is respectably rockin yet short. If you are steadfast on the "look" over anything else, you run real risk of hitting roadblocks professionally...

H

TheVoiceless · #12 10-24-2008, 08:24 AM

The only time I shaved was for my wedding. I would not try and change for a job unless it was going to be a Career move. How the hell does having a beard prevent you from doing your job?

Please we don't need another corporate douche' clone out there. Enough of them have already ruined the USA with their corporate brain washing.

Honestly I find it offensive that someone would ask you to change your appearance for a job unless you are Johnny Depp and our up for a big role. And you can guess how much he gets paid to change how he looks.

Yes I may not make as much money as a clean shaving corporate kiss ass but I can look in the mirror and know that I live my life the way I choose.

Keep your carrot at the end of the string. Besides they will just lay you off and then you will be jobless and beardless.

Joe Gress · #13 10-24-2008, 08:26 AM

Yes. I do every night before work the next morning.

hover · #14 10-24-2008, 08:30 AM

Wow, a real rebel. It has nothing to do with your ability and more to do with a corporate "identity". A simple matter of whether or not your boss prefers a neat grooming. If he does, fall in. That would have been established upon your hire, or adressed after if things changed radically. That's reality. It has NOTHING to do with being a corporate kiss ass. Personally I find that to be a tremendous cop out. You just keep bucking that system and "keeping it real" man.

SuperDuck · #15 10-24-2008, 08:33 AM

Yes, especially in today's economy.

Webtroll · #16 10-24-2008, 08:46 AM

Only if I was auditioning for ZZ Top

DaveDeVille · #17 10-24-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by TheVoiceless

The only time I shaved was for my wedding. I would not try and change for a job unless it was going to be a Career move. How the hell does having a beard prevent you from doing your job?

Please we don't need another corporate douche' clone out there. Enough of them have already ruined the USA with their corporate brain washing.

Honestly I find it offensive that someone would ask you to change your appearance for a job unless you are Johnny Depp and our up for a big role. And you can guess how much he gets paid to change how he looks.

Yes I may not make as much money as a clean shaving corporate kiss ass but I can look in the mirror and know that I live my life the way I choose.

Keep your carrot at the end of the string. Besides they will just lay you off and then you will be jobless and beardless.

...hmmm , self-righteous much ??

seriously , do you really think because someone shaves his facial hair ,
that automatically makes him a " corporate kiss-ass " ?

SuperDuck · #18 10-24-2008, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by david meissner

...hmmm , self-righteous much ??

seriously , do you really think because someone shaves his facial hair ,
that automatically makes him a " corporate kiss-ass " ?

I think it automatically makes him "someone who realizes that in order to get a solid job sometimes you have to play along and use some common sense to realize that there are better battles to be fought".

But what do I know, my large corporation job lets me have my scraggly facial hair. If they told me to shave it though, I would. It's a good job!

DaveDeVille · #19 10-24-2008, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperDuck

"someone who realizes that in order to get a solid job sometimes
you have to play along and use some common sense to realize
that there are better battles to be fought".

kiss-ass !!

SuperDuck · #20 10-24-2008, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by david meissner

kiss-ass !!

I'm just a big 'ol corporate tool. I must really be missing the boat!