slight off topic rant about my work’s dress code that this reminded me of, everyone who doesn’t have a complete full beard or mustache has to shave and they have weird requirements like your mustache has to be connected to your beard, etc., but i usually shave once a week or two just because that’s what looks good for me so that’s annoying but anyways if i forget to shave one day or even if i start to get a 5 o’clock shadow near the end of my shift i will get absolutely HARASSED by my managers asking me questions about how often i shave, how i shave, and even threaten to make me shave with the fucking razor in the bathroom?? and also my hair’s a little longer than the average guy’s, it’s not super long just some flow you know, the back of my hair just touches the collar of my shirt and the other day one of my managers continuously asked me if i considered trimming it, it’s not like i’m unhygienic it’s clean and well kept literally just a centimeter or two “too long” for our precious corporate overlords. and it’s not like i work in food service or something where that’d be an issue or anything i work at a CARWASH (not gonna dox myself super hard here though)
but yeah to bring my rant back around to the topic at hand, this is absolutely the direction companies are going in as far as strict control over one’s personal appearance so this doesn’t suprise me at all, especially giving that in america the purpose of school IS to prepare you for work (needless busy work, school times being close to a 9-5, teaching productivity, etc) it’s not about knowledge as much as it’s about conditioning children to be good worker bees when they grow older. from a business standpoint yeah i’ll concede and say it would make sense to not want your employees to be covered in dirt and filth especially if they have to deal with customers, but having such strict control on their clothes, hair, and other parts of a person’s appearance just feels cruel. the average person does not care that much about how some service worker looks, it’s controlling just because they can be.
true fact at my last job they asked me about my long hair and beard and I told them it was against my religion to cut either of them and it never came up again. It's been over two years since I've gotten trimmed or shaved lmao.
slight off topic rant about my work’s dress code that this reminded me of, everyone who doesn’t have a complete full beard or mustache has to shave and they have weird requirements like your mustache has to be connected to your beard, etc., but i usually shave once a week or two just because that’s what looks good for me so that’s annoying but anyways if i forget to shave one day or even if i start to get a 5 o’clock shadow near the end of my shift i will get absolutely HARASSED by my managers asking me questions about how often i shave, how i shave, and even threaten to make me shave with the fucking razor in the bathroom?? and also my hair’s a little longer than the average guy’s, it’s not super long just some flow you know, the back of my hair just touches the collar of my shirt and the other day one of my managers continuously asked me if i considered trimming it, it’s not like i’m unhygienic it’s clean and well kept literally just a centimeter or two “too long” for our precious corporate overlords. and it’s not like i work in food service or something where that’d be an issue or anything i work at a CARWASH (not gonna dox myself super hard here though)
but yeah to bring my rant back around to the topic at hand, this is absolutely the direction companies are going in as far as strict control over one’s personal appearance so this doesn’t suprise me at all, especially giving that in america the purpose of school IS to prepare you for work (needless busy work, school times being close to a 9-5, teaching productivity, etc) it’s not about knowledge as much as it’s about conditioning children to be good worker bees when they grow older. from a business standpoint yeah i’ll concede and say it would make sense to not want your employees to be covered in dirt and filth especially if they have to deal with customers, but having such strict control on their clothes, hair, and other parts of a person’s appearance just feels cruel. the average person does not care that much about how some service worker looks, it’s controlling just because they can be.
true fact at my last job they asked me about my long hair and beard and I told them it was against my religion to cut either of them and it never came up again. It's been over two years since I've gotten trimmed or shaved lmao.
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