Ultimatum at work: Don't be a hippie

[DrunkenSano]

If you want a professional position, then you have to look professional. Long hair is not a professional look. Especially if you are in a position where you will be having face to face interaction with a lot of people, image is huge in the professional world.

 

[TwiceOver]

I couldn't imagine myself with short hair. I would be pretty unhappy with my bosses if they acted like that.

If you want a professional position, then you have to look professional. Long hair is not a professional look. Especially if you are in a position where you will be having face to face interaction with a lot of people, image is huge in the professional world.

Not true at all. I've met several business professionals in a diverse range of positions that have long hair. It's all about your own personal style, how you carry yourself, and self confidence.

If you act like a dirty long haired hippie, then yeah "unprofessional".

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

You generally can't help being bald. That's the difference. People who are completely bald generally have lost much/most of their hair and shave their heads because it looks better than having patches of hair. Even in the 24th century, they apparently don't have a cure for baldness:

Right, except for the fact that a lot of young or semi-young (in their 30s) guys have bald hair because it's their preference. Same as people having long hair, yet the ones that are bald don't ever get shit about it.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

I couldn't imagine myself with short hair. I would be pretty unhappy with my bosses if they acted like that.



Not true at all. I've met several business professionals in a diverse range of positions that have long hair. It's all about your own personal style, how you carry yourself, and self confidence.

If you act like a dirty long haired hippie, then yeah "unprofessional".

This.

 

[AstroManLuca]

You should actually be happy your boss had the balls to tell you this. It sucks and is possibly illegal for them to refuse you a promotion based on your appearance, but there are always excuses. Say anything and they could simply cite "unprofessionalism" and get away scot free.

Telling you is better than never getting a promotion and wondering why.

I think it's dumb but you have to draw the line somewhere. Someone with visible tattoos probably wouldn't be considered either.

 

[GTSRguy]

If theres one thing for sure, if you worked at Apple they wouldnt give fuck what your hair looked like. +1 FOR APPLE

If Fabio worked where you work i wonder if they would make him cut his hair?

 

[lxskllr]

Why do guys have long hair anyways....just looks retarded on them 99% of the time.

To piss you off. I think short hair looks retarded 99% of the time. The only acceptable short hair is bald, or military style.

 

[Specop 007]

It's called professionalism. We had a guy at my last place who was in sales come in with a mohawk one day. Lasted all of an hour before the CEO saw him and "reccomended" he cut his hair.

At what point do you draw the line, first its hair, then its clothes, then its language.

If you want to work in a white collar job, dress and act the part. Otherwise move on to the blue collar jobs. Does it suck that that is the way it is? Yeah, but that is the way it is 95% of the time.

And yes, I know there are exceptions in everything, but what I said is true in most cases.

Have to agree with this. You want a career professional track then fuck man act like it. You want the wild child look and lifestyle theres plenty of very well paying blue collar jobs where you can wear and speak however you want.

 

[Kadarin]

Congrats on learning one of life's valuable lessons: Appearances matter.

 

[Kadarin]

If theres one thing for sure, if you worked at Apple they wouldnt give fuck what your hair looked like. +1 FOR APPLE

Yep. During the summer the dress code here is pretty much shorts and flip flops.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I've always had short hair even when I was a hippie.

 

[SP33Demon]

That's hairist!

 

[krunchykrome]

Not sure what your office/company culture is like, but in every office/company I've worked for, something like long hair would be looked down upon. It just doesn't look professional.

 

[zinfamous]

That's some serious hairism. I'd file a complaint with HR about it, and recommend your supervisors attend diversity training.

:thumbsup:

 

[ss284]

There is also a mustache and goatee in the picture, but they weren't mentioned.

Ugh. Get rid of the goatee and mustache too.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

cut, get promoted, grow it out, lawyer on standby, profit either way

 

[GotIssues]

Got through the first page and couldn't go on reading the rest. Too many "me firsts" already. "You shouldn't be judged on your appearance, wah, wah, wah"

You are selling your company to a customer. The company exists because of the customer. If the customer thinks you are an unprofessional hippy and they don't want to do business with you, the company suffers. It has nothing to do with the company, and everything to do with the client.

Would you buy food from a guy who looks and smells like he hasn't bathed in a month? No, because he doesn't look like someone you want to buy food from. It has nothing to do with his ability to cook, and he can easily take all the appropriate steps to keep the food from getting his germs, but that's not a chance you are willing to take.

Get the hint, people. Your company is in the business of making money, which involves putting forth a professional, competent image to impress clients into doing business with them. Your personal "freedoms" that you think you deserve don't mean jack shit because you are dealing with your company's future, not yours.

/rant

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Got through the first page and couldn't go on reading the rest. Too many "me firsts" already. "You shouldn't be judged on your appearance, wah, wah, wah"

You are selling your company to a customer. The company exists because of the customer. If the customer thinks you are an unprofessional hippy and they don't want to do business with you, the company suffers. It has nothing to do with the company, and everything to do with the client.

Would you buy food from a guy who looks and smells like he hasn't bathed in a month? No, because he doesn't look like someone you want to buy food from. It has nothing to do with his ability to cook, and he can easily take all the appropriate steps to keep the food from getting his germs, but that's not a chance you are willing to take.

Get the hint, people. Your company is in the business of making money, which involves putting forth a professional, competent image to impress clients into doing business with them. Your personal "freedoms" that you think you deserve don't mean jack shit because you are dealing with your company's future, not yours.

/rant

Having long hair does not equal "unprofessional hippie", moron. If you don't dress or smell well and have a shitty attitude in combination with having long hair, then you could make that argument. Having long hair alone shouldn't make a difference for the vast majority of customers in terms of how they look at an employee.

 

[BurnItDwn]

If theres one thing for sure, if you worked at Apple they wouldnt give fuck what your hair looked like. +1 FOR APPLE

If Fabio worked where you work i wonder if they would make him cut his hair?

My respect for apple just increased from being a negative number to a positive number.

 

[GotIssues]

cut, get promoted, grow it out, lawyer on standby, profit either way

The only person profiting in that scenario is the lawyer, who will take the initial consultation fees all the way to the bank, while nothing comes of the lawsuit you seem to think he has.

Hair length is not a protected class. It's very, very easy to fire people based on personal appearence. There are a few instances where certain aspects of appearance are driven by protected classes, but they are very few and far between and this is not one of them.

 

[ss284]

Having long hair alone shouldn't make a difference for the vast majority of customers in terms of how they look at an employee.

In an ideal world, it shouldn't make a difference. But in the real world people have limited time to make judgments, and in a corporate environment, I can guarantee you the average person with short hair is a safer bet than a person with long hair.

 

[GotIssues]

Having long hair does not equal "unprofessional hippie", moron. If you don't dress or smell well and have a shitty attitude in combination with having long hair, then you could make that argument. Having long hair alone shouldn't make a difference for the vast majority of customers in terms of how they look at an employee.

Just because YOU don't think it does, doesn't mean the CLIENT thinks it's ok, you fucking moron.

It's painfully obvious that you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Just another one of those coddled kiddies who thinks that what they want trumps everyone else. Sure, you can have long hair. Guess what? Your employer can tell you that they won't put you in front of clients because of it. It's not a protected class, nor will it ever be.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

In an ideal world, it shouldn't make a difference. But in the real world people have limited time to make judgments, and in a corporate environment, I can guarantee you the average person with short hair is a safer bet than a person with long hair.

I didn't say it won't make any difference; I said for the majority of people it won't make any difference, not all.

Being slightly overweight or tall falls into this category as well; doesn't mean we should be firing people for it.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Just because YOU don't think it does, doesn't mean the CLIENT thinks it's ok, you fucking moron.

It's painfully obvious that you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Just another one of those coddled kiddies who thinks that what they want trumps everyone else. Sure, you can have long hair. Guess what? Your employer can tell you that they won't put you in front of clients because of it. It's not a protected class, nor will it ever be.

Looks like someone is having a shitty day. Believe me, if you have the same extremely horrible attitude you're displaying here in a corporate environment, it'll make way more clients fly away than someone simply having long hair.

Looks like it's you that needs to get a clue.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Cut hair
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