POLL: My beard

[poltr1]

As some of you know, I started growing a beard right before Christmas. We had a huge snowstorm, and I stopped shaving. Now that it's spring, I'm considering shaving it off and going clean-shaven again. (Some men grow beards only during the winter.)

This year, I thought it filled in nicely, especially around the chin. The last two times I tried, it never filled in.

[Poll #467979]

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to vote w/o a with and without picture to compare.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

You may find that facial hair causes a problem with some potential employers. Stupid that people make decisions based on that kind of thing, but they often do. You can grow one later if you decide it fits the corporate culture.

[poltr1]

So I've been told. The Walt Disney Co. is one such place. Even the concessionaires at the [Anaheim] Mighty Ducks games had to be clean-shaven. (Disney owns the team.)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

There's also what's written in the company's formal dress code, and what gets funny looks according to the prevailing corporate culture. those can be very different things.

[poltr1]

*nods* I hate it when companies value image and conformity over technical prowess, integrity, and diversity.

Speaking of dress codes, one of the funniest stories I've heard over the years was that a mainframe computer in some eastern European country would start to spazz out every time the women operators get near. It was traced to the static electricity generated by the womens' nylon undies. Once they switched to cotton, the computer paid no heed.

Honorable mention goes to EDS for having the audacity to tell an interviewee that he was wearing the wrong colored suit. (It was a brown suit.)

[miari.livejournal.com]

bikergeek has a good point about potential employers. Stupid these days that that would be a(n) (unspoken) hiring criterion, but it is one, nonetheless. Besides, comparing the two pics, I must say the clean shaven one looks much better (in my opinion) than does the fuzzy faced one. Some people's looks tend toward the reverse, but you look better with your full face showing.