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I just found out this week that my job is changing companies. All of us employees will still be working there.I also found out that now there is a possibility that I may have to cut my hair that I wear in a ponytail.I ore it llike this for the last couple of years.Before I got it cut two years ago after wearing it long for a few years.I am a produce guy at a grocery store and I fel it is my right to have long hair.I need this job and I have no way to get another one for a while and I like this job. I know I can't wear it in a hat. I wonder if there is even a cool haircut that is not too short or a way to wear it for awhile that would still make me feel better. I would rather cut it soon before the company changes and before some ignorant person tells me I have to cut it.Guys any suggestions?
i'd suggest a career change.
I would not cut it until they tell you to because they might not care how long your hair is. If they do ask you to cut it and you need the job you will have no choice. But I would look for another job if they ask you to cut it.
HI Brent
sorry to hear about your situation.
THe economy is really good right now, so your chances of getting another job is very good.
I would suggest putting applications right away and as many as possible.
Produce is not the most prestigious job out there anyway.
Just out of curiousity, where do you live and work?
I'd agree with Cam - don't cut it unless you are asked. I understand you don't want to feel forced into it, but there is the possibility they won't ask, and you would have ended up with short hair for nothing. As your job is not a corporate style one anyway it seems unlikely they would make you cut it. You've already cut it once and regretted it - don't make the same mistake twice.
Two years ago I had an interview with a "higher" employee of an assurance company, to work as a mathematician there. He told me that he would like it to employ me, but there exist problems with the staff department and some others who don't like long hairs. I cut it short (after some years growing) and don't got the job.
Currently I work in a software development environment and don't have problems (as yet) with my hair after regrowing it for 1 year. If they would tell me to cut it I would refuse it. Maybe after some jobless time I would contemplate to cut it, but never for the job I have currently. That doesn't mean that I don't like this job, but long hair is essential for me, and as long I get no serious problems with baldness I will try to preserve it.
I remember of two aquaintances of me with long hair who had hidden it with a wig (for years).
I can not suggest not to cut it. Money is essential for living. But I wouldn't prepare myself for something that may not happen and without any resistance. I needed a lot of years to come to this insigth.
Thank you for your advice. I will ask for it. If I look at my father's head the hair has gone, but my grandfather(from my mother site) had full hair at the age of 80. I don't know what genetics is planning with me. If I part the hair in the middle the left site looks thinner then the rigth site. There I can detect a little dessert at the front parts left, currently I can recover it. I am afraid that the front parts of my hair may be thinned out. Currently I use "Merz Spezial Drageesn" to avoid hair loss (or "Kieselerde & Calcium Kapseln"). After detangling and combing the hair in the morning I detect between 10 and 20 individual lost hairs, including washing, conditioning, shamponing and taking a shower max. 30 - 40 individual hairs. I am very carefully and use only a hand sawn comb with a distance about 5 mm between the teeth and a towel only to touch the hair to get wedness in it.
>AND IF YOU DO HAVE A PROBLEM GOING BALD THERE IS ROGAINE (WHICH I >HAVE TRIED AND WORKS WELL) NIOXIN, AND PROPECIA.
A brush is ideal for people with STRAIGHT long hair, but for guys with curly or wavy hair, it might just pull too much in a brush. For us, a comb is best, but it should be a comb with longer and wider spaced teeth than the traditional shorthaired man's pocket comb. Combs like we need come in two types. One is the same shape as the traditional comb but maybe 50% larger. These are most often called "detangling combs". The other has teeth about the length of your fingers and the comb is about as wide as your hand. These are most often called "Afro picks".
I couldn't brush my curly hair if I wanted to. It just knots up immediately into the bristles. I've tried both kinds of combs, and I've settled on the pick. For one thing, its teeth are longer so
plunge all the way through my mane. For another, none of the teeth stick out of my back pocket and get scuffed when I sit on rough stuff like concrete. This was a problem with the detangler because scuffed teeth can tear hair strands.
"Don't run it", yeah. But patting your head with a few small handfuls of hot water is a great way to loosen fresh scalp oil and get it to moving down to the ends of your strands where the oil may be needed. Just don't use so much water that the water runs clear down your hair and drips off the ends, because then the oil will be going down the drain with it. The optimum situation (to minimize comb friction) is to stop adding water just before it would be dripping off the ends.
The above technique is particularly useful when you don't feel a need to wash your hair, but you'd sure like to moisten it just to neaten it up.
This is a delicate problem of course but I would also suggest you to wait that they actually ask you to cut them.
I had to face the same problems last year when it became evident that I was letting my hairs grow long. I could feel some presure but they never came to ask me directly to cut them. I was figuring that if ever they would have "officialy" asked me to cut them short, I was going to purchasse a good quality wig and simply hide them in it.
Of course that wouldn't have been the ideal as it can be bothering to wear a wig and also because I don't grow my hairs long for hiding them but I was figuring that it would have been an alternative to the cut.
Good luck and hold on, long hairs are getting to be quite frequent now a day, just look around.
Yours
Jean
When a company buys another, they get all kinds of things - buildings, merchandise, and yes, employees. They also get the obligations of the old company - they have to pay its bills, for example. Though an employment arrangement is usually "at will", which means you can quit anytime and they can fire you anytime, the workforce they acquire is an asset that they generally don't want to squander. Replacing a good set of longtime employees is expensive, and a lot of needless work. So they have a real incentive to treat the existing employees fairly. If they do something unfair to one employee, the others will notice, and this drop in morale translates into a dollar loss down the pike.
A major gasoline company in the US recently acquired another. The purchasing company did not offer health insurance to domestic partners. They did not, however, discontinue the health insurance of partners of workers who already had it. This was no doubt done because it would have been perceived as too cruel, and would have caused more cost in lost goodwill among the workforce and the public, than it would have saved.
You're in a similar situation. You're a longhair working for the company being acquired. If the new company does not want to hire longhairs, they may nevertheless be willing to keep you, because discriminating against you will come off as very unfair. So I'd certainly wait and see what happens.
In the meantime, you might ask around. A competitor might be perfectly willing to snatch up an experienced worker who happens to come with a mane. :-)
If you've decided to stick to your guns and keep your mane irregardless, when they mention your hair, one of the best comeback lines I've heard is, "Let me know when my last day is then." They probably haven't thought of the precise answer to that, so this postpones things. A competent manager will realize he must get a replacement for you before he gives you that answer. Most workplaces are a scene of constantly putting out fires, and this fire will be low priority, particularly since finding a replacement for you will entail some unnecessary work. One longhair who used that line discovered that finding his replacement was such a low priority (since it was always the thing that could be postponed) that they never got around to it, eventually got used to his mane, and in time forgot the whole thing.
Celebrate it long!
Bill
That was nicely put Bill. You are right and this may be what unofficially happened to me as "they" have cease to talk about my long hairs since quite a while now - I gess that, like you said, they figured that they had more important problems to solve than the length of the hairs of a good employe.
I will retain that one as well.
Of course is such situation I had to double check my work in order not to give them other reasons to get rid of the "disturbing" administrator with is long ponytail.
Jean.
P.S.: This is such a joy in my life to have win that battle, I can now proudly show those long hairs of mine.