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I am doing a college paper on long hair (and possibly "unacceptable" piercings) in the workplace. The research that is supposed to be the basis of the paper is more field research than book. I already plan to use Raj Kumar Sighn' paper from backlash, and Bill's website (if he doesn't mimnd) but I need some other sources. If you know of any other credible sources I could use please let me know.
I also need your help with the field research part. Please tell me what field you are in and the environment of your work. Also if you have applied elsewhere and were rejected, tell me the field and environment.
Thank you for the help.
Ps If You can get a picture (usually in the front of his books) the author Richard Marcinko is the baddest longhair on the block.
Hi!
My name is Charles F. Moreira and I write for a computer and information technology pullout of The Star, and English language daily newspaper in Malaysia.
I have a pony tail which gets down to my shoulder blades.
Before I joind the Star in 1994, I applied for a job as a stringer (part-time journalist) with our competitor, the New Straits Times and they told me to get my hair cut and I politely told them no and left.
About two months later, I applied for and got a job with The Star and they had no problem with my hair. Here I am a full time staff and have been promoted once.
We have a few other journalists and other staff here who have long hair but just a handful.
I hope that helps
I hope you write a paper favourable to longhairs.
Regards
Charles
Hi!
My name is Charles F. Moreira and I write for a computer and information technology pullout of The Star, and English language daily newspaper in Malaysia.
I have a pony tail which gets down to my shoulder blades.
Before I joind the Star in 1994, I applied for a job as a stringer (part-time journalist) with our competitor, the New Straits Times and they told me to get my hair cut and I politely told them no and left.
About two months later, I applied for and got a job with The Star and they had no problem with my hair. Here I am a full time staff and have been promoted once.
We have a few other journalists and other staff here who have long hair but just a handful.
I hope that helps
I hope you write a paper favourable to longhairs.
Regards
Charles
i work low end manufacturing (cardboard boxes). the only hair issue is whether it's tied back around machinery- safety concerns. i break my butt there- that gets noticed- not my hair. cost of living raise this year was 3%; i got 15%. i also custom picture frame part time. they don't want us to wear blue jeans but no hair issues.
I'm a customer service rep for GE Capital Retail Financial Services, a conglomerate of Monogram Credit Card Bank of Georgia, managing retail credit accounts for 50+ retail/hardware stores across the country. 100% of the work my office does is done over the phone, answering questions and addressing concerns related to consumer/commercial credit accounts and general billing issues. The office I work at is a hub for one of those stores, though I'd rather not say which one. It's an office environment with, thankfully, a very relaxed dress code (with reasonable exceptions); so relaxed, in fact, that at least one of our reps has multi-colored hair and a nose ring. I'm one of three longhaired men there, the other two work in different departments.
While I understand the nature of the question, I'm not sure what good any answer will do you, considering that, as far as I know, most, if not all of those turned down for a job are never told why.
Hmmm.... he looks kinda like the Paul Mitchell guy (think hair care products).
Iam a baker in a small bakery shop I have hair down to my belt which I keep tried back and covered to keep the health inspector happy. My boss does not mind my hair because I am one of the best and only whole grain bakers in the area. My work usaully get noticed before my hair. In other circles (food shows etc.)this is not always true. I have been rejected in the past because of my hair but never had any problem finding a job. Generally I find if your work is good people tend (in most cases) look past your hair. I've had longhair all my life over twenty five years now so I've see and heard and been exposed to just about every kind of crap you can get from having longhair but the bakery business seems to be very easy going about it.
I work in a public library. When originally hired as a librarian, my hair was relatively short (although I always wore the front long but combed back). I did have a long tail but always kept that under my shirt. As the years went on, I did let my hair grow. It was never quite to shoulders but was all one length just above the shoulders. I was interviewed for a management position. Before the interview, I did take a couple inches off my hair, but did not go short. I was promoted. When I started the new job, I did cut my hair fairly short. I didn't do it because it was expected of me. I just thought it might help the people under me take me seriously as the boss now (I was promoted within the same department). As it turned out, the hair did not seem to have made much of a difference. It went through various stages of short and long and now is beyond my shoulders. No one says anything about it, at least not against it. I think because intellectual freedom is such an issue here, and working for a city government there are lots of political issues, especially those regarding freedoms, and race, ethnic, and gender issues, no one would dare say anything anyway. It is very easy to have someone bring a sexual harrassment charge against someone. Fortunately, I think the same thing that would keep anyone from making a comment that could be taken as harrassment would keep anyone from saying anything about anyone's hair. Now I do work in a non-public area of the library, but that apparently is not part of the issue. There is one long-haired librarian in public service who always wears his mid-back length hair in a neat ponytail. There are several other ponytailed workers in the library at lower levels. I am the only management level person at the library with longish hair, but I don't think it matters. I dress well enough and keep my hair neat and clean. I think intellectual freedom is what keeps me safe here.
I think in terms of Bill's longhaired identity, I am not a social longhair. I may have tried different styles and short hair, but only because I wanted to, not because of matching any trends. I like my hair on the long side (though it doesn't have to be extremely long), and even with short hair I will always wear the front long. That part of my hair is an important part of my identity. (So, Bill, I don't know if that puts me somewhere in between. What do you think?)
Good luck with your paper.
Hey, for each of us, our precise identity is uniquely ours. What's important is to realize that though hair may not be part of some people's identity, it may be part of yours. If it is, you will feel so strongly about your hair that you will feel you have to listen to your own feelings over the feelings of others.
Also, though most of us seem to be in one camp or the other, this can be a shades-of-gray matter. Another way we will vary is each of us will draw our own boundaries to define what lengths and styles are acceptable for us.
The whole purpose of looking at these issues is, of course, so we can better understand ourselves. In doing that, we can better weigh our own inner needs against pressures that may come from others.