New for 2016 - Facial Hair

Walt's avatar

Haven't seen it posted here yet, but Appearance Standards have been updated for 2016. Among the changes, male associates will be permitted to have facial hair (within the defined standards).

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thedevariouseffect's avatar

"Facial hair must be grown on the associates own time"

"Associates with no beard, mustache or goatee must be clean shaven"

Wow....

*hits head on desk*


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Thabto's avatar

So when you punch the clock, your beard has to stop growing?


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thedevariouseffect's avatar

Punishment is immediate waxing of the face


Corkscrew, Power Tower, Magnum, & Monster/ Witches Wheel Crew 2011

I interpreted this as meaning you have to have your desired facial hair when you process in, you can't decide mid season that you want a beard


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thedevariouseffect's avatar

Regardless, it's pretty dumb...


Corkscrew, Power Tower, Magnum, & Monster/ Witches Wheel Crew 2011

It's a pretty common facial hair policy.

When my father worked at The Disney Store in the mall, it was the exact same policy there, just like every Disney-owned property.

thedevariouseffect's avatar

Sometimes when I think some of my military policies were worth laughing at, the civilian side does stuff like this lol.


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Jeff's avatar

This is pretty much out of the Disney playbook. Around the time they switched it, a lot of dudes would grow beards while using their vacation time. The purpose of the policy is to not allow the scruffy in-between growing out look. It's not complicated.


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I know of quite a few places that have similar rules. Corporate type jobs. You can have a beard, but you can't start growing one while working.

I've known people to take a week of vacation, and use it to allow a beard to grow out enough to keep.

Tends to be jobs where the employee is exposed to customers. A beard growing in looks pretty messy and unprofessional.. that's why mine hasn't gone away in over a decade!

joshjv said:

I know of quite a few places that have similar rules. Corporate type jobs. You can have a beard, but you can't start growing one while working.

So weird, I have yet to experience similar rules anywhere I have worked (except an amusement park). To me it sounds like most minimum wage jobs have the strictest grooming guidelines. I am an engineer that has worked for five different companies that all involve customer interaction and such... None of those companies I worked for had rules on hair, tattoo's, etc... Sure you don't want to look like a bum and I know the big reason is the guest "comfort" seeing a clean and tidy person, feeling more "safe"... But I feel the new generation could care less as we tend to look beyond piercings, tattoo's, multi-colored nail polish and colored or long hair on women and men. As long as people do their jobs properly, I guess I don't see the big deal!


Paisley's avatar

I think the minimum wage jobs tend to attract the employees who need the most guidance and supervision when it comes to grooming. When I worked at Hills Dept. store in college we had all sorts of rules on clothing and if you weren't wearing pantyhose you had to be wearing socks blah, blah blah (might not have been an issue if the air conditioning worked) now that I work for the school system unless your specific building has some rule like no denim at the high school we're just trusted to handle it on our own and know what a teacher should look like.

liebevision's avatar

Wow, well groomed facial hair that isn't limited to the creep stache. I'm impressed. Wish they had that about 12 years ago.

Now if they'd only get with the times on tattoos.


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