Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
I’m fascinated that the OP gives one sentence to litter and one to keeping up infrastructure then dedicates paragraph after paragraph about being clean shaved. Hate to break it to you, bub, but men’s facial hair styles have come and gone throughout the decades. Just because you grew up with a military background and time where clean shaved was the norm doesn’t make your preference “right.”
I've noticed young men start to wear goatees in the mid 1990's. Before that, beards were almost never seen on younger men in America. Maybe about 1 in 5 younger men had a mustache, but that was it. I never objected to neat mustaches even on waiters in restaurants. I tried mustaches myself while in the army and again in the late 1990's. I've later decided I didn't like to fuss with them and food could still get stuck on them. I applied for an auto technician job at a Les Scwab tire store in 2000 at Boise, ID while wearing a neat mustache. The interviewer said that all male employees had to have no facial hair in accordance with corporate policy. I never got the job. After that I scrapped the 'stache altogether and went clean-shaven ever since. I sure wish all customer service businesses had such policies especially food service and health care. The idea of a bearded guy's working underneath my greasy car doesn't gross me out so much but making my sandwich....come now!
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