It's either my hair or my job

[ulfblod]

Your hair is not even worth a cent.
Snip it off, you won't lose any value. It serves no practical use. Perhaps some cosmetic use of making you look like a greasy haired, socially outcasted loser, but who cares huh.... $4.50 an hour or looking like a greasy munkee?

Personally I'd prefer having nice, short, smart hair. like a MAN should.

you've just insulted everything that has ever got to do with metal. NO PRACTICAL USE YOU SAY?! BLASPHEMY!

 

[nitrovo]

Dude I had chicks in class rubbing their tits on my hair (with shirts) coz it was so soft and nice. you wouldnt believe the attention you get from the ladies man.

 

[judaspiss]

So which school is this??

 

[nitrovo]

haha Aussie School

Dude, your avatar.. where is it?

crowd looks very similar to a gig metallica did. I cant find the lars pic but this is the same place:

 

[detroit_red]

Kirk so sexay ...

 

[Tenfingers]

Hair is nature's sign of health and if u wash it as u bath,how can it be greasy? of course,there are people who will forever never accept the fact that long hair gives you more personal freedom.., it is not only the metal scene or hard rock scene,do u think classical composers have crew cut? their hair and beard are a sign of status man.

 

[ulfblod]

Dude I had chicks in class rubbing their tits on my hair (with shirts) coz it was so soft and nice. you wouldnt believe the attention you get from the ladies man.

long hair = chicks 'nuff said. 8)

 

[judaspiss]

haha Aussie School

Dude, your avatar.. where is it?

crowd looks very similar to a gig metallica did. I cant find the lars pic but this is the same place:

Haha, dude you've got sharp eyes.. :lol:
Is there no mystery left in this world anymore? I thought I could fool people but hell no! I nicked that pic from one of Metallica's live pics in 88. This is the original pic before it was brutally raped, pillaged and photoshoped:

...but one can dream

 

[nerdska]

But there are girls who likes guys who have very close shaven head..... I know few of them.....

 

[CrispyEgg]

sorry if this is an UBER SLOW reply, but i might know of a job that would have the starting pay of the same, very good (maybe better) benefits AND u get to keep long hair cuz u wear a cap (just hide it underneath, that's what i do. or tie it up. up to you.)

damn i just read thru the whole thread n yea, it was an uber slow reply.

 

[strats]

i want leh egg too bad i starting school liao..

 

[CrispyEgg]

i want leh egg too bad i starting school liao..

i'm schooling AND working and occasionally i juggle two jobs too, the fixed part-time job and freelancing as a sound tech or techie or watever handyman job i can get that pays good.

Personally I'd prefer having nice, short, smart hair. like a MAN should.

WHO started that statement was greatly mistaken. MEN just started having short hair because it was practical, not because we SHOULD. a woman with no hair on her head isnt, by human instinct, generally attractive right? but no one said they cant have short hair either. in fact, some women prefer to have short hair.

p.s. this isn't a personal attack, but an attack to whoever started that statement that MEN SHOULD HAVE SHORT NEAT HAIR. what's wrong with puffy curly hair or long flowing locks!

 

[strats]

you power kia. i need the bucks to pay for my gear lol. *ahem* any lobangs

 

[CrispyEgg]

my school doesnt barr long hair ROCK ON arts school! i've got schoolmates who've hair like slash from GnR, petrucci (present and verylongago), as well as exotic styles and colours. and i think we all know how to appreciate the freedom: i haven't seen an awful hairstyle. not like if u let an entire poly have hair freedom, some buggs might go and get ... bleah. have some dignity for yourself, fashion stands out because it's unique, not because it looks alien.

haha one job is service crew, HR policy says guys have short neat hair dark brown or natural colour only but since we wear caps, (my hair has blue hi-lights :roll: ) i have no problems at all, i just make sure it looks neat. manager doesnt mind either, they know what i look like off-work i even interviewed with uber long hair (i just cut off the sides so it 'looks shorter' but actually... haha)

other job would be from lobangs lor, friend reccomend me to his boss, etc... i just did a job for a company that covered Mosaic Music Fest... fun sia...

btw we should all write in to the MICA and request that long hair not be shunned upon: fine, cut our hair when we go into NS, but reservice? if REAL war u wanna cut, mm... i think i'd go with that, i dun want to run across a battlefield with my hair stuck in my rifle chamber... but c'mon, if music is my life when i'm 28 and u call me in for reservice before some big gig, DAMN that's a big monkey wrench thrown into the picture.

OH AND FURTHERMORE i find it an irony: "hair must be neat at all times" is a common policy in companies. BUT THEN, why do they allow guys (especially chinese) to have those "just wake up from bed" look? use a lot of wax, push hair here and there, look messy actally is nice and flowing downwards. big irony. if i had long flowing hair, i'd tie it up and maybe wear a bandana if it's too puffy. isnt that NEATER than OUT OF BED look?

 

[xspace]

The metallica picture... 8O

It's like floods of PEOPLE...

 

[serialninja]

Your hair is not even worth a cent. Snip it off, you won't lose any value. It serves no practical use. Perhaps some cosmetic use of making you look like a greasy haired, socially outcasted loser, but who cares huh.... $4.50 an hour or looking like a greasy munkee? Personally I'd prefer having nice, short, smart hair. like a MAN should.

how pompous. people have a right to grow their hair out any way they see fit. if you don't like it, that's a problem with you being close-minded. not them being any less of a person.

 

[penguin]

i use to keep long hair until i went for NS..
after that thats no way to keep the hair..as i was recall for reservist annually

if i can keep the hair and earn a living its would be cool...

 

[balloons]

Serialninja made a very good and substantiable point, being close-minded verily includes dismissing a person due to his hair length and that is most ridiculous before you know who that person is or what lies within him. Personally,"out of the bed"messy hairs are a lot more unpresentable than long and properly maintained tied hair which u can let down during gigs or while strolling on the beach.It is your freedom man,why are there "should" and "shouldnt"? for hair length?

 

[AvonRellets]

I've put too much effort into my hair for it to be cut off for a job paying $4.50/hour.

What would you do?

The hair is being cut tomorrow morning =( Not happy at all.

I'm selling out my identity and image to fit the mold of every other slave of THE CATHAY dun dun duuuuuuun

I've tried to refrain from commenting on this thread but it just keeps getting better and better

I'm glad you decided to cut your hair in the end. You do look smarter. But selling out your identity and image?

I guess 4.50 an hour is not worth cutting your hair for eh?

How about if they offered 10 an hour?

50 an hour?

100 an hour?

For all the talk about the effort in growing your hair, you ended your first rant by talking about them paying you only 4.50 an hour. It would follow logically that: given enough incentive, you would feel that it was "worth it" to cut off your hair right?

But like I said, I'm glad you decided to cut your hair. It shows a strength of character, that though you're not happy, you have made a committment to your employer and you're sticking by it. Take pride in THAT instead. Hair can and will grow back, personal integrity is something else.

Serialninja made a very good and substantiable point, being close-minded verily includes dismissing a person due to his hair length and that is most ridiculous before you know who that person is or what lies within him.

There is an appropriate Chinese proverb that goes: "First enters the clothes, then enters the man". The "clothes" in this case means the general appearance of a person.

If I am an employer, am I close-minded if a person shows up for an interview with an unkempt appearance? Or should I be "open-minded" and think: "hey even though he doesn't bother with his grooming, maybe I should give him a whirl anyway just in case twist my fingers and cross my heart"

I'm not attempting to defend BlackMoo's comments; describing people as "greasy munkees" and questioning his manhood is easy behind the computer screen. But keep in mind the situation here is that of employment, especially in the service industry. For all the preaching of personal freedom, there's only so much freedom as the amount of money in the wallet. This is Singapore after all.

 

[BlackMoo]

LONG HAIR ROCKS!