Post a story, especially if it is funny, about shaving or non shaving.
A number of years ago I worked at UPS, I was a PT supervisor in charge of the sorters who sorted the packages to where they would get loaded into the package cars. This was on the Pre Load shift so we would start work at 3am. This incident happened a week before Christmas which for some reason UPS gets so busy at that time of year we called it PEAK season. As a PT supervisor we always had to dress business casual, which usually meant khaki's and polo's. I was glad the powers that be at UPS decided to change the dress code from shirt and ties for PT supes to the polo and khaki code we had. One thing that UPS was picky about at that time was facial hair. Drivers were not allowed to have beards and management was required to be clean shaven. I also officiate HS wrestling so I can be busy at this time of the year. I was actually double shifting when this incident happened, I was helping on the night shift so I would go into work about 9pm and stay until my shift was over at 9am, not bad hours for someone who is considered part time.
I was meeting with my sorters 10 minutes before start time, just letting them know about how many packages we were predicted and other info, when a newly promoted regional manager walked up to us and interrupted my meeting to yell at me. He noticed that I was not clean shaven, which I actually wasn't I have a heavy beard and if I miss one day I have to shave the next day or I look pretty bad. Anyway he was telling me that I had to be clean shaven and I would lose the respect of my employee's if I wasn't, blah blah blah blah , I actually toned him out until he said, " Go home and shave."
I asked if I heard him right and he said, " Yes go home and shave." He was okay with me finishing up prepping my sorters before I left. When I was done one of my rocket scientist sorters, he was in college majoring in aerospace engineering who now works for NASA so yes he is a rocket scientist, asked " You're not coming back today are you Boss?" My answer, " NOPE, he said go home and shave never said anything about coming back so I will see you guys tomorrow."
Wellllll Mr. Regional made a bee line to the sort managers office after he was done talking to me. When he entered my sort manager was talking to the building manager, the center manager, and my full time supervisor were just getting done with a short meeting when the Regional said," I just sent the PT supe in charge of the North Center slide sort home to shave because he looked like he hasn't shaved in a week."
My full time supe exclaims with a look of horror, " No you didn't" and ran out of the office. The other bosses started laughing as my FT supe left to try and catch me. The Center manager explained to the Regional that I lived 45 minutes away and if Mr. Regional did not tell me to come back I wasn't coming back to work until tomorrow. He also explained that since I ran my area the most efficient of all the areas and that since it was PEAK day they let whether I shaved or not some days slide since I was so productive.
I was just reaching the guard shack when my FT supe caught up with me and told me to get back to my area, when I started to argue because I was doing what Mr. Regional told me to do he told me " Shut the F up and get back to my area, just be sure to shave from now on."
Just before break time of that shift Mr. Regional came up to me asked if I was really not coming back. He was not too happy when I told him I lived 45 minutes away and that he had not told me to come back why waste 1 1/2 hours of my day just to shave. He then handed me some can of generic shave foam and a Good News disposable that he kept in his desk for "emergencies" and asked if I would go shave at break. I chuckled and said no. Before he started to get mad again I explained that since my beard was so heavy I had to shave with soap and a brush plus use a DE razor because that disposable and foam was not going to hack it on my beard. He then actually felt my beard and exclaimed " Damn you are right you do have a thick *** beard, if that is just one day I would hate to see a week."
Funny side note guess who started using a DE razor soon after that incident. Yep Mr. Regional.
Looking forward to reading your stories.
A number of years ago I worked at UPS, I was a PT supervisor in charge of the sorters who sorted the packages to where they would get loaded into the package cars. This was on the Pre Load shift so we would start work at 3am. This incident happened a week before Christmas which for some reason UPS gets so busy at that time of year we called it PEAK season. As a PT supervisor we always had to dress business casual, which usually meant khaki's and polo's. I was glad the powers that be at UPS decided to change the dress code from shirt and ties for PT supes to the polo and khaki code we had. One thing that UPS was picky about at that time was facial hair. Drivers were not allowed to have beards and management was required to be clean shaven. I also officiate HS wrestling so I can be busy at this time of the year. I was actually double shifting when this incident happened, I was helping on the night shift so I would go into work about 9pm and stay until my shift was over at 9am, not bad hours for someone who is considered part time.
I was meeting with my sorters 10 minutes before start time, just letting them know about how many packages we were predicted and other info, when a newly promoted regional manager walked up to us and interrupted my meeting to yell at me. He noticed that I was not clean shaven, which I actually wasn't I have a heavy beard and if I miss one day I have to shave the next day or I look pretty bad. Anyway he was telling me that I had to be clean shaven and I would lose the respect of my employee's if I wasn't, blah blah blah blah , I actually toned him out until he said, " Go home and shave."
I asked if I heard him right and he said, " Yes go home and shave." He was okay with me finishing up prepping my sorters before I left. When I was done one of my rocket scientist sorters, he was in college majoring in aerospace engineering who now works for NASA so yes he is a rocket scientist, asked " You're not coming back today are you Boss?" My answer, " NOPE, he said go home and shave never said anything about coming back so I will see you guys tomorrow."
Wellllll Mr. Regional made a bee line to the sort managers office after he was done talking to me. When he entered my sort manager was talking to the building manager, the center manager, and my full time supervisor were just getting done with a short meeting when the Regional said," I just sent the PT supe in charge of the North Center slide sort home to shave because he looked like he hasn't shaved in a week."
My full time supe exclaims with a look of horror, " No you didn't" and ran out of the office. The other bosses started laughing as my FT supe left to try and catch me. The Center manager explained to the Regional that I lived 45 minutes away and if Mr. Regional did not tell me to come back I wasn't coming back to work until tomorrow. He also explained that since I ran my area the most efficient of all the areas and that since it was PEAK day they let whether I shaved or not some days slide since I was so productive.
I was just reaching the guard shack when my FT supe caught up with me and told me to get back to my area, when I started to argue because I was doing what Mr. Regional told me to do he told me " Shut the F up and get back to my area, just be sure to shave from now on."
Just before break time of that shift Mr. Regional came up to me asked if I was really not coming back. He was not too happy when I told him I lived 45 minutes away and that he had not told me to come back why waste 1 1/2 hours of my day just to shave. He then handed me some can of generic shave foam and a Good News disposable that he kept in his desk for "emergencies" and asked if I would go shave at break. I chuckled and said no. Before he started to get mad again I explained that since my beard was so heavy I had to shave with soap and a brush plus use a DE razor because that disposable and foam was not going to hack it on my beard. He then actually felt my beard and exclaimed " Damn you are right you do have a thick *** beard, if that is just one day I would hate to see a week."
Funny side note guess who started using a DE razor soon after that incident. Yep Mr. Regional.
Looking forward to reading your stories.
