Stubble…What Is the Problem?

I’ve had a couple of jobs where I’ve been moaned at about me stubble and even given a warning.
Sometimes men forget to shave. We could be busy or just forgot. But occasionally, shaving every single day can become tiresome. Or, like me, you get a rash when you shave and it’s a very irritating rash that hurts. I get spots, and to be honest a neck full of spots that is also red raw will probably look more untidy than a little growth of stubble. So I use a stubble trimmer, because it cuts it down to a short length and doesn’t cause a rash. But sometimes I still get taken to the side and told me stubble is unacceptable.

But why?

It’s hair on the face. It’s puberty. It’s something that men can’t stop happening. Would they go up to a woman employee who maybe hadn’t plucked her eyebrows for a while and tell her it looked untidy? No, because that would most likely lead to a court case.

YET, telling a man to shave is fine.

Not once has a customer ever complained about my stubble. There probably has not been one complaint taken up with management, in the history of the working environment, that its main complaint has been “I could see stubble on your employees face.

As time has gone on, the stubble has become almost fashion. A little bit of rough stubble on the face is seen as stylish, and if it is managed well, looks very tidy.

I’m not saying that all men should go to work with a hairy face and refuse to shave. No, not at all. What I’m saying is what is wrong with a millimetre of stubble on ones face? Who does it offend? It’s natural, it’s part of being a man and it will probably stay that way for millions of years to come.

All I want is to be able to go to work after forgetting to shave one day thinking “it’ll be fine, it’s only a bit of stubble” rather than “Oh no, I haven’t shaved, my manager is going to kill me.

Maybe some people will read this, if any, and think I’m just being stupid. And in all honesty, I probably am being stupid. But I just think that there really is nothing wrong with a bit of stubble.


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