The accidental beard

[mrph]

Does that sound like an Edward Gorey book title to you? The tale itself is actually a bit closer to Dilbert...

It's not my fault. Well, ok, it is my fault, but wasn't actually intentional. A not-too-awful week at work ended up with me being unexpectedly hauled into a meeting with some of the "Great and Powerful". And while we don't actually have a shirt-and-tie dress code these days (just as well, as I was wearing T-shirt and jeans), I was looking a bit unshaven at the time (it'd been a long week...) - which got some odd looks and comments.

Being scruffy and unshaven can be considered grounds for a formal 'presentation and appearance' snottigram from the HR catberts. And I can really do without one of them right now.

However, having a beard is fine. And even HR have to acknowledge that nobody can suddenly acquire a beard without some scruffy transitional stubble. So I'm officially growing a beard.

I don't actually intend to keep it, of course. I just need to leave it for a while, so that I can credibly say "this looks silly - beards don't really suit me, do they?" and lose it again. Well, unless it astonishes me by looking halfway decent.

I love my job. No, really...

Comments

Don't grow a beard!

[mina-laury.livejournal.com]

Unlike some of the people I know with beardses, you actually have a chin :)

Unless growing a beard is a prelude to moving to Bristol, and I don't think it is, somehow.

Re: Don't grow a beard!

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, no. I'm not sure I could really cope with Bristol - aside from anything else, the housing is just a little bit more expensive than Coventry.

The beard is probably just JPT, though - as mentioned, I've got to make a half-decent attempt at it, but I'm not planning to keep it unless it turns out bizarrely well.

Oh well. At least it's not ginger. :)