Ha!

One of the random, heartless jobs I was interviewing for a while back required that men dress 'professionally', which included cutting my hair because It's at about shoulder length - albeit my hair was pulled back in a tail and I had a black headband on for the interview. Well, I happen to be in the process of growing my hair out to donate it, but aside from that, I was kind of shocked at the comment.

I've gone to private schools all my life, so my hair has never, ever been long, and it wasn't until college - go figure - that I had no Idea why hair mattered - how it meant 'clean.' The only reason I ever found to justify it was in military terms, where the hair is cut for uniformity and helmet purposes. I guess this idea of men with short hair trickled over to the 'professional' world after WWI and WWII? Maybe it's founded in early colonial times when only savages had long hair??

So, anyways, I digress. When the interviewer asked me If I was fine with cutting my hair, the only thing I could think of was the receptionists hair. It was down, frizzy, and not at all taken care of, and she was female.


*I did not end up working there.