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What's more important to you?
pawsies
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Getting to work on time or making sure you look good for work?
This is for a customer facing role.
I just don't understand why my OH (male) will have a shower and straighten his hair to make sure he looks good when he has 20 minutes to get to work (travel time) and he starts doing these things 20 minutes before!!!
For the record I am pretty good at time keeping but if I am running late I would stick some deodorant on and be out of the door asap.
This is for a customer facing role.
I just don't understand why my OH (male) will have a shower and straighten his hair to make sure he looks good when he has 20 minutes to get to work (travel time) and he starts doing these things 20 minutes before!!!
For the record I am pretty good at time keeping but if I am running late I would stick some deodorant on and be out of the door asap.
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Getting to wrok on time - while looking at least half decent.Weight loss challenge, lose 15lb in 6 weeks before Christmas.0
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It's not really an either/or! At a push, it's getting there on time (that's what they pay for), but there's no reason why people can't be on time and looking the way they want to.0
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Option C, get up earlier.The frontier is never somewhere else. And no stockades can keep the midnight out.0
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He might look amazing but if he worked for me and was continually late he'd be on a warning....0
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Getting to work on time is my priority, I've been known to do my hair and makeup on the tram! Looking smart is important in a customer facing role but it's a question of priorities, I'm sure his employer would rather have him there without perfectly straight hair! I could be wrong but maybe he is worried about work? I know I sometimes set off late or obsess about irrelevant details when I'm anxious.0
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Why not just wake up earlier? If he's consistently late, he'll come into very troubled waters, but then if he turns up consistently smelling or looking rough he'll also get in trouble.
Sounds like he's just being a lazy sod tbh.0 -
He can be fired for being repeatedly late.
He can be whinged at for not gelling his hair perfectly.
I'd opt for keeping the job, as looking pretty isn't particularly helpful on a CV that has 'sacked for persistent lateness and unreliability' as an undertone.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll
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+1 for getting up a bit earlier.
I do appreciate the bed is a warm & friendly palce, whereas the office may not be, but customer facing posts do have that extra presumption of smart appearance as well as all the other virtues sought after.
If it's all too much, try the backoffice sector?0 -
Because he thinks that if he walks faster, or drive like a maniac, he will be able to do both?0
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Walk faster - fair enough, Drive like a maniac - dangerous and stupid, for the sake of an extra 10 min in bed and straightened hair.finally tea total but in still in (more) debt (Oct 25 CC £1800, loan £6453, mortgage £59,924/158,000)0
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