What's more important to you?

Pollycat

pawsies wrote: »

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.

Surely it's a no-brainer!

If he's consistently late he might find he doesn't have a job to look good for.

Doesn't he realise this?

I'm not sure I'd be so blas! about it as you seem to be, OP.

Tropez

Well I usually work from home, so I generally look like a scruffy hobo and roll up at any old time.

However, when I do have to go to the office, getting there on time is the most important thing. I'm not out to pull anyone at the office and providing I don't show up in ripped jeans, a t-shirt that has gone unwashed in a month and muddy wellies no one really cares. If I have to meet clients, generally, I will ensure I have time to make myself presentable but I'm still not sacrificing being on time. I have a trick where I'll just get myself ready a bit earlier than normal.

Skinto_7

pawsies wrote: »

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.

Men straightening their hair is surely worse than being late for work!!!

Sethisis

Getting there on time is way more important. I consistently get up late, so don't put any effort in - quickly brush hair and teeth, put on some deodorant and rush.

I've only been pulled up on looking a bit scruffy once, and they weren't too mean about it, but being late is a much bigger deal.

NAR

Vanity, vanity, wherefore art thou vanity! :rotfl:
He should get to work on time. If he gets criticism about how he looks, then he will hopefully get up earlier.

Bazey

He's clearly having an affair with a colleague.

Does he stay late? Putting in the extra hours...likes to earn the (leg) over time?

Bazey

Or he's gay. No straight man would straighten his hair.

Janepig

I'm all for staying in bed until the last possible moment in the mornings and although I don't bother trying to beautify myself (you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear ) and don't really have a set start time, I would tend to end up rushing. Last week one of my colleagues (and good friend) was killed by someone rushing to work who hit him with their car. So I'm not going to be rushing anymore. Too bad it took that for me to learn a lesson.

Jx

ska_lover

Sorry but I think it is hilarious that men straighten their hair!

Hermia

ska_lover wrote: »

Sorry but I think it is hilarious that men straighten their hair!

I used to have a male colleague who straightened his hair. Unfortunately, he was rather clumsy and would frequently turn up for work with burns on his ears!