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Hey guys I plan on applying to ABF and have a short beard(less than 1/2 inch).

I was wondering if it's ok or would I need to shave it?

Thanks
 
Your fine, casual attire on the job. They have some clothing restrictions, nothing major to be concerned about. Don't worry about shaving, you can let it grow. city side, they give you company clothing after awhile. It's optional.
 
We've seen road drivers with ponytails,....older guys with foot-long beards,.....shaved heads,....shoulder-length,...middle of back. Mine gets a little long on occasion,...but mainly because I'm happy to have a full head of hair at age 60....I'll let it get long enough and flatter myself that I look like Mark Twain,...or Albert Einstein,.....but then I cut it when my wife says it looks more like Larry of the Three Stooges........Oh, yeah,....facial hair........I also have a mustache that looks like a miniature push broom for cookie crumbs,.....it definately is true in my case,....ABF didn't hire me for my looks............I'm sure a short beard as you describe won't affect ABF's sartorial standards..........
 
I see guys that are ugghh.. one called sasquash... some even smell horrible and no one says anything.
 
We had one guy who smelled awful. Even after he went somewhere else the smell stuck in your nose. I am so surprised they hired someone like that, nonetheless sent him out on the street to interact with customers. But the odor is gone now maybe someone told him...
 
We've seen road drivers with ponytails,....older guys with foot-long beards,.....shaved heads,....shoulder-length,...middle of back. Mine gets a little long on occasion,...but mainly because I'm happy to have a full head of hair at age 60....I'll let it get long enough and flatter myself that I look like Mark Twain,...or Albert Einstein,.....but then I cut it when my wife says it looks more like Larry of the Three Stooges........Oh, yeah,....facial hair........I also have a mustache that looks like a miniature push broom for cookie crumbs,.....it definately is true in my case,....ABF didn't hire me for my looks............I'm sure a short beard as you describe won't affect ABF's sartorial standards..........

I thought I had seen just about everything until one night a couple of years ago on switching bid. A line haul driver was wearing a pink skirt, jacket and pill box hat..............................I probably know what you're thinking and I don't know if I'm allowed to print it........... I'll just leave it as cross dressing
 
I thought I had seen just about everything until one night a couple of years ago on switching bid. A line haul driver was wearing a pink skirt, jacket and pill box hat..............................I probably know what you're thinking and I don't know if I'm allowed to print it........... I'll just leave it as cross dressing

I will say it for you. He 'might' have been Gay. He was homosexual. He sung form the other branch of the tree. He was or is a fudge pack*** delight. Please note the emphasis on 'might', because I never met the person. Or are you speaking of a road driver who came thru 050 @ times & had a hard decision on which door to choose from. Kind of like the price is right, if you know what I mean.

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Oh yea. If anyone is offended by my previous post, please call you friendly Moderator to remove said post. I am long past the point of give a shi*. On the other hand if I my posting privileges are suspended I will now have time to address the honey to do list.
 
Offended?.....why should we be offended?........Entertained is more likely,.............And I've only used the word "absquatulation" only once before in my life,...it was referring to a former TM from another company whose morals were so horrific,.....and personal judgement so poor,.....that after getting caught with his .......ahhhh,....hands in the proverbial underage cookie jar,.....of the wrong gender,....he had to absquatulate his position with the company,.....before the crowd showed up with pitchforks, tar, and feathers.......And the word "absquatulate" sounded just about right for the situation.......
 
Offended?.....why should we be offended?........Entertained is more likely,.............And I've only used the word "absquatulation" only once before in my life,...it was referring to a former TM from another company whose morals were so horrific,.....and personal judgement so poor,.....that after getting caught with his .......ahhhh,....hands in the proverbial underage cookie jar,.....of the wrong gender,....he had to absquatulate his position with the company,.....before the crowd showed up with pitchforks, tar, and feathers.......And the word "absquatulate" sounded just about right for the situation.......

You know what else is funny or sad. I had to go look up the word 'absquatulation' to know whay it means. von.

Pronunciation: ahb-sqwah-chuh-layt
Absquatulate is to take off, bug out, hit the road, make tracks, to blow, get lost and, maybe even to abscond with something.
As you can see in the definition of this word, you don't need squat to absquatulate. In fact, there is quite a bit of disagreement over exactly what this verb actually means. The only sure meaning is what we see in the definition above. The word has been Latinized enough to presume a family of relations like absquatulation, absquatulator, and absquatulative. Just remember that all of them are facetious.
If you find it difficult to get someone to leave you alone and you want to get their attention, try: "Benny, I'm tired of telling you to leave me alone; now, absquatulate before I do something drastic." The word itself should frighten Benny away. Since this word begins with the prefix ab- "away (from)," it has been used in the sense of "abscond": "Duffy seems to have absquatulated with my date while I was in the bathroom; would you like to dance?" Probably not with anyone who talks like that.
Absquatulate was dreamed up in the middle of the 19th century by connecting the Latin prefix ab- "away (from)" to the English verb squat and a couple more Latin suffixes to make it sound highly technical: legal or medical, I would say. 19th century America produced a lot of fake Latin words, including argufy, citify, uppity, stick-to-it-ive, and so on. This funny word is simply another added to the pile. They reflect the deep-running American suspicion of technical or ‘fancy’ language.

I know, I ruined it by posting the definition of the word. It must be my OCD, APA. DEF, or ABC. Feel free to choose from the list. APA being 'another posting ass hol*. As to the rest, your guess is as good as mine. von.
 
Hah!.....So now we've gone from Facial Hair Policy to Literary Revisionism!......This is My Kind OF Site!......Anyone want to discuss Henry James and his relation to the Brahmin status of William Dean Howells?.....................(.They both had Facial Hair.....and James had to absquatulate from Paris under cover of night,....)....
 
Hah!.....So now we've gone from Facial Hair Policy to Literary Revisionism!......This is My Kind OF Site!......Anyone want to discuss Henry James and his relation to the Brahmin status of William Dean Howells?.....................(.They both had Facial Hair.....and James had to absquatulate from Paris under cover of night,....)....

Who in the sam dickens is Henry James & Bill Howells? Better yet, why do I care. von.
 
Sam Dickens has no relation to William Dean Howells and Henry James, both prolific,...if not prosaic,...(especially in Howell's case),...writers in the late 19th century......................(....sorry,.....I'm just being an irritating smart aleck,.....Late Saturday afternoon,...wife went to work,...I'm unsupervised......)...We'll go back to whether the original poster has to have his facial hair absquatulate in order to get hired at ABF.
 
Sam Dickens has no relation to William Dean Howells and Henry James, both prolific,...if not prosaic,...(especially in Howell's case),...writers in the late 19th century......................(....sorry,.....I'm just being an irritating smart aleck,.....Late Saturday afternoon,...wife went to work,...I'm unsupervised......)...We'll go back to whether the original poster has to have his facial hair absquatulate in order to get hired at ABF.

Like you said in an earlier post. Great entertainment. Someone send him a Red Cross Package with a razor. He might make the front page of our next News Letter. We could call him the GQ man of ABF. von.
 
Sam Dickens has no relation to William Dean Howells and Henry James, both prolific,...if not prosaic,...(especially in Howell's case),...writers in the late 19th century......................(....sorry,.....I'm just being an irritating smart aleck,.....Late Saturday afternoon,...wife went to work,...I'm unsupervised......)...We'll go back to whether the original poster has to have his facial hair absquatulate in order to get hired at ABF.

Another Canary post that has me heading over to dictionary.com. Absquatulate? My spell checker didn't even know that one.
My poor English teacher would be proud of me for looking it up.
 
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