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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Georgehull on 2025-06-10 12:50:55+00:00.
I'm a tradesman and worked for a company carrying out maintenance work in council/social housing.
When carrying out drilling tasks which can create dust, the company brought in the manditory use of 'face fit' masks. These were masks which had to create a seal against your skin to ensure they work correctly.
As part of this roll out our employer stated we all needed to be fully clean shaven to comply. Obviously alot of people were unhappy about this as alot of us had facial hair.
To comply, many people shaved a strip of their facial hair in the place that the mask would fit to the face, or other wacky facial hair styles. Totally acceptable in terms of the mask would work correctly, not at all acceptable in the eyes of management. Everyone looked ridiculous and it was a marvellous thing. I myself had a huge handle bar moustache to which my manager would comment on how I looked unprofessional every day.
In what seemed like a back door attempt at having all employees clean shaven and looking 'professional , backfired in the most humorous way possible.