chap said:
Absolutely brilliant, are your colleagues naturally that candid or was this the product of a few too many mulled wines.
Both. She is a fantastically straight-talking Irish girl, the most beautiful person to get wasted with, always willing to kick off, usually with coppers. The Christmas Party won't be the same this year.
Back to the OP, I never shave at weekends and very seldom when on holiday - the most I do is use the clippers which reduces the growth to a bit of a George Michael stubble thing. Then again, given my other physical attributes, I am not vain enough to think anyone notices what the heck I do with my chin.
My suggestion would be to leave it to happen, take a long trimmer to it weekly. If you are going to get hairy, make it at least the easier option than the daily / twice daily shave.