Unbelieveable

[hopless500]

If this a real concern, take some baby wipes and use them in a toilet cubicle. Providing a shower for cyclists is very nice, but hardly a human rights issue, is it?

Baby wipes aren't too good at drying hair though, are they?

 

[hopless500]

Funnily enough, if you leave wet hair alone it just dries on its own, without the need for electricity.

Yep, and I regularly do. And I can sit around with wet hair and in the scruffiest clothes imaginable at work - I have my own office and don't have to meet people.

But the OP wants to use a hairdryer. I have no idea whether they need to meet people, but it sounds like the sort of office where wet hair would be frowned upon.

 

[Licramite]

I can see its a fair rule you cannot use your own electrical kit in work , we can't bring in heaters in the summer when our office is like a fridge as the heating in the building is off.
Don't they have hand dryers in the toilets, lacking a shower at work thats what I use. (though I don't fancy sticking my head in a dyson blade hand dryer) .
but I would tow the line through the probationary period, yes they sound like a bunch of nobbers but thats how the world is today.

 

[Licramite]

Hair - Oh I remember it well.

 

[srw]

Arch has already suggested a solution to that one - if you're showering, wear a shower cap.

Which is fine unless your head is also sweaty - and if it's been under a helmet it might be.

I can get away with being in the office with wet hair or unkempt hair from drying naturally. That's because I don't give a stuff, which in turn is because I'm male and in charge. The same might not be true for a junior or a woman - there are still different standards of personal grooming expected of male and female office workers, in all but the most laid-back of offices.

For what it's worth, I mostly commute in my suit and have never felt the need to shower afterwards - but then my most common commute is only half an hour. I suspect my tolerance for the idea might reduce if I was on the bike for more than an hour. When I occasionally do the full 30 miles Ineed a shower - and that's for personal comfort rather than for other people's pleasure.

 

[hopless500]

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...but us Londoners need the works - shower, hair dryer, manicure:

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What about a 'sidey coiffeur' too?

 

[Sara_H]

Dry shampoo - or the poor mans version - rub a bit of talc in then brush it out, thats what I do and I've got a glorious main of chestnut locks.

 

[Milo]

Im lucky in that while I don't much enjoy getting sweaty I don't actually smell bad when I do so. No facility at work either it's not great but meh make the best of it.

 

[Puddles]

Do you not have a hand drier in the loo what blows out hot air? Cos I have used one of those quite successfully a number of times in place of a hair dryer?

p.s. Don't do the work stuff anymore so not sure what in loo type stuff is provided and the small people don't tend to care what I look or smell like which is just as well really.

 

[MontyVeda]

Do you not have a hand drier in the loo what blows out hot air? Cos I have used one of those quite successfully a number of times in place of a hair dryer?

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they'd probably give him a warning for 'misusing company equipment'... drying his head with a hand dryer of all things!