Dylan Cline Mar20

Dylan Cline

Dylan Cline hates being the center of attention, but when it came to cutting off the long hair he’d spent over a decade growing all the way down his back, he made an exception. The customer care representative for Point2 Homes, a subsidiary of Yardi Systems based in Saskatchewan, Canada, decided to drastically change his look, extreme makeover style, for the benefit of kids with cancer. The Big Haircut ceremony featured all of the Point2 team joining Dylan and a barber down in the basement for snacks and encouragement. Picture yourself getting haircut while all your coworkers stand around, snack on cheese and sparkling juice, and watch. “That was incredibly different for me,” Dylan admitted. “I didn’t like being the main focus.” And despite all the compliments he’s gotten on his new look, it also took him awhile to realize that his lengthy locks were no longer attached to his scalp. “For the first couple days I kept reaching back to take out of the ponytail and realized that it wasn’t there anymore,” he said. Jacquelyn Bauer, Director of Point 2 Customer Care, gave us her version of the pony tale. “Ever since Dylan started working at Point2, his hair has been halfway down his back.  We always teased him and asked when he would be cutting his hair, to which we received non-committal responses. “After a recent return from maternity leave, I was catching up with former team members.  Dylan was sitting in my office one day chatting, and the topic turned to his hair.  I asked him if thought he would ever cut it, to which he replied, ‘You know, I’ve actually been thinking I’m ready to.’ I can’t take the credit for coming up with the idea as we had a...