Posted on 05/21/2018 1:25:08 PM PDT by Simon Green
A job hunter claims he has been unfairly discriminated against after he was rejected by dozens of employers over his enormous neck tattoo.
Joe Parsons, 21, got the $330 six-inch throbbing red heart with turquoise angel wings in memory of his late grandfather while he worked in a factory.
But he claims that, while he has no problem getting around 30 interviews, he has never managed to get a job thanks to his huge inking.
He has tried attending interviews wearing high-necked shirts but the tips of the wings still peek out above the collar line.
Parsons, from Manchester, England, insists he doesn’t regret getting the extreme body art but wishes potential bosses could see past it.
He said: “Before I got the tattoo people thought I was a happy, confident person. Now it feels like people think I’m full of my self and that I don’t give a damn.”
“That’s just not who I am. I’m just a normal person and all I want is a decent job.”
“There’s definitely a stigma attached which there shouldn’t be. I do think it’s a form of discrimination.”
“It’s not down to the skills I have and in every interview they haven’t given me a good reason. Now I feel like I’ve got ‘don’t hire me’ written all over my neck.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
My late brother served in the U.S. AIR FORCE for eight years..he had a decent tattoo on his arm, a military type one with his name...
When he got hired by IBM as an Engineer, he was told to keep that tat covered at all times when on the job. He said YES SIR, AND HE DID...worked for them 25 years then retired..
yesterday when shopping with my adult daughter we went in a Name Brand store and a girl working behind the registers, was covered in tattoo’s and a large one on her neck that said...PRETTY FACE. I wanted so bad to ask her if she thought that PRETTY FACE was going to be pretty when she hit 75 years old...my age...My daughter said...MOM, KEEP QUIET..she will work worthless jobs all her life..a total loser...so I kept quiet, just stared at her and shook my head...bet she knew what I was thinking. So glad she was not related to me or I would have told her what I was thinking...then looked at my BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, and said a quiet prayer...THANK YOU, GOD...I’M BLESSED...
If you find yourself in Taco Bell, walk out, irrespective of tattoos.
That makes two of us.
The United States Army.
Four to Six years will solve his problems
With apologies to FRiends w/tats......in a contemporary
world where traditions and relationships flow with the
winds why do we have such a large population of people
who commit their bodies to a lifetime of bad art?
I won’t be around for a lot of it but those who resist
the urge to tat are going to have a whole bunch of saggy,
wrinkly, blotchy, crepie old lady tattoos to snicker at.
Leftist culture teaches them that when they are dumb asses the consequences are someone else’s fault.
I never gave a second thought at all to men of prior generations who had a tattoo on them...arm, leg, chest, whatever. I grew up in military family and saw them all the time.
I also saw men who never went swimming because they would have to remove their shirt.
My Company Commander in Boot Camp was TM1 Mackelprang...he had “LOVE” and “HATE” tattooed on his knuckles, and with that pencil mustache and a wiry 5’5” height, looked like Charles Bronson...and he looked like he could use his fists.
We saw him tie his shoe one day, and when he put his foot up on a bench, the better part of a naked lady running the length of his calf was visible as he pulled his sock up!
I don’t have a problem with that.
My uncle went into the Air Force back in the Fifties, and got his name tattooed in cursive on his deltoid...when my grandfather saw it, the old Armenian said derisively (as my mom told me) “What. You had to get your name tattooed on your arm because you couldn’t remember it?”
...plus the dude is too stupid to wear a cervical collar, about the only thing that could cover the ink up. Might have got a sympathy point or two with the collar.
That is true. Indeed the word “decide” has as it’s root the “cide” of suicide or fratricide and literally means to cut off or kill the possibility of other options.
Actions have consequences.
Umm, you do...
“I don’t want to get it removed. It means so much to me.”
Per his pics and dates in the linked article, a year after getting the horrendous tattoo, he still hasn't had his grandpa's name filled in. It would seem that it's the tat that's important to him, not the memory of his dear grandpa.
It’s also not allow scripturally. Tattoos deface the body, the “temple of the Lord.”
“plus the dude is too stupid to wear a cervical collar, “
I’m not sure covering his cervix will help.
What a genius to figure that out....Too bad he did not think his tattoo decision through.
Yeah I’m sure that disgustingly nasty shirt had nothing to do with it. lol
Maybe the tattoo doesn’t have anything to do with it. Why does the writer (and him) make the assumption that no one will hire him because of the tat? The article starts out with “he was discriminated against because of the tattoo”.
Well said.
Experienced a first today. An ER nurse with a tattoo on her forearm nearly as big as her hand. Yuck
I’m not sure covering his cervix will help.
Probably not, as a cervical collar, also known as a neck brace, wouldn't fit his nether regions.
“What happens when tattoos go out of style?”
Exactly. I’ve told some of my friends who got tattoos to imagine getting stuck with a permanent 1980’s mullet, or maybe a permanent man-bun! At least men can cut their hair when a hairstyle goes out of fashion but women will get stuck with these drippy tats when they go out of fashion.
And then imagine getting old and having wrinkly tats to show off at the retirement home! Ugh!!!
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