Posted on 06/01/2012 5:25:33 PM PDT by Morgana
ust some helpful guidance for my listeners. If you are looking for a job and want to be taken seriously, I hope you don’t have a tattoo. If you do, get it removed. In fact, if you are looking for a job, the tattoo removal business is booming!
According to The Patient’s Guide, a website comprised of 25 niche publications dedicated to skin care, laser tattoo removal has increased 32 percent over the past year --- just the PAST YEAR -- with many citing employment as a main reason for the treatment.
Dr. Jen Mundt of Delete Tattoo Removal in Phoenix said she sees about 20 to 22 people a day looking to remove their tattoos for prospective jobs …
Mundt said her clients are primarily concerned with tattoos that are located on the wrist and neck.
The wrist and the neck, but what about ankle tattoos? Oh yeah … those are generally found on fat chicks, and they have trouble finding jobs for other reasons.
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Get a gander at this dude in the local newspaper:
http://www.naplesnews.com/photos/galleries/2012/jun/01/collier-county-arrests-06-01-2012/?partner=popular
Some folk's children........................
I’ve been trying to hire two new employees for the last month, but am having trouble finding candidates who are sober, don’t have a serious felony, or have acceptable appearance.
One interested party asked if face piercings and tattoos were okay, before “he drove his a$$” all the way across the city to fill out an application. I replied that piercings are okay if they can be removed and tattoos can be covered by clothing at work.
I received his response,
“It’s really a shame companies judge on appearance rather than personality, character, knowledge & good ethics. Best of luck finding a ‘status quo’ drone. Needn’t bother responding back.”
How long until some bleeding heart, feel-good liberal recommends that tattooed individuals become a protected class under ADA or Equal Opportunity acts? Gay - check, fat - check, felons - check, unemployed - check, why not tattooed? I smell a protected class in the making....
Yep - some day nursing homes will be full of little old wrinkly ladies with great boobs and undecipherable tatoos.
There is already such a movement to end discrimination against people with tattoos and piercings in housing and employment. In fact, they even have a name for themselves: “Modified-American”. I like my own nickname better: “Mutilated-American”.
I used to read Revelations about how people would need the mark of the beast on their foreheads to buy or sell and I thought “what idiot would fall for that”? Now I see all the imbeciles who voluntarily put crap all over their faces and necks and realized Satan isn’t going to have any trouble accomplishing that at all.
Had a very good female professor in college that we were told had tattoos. This is in the 90’s. She had been in the Navy and earned a high rank so the tats did not surprised me. No one ever saw the tats because she always wore long sleeves year round when she was at the university.
Just goes to show you can be professional and have tattoos too.
Nobody said you couldn’t. “Professional” indicates there exists enough good judgement to avoid things that decelerate careers.
In my experience, excessive tats and obnoxious piercings are indicators of anti-social tendencies. I will have attitude problems with these people, and they will have conflicts with coworkers. Many customers are instantly uncomfortable and avoid eye contact with the overtly inked.
I accommodate more members of the human family—both as employees and customers— by discriminating according to appearance than I would by catering to a group who have exercised poor expressive judgement.
*chuckle*
One reply, from a Harvard grad, had a email return address of HotLesDoMeNow420Bitch@......
That poor man just screams out: I’M AN ATTENTION WHORE! That’s self mutilation.
Just goes to show you can be professional and have tattoos too.
Define "permissible". Even places that don't ban such as part of the dress code are more likely to pick one who is cleaner cut. Juat as folks who dress at minimum standards will usually not progress as fast as those who exceed standards, employers generally don't want walking murals, pin cushions, or YuppieRedux as a symbol of their establishment.
“An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance”
I work at a large hospital in DFW. The number of nurses and assistants that are getting tats is pretty crazy. Especially the older ones over 50 that are getting them. Never going away. I think it’s just going to get more popular. Last summer I went to a swim park in a working class area and out of 500 people I don’t think there was a person there between 14 and 30 who didn’t have a tattoo.
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