They hired a girl where I worked. She was all conservative and everything. After a few weeks it was clear that her interview persona was a sham, and she was a disrespectful slime with tattoos, piercings, weird clothing, bad hygiene, etc. They asked her to empty the trashcans around the office. She was gone after one more day.
Fair or not, they convey a message of low class.
I don't have any tats myself and never expect to get one, but I withhold judgment of those who have them. I've known too many good people with ink to do otherwise.
Can somebody explain to me why so many people get those nose studs in the crease of their nostril that look exactly like an infected whitehead?
As a now retired employer, I always valued prospective employees with tattoos and piercings....saved me a lot of valuable time by quickly identifying and eliminating those who were demonstratively incapable of making good decisions and unwilling to adapt to business norms.
Does this mean that it's now OK for me to show my secretary my Prince Albert?
Crikey.
I’m sure that if some of the freaks on MSNBC’S series “Lock Up - Extended Stay” came in looking for a job, they’d get a fair shot at employeement. That is, if they didn’t have a prison record but looked the same as those that do.
I got tattoos back in the mid-50s, when I was 6-7yrs old. They came with the bubble gum and could easily be washed-off. Needles creep me out, so I don’t have to worry about every getting a “tat”.
Sure, employers who need bodies to do stuff in the warehouse or in the basement or out in “the yard’ don’t care about self mutilation fetishes, but no serious professional business is going to hire a pierced / prison-tattooed employee who actually has to interact with paying clients.
My daughter got her first job a couple of months ago at a local McDonald’s.
I only recently noticed some of the employees there always wear long-sleeved shirts under their uniforms.
turns out, if they have arm tattoos they are REQUIRED to cover them up. NO VISIBLE TATS!
Don’t know if that is corporate or local policy, but I found a new respect for the management there.
Why do we need to accept this? If nothing else, tattoos and piercings are very distracting.
Imagine trying to close a business deal with someone with lip piercings, many, many ear piercings, etc. To me, it shows contempt by the person wearing the tattoo or piercing toward everyone else.
I have to laugh at morons who whine about “being poor”, yet they were able to afford to get scribbled on all over their bodies.
Tattos are very expensive, especially the more “nicer” ones.
When asked why I don’t have any ink I simply respond, “You don’t see any Ferraris with bumber stickers do ya?”
I own a hair salon. Most of my hairstylists have tats. All are professionals and many of our clients have tats as well. I have two, but mine don’t show unless I’m shirtless. As long as our clients don’t care, I don’t. I know a Ft. Worth cop who has to wear long sleeves year round to cover his. Don’t like tats? Don’t get ‘em. Don’t want to hire such people? Then don’t. I will.
Dedicated followers of fashion. Sheep, parrots and lemmings.
For the 34-year-old pediatric nurse, his body is a canvas, and the tattoos are all metaphors of his life. Along his left arm, there’s a tiger and cherry blossoms on his forearm, and a coy fish on his upper arm..."A lot of our patients have tattoos, so they’re not frowned on here. That’s why I’m here. I feel accepted. I like the way they feel with it.”
Ironically, he does immunizations for children. The tattoos are not only a calming mechanism for them, but some children tell him they want tattoos someday, despite wincing from a single shot he just administered.
So much for the bullstalin that his patients HAVE tattoos. Maybe their mothers do but the kiddies do not. And it may influence them to get them "they look COOOOL!" because he represents an authority figure.
Will sanity ever return to this world? Where did all the grownups go?