Does he work over the phone or not? How big the company is is irrelevant, my point was he doesn't meet customers face to face, and if he did it would most likely be held against him.
A few years back I contracted as a project manager for BT Major Business. For the uninitiated, the MB clientele is BT's top 500 customers (including financial institutions). I had purple-tinged hair, big holes in my ears (although not as big as I have now), a big hole through the middle of my nose, a big hole through my lip and tattoos which are visible with a short-sleeved shirt on.
The role involved desk-based and face-to-face work directly with customers from shop floor to boardroom.
My modifications were never a point of contention and were often used as a positive identifier "Is the guy with the piercings in? We need something done..."
My point is that no matter what you may have pretentions to believing, professionalism, ability and communication skills shine over your preconceptions.
A clothing shop isn't a stereotypical environment of a retail environment though..it's one of the few high street type shops where you get some bloody weird looking people. The kind of person I see in Cyberdog in Camden fit in perfectly for that shop because of the mods, but if you're looking for a standard retail environment, you are probably better talking about Dixons, or Waterstones etc etc where I'm fairly sure you wouldn't get hired if you were extensively modded (a nose piercing or something small is probably okay though).
A good point - one of the guys I went to college with is store manager (or deputy store manager...I haven't spoken to him in about a year) for Waterstones...He looks like he should be working at Cyberdog...Bloody woolyheads.
As I expected: Another IT Monkey.
I enjoy my job, work with a great bunch of people and couldn't wish for more. What's wrong with working in IT?
Well done. But once again you, and all the other 'modders', neglect the fact we are talking about real jobs, not a studenty part time stacking shelves/serving at a till job that anyone can get.
As an aside, I've also worked in sales (face to face too, ducky
) and account management...For Cisco nonetheless...
...But you'll ignore that because you've already shown that you only partially quote posts which you can use to enforce your bewilderingly backward world view.
Wear all your accessories to a real job interview and see what happens.
I wear all of my jewelery to every interview. Removing it would gain nothing. What makes the interviews I have had any less 'real' than any others?
I still don't understand it though. What the **** is the point in modding yourself up into a cartoon character?
I like the way my modifications look and feel. I don't pretend to have some deep mystical influence or reasoning. I simply enjoy them on an aesthetic and physical level. If you can't understand that, you must have a room temperature IQ. If you like, I can explain it monosylabically for you...Perhaps I can draw a diagram?
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