Tattoo's at work
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shimy182 said:
Odd, that - you just said the complete opposite of what I've been told by the heavily inked japanese people I know...two of them are what you may like to call rather succesful. Are you basing your comment on conjecture or personal experience?
I've been hired by HP, BT MB, Microsoft and Cisco with large guage facial piercings and visible tattoos. I must be doing something right.
One of my managers, a few years ago, took particular personal dislike to me (must have been because I pointed out to senior management at a meeting that he was incompetant and costing the company thousands of pounds every week...) and attempted to have me disciplined/fired for having 'offensive tattoos'.
Come the hearing with HR, I found out in advance that he was going to be sitting in on it so I chose his boss (who detested him and was a good friend of mine) to sit in with me.
The meeting lasted less than five minutes; his manager pulled out a copy of the Bible and asked him to read from Philip. 1:20.
I said 'My wrist tattoos are quoted from the Bible and are an important part of what I believe in.', the HR manager nearly had a fit as she realised what my manager was discriminating against and called the entire meeting off...
MY tattoos are an important part of what I believe in...But I'm an atheist. Go figure
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i've got no visible tatoodles, quite a few visibe facial piercings. i work in a call centre, decent pay (dell don't treat all their monkeys so badly) and decent perks. my imidiate manager goes to the same pubs and clubs as i do, and knows it won't affect anything i do which is nice. one of the members of HR almost gagged and told me that my new ones were disgusting... she got a serious talking to from senior manegment for that one.
*cheers iain, sorry anyone else*
*cheers iain, sorry anyone else*
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fatiain said:Didn't you get one up on some cow who moaned about your ears too? She had more than the regulation number of holes whereas you only have the one, iirc.
Ownage
Yup - different job though.
Maybe I should change my name to penski by deed poll and use the ministerial entitlement that I have.
Make everyone refer to me as Reverand Penski.
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You have a ministerial entitlement?
There's much better names you could use with that!
Like.. I dunno. Reverend Crazy Lurve. Or something.
There's much better names you could use with that!
Like.. I dunno. Reverend Crazy Lurve. Or something.
Personally I think tatoo's are unsightly and if in a position where I had the oppurtunity to take two interviewee's, equally qualified and both suitable for the position onto my team - customer facing ... then i'm almost certainly choose the non tatoo'd person. I'd have no problem discriminating against them, afterall they are a person choice and that person should be prepared to live with the consequences.
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NiCkNaMe said:
That's your choice of course, but personally if qualifications and whatnot were equal, I'd pick who to hire on the basis of who I liked better, not who was inked and who not.
Also, if I'm at an interview, you CANNOT tell I'm tattooed.
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Possibly true
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zain said:bleh tatoos, dont look so nice when your old
May be true, but by the time we get older there will be more readily available and effective treatment to get rid of them, so I’m not worried about how my tattoos will look when I’m older.
I currently have one across my upper back which goes up onto my neck slightly, you can see part of it if I wear a t-shirt, and I’m getting another on my inner forearm. If someone wouldn’t employ me just because I had a tattoo I don’t really think I would like to work for them in the first place. I have my eyebrow pierced, but that can be easily taken in and out so it’s not really an issue.
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reflex said:
Let me get this straight.
Do you wear clothes that you like?
Or do you just buy the cheapest, warmest most practical clothes at all times?
And I assume by that statement that you simply clip your hair the same length all over, and don't wear it in any kind of style.. because that would be stamping your individuality.
And that, as we know, you think is unnecessary.
That somewhat depends on the job. If I'm looking for a bricklayer or plumber, I really don't care if you're tattooed or not. If I'm looking for a consultant to work in a customer-facing role presenting to the board of banks or blue-chip companies, you aren't getting a job from me if you have overtly visible tattos or piercings (or rather, piercings beyond the norm, or subtle ones).Mohinder said:
If, however, your tats are such that they aren't visible in to clients, then I don't care. But bear in mind that some jobs involve heavy socialising, both formal and informal, as well as formal business encounters.
Fair enough. The question to ask yourself, however, is whether you will have plenty of choice of alternate employment, or whether the employer will have plenty of choice of alternate employees. You could end up losing an otherwise very attractive job because of tats. If your assessment is that this won't matter, or that you'll take the risk, then fair enough. Just be aware that there are jobs where overt tats will cost you the job.richyfingers said: