<p>I was referring to the subconscious motivation behind why you get a tattoo. </p>
<p>Out of curiosity, please inform me why you think you did this to yourself. Why is my analysis not applicable in your case? </p>
<p>And also your language is quite evasive. Just because you are not a drug-using gay prostitute now, does not mean you were not one in the past. I would be very surprised if you were not at least one of the three and still had a tattoos.</p>
<p>fijeeboi, I'm sorry that you're getting some absurd comments in this thread. The discussion has taken a ridiculous turn and, if I were you, I would bring it to an end. If you are hired, it will be because someone feels that you will be a good addition to their firm or company. If you do your job well, no one will care whether or not you have a tattoo, unless, as I said previously, you are tattooed from head to toe. Your future employers are more likely to want to avoid hiring someone who makes comments like those made by GregoryMitchell in this thread, than they would be to avoid hiring you because of a tattoo.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it. The tattoos aren't shown at work. By the time they see the tats they will know if you are a good employee or not.</p>
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I was referring to the subconscious motivation behind why you get a tattoo. </p>
<p>Out of curiosity, please inform me why you think you did this to yourself. Why is my analysis not applicable in your case? </p>
<p>And also your language is quite evasive. Just because you are not a drug-using gay prostitute now, does not mean you were not one in the past. I would be very surprised if you were not at least one of the three and still had a tattoos.
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i have never been any of the three. and unless having a tattoo or an open mind becomes illegal, i don't see myself becoming any of the three either. </p>
<p>my motivation for getting a tattoo was conscious: i liked the looks of it. i think that is a large motivation for anyone who ever got a tattoo. that motivation is not dependent upon other people or a deranged mental state.</p>
<p>sorry for hijacking your thread fijeeboi.</p>
<p>to the OP: pretend the people on this thread are your clients. their reactions are their reactions to you professionally. whether they are right or wrong, spot-on or totally off base is irrelevant, because they have in fact reacted this way. everyone is different and has different values. you will have some future client who reacts the way people on this thread have. you will have future clients who could not care less. i think the bottom line here is, your tattoos, if visible, <em>could</em> affect your career, depending on the client.</p>
<p>you may remove your tatoo by laser or something like that</p>
<p>I am a lawyer, a female and have two tattoos. There have been fairly recent articles in the Wall Street Journal about the increase of tattoos in the professional ranks. Tattoos barely raise eyebrows anymore. I wouldn't worry about it at all.</p>
<p>tattoos are trashy.</p>
<p>Well, spanks. I wouldn't say that in an interview, because there are an awful lot of people who have them and you might not suspect it.</p>
<p>Like it or not there is a huge segment of the population who frown upon tattoos.</p>
<p>My personal disdain is something I do not hide. My feeling is that they will somewhere down the line hurt you professionally or personally.</p>
<p>They are view upon as being tacky, low class and lable the bearer of them as such. whether hidden or not, why chance it ?
You can try to justify it any way you can, but there will always be people that view you in a snobby way, no matter what means they come from. The people that really go overboard with the total all out displays seem to want attention and limit themselves to working in either:</p>
<p>carnivals,Hot Topics or music industry.</p>
<p>Someday, you will be parents , professionals. PTA ..what have you. Keep yourself clean and it never has to be an issue for you in any arena.</p>
<p>Can you tell how repulsed I am by tattoos ?
I am not alone.</p>
<p>of course you are not alone. Many of us regard tattoo wearers as the lowest sort of vermin.</p>
<p>Good luck with that. Check out the WSJ article.</p>
<p>Momofwildchild, why would the topic of tattoos ever come up in an interview of mine (I don't have any and never would get one)? Your comment makes no sense.</p>
<p>Remember that discrimination in employment is legal, as long as it is not against a protected class. Tatooed people are not a protected class. If a partner ran into you on the beach and you were sporting a really graphic or violent tatoo, you might find that his assignments to you at the office would dwindle and maybe there wouldn't be a place for you in the firm anymore. Same if you ran into a client on the beach.</p>
<p>Or, the partner or the client could have tatoos more graphic or violent than your own. You never know.</p>
<p>There is a young woman who works in the drug store downstairs who has "PETER" tatooed on her neck in large letters. If she was a law student, I wouldn't hire her. I would not put that on the interview form as the reason, but I wouldn't hire her. Like another poster said, the attitudes on this board-even if they are prejudiced and irrational-are going to exist among lawyers and clients.</p>
<p>Don't get more tatoos.</p>
<p>With that said, our office building is full of bankers and lawyers. In the summer time, when ladies wear skirts and have bare legs, I see LOTS of tatooed ankles.</p>
<p>Personally I don't like tattoos at all and cannot understand why people want them. But I do not judge people because of them. I would recommend that if someone gets a tattoo it is in a place that is covered by clothing - a short sleeved shirt at least. There is a police officer in our town who is having to spend a fortune on having tattoos from his youth removed because they show with a short sleeved shirt so he has to wear a long sleeved shirt even when it is 100 degrees.</p>
<p>I dislike narrow minded judgemental people a lot more than I dislike tattoos. If I had to choose between a narrow minded judgemental person and a person with tattoos I would choose the person with tattoos. Well unless they are all over the persons face.</p>
<p>We have an employee that is ghastly to look at.
He was hired to work in an office position. His phone manner is pleasant and although he seems to have issues with people in general ( which I suspect is what is behind his chosen appearance ) he is polite and no one can tell who he is over the phone.
I don't know if he had any tattoos. He does, however paint his nails black, dyes his shoulder length, frizzy hair blonde with 2 inches of dark roots, is pretty rotund.
The truth is, he frightens people. He frightens children. We have a family oriented business and many people comment on him when they see him.</p>
<p>Our business is seasonal for the most part and we hired him because he is our beloved bookkeeper's bf. </p>
<p>There is very little for him to do from Oct to Apr so my husband has him do whatever needs to be done, but we hear it from our community left and right,
I would love to tell you that his appearance does not matter, but it clearly does when it comes to the public. This is the society we live in and if we hadn't been in a jam and hadn't wanted to help out our bk, NEVER would've hired him...never would've explained why either.</p>
<p>If your employee scares people in your community because of the color of his fingernails, his hairstyle, or his weight, then your community needs to become more open-minded. It is scarier to hear that your employee is polite and has a pleasant manner but peer pressure about his appearance would prevent you from hiring this polite, pleasant person again.</p>
<p>"It is scarier to hear that your employee is polite and has a pleasant manner but peer pressure about his appearance would prevent you from hiring this polite, pleasant person again."</p>
<p>When you are a running a business, that is a reality.
The way your staff look affect how you are perceived by customers.
On several occassions, I have interviewed and not-hired professionals and office staff simply because of their appearance.
One came for the interview completely inappropriately dressed.
Another had highly visible, overtly aggressive religious symbols and clothing.</p>
<p>Competence is only part of the mix.
Being a team player and being someone you actually want to work with are also important.</p>
<p>I have to admit I once did not hire a person because they were scruffily dressed and their shoes were dirty. I felt like if they could not be bothered to dress decently and clean their shoes for the interview what would they be like once in the job. Gave the impression of just not caring.</p>
<p>How would you propose I re-adjust the attitudes of my community ?
Should I advertise a Goth Awareness seminar ?</p>
<p>I am in business to make money, not to make people change their attitudes and feelings toward people that choose to make their appearances frightening.
I cater to my community based customers, not the awkward, socially challenged misfits that raise eyebrows with their chosen physical appearnce.</p>
<p>Even if he is polite, he is not that good with his job. He can't seem to handle any sort of pressure and is the first one to complain about the customers and fellow human in general. He can't deal with anyone.
He is not a team player,
He is only there because his girlfriend is a major player and keeps us up an running. If he looked like Matt Damon, he would still suck as an employee</p>