Tattoo discrimination?

[BigAdz]

If I go to a restaurant, I expect basic levels of cleanliness and hygiene etc. to then be greeted by someone with a cobweb on their neck sort of puts me off, if you get my drift.

If you get a tat, you know what society expects, and if you can't get a job because you decided to makes your own rules, tough.

Far better to get the job and then approach your employer. It's his money at the end of the day and you have no god given right to anything.

I have no issue with tats, I have no issue with Pat Butcher earrings either, but I don't want to go into the bank and be greeted by a bloke wearing them either.

Next stop and this country will look like a scene from Mad Max...

[TightEnd]

I have decided we are missing the big question on this issue...

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[Woodsey]

I think the point KMac made was a good one. I agree tattoos are a fashion statement like a hairstyle is, many wouldn't employ a person with a hairstyle that didn't suit the image they want to project, a visible tattoo is no different really.

Which makes me think. There have been assumptions made in here that times will change and maybe it will become more acceptable in the future. In all honestly nobody knows whether tattoos will even be fashionable in 10 years, there's no reason why it might not go the other way if they go out of fashion.

[Nakor]

For those saying that would not employ someone with a facial tat, would it make a difference if they were Samoan? 

If I was employing for a customer facing role and some one had CFC tattooed on their face I would not employ them, in much the same way if they fail the nail and teeth test, or had 20 visible piercings or bad body odour or turned up for interview in their pants.

Non customer facing best man for the job, every time, tats or not.  Maybe that makes me more tolerant, maybe I just struggle to get good educated candidates in my geographical area so I can be less fussy.

I think as the youth become the decision makers you will see far more tolerance in regard to this kind of thing, be it tattoo's, hairstyles, piercings, clothing or whatever.  I was bought up by a generation who believed any person with a tat is/was a drunken sailor, any man with a beard was an alcoholic etc etc thankfully these views are disappearing from the mainstream.

[Woodsey]

Well we aren't allowed to, visible tattoos are against company policy, but I still wouldn't anyway policy or not. I think Samoans mostly have them on legs and body, the few I've either met or seen on the rugby pitch anyway...

[Redsgirl]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28831106

[Marky147]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28831106

They refuse to let him in, so his stance is to proclaim that he will never return

[Redsgirl]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28831106

They refuse to let him in, so his stance is to proclaim that he will never return

Ha, I thought that!

[Woodsey]

Don't blame them to be honest lol

[AndrewT]

I have decided we are missing the big question on this issue...

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This is the reason I have to keep knocking back Cheryl Cole - I just can't take the chance our kids will be born with rose tattoos all over their backsides.

[Woodsey]

I have decided we are missing the big question on this issue...

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This is the reason I have to keep knocking back Cheryl Cole - I just can't take the chance our kids will be born with rose tattoos all over their backsides.

If you were really unlucky she might open her gob and start speaking too 

[Doobs]

I have decided we are missing the big question on this issue...

(from Yahoo)

This is the reason I have to keep knocking back Cheryl Cole - I just can't take the chance our kids will be born with rose tattoos all over their backsides.

If you were really unlucky she might open her gob and start speaking too 

I can only feel pity for those who get to spend their time with Cheryl.  Poor sods.

Can safely say I have been lucky enough to avoid Mila Kunis and her pointy elbows too.

Makes me feel a whole lot better about doing my nuts at York.

[smurf]

...then there is always the nut job...why oh why...seriously...why?

[Woodsey]

Its cool innit

[GaryM]

I agree largely with earlier posters. Getting tattoos doesn't make anyone unprofessional. Expecting not to be judged by some and discriminated against by others is unrealistic though. I'm currently trying to educate my 16 year old about this basic premise. He and his peer group are in the rock music culture and body modifications including tattoos are practically compulsory membership badges. I was in exactly his position at his age and, I believe, fortunately I managed to resist getting ink ( or maybe it was parental advice prevailing). The fact that tattoos are far more mainstream today makes this a much harder task though as its much easier to convince yourself that its more widely accepted, when in reality it isn't.

Making my task even harder is the hypocracy that I did eventually get ink. I got it in my early 40's once I had an established career and held a senior position. Having said that, although its a substantial piece, it isn't visible in work clothes. I wouldn't expect my employer or his clients to have to consider whether my tattoo influences their view of my professionalism.