Tattoos/Piercings and employment

[Beach Hut]

2 interviews

2 job offers

Got 2 tats on full view

Which means you have been interviewed by companies that tolerate tattoos, as has been stated on here many companies will not employ people with visible tattoos.

I think a lot of those people in the original article from the BBC are probably using this as an excuse.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Which means you have been interviewed by companies that tolerate tattoos, as has been stated on here many companies will not employ people with visible tattoos.

I think a lot of those people in the original article from the BBC are probably using this as an excuse.

I prefer to think its because I'm far too good not to employ seeing as neither job was advertised and were both cold called by myself

 

[Driver8]

I work for a very old school investment manager and the only person I know of with visible tattoos works in the post room. There is no way you would get a client facing role with them. I have had this discussion with my son, who has lots of tattoos, many times but to no avail.

 

[Beach Hut]

I work for a very old school investment manager and the only person I know of with visible tattoos works in the post room. There is no way you would get a client facing role with them. I have had this discussion with my son, who has lots of tattoos, many times but to no avail.

No male or female would be employed where I work with visible tattoos.

 

[vegster]

A lot depends on the job you are doing really, if you are working in a solicitors or a bank and dealing with the public I would expect the staff to be smart and un pierced and lacking in tattoos and bright green hair. However if you are hiring the services of a bailiff or a security guard It would be almost obligatory to have a few tattoos. I'm constantly fascinated by the short Asian girl who works in the Hare and Hounds She is about 6 stone and I think a stone of that is ink,and metal. Looks great now but in 20 years time....

 

[Butch Willykins]

If you wear a shirt, suit and tie to work then you only really have your hands and face on show, having a full sleeve of tattoos is not going to be a problem.

However, if you wear a short sleeve shirt with your suit & tie you deserve the sack regardless for crimes against fashion.

 

[Blue3]

So what if you are self-employed, a massive rock star or obscenely paid Premiership player ?

You can always find examples but very few are in fact rock or football stars most are just normal folk who will have a disadvantage when going for some jobs and all I was saying is life is about choices you make your bed and you have to lay in it

 

[ewe2]

IMO its still a blue collar,its OK and white collar ,not so OK thing.....rightly or wrongly. I prefer tattoos to be a private matter.

 

[Blue3]

I have a decent job, I've been in it for 9 years and I am at least 15% tattoo.

I am pleased for you all I was saying is I think it can put those with tats at a disadvantage which when an individual is thinking of having a tattoo need to take into account it's a choice

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[atfc village]

I'm sure some people get very prominent visible tattoos in order to be unemployable and live forever on housing benefit, jsa etc etc. For that reason, I think it should become law for an employer not to be able to discriminate under any circumstances!

Many years ago whilst having to sign on ,there was a guy who signed on with me with a swastika tatoo on his forehead.I often wonder if he is still signing on now.

 

[Frutos]

I wear a suit to work and although I have 6 tattoos, none of them is visible at work.

That said though, among our staff of 40 there are multiple (including management) who have visible tattoos and no comment is passed on them - they're judged on how good or not they are at their job and nothing else. Exactly as it should be in my view.

 

[Baldseagull]

Could I get a job as a tattoo artist if I didn't have any tattoo's?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Could I get a job as a tattoo artist if I didn't have any tattoo's?

If you were a good tattoo artist I would say yes.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

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Deffo this!

 

[goldstone]

Well, it's a special needs school that educates those deemed to be unsuitable for mainstream schools and those unable to attend mainstream. Thereby it has an ethos of inclusiveness. Nothing to do with 'left-wing PC nonsense'.

In which case even more need for the teachers and staff to set an example of how to succeed in the real world by NOT sporting tattoos and piercings.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

In which case even more need for the teachers and staff to set an example of how to succeed in the real world by NOT sporting tattoos and piercings.

Tattoos and piercings are not a modern day phenomena. Having them doesn't preclude success or failure.

Pre-conceptions of a person for the way they carry themselves/dress/decorate themselves should be consigned to the dustbin.

 

[BBassic]

Could I get a job as a tattoo artist if I didn't have any tattoo's?

I know a bloke who only has one and he's an artist.

He likes the art form but not so much a fan of the pain involved with getting them.

 

[Muhammed - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

It's a choice thing life is about making choices if you have any ambition to have a decent job tats reduce the chances of archiving that aim it's a choice

Utter bollocks.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I've got LOADS of tattoos on my arms, hands and neck.
I have worked for a well known national company for the last 11 years.
I was in peoples houses fixing stuff.
I have now been promoted TWICE, am in charge of said national companies trainees AND earn well over £40k a year.

This is because I was bloody good at my job, and my company had the good sense to realise my worth, regardless of my tattoos

 

[BN9 BHA]

Utter bollocks.
Anyone who knows me, knows that I've got LOADS of tattoos on my arms, hands and neck.
I have worked for a well known national company for the last 11 years.
I was in peoples houses fixing stuff.
I have now been promoted TWICE, am in charge of said national companies trainees AND earn well over £40k a year.

This is because I was bloody good at my job, and my company had the good sense to realise my worth, regardless of my tattoos

I'm glad you have come along and said this, I did think you may have your say
Some people on this thread live in a different world.