Body Modification/ Employment
1. What are your views on tattoos/ piercings/ scarification?
2. Should they make an employer turned off in hiring a person with them?
3. How would a person know if that is the reason he/she did not get hired Vs. qualifications for the job?
4. Are there any jobs where you feel that these modifications are unacceptable?
5. Which piercings would ( Read more... )
By "depends on the person" I'm pretty much restating the "I never would have expect that sort of thing from you!" type reaction. If you can get half-way into the interview before I notice you have a curved barbell nestled in your eyebrow, that's going to give you a lot of credit, both in having tasteful jewelery and in keeping enough interest focused elsewhere. If you walk in and I say "Oh, hey, this guy has his ears pierced." that will count against you, even if they're fairly tame piercings for all that. I'd be more favorably inclined to a guy with 0g black plugs in his ears than one with 12g fluorescent rings... even though the 0g is the more "extreme" piercing, simply because it's more discreet.
I think tattoos and piercings generaly count against you in a job interview because the people you'll probably be dealing with won't have tatoos or piercings. That's why you've seen people mentioning exceptions for record stores or coffee houses... in those cases, a lot of the clientel do have piercings and/or tattoos. If piercing and tatoos continue to be popular with young people for a few more decades, it will probably cease to be an issue since it will be commonplace for all except the more extreme modifications.
And don't confuse my statements while pretending to be an employer with how I feel about mods in general.
On scarring...
I think it would be interesting if they developed a tattoo ink that, rather than having pigment, contained an irritant that would cause keloid scars. Thus it would be possible to do intricate detail work ending up with what is basically an embossed look to the final design. The reason I associate scarring with stupid is because the people I've met that have them have been stupid, their reason for having them have been stupid, the designs have been stupid, and the implementation of the design have been clumsy. They look shitty, in terms of both art and execution. If I saw one that actually looked good, I'd have some new associations with it... until then, though, scar=stupid
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