What Do They Expect.......?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29211526
Cover themselves in the daubings of a 10 year old and wonder why they don't get the job! Please!

[mikey4444]

You have made your position quite clear FrogNog, and thank you. But the thought of looking up at his face while in the Dentists chair fills me with horror ! Dentists are frightening enough places at the best of times !

[FrogNog]

Then you might miss out on the best person for the job retrochic. That's your choice.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...the voice of common sense at last !

[dunnitall]

So kva, in your opinion anything goes because we have to accept it due to progress as in what century we are in! A waitress/waiter picking their nose at your table? Some one serving you in a shop spitting on the floor? Half naked guy serving your table? What I'm trying to say, what you do, what you wear and how you are presented goes with a job and IMO certain things are not acceptable to a lot of people. If you want a particular job then be presentable for THAT job and if you're not then don't be disappointed if you don't get it.

[Obiter]

Did you know that King George V had tattoos? Not visible of course.

[Retrochic]

The trouble is today that people think they are owed a living and are allowed to dress and present themselves however they please. Anyone, including prospective employees, are called prejudice because they expect a certain dress code. I'm all for free expression, and covered up tatooes are at that persons discretion but don't flaunt them in my face then moan when I won't give you a job.

[1ozzy]

I couldn't care less if some one wishes to ink their body like a wall of well painted graffiti or not.
I was refused a job way back in the late 1980's because I didn't "fit their image".
They were a young "progressive" company and I had a beard and didn't wear trendy clothes.
Even though the job didn't entail seeing customers they were more concerned about image than skill.
Their loss..

[dunnitall]

Still got the job tho orbiter lol. Tut tut (smile)

[Cloverjo]

Scrivens, no. Nothing at all to do with skin colour.

[Retrochic]

Scrivens I'm intrigued, what colour skin would you like? Blue, Purple? a nice puce colour perhaps? Playing the racist card here is ludicrous as having a Tat is a choice, Ethnicity is not.

[Retrochic]

Kvalidir, I would be interested to know what line of work your tatooed employees do? This is pertinent to the question as in some jobs such as the building trades, art and design, entertainment industry, having a tatoo is neither here nor there and half expected.

[kvalidir]

There is no comparison Dunnital to what you suggest.
//A waitress/waiter picking their nose at your table? Some one serving you in a shop spitting on the floor? Half naked guy serving your table? //

The only one of those remotely acceptable is a half naked man because we've had topless bar staff for quite some years in some places haven't we? All of the rest are health hazards. No-one ever caught salmonella because they bought a baguette of someone with ' I love Margate' tattooed on their arm.

The only time I will say we discriminated against someone with a tattoo was a guy with a swastika on his hand, who had seen my father and explained that he was looking for work and had had it done some 20 odd years earlier when he was very young and that he certainly didn't hold opinions which correlated with his tattoo now, and could he possibly be considered for work where the public wouldn't see him. He did come to work for us and it quickly became apparent that it was holding him back form a far more suitable job so it was arranged for it to be tattooed over and covered up but I must admit we would not have allowed him near the public until that was done, but to me that's exceptional, and any non offensive tattoos don't present a problem.

[Retrochic]

Scrivens you are totally missing the point in a limp effort to be antagonistic. The majority of people on this thread,including me, have no problem with people coloring their skin. its WHERE the Tats are and the expectations people have of getting a job with 'love' on one knuckle and 'hate' on the other. Two females going for the same job, same qualifications etc -one has a tat on her bum one has a tat around her neck up to her ear-which is the more likely to get the job?

[kvalidir]

We have a variety of business some of which fall under your acceptable umbrella ( car sales, building, property etc) but some way outside it including a consultancy firm and an antiques business)- the guy I referred to wa a receptionist / sales consultant.

[youngmafbog]

Always used to be known as "hard stickers".

Personally if you turn up to for a position I am interviewing for with visible tattoos you would not get the job. Not because of the tattoo pe se but more because of what it says of you - ie I will do what I want and s*d what you think.