Lmao, OP is ramping the creep factor to 11 and breaking the dial off

Of course I would hire her.  Those tattoos advertise the fact that she takes it up to tail pipe.  Great for moral around the office as she will likely be passed around a few times.  It is also likely to bring in more customers who will want to stick it up her stink hole.

We have a strict no degenerates/terrorists policy, so that would exclude all the inkies.

I don't think that we should discriminate against the inkies, though. They deserve a nice 8x8 prison cell just like all the other criminals. It would be wrong to give them a smaller cell or cut their prison amenities just because they're dirty and unkempt.




On a serious note, my company is quite Conservative and it has never come up as an issue. We're all about job performance and experience. Who cares if someone has a tattoo? I think shit like Post Malone's face tattoo is quite dumb, but how many people with face tattoos are out there applying to professional jobs?

I don't have any tattoos and don't like them on women, but that's a personal preference and nothing more. It's no different than someone dying their hair, having a beard, jewelry, etc. I think most people with tattoos are cognizant of when their ink might impinge on looking professional and they take the proper actions to avoid it being an issue. Within the next 5-10 years, I expect very few people to be left who actually seriously care about it.

Must be exhausting carrying around all that moral superiority and having to judge people's choices.  

Who the hell cares as long as it's not offensive/profanity, life's too short to worry about people having tattoos or not.

I don't like the tattoos, but I'm more disconcerted by the eyebrows.

Why would a biotic want a desk job when she can send cars flying at people.

Plus she really is a wholesome person.

Interesting that your focus is on appearances.  

Picking up the vibe that you believe you didn't get chosen because you're not a 20 and 30 something with goatee, full sleeve tats, neck tats, jeans and that you're a "boomer".  That you've been turned down ten times at five different railroads tells me there's more to it than that.  What's the saying?  If everyone else is an asshole...

Sounds like the company could have hired someone with actual experience and the ability to present themselves in a professional manner, but instead someone at or close to the top threw their weight around to get their daughter a job. Nepotism.

You must have missed the part where they are begging her to stay and have told her to come back anytime.   They typically don’t tell people they would take them back anytime.

Honestly, at this point in time businesses are having a hard enough time getting anyone to even show up for a job like that. If they’re willing to turn away a potentially great employee based on the fact that he or she has tattoos, they deserve to have the position sit empty and just have to cover the extra workload themselves.

It’s high time managers re-evaluated their priorities. A phone answered or a customer greeted by a happy, friendly, helpful person who has tattoos is far better than the phone going unanswered and customers unheleped.

I agree totally!    

For a receptionist job, sure I would hire her.  Pretty much anyone could do that job as long as they can show up on time, answer a phone and greet people.  She would have to follow the dress code like anyone else.

But it's heroic for the boomers fathers to sport sailor tattoos on their forearms and chests

Ironic post from someone with apparently zero reading comprehension.

ESAD, douche nozzle. The receptionist is first contact with the company and must present a mature, adult presence. How is everything on your job at Burger King, loser?

Wut? Holy shit, what’s next dancing and a bit of drinking?

lol thread continues to deliver

Just to be upfront I am inked up. Both arms done. Chest. Both legs.

I do not have a tattoo on a ink of skin that if I didn't want you to know I had ink, you wouldn't know.

Even as a corporate lemming for big brown nobody knew. Because I don't think it is my right to dispose my taste on how I live life upon others.

No hand, neck, face tattoos for me.

I took the advice of the Akuza.

We don't have receptionist most places I've ever worked, and not for myself while self employed obviously.

Arms prob ok. Neck and face nah she isn’t there.

Post makes more money in a year writing songs than singing them.

You don't have to be pretty to write.

Post is fine.

Reality also doesn't constitute your opinions.

Personal choices are scary.

Nope, I do not disagree.

The caveat to that who are you to judge pretty?

Younger tattooed people have money! My arms were upwards of 4k just for my forearms.

My company, no, unless she agreed to wear long sleeves, professional jacket, etc. A lot of offices have dress codes.

I don't hate tats, but I also believe in first impressions when entering a business (unless it's business where tats are the norm.)

She does the anal, the tatts are the signal!

She has that hope solo vibe going on, but with tats, so I’m guessing multi piercings as well. Just like in nature, I’ll go with those markings are an artsy way of signifying STDs, or cray cray…don’t stick it in me.

Can I archive this post somehow, so a few years from now I can compare responses when there will be a post about Exposed Clit Chains Attached To Blinking Led But Plugs, Ok or Not Ok On The Job?

Generally how you take care of your appearance say a lot about you as a person.  I’m not talking about sneaker choice and brand of clothing either.  If you look like a slob you probably are.  If you look unprofessional, most likely you are.

Yep. That's where the real money is. All the smart rappers go that route. They do their time in front of a mic/camera for an amount of time, then focus on the behind-the-scenes aspect later on, and make bank. As far as celebrities go, I would put him pretty far down the list of those who I think would end up bankrupt.

You mad bro?

Whether you like it or not, agree or disagree...
Tattoos are mainstream today. Face. Neck. Arms-full sleeve.

Both employee and consumer alike have them. Some customers with face neck and full sleeves have more $ than you've made in your life...
Been to their houses. Built their brodozers.

Those days of tattoos = felon...questionable character, no longer exist.
In fact, when I had surgery done a couple months ago... about half of the nurses I saw were sporting full sleeves, so...

I don't think that's the issue.  But thanks for prompting me to re-evaluate my self and my thinking.  

I kind of commingled three different issues.  Issue one is performance standards.  Issue two is the hiring trends in the industry.  Issue three is the appearance standards for company officers.  

1: Like I said, I don't believe I have an issue with Performance standards.  I have an excellent record and a solid resume.  I've been consistently promoted to positions of increasing responsibility at every place I've ever worked.  I have several letters of recommendation from several VP level types all the way to front line labor.  I have gotten probably 10 calls from recruiters, and have been directly offered three or four different high level positions, they just weren't in the part of the country I want to live in.  

2: I'm not the only person in my situation in my field that is experiencing the same thing WRT getting interviews direct.  I've chatted with a few others with solid experience and good resumes, finding the same roadblock - can't even get an interview.  It's possible that we have simply grown to far outside the industry to be considered.  Who you know is a big deal, and most of those that I knew have retired.

3: In 1990 or 2000 you would have never had a company officer with visible tats or jeans on.  You might even have a hard time getting offered an entry level position if you showed up with significant ink.  And you addressed anyone you had to deal with but did not have a existing relationship with, as "sir".  

Dial back the clock even further and even front line Supervisors were wearing suits and ties in the field in the 60s and in some places in the 70s.

The railroad was a better place then.  I want to get back in, because I have a love for the industry, still have a lot to offer, and need 12 more years of Railroad Retirement to qualify for a full pension.  But industry consolidation and PSR have turned it into a sea of sharks.  If I didn't have a good job, and if I NEEDED that FULL RRB pension, it would be maddening.  Because I have a good job, and three different retirement funds building up, it's merely annoying.  And partly thanks to your post, I have a refreshed and healthy view of the reality.  I'm probably better off staying out!      

Fuck no.  I wouldn't hire her to do anything
other than take out trash or clean Don's Jobs.  

Meh, their choice.  I'm old and Japanese so I still have a knee jerk reaction to women with tats but I've also been around long enough to know ink isn't an indicator of ability.  Shit, I've been around the .mil for my whole life so...

Not Professional !

Plus that shit's disgusting, so are nose rings, nostril jewels and all that other delinquent shit.

i like women with ink and skills.

you need to get out more, bud.

half the women under 30 up here have nose rings including yuppie single mothers and my favorite female journeyman lineman.

I hope he likes hat.

Its called lack of class. Classy women is where it's at, not low class cows with nose rings and shit:



Women think this looks appealing? WTF

If I'm looking for someone to greet visitors, answer incoming calls, things like that?
I want someone personable, well spoken, and polite when appropriate.
How do her tats indicate anything that an interview wouldn't resolve?

I wonder how many that wouldn't hire her, haven't been in a hiring position.
I hire to make money. Nothing else. It's the only yardstick.
Also, the more outgoing receptionists have always been my favorite when I make sales calls or visits, or contact customers. Robotic or mundane and cold are the worst.
The receptionists at a LOT of places are the first and most important filter in getting to whom you want. If you can make a connection with that person, you're often in.

For walk in job applicants, they are also often entrusted with which applications get seen, and which start their new life in the circular file. You want someone good at these things, that's it.

Diving or clutching

I think the answer to your question depends on how your clients will view it. If it’s not an issue for the clients it’s not an issue for the employer, at least in a strict customer service sense.

My company would probably frown on it due to who our clients are, though she may still get hired if she had other positives. What we do somewhat unique in that there is no educational program or school for it. We never hire anyone with experience because that’s not a thing for us.

We would be looking at things like how well she works with others, how well she can mesh with the clients, and, above all, work ethic.

I will  show my arms two females ask.

Because the patriarchal s8n is involved

Ha ha this

Because it makes associated and clients think the place is a trailer park.

Tell her she can show off whatever she wants on her time but they stay covered at work. That is true for anyone with a tattoo of any kind.

This is not a generational issue. Tattoos are trashy, pure and simple.

Receptionist is important. They help project the image of the company. If you are a stuffy conservative brokerage firm, then she should cover up. If you are trying to be the cool kid on the street then tell her to show them off.

I see you are in Utah so I assume she should cover them up. It's not about what people think, it's about what your clients will think.