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<p>The Federal Court judge who my D clerked with had one. I know many male lawyers with tattoos, several doctors, many of the male teachers my Ds had, and a three star general! It may be comparatively small in relation to the number of women with tattoos but it isn’t unusual these days for professional males to have tattoos.</p>
<p>Ive mentioned in other threads that I am taking water aerobics with people that are in their 60’s, 70’s, & 80’s.
More of the women have tattoos than the men.
Nobody looks awful or hideous & they are quite happy to chat about them if you ask.
The people in their 30’s & 40’s have * many* more tattoos. Not only smallish tats on their thigh, wrist & shoulder, but full sleeves & chest.
They all seem to be gainfully employed.
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<p>Yes, 3bm, you have every right to express your opinion and I have every right to tell you what I think about it. It’s the Internet! I may be more direct than you prefer, but I’ll take that to the whole passive aggressive routine. Sniff sniff.</p>
<p>Classof2015: We are in the service industry and we go into people’s homes. Well, I don’t, but our employees do. I have had many homeowners call after our employees have been there to tell us that usually the wife insists that the husband be home when having workers into their homes, but that after having seen our guys they are okay with having them come in when the husband isn’t home. It’s not just the tattoos. They appreciate that our guys are clean, well groomed, polite and wear a uniform. Most of our business comes from referrals. We pay our guys well and charge a little extra which the homeowners are glad to pay. It sure works for us. </p>
<p>I’m sure there are some who wouldn’t object to tattoos. But for every customer who doesn’t care there are more that do. I can’t imagine offending anybody by NOT having tattoos, so we’ll continue with our policy.</p>
<p>What some call passive aggressive, I simply call manners. Obviously some people don’t recognize that quality.</p>
<p>Oh good! A clean cut, no ink sex offender would make it onto your employee list!</p>
<p>S1 attended college on a fullride (merit, not loans). He graduated with honors. He is extremely fit, clean, well groomed, well read and wears a uniform. He was at the Pentagon a few weeks ago explaining to congressmen how various equipment is used in his line of work. In August, he was in Africa working in support of President Obama’s security team. Before that he was in Las Vegas working a security detail for Vice President Biden’s trip there.</p>
<p>S1 is Lieutenant/Company Commander…Special Operations…one of the toughest and most elite communities in the U.S. Navy. He will be leading a team in Afghanistan in 2014. He has five tattoos . He’s my hero.</p>
<p>Well, apparently I have to spell everything out for some people. We don’t hire drug addicts, convicted sex offenders, or those with a bad driving records either. We actually do background checks. Luckily our clients appreciate our efforts. So do our employees because we compensate them well for it. We offer a good salary, paid vacations, health insurance, among other things. Our guys tend to stick around. And yes, we hire women too, in case you guys start to complain about that. Just not those with tattoos.</p>
<p>Sorry, I haven’t read the whole thread. I’m curious, 3bm- how do you determine they have no tattoos? Strip search?</p>
<p>Again, and I’ve said this already: visible tattoos. And since our guys wear shoes, an ankle tattoo would be okay. </p>
<p>I’m merely trying to answer the OP’s question: some people are going to object to tattoos. Not everyone. Not everywhere. If you’re okay with that, then go for it. But SOME employers, or prospective dates will object. If that’s okay with you then go for it. If you think that’s close minded or stupid as others do, then I’m probably not the employer for you anyway. We don’t all have to agree on everything and some of us can manage to disagree respectfully without resorting to name calling.</p>
<p>roman-you owe me a new keyboard! I certainly do understand people who prefer no tattoos on their employees, but seeing as a I know several “clean cut” well groomed people who could pass background checks with tattoos that are simply hidden, I’d been wondering about strip searches myself…</p>
<p>Hehehe sorry ssea :p</p>
<p>Thanks 3bm103 for the explanation – that makes a lot of sense given that your employees are in people’s homes. You have made a decision as an employer and it sounds like it makes sense for your business model.</p>
<p>Visible tattoos are much different than just tattoos.</p>
<p>Oh please send me am application! I promise to hide my tattoos.</p>
<p>That Miss America contestant sounds like one pretty amazing woman! Opera, bow-hunting, mechanic…too bad about the tattoos. ;)</p>
<p>I work with a lot of women (and men) who bow hunt. I haven’t strip searched them for tattoos, though.</p>
<p>"Musicprint–why has a tattoo meant something so much to you? What does it do for you? I’ve had lots of turning points in my life but never once felt the need to engrave it on my body to remember it. "</p>
<p>For me it is a number of things, it is a remembrance of a time in life, it also was at a time when I was emerging from a particularly rough time in my life, had worked through all kinds of issues in therapy, and in part it was a celebration of victory, plus it to me is symbolic of who I am as a person, and it also is a sign of the love I have in my life. </p>
<p>I would never tell someone to get a tattoo, if it doesn’t interest you that is cool, and I think it is stupid when people get them because they think it is cool, going along with the crowd and so forth. Like I said in my original post, it should be a piece of art, an enhancement to your life or being, not simply because celebs are doing it and so forth.</p>
<p>“I know I wouldn’t knowingly hire someone with a tattoo to work in my home.”</p>
<p>Why? Do you think someone with a tattoo is a nasty person, like in the old days where the only people with tattoos were people who were disreputable? Several years ago I needed extensive masonry work done on my house and I called all these firms in to give estimates. Many of them were run by older men, who if I was lucky would return my calls, and when I got them out gave me all kinds of crap about how busy they were, and also quite frankly were absolutely dishonest (I am fortunate I know something about masonry work). These were men with no tattoos, many of whom were dressed pretty sharply, probably were members of the business association and so forth.</p>
<p>I had one guy bid on the job, a young guy who ran the business with his wife, kid bid the job fairly, and he did one hell of a job, the kid built things out to last, it was incredible…finished the job on time, didn’t try to cheat me on it, was neat…and oh, yeah, had a number of tattoos <em>shrug</em>. Just remember, some of the most vile people in history were clean cut, conservative appearing types, while some ‘weirdos’ turned out to change the world…</p>
<p>I can understand concerns about customer facing jobs (depending on the job, of course, a sales person in a hip boutique with a tattoo isn’t exactly unknown, or a hip art gallery), and yes, someone working in Bergdorf Goodman would probably be better having no exposed Tattoos or facial piercings. In tech, you see a lot of tattoos and such, but that is the nature of it, go work for places like Google and Facebook it wouldn’t be uncommon. When you deal with clients, some of them may be very conservative, but if someone doesn’t face the public, then all that should matter is the way they work. </p>
<p>I hate off the hand remarks, I remember years ago the Mensa journal had the picture of a young lady (who I actually met), who was in a rock band,had tattoos and such, number of earrings, etc…and all these supposedly intelligent people were ragging on her, telling her she was a loser…meanwhile, she is a very bright, very nice person, who doesn’t do drugs or smoke, who is just an amazing person (if I was 30 years younger and single, would love to date someone like her). She was doing her own thing and was happy with her life…and they judged her simply because of the way she looked. I thought about one response, this one guy was bragging about how his daughter went to a top level college and was working for an investment banking firm, and I wonder if today he is so proud of her working for an investment bank, given the havoc they wrought on the economy…I am sure she dressed very conservatively in the power suit and pumps, voted the right way, and I guess that matters more than what the person actually does <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>I had an acquaintance who had tattoos, some of them visible, top notch tech guy, and someone told him “well, if you have tattoos like that, you won’t be able to work at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan Chase”…I loved his response, it was like “Dude, have you looked at what people think of those firms these days? Having an employee with tattoos should be the least of their worries”…and my friend made clear he wasn’t exactly looking to work for firms like that (he quite happily works for google, guy is a bloody genius).</p>
<p>My father enlisted in the navy during WWII. After basic training, he was shipped off to San Diego, where he promptly drank several bottles of beer, went out with the gang, and got a large tattoo on each forearm. The next morning was the start of almost 70 years of regret. None of his four children ever got a tattoo.</p>