<p>I, too, think cosmetic surgery will be a lucrative field in the next decade or two.</p>
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Of course it’s acceptable. Legal, too. Vast numbers of employers feel the same. (Heck, I don’t even let my employees wear torn tee shirts or low cut tops.) You are free to make choices in your appearance. I am free to not hire you. I don’t have to embrace whatever crap you do to your body. Sorry, but you can’t have life all your own way. (We call this adulthood.)</p>
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<p>I work in a high-rise office building and many people here have tattoos or nose-rings. Ear gauges are around too, usually in the younger office workers. If our company chose not to hire people because they had a tattoo or body piercings, we would be passing up a lot of talent.</p>
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<p>I have always been uneasy with having anything to eat from a person who has long nails (especially the weird fake ones). Doesn’t matter if it is at a restaurant or someone’s home. It just seems that these people would always put sanitation on the backburner to preserve their nails.</p>
<p>My S with the gauges is currently taking a year off from college to figure out what he wants to do. His freshman year was full of ups and downs so he is working now.</p>
<p>Granted, he is not in an office environment. He is working labor jobs. However, his work ethic is strong and his employers really like him. In fact his agency just asked him if he could recommend other people who had a work ethic like him.</p>
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True, but the trend is that employers are becoming more and more relaxed, not less, as they realize that harping on dress codes and appearance largely turns off more talented employees than it attracts. NASA has a guy with a mohawk - perhaps you heard? Twenty years ago that would have marked him as a punk and hooligan. Now it is just a different personal choice. Gauges are much the same.</p>
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Good to know. As a 30-something married professional, the idea that life is unfair is of course unknown to me. I will pass that message on to my daughters. Hopefully they will not miss the fact that things that are unfair can be changed.</p>
<p>Why does anyone who questions people’s assumptions become a proponent? My two adult children don’t even have pierced ears (not even my D), but would still decry kneejerk reactions to other people’s appearances.</p>
<p>And to the high-heel wearers, you certainly don’t have to wear them 24/7 to get permanent foot/leg damage. And if you haven’t, good for you. You can identify then with the piercing/tattoo/whatever wearers who also have somehow dodged the scold-bullet.</p>
<p>The women of h’s ethnic group wear plugs. We have a pair of his grandmother’s. they’re a sign of wealth. If you can afford the bigger ones, you must be very wealthy indeed. Still nobody wore the large open rings you see on some. </p>
<p>Personally, I’m not of fan of things that can’t be reversed, and in spite of my objections, my oldest d has a tattoo (must be completely covered under scrubs) and both d’s have plans to get matching tattoos as soon as the younger turns 18. Tried to talk oldest out of the nose piercing, but to no avail.</p>
<p>The way I see it, as many young people who have piercings and tats, they won’t stand out at all before long, and any stigmas associated with those things will disappear.</p>
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<p>Do people not wear gloves who make your sandwiches? Everywhere I go with sandwiches has people who wear those gloves like doctors use (why oh why is that word escaping me?) 
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<p>This thread made me think of this recent article about a Seattle woman with r-e-a-l-l-y long fingernails.</p>
<p>[Seattle</a> woman may have Washington’s longest fingernails - seattlepi.com](<a href=“Seattle woman may have Washington's longest fingernails”>Seattle woman may have Washington's longest fingernails)</p>
<p>Romani, I think that woman’s excuse might have been, “the glove did not fit” 
Hope the Health Department pays them a visit sometimes soon.</p>
<p>zipyourlips -LOL! Talk about time spent on manicuring those…</p>
<p>That’s really gross, BB. I’m probably the furthest thing from a germophobe but I wouldn’t eat a sandwich made without gloves. </p>
<p>I know that chefs aren’t probably using gloves in the back, but out of sight, out of mind.</p>
<p>First of all, other than close friends and family members, I’ve never had anyone tell me that a dress or other piece of clothing is unattractive. Nor have I had any comment more than very lightly or casually about my appearances. So in my world it is comment that would be unusual. As, a mom I’ve made suggestions about dress and requirements as that is part of raising kids. You want them dressed appropriate for whatever occasion and they don’t always pay attention. It ranges from weather, (it’s going to be cold today, better bring a jacket), to cleanliness (that sweater has a stain on it), to future issues (you are going to want to wear that shirt Thursday, so maybe something else today), to appropriateness (most people are going to be dressed up so, coat and tie please), to special requests (please wear a blue shirt for photos) to outright demands. </p>
<p>But when it comes to interviewing for a job, you may just not get a job because of gauges, tattoos, piercing and you may be none the wiser. If you are by far and away the best candidate or the person hiring likes or ignores these things, that’s well and good, but the reality is that they are more often an impediment than not. Just a statement of fact If you have a large field of applicants, and the only thing outstanding among them are the ear gauges, it’ makes it easier to winnow down the field. It’s not like you are spending a lot of time trying to figure out who to hire, You want it done with quickly, and you use a lot of quick decision making factors. Most of the time the applicant doesn’t hear a word about what eliminated him/her. So, if you have a priority in terms of a job, it might well be an issue. If you don’t care, or work in a field where such things are often sported, then good for you. Most young people starting out don’t have that luxury and getting a good starting position somewhere with a living wage is more the priority if they sit and think about it. which many of them will have plenty of time to do.</p>
<p>I am wondering why do we care about it. It never occur to me to have any kind of questions in regard to other’s appearances. I would mind to see somebody completely naked on the streets, but I believe that it is illegal anyway, so police would take care of it very fast. Other than that, somebody like to show cleavage, others like torn clothes, third like very short skirts and some other groupd prefer to cover themselves completely, which is actually a security concern, but there are no laws that prohibit any of these. Big holes in the ears, who really care? I have already wasted 1 min. typing this post, enough for me!!</p>
<p>“My older D works in the restaurant industry and LOTS and LOTS of the workers at her chain place and many others around Seattle are tattooed or pierced-it doesn’t seem to hold them back-out here at least. But chances are that if you’re a bartender or cook or expediter or a waitperson, you’re not looking to work in a upscale law firm or something. Although out here I’ve seen white collar people with piercings or tattoos as well.”</p>
<p>I don’t see many people with extreme piercings or tattoos out here in Seattle, just small ones. But it is sad that those restaurant workers you are seeing appear to be making a permanent decision to work in the food service industry. Seems that when you’re in your twenties, you might be hoping for more, for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>We just ran into a friend of my son from high school. Absolutely gorgeous girl, taking a year off of college, waiting tables. She had one of those nose rings, like a cow. When I see the extreme stuff, I always wonder why, and yes, I know they like it. But it’s as if they are trying to ruin their beauty in some way, and I just want to tell them,“Hey, if you don’t like being beautiful, just wait awhile and age will take it all away.”</p>
<p>There are plenty of office workers in Seattle with visible piercings and tattoos.</p>
<p>"We just ran into a friend of my son from high school. Absolutely gorgeous girl, taking a year off of college, waiting tables. She had one of those nose rings, like a cow. When I see the extreme stuff, I always wonder why, and yes, I know they like it. But it’s as if they are trying to ruin their beauty in some way, and I just want to tell them,“Hey, if you don’t like being beautiful, just wait awhile and age will take it all away.” "</p>
<p>Maybe you should admire them instead for not caring about something so ridiculously superficial as ‘beauty’.</p>
<p>“Hey, if you don’t like being beautiful, just wait awhile and age will take it all away”
-Why age will take it all away? This one is much more strange than the original question.</p>
<p>“Maybe you should admire them instead for not caring about something so ridiculously superficial as ‘beauty’.”</p>
<p>Or maybe I should like what I like, and dislike what I dislike. If it’s nobodies business if people have obnoxious piercings or tattoos, it is surely nobodies business if some of us think they are unattractive. The reality is, women do care way too much about beauty, though from the way I dress, I obviously don’t. But some of these girls are going through great lengths in makeup, hairstyles and clothing to otherwise make themselves look attractive. I’ve gotten used to the eyebrow, outer nasal, multiple ear, small tattoos, those don’t make me think twice anymore. But there are still some that surprise me.</p>
<p>“Why age will take it all away? This one is much more strange than the original question.”</p>
<p>Maybe something about the thin body, smooth skin being replaced by cellulite and wrinkles? Making even losing one pound a great effort? Though I must admit, declining eyesight does seem to help the matter. I refuse to get glasses to take a closer look!</p>