Here we go again...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/do-tattoos-affect-your-career-5300210/
40% of people now have a tattoo so it still amazes me to see comments like "They must have low self esteem", or my personal favourite "you wouldn't put bumper stickers on a Maserati"!
I can appreciate why someone might not thing it's appropriate for a primary school teacher to have blacked out eyeballs, but by all accounts he's a good teacher and the kids are learning an important lesson about not judging people based on their physical characteristics.
Are tattoo's something that would affect your choice of employee, supplier or client? Why are they fine on a footballer, musician or chef but not a doctor or lawyer?
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I'm quite heavily tattooed, including my full hand and fingers, and there's been times where they have been questioned, but honestly even within me working in a pub! So it's not just offices or 'professional settings'.
If somewhere deemed me an unsuitable candidate due to my collection of art, then I wouldnt want to work there anyway! Luckily for me we have Andrews answer below ;)
Sometimes the bias can be really subtle too. I was once told that I "didn't look like someone with tattoos" when I bumped into a client outside of work.
What does someone with tattoos look like these days?
Couldn't care less whether you have tattoos or not - or why you got them! And if someone makes business decisions based on others' tattoos, hairstyle, clothes, etc, I wouldn't want to work with them
Couldn't agree more!
I honestly don't think that it matters and it wouldn’t affect my decision to employ someone. I worked somewhere where they made staff cover visible tattoos with a plaster which I actually think looks worse.
That just seems daft...I'd be much more concerned if I saw comeone covered in plasters!