Tattoo cover-up 'discriminates'

BBC News ^ | 6/19/06 | Staff

[Millee]

[Toby06]

Employers should be allowed to choose to hire whomever the hell they feel is best suited for the job. I would not want to hire someone with neck/face tats. There is a potential loss to the employer if customers are driven away by the freaks they amy or may not hire.

I also would not hire someone who looks like they fell face-first into a tacklebox.

[maro]

It's not criminal to wear shorts, either, but surely an employer is within its rights in banning shorts from the office. A long sleeve shirt will cover up the tats nicely, so what's the big deal? Is there no air conditioning?

[najida]

She looks like the woman who used to do my hair (she was a law student working PT in a salon).

AND she looks like 90% of the SCAD students here in town, plus a lot of tribal chicks I've met.

I guess I just don't see it as odd anymore.

[mtbopfuyn]

"It's not the first job where this has happened,"

Buy a clue.

[Tax-chick]

How hot can it be in England, that she couldn't wear a blouse? And a hijab, I guess, to cover that thing on her neck ... but it's not like Pakistanis are dropping over from the heat in Hertfordshire.

[newgeezer]

She says some tattoos were visible at her job interview

Yeah, sure. Maybe on her ankles.

[najida]

A cotten oxford shirt, buttoned up would be relatively cool....and the Pakistani dress is usually a tunic and trousers....

Which is quite comfortable.

[wallcrawlr]

"I want to feel I am not being judged on my appearance, but how well I am doing my job."

show up smelly...see if that gets a different reaction.

[MotleyGirl70]

"I like body art, it's a way of expressing. It's always been around."

Art, shmart...yadda, yadda, yadda.

Tats to that extreme are ugly, IMO.

[Tax-chick]

Comfortable and attractive. I have one ... bright purple, embroidered it myself in a fit of energy during my 6th pregnancy.

It seems like a long-sleeved blouse with a neck scarf would cover the young woman's body art, and she's not in Georgia or someplace really hot!

[najida]

Agreed,
a shirt and scarf in light fabrics would be cool and keep her covered....

OR, she could just go interview at a boutique, art gallery, salon, night club, bistro etc. It isn't so much how she's tattooed but that she's trying to fit in a world that see's it as bad.

There are places were she would be just one of the gang.

[MarineBrat]

"I want to feel I am not being judged on my appearance, but how well I am doing my job."

Get a clue! People are judged on their appearance every second of every day. If you want to work as a long shoreman or some other "manly" job, then yes, your tattoos are lovely. < gag > But when you're working in a professional office you need to .... oh for crying out loud, what am I saying?!?!?!? You look stupid! Get away from me!

[ncountylee]

Are the Ubangi's still around?

[xcamel]

She been tested for Hep C yet?

[Welsh Rabbit]

I suppose she thinks she looks unique, but she looks exactly like hundreds of girls I've seen hanging around Little Five Points in my city (Atlanta); that winged heart tat on the chest seems to be very popular right now, as is the dyed black hair and Cleopatra makeup.

[day10]

OM MY GOD, SHE'S HOT!!!

[Antonello]

Choices have consequences.

[MarineBrat]

Those 'toos will look awesome when she's sixty! :)

[HitmanLV]

Rebecca Holdcroft likes to "express" herself through body art.

I once met a woman with considerable body art. She gave me the same reasoing - the art 'expresses' herself. I listned intently and then (innocently) asked what about her it expressed.

I got a blank stare. Serves me right - I learned a long time ago no good comes from asking real questions, or giving real answers to questions, for that matter. :-)