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Tattooed woman 'told to put bag over head by Jobcentre'
telegraph.co.uk ^ | Sept. 23, 2010

Posted on 09/23/2010 9:59:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A woman with 30 tattoos claims she was told to "put a bag over her head" when she went for a job interview.

Hayley O'Neil, 23, - who also has 20 body piercings - says was also advised to "stand behind a wall" when she asked a job centre official what post she could apply for.

She eventually left the Job centre plus centre in Blackburn Lancs in tear without any interviewers lined up after the advisor concluded: "Who would hire you looking like that?"

Miss O'Neil, who got her first tattoo from her mother as an 18th birthday present said: ''I just felt so humiliated. I couldn't believe what this guy was saying.

''I said I could take the the piercings out but they look a lot worse when they are out."

"The guy said: 'on first impressions do you think anyone would hire you?' He said: ' look at it this way if you were to stand behind a wall - or put a paper bag over your face do you think you would have a better chance?'


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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I fainted in the doctors office one time just looking at someone’s stitches. I just can’t look at piercings without getting queasy.


21 posted on 09/23/2010 10:10:15 PM PDT by donna (Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Islam-ism)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"He talked to me as though I was just going through a phase in my life, but this is my lifestyle choice, and this is who I am."

Then deal with the consequences. The truth isn't always easy to face. I don't like it myself at times. Go work for a tattoo/piercing place, or a record shop, or a bar, or join the circus. Most employers don't want the tribal look to represent their establishments.

22 posted on 09/23/2010 10:11:09 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Work clothes for this whining, manipulative pig.


23 posted on 09/23/2010 10:11:27 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There was a time when most people had the common sense to know that if they chose to brand themselves with permanent and visible tattoos (and now piercings) that they were choosing a path outside of mainstream society.

The fact that this girl left the employment office in tears is just ridiculous. She made the stupid choice to disfigure herself. Now, she needs to live with it.


24 posted on 09/23/2010 10:11:46 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Work clothes for this whining, manipulative pig.


25 posted on 09/23/2010 10:11:54 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I'll go to the next isle.

Hell - I'll go to the next continent!

26 posted on 09/23/2010 10:12:26 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She’d be a better WH spokesfreak for the Obamanation than Gibbs..... bring her to America (illegally of course) and put her in the WH press room. She’ll feel right at home!


27 posted on 09/23/2010 10:12:37 PM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

bag hell, make it a burka and then 2 bage over that!


28 posted on 09/23/2010 10:14:01 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I just sent the link to my step-daughter. Years ago I told her that if she put another hole in her ear, she was going to have to extract my boot from her... well, you get the idea.

Now her own teenage daughter came home with a pierced lip and she freaked out. Actions have consequences...and that karma does rear its ugly head, doesn't it?

29 posted on 09/23/2010 10:16:34 PM PDT by AJ504 (The Constitution was NOT written on an Etch-A-Sketch!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She does need to trim her eyebrows a tad and try to smile.


30 posted on 09/23/2010 10:17:41 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
There are lots of jobs she could get.... Tattoo parlor receptionist, circus freak/elephant cage washer, athletic team mascot (full costume only), Rosy O’Donut’s pedicurist, just to name a few..
31 posted on 09/23/2010 10:24:19 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

I can sort of understand the tears.

The dominant culture is telling her it’s cool and it’s sexy and it’s great for a young woman to abuse herself that way.

Her own mom started up the piercings!

Then she gets told she has made herself unemployable, and she can’t very well fix it. She’ll have ugly holes and she’d have to go to great lengths to hide the tats, and it will be an ugly place where they were.

She’s been sold a bill of goods, and as usually, the world says, tough ****.

Granted she’s an adult and should know better, etc., but I can understand the tears.


32 posted on 09/23/2010 10:24:23 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You might have at least drawn a bag over her face, with crayons.

Now I have to wash my eyes.

Thanks. You’re a peach.


33 posted on 09/23/2010 10:27:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ay, dios mio! I wouldn’t touch it with Laz’s ****.


34 posted on 09/23/2010 10:28:36 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: imahawk

We also have the right to recoil at her hideousness.


35 posted on 09/23/2010 10:29:35 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

She must be a laugh riot going through the airport metal detectors. It’s possible the TSA agent patting her down could get injured! heh,heh


36 posted on 09/23/2010 10:30:00 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Tattooed woman 'told to put bag over head by Jobcentre'

Sounds like good professional advice.

Did she get the job?

37 posted on 09/23/2010 10:31:25 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: mkjessup

Yeah, maybe you are right.

38 posted on 09/23/2010 10:31:30 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: mkjessup

You have to wonder what kind of job a person like that actually has.


39 posted on 09/23/2010 10:38:16 PM PDT by PLMerite (Fix the clock. It's time.)
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To: Randy Larsen

Trim her eyebrows? You’re kidding, right?

The non-eyebrow look in fashion today is very unnatural and odd looking.


40 posted on 09/23/2010 10:38:58 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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