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?'
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Very well said, Persevero. It breaks the heart of this father to see a young lady who has believed a lie and is now trapped by its consequences. Even though the truth has revealed the old lie, her stains and scars remain. What this girl needs is far more important than a mere job or even her physical appearance...
“I just felt so humiliated. I couldn’t believe what this guy was saying.”
Actions have consequences. Welcome to the Real World.
It reminds me of young girls being pushed in so many ways towards sex. It’s cool, it’s good, it’s what everyone’s doing, it’s empowering, it feels good, guys like it when you’re easy, everyone will love you, all the popular stars do it. . .
Then they are 24 years old with an assortment of STDs, many crippling or potentially deadly, and either a history of abortions or a fatherless child or two. When they complain about it, say, hey, what’s up with this? the world says, “Well, what did you expect?” And leaves them to cope pretty much on their own.
Teen girls are very naive, generally, and it is sad to see all the damage done. Often it is irreparable damage. They are just used and tossed aside like so much trash.
Someone asked on another thread WTF had happened to Great Britain. Look no further for your answer.
She’s ruined her life. I feel sorry for her too. I don’t know if she can ever completely get rid of the tats, but wouldn’t the holes heal just as pierced ears do when earrings are not worn?
I couldn't agree more with all of what you said. I thought things were pretty wild during my wild days in the 80's and they were, but what they are doing now is way beyond it. It's sad because it burns you out very quickly and makes you despise men. If they are single and raising children, and hate men, that's very toxic combo for the kids. All this free love/do what you want out of the mainstream stuff has consequences fiscally and socially. People aren't raised to believe there are consequences. It was a rude awakening for me. Thankfully I snapped out of it fairly quick, a few scars, but survived.
Shouldn’t people who do this to themselves be working in tatoo parlors in the first place?
I remember once Dr Laura taking a woman to task for this.
The woman was spitting angry and very upset because Laura told her people were not going to hire her for jobs, period. The woman kept arguing that was biased, to the point of tears, and Laura kept asking her basically what did she not get, it didn’t matter. People would not hire her.
The woman was so angry. She could not accept that she had damaged herself to the point where she was practically unemployable, and couldn’t accept it was her own fault.
I’m like that also. When someone has piercings around the eye I can’t look at them. The one that really get me though, are those metal piercings on the chin that look like gobs of food hanging down or this woman, it looks like she has a bunch of zits.
The worst of all are women that have those large piercings hanging from their nose, like gobs of mucus. I keep wanting to hand them a handkerchief when I see one.
Some enjoy grossing people out. But I’ll be there are a ton that simply don’t understand how they gross people out. This particular woman, well, this may be the first time people have said to her, you look gross.
A lot of these types, they never seem to be smart enough to equate not getting hired, not getting apartments etc with their self caused deformities.
“t wouldn’t the holes heal just as pierced ears do when earrings are not worn?”
I think there are always at least little scars. Look at her ears; she has stretched the lobes all out with those nasty enlarging things.
Beauty in the face, elegance of figure, grace of attitude and motion, riches, honors, every thing is weighed in the scale, and desired, not so much for the pleasure they afford, as the attention they command.Again, Adams from the same source:
When a wretch could no longer attract the notice of a man, woman, or child, he must be respectable in the eyes of his dog. “Who will love me then?” was the pathetic reply of one, who starved himself to feed his mastiff, to a charitable passenger, who advised him to kill or sell the animal. In this “who will love me then?” there is a key to the human heart; to the history of human life and manners; and to the rise and fall of empires. To feel ourselves unheeded, chills the most pleasing hope, damps the most fond desire, checks the most agreeable wish, disappoints the most ardent expectations of human nature.And in this day and age, if you don't have beauty and elegance, you can, at least, get the attention by other means.
I'm thinking being forced to watch "Charles In Charge" and "Full House" reruns all day, every day...
But wait, there's more!
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-pg-mom-why-cant-i-get-a-job,0,6127195.photogallery
kinda reminds me of rosie o’donnell.
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