Posted on 10/24/2014 10:49:00 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Is this a violation of the first amendment? A man is left confused and frustrated after he feels he was denied a job based on his tattoos.
A man is left confused and frustrated after he feels he was denied a job based on his tattoos.
Bill Roach reached out to Eyewitness News because he thinks he was a victim of discrimination and was treated unfairly.
He said the tattoos aren’t gang related and shouldn’t be an issue. He’s proud of them, and they all mean something to him.
“My right arm is nothing but music,” he said. “You know, songs.”
Some mean more than others. He has the lip prints of his wife on his neck, plus a tribute to his first-born son, Ryker.
“So, my neck is the footprint from when he was born, his name, and his birth date,” said Roach.
Now those tattoos mean something else entirely – difficulty in finding a job.
He recently applied for a position in the medical industry, and even though he passed a test, he didn’t get called back for a first interview.
“She said, ‘No, the only reason we’re not hiring you is because of your tattoos,'” said Roach. “I don’t know what to do. I feel like I was bullied. I feel like I was treated unfairly and misled, and I don’t know why.”
Eyewitness News isn’t naming the company, because it didn’t break any laws. But, we did reach out to the company officials. They said they can’t comment because it’s “a personnel matter.”
“We know that every action or choice has a consequence,” said Holly Culhane of PAS Associates, a human resources consulting company.
She said it’s a problem employees have all the time, but there’s a difference between legal and illegal discrimination.
“There are certain areas that you cannot discriminate based on,” said Culhane. “So, we’re talking about race, color, religion, sex, national origin, as example of those.”
That’s why she said employers should make their practices clear.
“So, they might want to ask the question up front or they might want to just ask for the policy,” she said.
But, Roach said that’s exactly what he did and was told by a manager that it wouldn’t be a problem.
“I pulled my stuff up, and I showed them I had tattoos,” said Roach, “and I wanted to be up front, because to avoid wasting my time as well as theirs … and he encouraged me to take the test and said, you know, don’t worry about it.”
He said he’s never had a problem with his tattoos before and is well qualified and deserves a shot. He said he wouldn’t have been upset if they told him up front. Instead he had to take a day off work and now feels like his time and money were wasted.
"If I have a family member that’s sick or dying, I don’t care if the person’s (working in the medical job) got tattoos,” he said. “If they’re there to help my family member and here to save their life, I think the last thing going through someone’s mind when they’re going through an emergency is that I have tattoos. I’m sure they’re more concerned about, ‘Help my loved one.’”
Roach said he is writing a letter to Congress, seeking to make tattoo discrimination illegal unless they are hateful or gang related.
As tattoos become more and more prevalent in society, we need to decide if this issue is covered under a 1st amendment or should it be left up to the employer. You decide…..
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It can't be his I.Q.
Its his option to do to himself what he wants,Ink,spiked hair all of it but its my option to trash his application the moment he leaves the office.
There is a term called “approachable” and he is not
We never went back.
I see tattoos and I think disease, automatically. I don’t care who you are.
It is discrimination. I wouldn’t hire him to change the cat box. We all discriminate. It’s an instinctive, human method of survival.
DITTO
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The bad news is, you're a freak and you've got a freak's name.
if the MSM was not bought and paid for by the current Admin. this would never hit the news.
The entire world is on fire. Ebola. ISIS. North Korea. the russians stealing the north pole.
We get to listen to a pubby bitching about being stupid.
F him
F the sheep eating the crap up.
Nobody seems to mention that people with tattoos are at high risk for things like hepatitis. If he applied for a job in a healthcare setting, I would say that they are justified for not hiring him. The tattooing industry is not regulated the way that many industries are. You are dealing with blood exposure when you get a tattoo. Sure, many tattoo studios are using sanitary techniques and sterilizing their equipment, but there is no real oversight.
why not post some threads you think ought to be here, then? easy to just b1tch about - and post on - threads you don’t like. you b1tched about the cop thread beng here yet posted on that one too.
I really dislike Tattoos! Period if they show I don’t like it same way with face piercing!!!
Check the help wanted ads for Bloods, Crips, MS-13, ...
LOL! My first thought too. Although the tatoos on The Illustrated Seal in AHS are temporary ones, just for the show.
This is an interesting cultural initative and cliche riddled thinking will not find an understanding of the need for permanent body decoration. Conservatives really need to understand the psychological dynamic of defiance, lol! C’mon, it’s a republican’s bread and butter. We need to take that archetype back from the left-anarchists.
Warriors from all points of the compass use body art as a statement of courage. Tattoos are painful for starters and their implementation requires a tolerance of pain, job one of any fox hole soldier. There are lots of 50’s retro renegade demographics that vote Republican and uphold conservative values. Sure they invoke an “other side of the tracks” image, but the urge to live a free life is not patented by members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, they are a bit more universal than that and sit nicely within the manifold beauties of American trailer trash culture. You conservative standard bearers had better come to grips with trailer trash culture. Yah, it may be soaked in booze, meth and the Holy Grail of dope, but its members will be on the front lines and at the barricades of liberty. Don’t ever forget that. Lady Liberty is tolerant of social aberration and the many geniuses that it gestates. Freedom is tolerant, tyranny is intollerant, period.
“I was treated unfairly and misled, and I don’t know why.”
Clueless is strong in this one.
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