Racist?
LOL!
I didn't know that tattooed people are now a protected racial minority.
If you think this guy is stupid, does that make YOU a RACIST?
Posted on 10/08/2017 4:30:16 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
Have a tattoo? If the answer is “yes,” it’s more likely you’re unemployed or completely out of the labor force. On average, your income is lower. You’re more probably a smoker, use illegal drugs, engage in risky sexual behavior, have been a victim of crime, and have been incarcerated for committing crime yourself.
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Study says you're wrong.
There has been a culture change for sure. In the 80’s I worked in the food biz and we were not allowed to do anything radical to our hair/face/body, but had to maintain a “professional, clean-cut” appearance.
Now I work in transportation (courier) and some of the young men I work with are COVERED in tattoos. They are excellent workers and very nice people (from what I can tell) but I have that old-fashioned fatherly feeling towards them like “Please don’t mark your body up any more! Please.” Tattoos look terrible with age.
These are highly visible tattoo murals, even going up the neck (bordering on prison chic).
I know some business owners who automatically trash your application if they see a tattoo. They see them as for lack of a better word, lower class. Just the way they are, old school.
I myself have hired people with tattoos as long as they are not vulgar or disrespectful in their appearance. I have had good and bad employees with tattoos. The best did her job, went the second mile and dressed and behaved professionally. The worst were fired for attitude fairly quickly but in both cases I didn’t attribute the results to them having tattoos.
But I have noticed on several occasions young single moms who were always desperate for money especially around Christmas. They will all but ask you for help but then show up with a new tattoo. One in particular was 22 and had four kids already. She was all but begging for help and shows up with a new tattoo. One day she is showing me the tattoo on her upper arm and then comments about dreading Christmas for lack of money. Finally I said to her you are hard up for money for Christmas right? She says oh yes! I replied how much did that tattoo cost? Oh not that much she said then started fussing about minutes on cell phone being low. I replied priorities, priorities dear, think about it. She didn’t have a clue.
She was cognizant that tattoos might cause issue in employment and would ask me what I thought about them. I said personally they take away from natural beauty on a woman but if an employee had one I didn’t hold it against them, but some employers will so think about that when you get one. Put it where it can be covered if needed.
“’Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19 28
Yep—tats that show, at least, are much more correlated with low IQ and low socioeconomic status.
In the mid to late 1960’s as a Naval Reservist, I was a recruiter for a good size reserve unit for my last few years in the active reserve.
I had two CO’s for a while, the Reserve Captain had been a Blue Water Sailor for decades. The XO, my real CO, was a commander in the NavSecGrp until my last year when he became the CO of the reserve unit.
If the applicants were basically joining the regular Navy Reserves, tats were not a problem. If their scores were high enough for OCS, and they passed the basic BI checks, they could join. If their scores were high enough to be considered for the Security Group, any tats ruled them out. The CO of the SecGrp refused to waste our time and the expense of a strict BI check by the FBI on any recruit with tats.
Later after I was out of the Reserve, the drug problem exploded for the Navy and other military branches. So potential recruits had to pass drug tests before they joined.
By this time the CO of the Security Group had become the Reserve CO. He told me, the mandatory drug tests proved his theory re tats. Basically, he and other CO’s of reserve units, really didn’t invest a lot of time with any potential recruits until they passed the drug tests. If they had tats and passed the drug tests, they could join the Navy reserve if they passed their physicals.
I have no idea how tats fit in now with any of our military.
You missed the whole point....walking down street there is no way you would have recognized Jeffrey Dahmer as a Cannibal. Ted Bundy did not look like a serial killer...so yes you can say that, but even police gave back to Jeffrey Dahmer a victim, and he killed and ate him later.
So yes you may discern a few things about someone by a tattoo, or their past way of thinking, since you may not know when they got it. A sailer may have got a tattoo 35 years ago, but may now be a hedge fund manager....etc! Some go to trouble of removing a tattoo, some don’t bother. To determine if they are a criminal is much harder to discern.
What study, who wrote it, and when was it published???
How long until liberals call for taxpayers to pay for tattoo removal so poor people can get jobs? Tattoos on a woman is like graffiti to me. Very unfeminine.
Yes. I agree.
It seems to be a trend for younger women to have a tattoo somewhere near their ankle.
Quite frankly, I am not keen on that look. It can also be hard to cover unless you always wear long pants and/or boots.
Racist?
LOL!
I didn't know that tattooed people are now a protected racial minority.
If you think this guy is stupid, does that make YOU a RACIST?
You may be showing your age. :)
So are you two disputing the data in the article?
Hi, I'm here from the Babysitter Agency.
At least the pharisees are self-identfying in this thread.
You’re funny. Who do you think “makes” your money, Billy?
Yes. The article is garbage.
And you’d never hire a Catholic, right?
We all know how it goes with “those people”...
What a complete load of crapola, I mean it stinks to high heaven.
I know lots of bikers with tattoos, they and their wives have $75,000.00 bikes, tattoos and make goobs of money in the businesses they own or jobs.
I don't have a problem with a discreet tattoo that may only be seen with a shirt off or short sleeve shirt.
This pretty much sums up anything else:
And people who think that it isn't normal or acceptable for people to judge someone based on their "appearance" are being deliberately obtuse.
We do it all the time, and people with tattoos look at others with and without tattoos and make judgements all the time based on the presence or absence of tattoos. If someone has pieces of metal sticking out of both nostrils and big holes in his ears, I make judgements about that person, and am both within my rights and correct to do so.
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