My wife has a couple very small butterflies on her big toe. Unless she has sandals on or is walking barefoot you don't see them. I forget she has it most of the time.
Tatoo's - yes or no, when is it too much?
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Tats and piercings were deal breakers where I used to work. You showed up with tats or piercings for an interview, you wouldn't get past the receptionist. Discrimination????? I don't think these comprise a protected class.
When I interview someone, I look for the best candidate that I can find. I won’t let tattoos or piercings impact my thoughts on their ability to do the job, otherwise I could be missing out on someone talented.
Wasn't my policy. CEO was "old school" who liked pretty ladies (without visible tats of course) sitting outside his office. Guy is a real a$$.
I remember sitting in a barber shop hearing this same kind of whining about long hair in the 60's....HS football coach wigged out on stage about team members wearing bell bottom pants during the sports assembly.....You weren't handed your letter on stage and had to pick it up in the office..... Opinions are like anal orifices......everybody has one.....LOL
I personally dont like them and while some are ok, like ones for a loved one or such, I never understand why some people get what they get. I also dont understand peoples thinking when it come to certain aspects of tattoos such as:
1. Why so many young students 12-14 yo, have tattoos, especially when their body will change so much over the next few years.
2. Similarly, women who want to have children, getting tattoos before doing so.
3. Why people continuously spend lots of money for tattoos. Especially those who don't really have the financial means for it.
1. Why so many young students 12-14 yo, have tattoos, especially when their body will change so much over the next few years.
2. Similarly, women who want to have children, getting tattoos before doing so.
3. Why people continuously spend lots of money for tattoos. Especially those who don't really have the financial means for it.
You mean like at Hooters?
Then you just have a policy that they must be covered at work. As far as I know, that’s what Hooters does (or used to do)
That wouldn’t happen with me. But I’m sure that my view of the scope of jobs that having a tatto would impact is different than the CEO referenced above.
If you are in a creative field, they are more the norm than not. And speaking of Norm, I’ll tie this thread to the Cheers thread.....
I mentioned tats in the creative field as an expectation. It reminds me of the Cheers episode when Norm got into interior design and pretended to be gay to land work. None of his clients would hire a straight interior designer.
Well, I will jump in.
Appropriately placed and inked tattoos on a woman can be sexy - like in her bikini area. Conversely, a large tattoo across her back is unattractive to me. The small, well placed tattoo, is kind of alluring. So, if the woman in my sig pic had one in her bikini area, it would really be titillating.
I have two tattoos, one on each arm, near the shoulder. The first one I got when I was 30, the second one when I was 50. I got them so far up my arm because I did not want my mother to see them. I knew she would not be happy about it. I don't pay attention to them, and forgot all about them until 2 summers ago, when we had a family get together on the beach, and my (then) 11 year old niece pointed them out to her grandmother. Needless to say, my mother felt compelled to give me a talking to. Nothing she could do about it, but it made her feel better nonetheless. People (especially women, with the exception of my mother) who see them when I am at the pool or beach tend to comment positively on them. Because they are small, simple and well colored.
Yes, I own a Harley, and had a Corvette and you can say what you want about my symbols of a midlife crisis. Just don't say it while standing on my lawn.
Appropriately placed and inked tattoos on a woman can be sexy - like in her bikini area. Conversely, a large tattoo across her back is unattractive to me. The small, well placed tattoo, is kind of alluring. So, if the woman in my sig pic had one in her bikini area, it would really be titillating.
I have two tattoos, one on each arm, near the shoulder. The first one I got when I was 30, the second one when I was 50. I got them so far up my arm because I did not want my mother to see them. I knew she would not be happy about it. I don't pay attention to them, and forgot all about them until 2 summers ago, when we had a family get together on the beach, and my (then) 11 year old niece pointed them out to her grandmother. Needless to say, my mother felt compelled to give me a talking to. Nothing she could do about it, but it made her feel better nonetheless. People (especially women, with the exception of my mother) who see them when I am at the pool or beach tend to comment positively on them. Because they are small, simple and well colored.
Yes, I own a Harley, and had a Corvette and you can say what you want about my symbols of a midlife crisis. Just don't say it while standing on my lawn.
Thats really good, I wish I could be as nonplussed.
But some just cross the line and If I was doing the hired they wouldn't get hired.
For instance. I saw a guy at the Grocery Store, last week, that had F_ _ _ _ Y O U tattooed on each knuckle starting on his right hand. SMH.
I guess its good I'm not doing the hiring.
I am honestly surprised when I see a woman with one because most women I know can't make up their mind about anything, let alone something permanent like a tattoo.
I said it before and I'll say it again. It says "it doesn't matter which end is up". That young lady is a very talented, ahem, actress.
I am anti tattoo. They can look beautiful today and horrendous years from now. A good looking tattoo harmonizes with the body. 99.9999999% chance the body will change - for the worse. Look around, most people are over weight, or obese. Gross!
Weddings and formal events are the shit-show entertainment for tattoos and bodies gone bad.
Weddings and formal events are the shit-show entertainment for tattoos and bodies gone bad.
I look back at photos from the 70s. Wide lapels, patent leather high heeled shoes, frayed pants, macrame belts, tie dyed, crushed velvet tux, etc. I wouldn't be caught dead wearing that stuff now. Seems to me a tattoo is the same thing. What seems stylish today will most certainly not be stylish in 20 years. We could change our clothes. Tattoos not so easy.
One thing I tol my kids. An employer might be offended by your tattoo but he won't be offended if you don't have a tattoo.
One thing I tol my kids. An employer might be offended by your tattoo but he won't be offended if you don't have a tattoo.
Love this thread. It immediately called to mind the old joke regarding a woman who went out and got an inner thigh tattoo in honor of her all time favorite singer, Frank Sinatra. She didn't like the first tattoo, on her inner left thigh, so she had the tattoo artist give it another try on her inner right thigh. When she came home and asked her husband to comment on the likeness of the tattoos to her idol, the husband replied "I don't know who that is on the left or the right, but isn't that Willie Nelson in the middle?"
I don't begrudge anyone their body art. I don't have any, not because I don't like them. It's simply because if I'm ever broke, I'm gonna be pissed every time I look in the mirror. I wouldn't see an awesome tattoo, all I would see is the money associated with it that I no longer have
Well, I will jump in.
Appropriately placed and inked tattoos on a woman can be sexy - like in her bikini area. Conversely, a large tattoo across her back is unattractive to me. The small, well placed tattoo, is kind of alluring. So, if the woman in my sig pic had one in her bikini area, it would really be titillating.
I have two tattoos, one on each arm, near the shoulder. The first one I got when I was 30, the second one when I was 50. I got them so far up my arm because I did not want my mother to see them. I knew she would not be happy about it. I don't pay attention to them, and forgot all about them until 2 summers ago, when we had a family get together on the beach, and my (then) 11 year old niece pointed them out to her grandmother. Needless to say, my mother felt compelled to give me a talking to. Nothing she could do about it, but it made her feel better nonetheless. People (especially women, with the exception of my mother) who see them when I am at the pool or beach tend to comment positively on them. Because they are small, simple and well colored.
Yes, I own a Harley, and had a Corvette and you can say what you want about my symbols of a midlife crisis. Just don't say it while standing on my lawn.
My GF has no tattoos but her son has two as you’ve described yours. Her husband was from Wales and died suddenly about the same time my wife died. A year later, her son got a tattoo of the same Welsh emblem that his dad had on his shoulder. My GF is of Indian descent so a few months ago her son got a tattoo of the Indian god Shiva on the other shoulder.
They are real works of art and will carry deep meaning the rest of his life.
Thats pretty cool.
My best friend had his mother's birthday on one inner forearm and his sisters birthday on the other. He was very close to both of them.
Now I did make some fun since he was black and in the summer he got darker than the ink. LOL.
I am clearly the minority here, but tattoos on a woman are 75% of the time sexy as hell! Love back pieces, love big leg pieces. Dated a girl when I was stationed in vegas that has Chinese water lily's on a vine that starts on her upper chest, wraps back over her shoulder and down her back around her hip and down her thigh. ooooooh man I wanted to buy her a house...
Yes I have many, and yes my wife has one (infinity symbol on her ring finger under her band). She doesn't wear a wedding ring at work because it tears through rubber gloves when she responds to codes. It means something to her. I also have her name on my ring finger under my ring so when I deploy I can take off my ring and still have her there. If it means something, or it's unique, I don't see the issue. If you don't have any tattoos, I don't see the issue. If you have something that you picked out of a book that probably 297398455 other people have, I don't see the issue. to each their own.
Yes I have many, and yes my wife has one (infinity symbol on her ring finger under her band). She doesn't wear a wedding ring at work because it tears through rubber gloves when she responds to codes. It means something to her. I also have her name on my ring finger under my ring so when I deploy I can take off my ring and still have her there. If it means something, or it's unique, I don't see the issue. If you don't have any tattoos, I don't see the issue. If you have something that you picked out of a book that probably 297398455 other people have, I don't see the issue. to each their own.
Great point
Client facing relations / sales - If the customer, or potential customer alters their opinion due to image, it will affect the employees results. Sales is a results based job.
Some may counter with - then I don't want their business. Fine, but then your revenue will be affected.
So, there is this story.....
A couple of years ago, I went to grab lunch at a local WaWa. Went with one of our admins (she is in her late 50s and a grandmother)....while in line, notice a young lady, looking very prim and proper, hanging on a guy with tattoos on his neck, both cheeks and forehead. He also had a tattoed lip. Without missing a beat, she walks up to the girl, looks at him and says - "you must really hate your father" and then turned around and walked away. The young girl and guy were just quiet.
A couple of years ago, I went to grab lunch at a local WaWa. Went with one of our admins (she is in her late 50s and a grandmother)....while in line, notice a young lady, looking very prim and proper, hanging on a guy with tattoos on his neck, both cheeks and forehead. He also had a tattoed lip. Without missing a beat, she walks up to the girl, looks at him and says - "you must really hate your father" and then turned around and walked away. The young girl and guy were just quiet.
Of course, one can easily get a tattoo removed these days. Don’t believe me? Watch this.
When she wiggles her toes, does that cause it to rain in China? No malicious intent intended, I am just being a smart aleck.
Sorry but your admin is a bitch and lucky the woman didn't slap her.
Frankly she probably should have.
I don't mind opinions but some need to be kept to themselves.
She was completely out of line.
As a student I heard the story about the tattooed lady. She had Merry Christmas on one thigh and Happy New Year on the other. If you were lucky, she would invite you up between the holidays.
It's a personal call to be honest. If you don't like them, don't get them. If you like them, tat away.
Here's a tattoo joke I heard:
My wife has a seashell tattooed on her inner thigh. If you put your ear to it, you can smell the ocean.
My wife has a seashell tattooed on her inner thigh. If you put your ear to it, you can smell the ocean.
Just completed a temporary job with a national company. The woman head of the AP department had a tat across her upper chest that read "Prepare to Die" or something close to that. She also had tats on her arms and hands and fingers. She didn't try to hide any of these. Would have liked to hear the story about these tats but I didn't think it was appropriate for me to ask. Same company had a young girl in the HR dept that wore her her color pink. Another young girl in accounting would walk around barefoot. Strange place.
Maybe. But there was no reaction from either one of them so I guess she got her point across.
