Reader: If you pollute your body with piercings and tattoos, expect low-paying service jobs
The following comment was posted as the “comment of the day” on the Denver Westword Blogs page. It was written in response to this article: Five reasons restaurant employees should be allowed to have tattoos and piercings I like to go to restaurants where the staff has a lot of piercings and tattoos because it’s [...]
Making Tattoos and Piercings a Workplace Issue Without Breaking the Law
Just how far can employers go in acting against workers based on professional image alone? In this week’s webinar, “Addressing Tattoos, Piercings, and Cross-Dressing in the Workplace,” Ballow discussed some of the risks of taking adverse employment action based on a worker’s appearance.
School Dress Codes Aren’t Just For Students Anymore
Teachers can’t sport outlandish hairstyles or facial piercings, and tattoos have to be covered up at the Litchfield Elementary School District. Fifth-grade teacher Tim Schooley, who says he’s surprised it’s taken so long to implement a dress code, isn’t sure how school officials will enforce the tattoo rule. He has a tattoo on his calf, [...]
Tattoos and piercings: How young is too young?
Short article discussing the appropriate age for tattoos and piercings. With over 900 comments and counting, there is quite a debate going on. The most popular comment by far is one by someone talking about not hiring people because of their visible tattoos. I have interviewed many men and women in their 20′s and 30′s [...]
Idiotic Comments of the Week: 6/29/2012
I almost made it to the end of the week without finding a comment bad enough to be immortalized here forever. But I think I found a winner in a response to the recent ‘Tattoos have a distinguished royal history‘ article on the Telegraph. The comment I am highlighting is actually a response to another. [...]
WHY THE ROYAL FAMILY ARE HAPPY TO TOLERATE TATTOOS AT ROYAL ASCOT…
THERE’s been much moral outrage over tattooed ladies at Royal Ascot but the Queen and her family have long been happy to tolerate body art. The royal racecourse has a strict new dress code which bans fascinators, bare shoulders, and short skirts from the Royal Enclosure but there are no restrictions on displaying tattoos or [...]
Idiotic Comments of the Week: 6/18/2012
I read so many ridiculous comments about tattoos on a regular basis, that I thought I would start sharing some of my favorites each week. This weeks comment can be found on the Daily Mail article, ‘No regerts? Well maybe a few….These tacky tattoos have been singled out as ugliest yet‘, courtesy of Raymond Waugh, [...]
School board approves tattoo, piercing policy
The Grand Island school board gave approval on first reading to a new policy that will allow Grand Island students to show tattoos and body piercings as long as they are not a distraction to the educational process. Grand Island resident Kevin Carpenter, a former GIPS school board member, read a statement opposing the change. [...]
Branded with the personal touch
Here is a great article to counter the story about young people not being hired because of tattoos. SHE has lolly pink hair, multiple piercings and a sleeve of tattoos, but that’s exactly what makes her so appealing to her coffee customers. Ashleigh Humphreys’ individuality is actually what some companies are looking for. It’s all [...]
Tattoos and piercings linked to heavy drinking: Fatally Flawed Study
This has to be one of the most ridiculous “studies” I have ever read about. I am basing this commentary on the limited information I was able to find on this study, but have not been able to find a complete write-up. Alcohol tests performed on nearly 2,000 young men and women frequenting bars in [...]
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