Employees Get Tattoo of Company Logo For Pay Raise
A New York-based real estate firm Rapid Realty has offered its 800 employees a 15% pay raise if they tattoo the company’s logo onto their bodies, and the offer is snowballing, according to CBS New York. So far, nearly 40 employees accepted the challenge, AOL Jobs reported. I don’t even know what to say… How [...]
President Obama to daughters: If you get a tattoo, I’m getting one too
“What we’ve said to the girls is, ‘If you guys ever decide you’re going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo. In the same place,’” Obama said with a smile. “And we’ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.” I have to declare this [...]
Keeping Their Art to Themselves
Sixty-one percent of human-resource managers asked last year in an annual survey by the Center for Professional Excellence at York College of Pennsylvania said a tattoo would hurt a job applicant’s chances, up from 57 percent in 2011. I’m very surprised to see that this number has increased. No matter how acceptable tattoos become in [...]
Woman who has beaten cancer on why she tattooed over her mastectomy scars
A woman who has battled three types of cancer since the age of 11 has shared a topless picture of herself on Facebook, bravely revealing the tattoo she had inked on her chest following a double mastectomy. After having her breasts removed to treat her cancer, Kelly Davidson, 34, decided reconstructive surgery was not for [...]
The tip on tatts – think before you ink
Between the cliche “think before you ink” line in the title and the opening line, “I don’t have any tattoos so I’m probably taking a bit of a risk here…” I was expecting an article full of misinformation and anti-tattoo ranting. To my surprise I found some really useful tattoo tips and have to say [...]
How Tattoos Became the Favored Art Form
Good article on the rise in tattoo popularity.