Exposed tattoos and employment

[just1]

You guys have a good point I am starting my own tree service and I am coverd with ink hands , arms , legs , chest , gauged ears and long hair so I send my clean cut brother to talk to potential clients in person especially older people they don't seem to care after they see me up in the tree tops running a saw or after everything is finished and cleaned up but I don't want a bad first impression

 

[TreeAce]

I dont have any tats but I dont mind them to much. Although I have to admit I would prolly shy away from hiring people with certian tats. Pot leaves,swastikas, naked women (real ones are welcome) are a few tats I dont want around. I actually have a bit of an issue with face piercings and those damn ear gauges.

 

[TreeAce]

You guys have a good point I am starting my own tree service and I am coverd with ink hands , arms , legs , chest , gauged ears and long hair so I send my clean cut brother to talk to potential clients in person especially older people they don't seem to care after they see me up in the tree tops running a saw or after everything is finished and cleaned up but I don't want a bad first impression

this post wasnt there when I wrote my post. My referance to the ear gauges is not a reply to your post.

 

[CanopyGorilla]

Anyone else rocking the wedding band tat?

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Anyone else rocking the wedding band tat?

I was gonna but the tattoo guy said my hands are to tough for a ring tattoo to last long and still look good.

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[LegDeLimber]

I used to help lug a local "honky-tonk" style, country-rock band around the area and got to see some interesting things
..occasionally....

one of them would likely be one of my alltime favorite tattoos.
Guy had a pretty decent looking "old School" rectangular body
wristwatch inked on his wrist.
before I got a chance at good look at it (dim light and in a bar crowd ) ,
I asked him what time was it set to.

" 3:30 man, Quittin' time! " was his reply.

 

[SDB777]

Do exposed tattoos on hands or neck affect employment as an arborist? I have my forearms done and it's never been a problem when they show so I'm just curious how heavily I can get tattooed.

Thanks all

Your decision to get tattoo's have no bearing on my decision to hire/not hire....just saying.


Scott (do I need to justify whom I hire) B

 

[just1]

Not to worried about it Ace everyone is allowd an opinion n I got them ( gauges) when I was 15 if faced with the same choice now I wouldn't do it but the ink I love n I find that the guys who work the hardest for me are the ones that look like they have had a ruff run

 

[HuskStihl]

[quote="LegDeLimber, post: 4657076, member: quote]
Guy had a pretty decent looking "old School" rectangular body.[/quote]
You should edit that post so the wristwatch is right behind the body

 

[AW4130]

All the negative comments toward tattoos, large gauge earrings, hair styles, ect, just seems to me like just another form of prejudice. It's not socially acceptable anymore for closed minded people to call people of other races derogatory or segregating names sooooooo, guess they gotta have sooooomeone or something to express their ignorance toward eh? It's 2014 man, lotsa stuff had changed. And alot of people have gained interest in lots of once "uncouth" ways of self expression. Who cares? What's the big deal? Other than people just wanting something to be a jerk to someone else about. As far as any of the way a person looks having anything to do with how well they can do a job is seriously ridiculous.

 

[AW4130]

C'mon man seriously though? Everybody knows there's a difference between extreme examples and what I'm talking about dude... :/ I think guys that look like that are just as screwy as you do man.

Yeah, right.

 

[mckeetree]

I really don't have a problem with a couple tattoos...hell, I shoudn't because I've got a couple on me. But some of this over the top stuff I know for sure would turn a lot of my clients off so I really can't put anybody like that on board. Especially all the face rings and that type of ****. Lots of folks just don't go for that and those same folks pay my bills, so what can you do.

 

[AW4130]

Personally, I think it's ****ed up that you even need to feel that way my friend. And part of the point I'm trying to make to some of these dudes is the more everyone caters to the closed minded in this world the more the problem persists. I know lots of people that want to be tattoed all over just like it sounds like you are. And they're too afraid to because of what people will think. And that's ******** man. None of us should ever be afraid of anything for the sake of others. And if all of the people who were normally too afraid would just go ahead and do what they want to... Then pretty soon the people who look the way they want will BE the majority. Not the other way around.

You guys have a good point I am starting my own tree service and I am coverd with ink hands , arms , legs , chest , gauged ears and long hair so I send my clean cut brother to talk to potential clients in person especially older people they don't seem to care after they see me up in the tree tops running a saw or after everything is finished and cleaned up but I don't want a bad first impression

 

[mckeetree]

1. None of us should ever be afraid of anything for the sake of others.

Whatever. But that's just the way it is. I'm like a lot of other guys in this business or a hundred others, I didn't make up the game but I have to play by it.

 

[mckeetree]

I don't care what ink people decide on wearing except when it comes to representing me and my company.

I don't care for the lifestyle it all too often represents and choose not to expose my clients to it.

Personally I think visible ink is a poor choice and if people want to make a statement they aren't going to do it on my dime.


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Fair statement.

 

[just1]

Personally, I think it's ****ed up that you even need to feel that way my friend. And part of the point I'm trying to make to some of these dudes is the more everyone caters to the closed minded in this world the more the problem persists. I know lots of people that want to be tattoed all over just like it sounds like you are. And they're too afraid to because of what people will think. And that's ******** man. None of us should ever be afraid of anything for the sake of others. And if all of the people who were normally too afraid would just go ahead and do what they want to... Then pretty soon the people who look the way they want will BE the majority. Not the other way around.

Yea but the thing is I don't care what anyone thinks about me I'm a hard worker a good father n husband and I've over come a pretty lengthy prision bid but me and my family have to live and too do so I have to work so if I have to cater to some a?$ hole to make a couple grand doing what I was put on this earth to do than so be it who am I to tell any one their wrong for having an opinion that's one of the greatest things about this country so I'm gonna keep sending little brother to the customers cause if they are happy then I end up being happy

 

[HuskStihl]

Personally, I think it's ****ed up that you even need to feel that way my friend. And part of the point I'm trying to make to some of these dudes is the more everyone caters to the closed minded in this world the more the problem persists. I know lots of people that want to be tattoed all over just like it sounds like you are. And they're too afraid to because of what people will think. And that's ******** man. None of us should ever be afraid of anything for the sake of others. And if all of the people who were normally too afraid would just go ahead and do what they want to... Then pretty soon the people who look the way they want will BE the majority. Not the other way around.

Equating the color of ones skin with the decision to get tats and piercings is a false argument. In tree service, you are not working for the trees, you are working for the person who owns the trees. If I think your tats scare off 5% of my business, I'm not hiring you. I have a family to feed as well. I don't have facial tats or piercings. It's not because I'm afraid of what people think of me, it's because I think it looks stupid

 

[AW4130]

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Yea but the thing is I don't care what anyone thinks about me I'm a hard worker a good father n husband and I've over come a pretty lengthy prision bid but me and my family have to live and too do so I have to work so if I have to cater to some a?$ hole to make a couple grand doing what I was put on this earth to do than so be it who am I to tell any one their wrong for having an opinion that's one of the greatest things about this country so I'm gonna keep sending little brother to the customers cause if they are happy then I end up being happy

Fair enough. Because that's all that really matters. If you're happy with your life and yours are taken care of!

 

[AW4130]

Hey don't get me wrong man, most of the time facial tattoos and such are a very dumb decision. I agree with you there. Unless youve decided to dedicate your life to being in the body mod industry or are gonna be, hell I dunno a carnie all your life you know? But just cutting people out just for having visible tattoos seems a Lil bit silly to me. If it's like, pot leaves or gang related stuff... Orrrrrrr, like, one real choice tattoo I seen on a fellas neck one time stating "cop hater"... Hell you get my point man. Then yeah, I get it. And I wouldn't want em on my crew either. I guess I'm just trying to say, shouldn't it come down to an actual fair, educated judgement call? Not just a harsh generalization?

Equating the color of ones skin with the decision to get tats and piercings is a false argument. In tree service, you are not working for the trees, you are working for the person who owns the trees. If I think your tats scare off 5% of my business, I'm not hiring you. I have a family to feed as well. I don't have facial tats or piercings. It's not because I'm afraid of what people think of me, it's because I think it looks stupid

 

[HuskStihl]

It's just business. Not a statement of a persons worth. As I said a while back, if a guy has limited contact with the client, no big deal, but of they are front and center, profit comes before making social statements. It is nothing against you or anybody else