Neck or face tattoo's

Specialun

Im not for or against tattoo's but i do wonder if these tattoo's affect the persons career opportunities. If i was hiring for a job which is customer facing i dont know if i would hire somebody with v visable tattoo's. I know its illegal to discriminatate but it would be impossible to prove

Have you have these tattoos. Do you think they affect career prospects or is the world more accepting now.

Your Face

Only Pacific Islanders can pull that look off.

corner of hells

Specialun wrote: »

Im not for or against tattoo's but i do wonder if these tattoo's affect the persons career opportunities. If i was hiring for a job which is customer facing i dont know if i would hire somebody with v visable tattoo's. I know its illegal to discriminatate but it would be impossible to prove

Have you have these tattoos. Do you think they affect career prospects or is the world more accepting now.

I suppose for a role that is customer facing it might be an issue , but in reality more and more people have become more accepting of tattooing , piercings etc. and often would give no more than a glance.

B.A._Baracus

Who would hire someone who doubles as papa shango :pac:

Shenshen

Maybe as a greengrocer, but only if they knew where to put the apostrophe.

Your Face

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Who would hire someone who doubles as papa shango :pac:

Or the Godfather

B.A._Baracus

Your Face wrote: »

Or the Godfather

You should have said vince mcmahon :pac:
I was setting someone up for that zinger.

enricoh

Was in post office earlier today and a lad aged about 55 i reckon was getting his dole in front of me with a gape of face tats.
I was thinking he looked virtually unemployable except for a building site, but he didn't have the physique of a lad that would much labouring!

riclad

Wear a polo neck ,no one knows u have a neck tatto.
The only people i see with face tattoos, are russian gangster,s ,people on tv, people who work in tatoo parlours .
rugby players , or people from new zealand.
I just do,t think you,ll get in a bank or as a receptionist ,in a hotel,
if you have face tattoo,s .

Butterbeans

riclad wrote: »

Wear a polo neck ,no one knows u have a neck tatto.
.

Yeah but then you're wearing a polo-neck

Agent Coulson

Your Face wrote: »

Only Pacific Islanders can pull that look off.

Or Mike Tyson :pac:

The Raptor

If you were dying and had to see a doctor, would you refuse treatment because they had visible tattoos?

Fr_Dougal

Little known fact; Steve Jobs had neck tattoos, tons of them.

maxwell smart

The Raptor wrote: »

If you were dying and had to see a doctor, would you refuse treatment because they had visible tattoos?

Not sure I follow that. Do you mean like Jehovah Witness's refuse a blood donation??

PowerToWait

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Little known fact; Steve Jobs had neck tattoos, tons of them.

He was a bit of a wanker in fairness.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Specialun wrote: »

Have you have these tattoos.

Does anyone know what the OP is attempting to convey with this jumble?

JupiterKid

Personally a big no. But if people want to get them, well It's a free country. I heard that the UK police are thinking about allowing applicants with neck and arm tatoos - I'd be against it for the police forces. Can't people have a tatoo in a discreet place?

Atlantic Dawn

Fine if working in the tattoo or bouncer business, career suicide otherwise.

Pawwed Rig

Specialun wrote: »

I know its illegal to discriminatate but it would be impossible to prove.

It isn't actually illegal.
I would not hire anyone with visible tattoo's. Nothing against them particularly but in client facing roles it is unprofessional imo.

The Raptor

maxwell smart wrote: »

Not sure I follow that. Do you mean like Jehovah Witness's refuse a blood donation??

No.

A doctor is in a customer facing role. The OP said they wouldn't hire them if they have tattoos like it makes them useless or something.

I think there is a perception of people with tattoos like another post said they were unemployable by guessing he was collecting his dole and they belonged on a building site.

So if you were dying, would you think anything less of a doctor who has tattoos?

Arghus

Getting a tattoo on your face marks you out as a complete ejit or nutter in my book. It's your face! You only get one and you use it to greet the world!

Arghus

The Raptor wrote: »

So if you were dying, would you think anything less of a doctor who has tattoos?

Bit of a silly example. If you are dying you'd probably take whoever you could get, even if they have a plastic stethoscope and have misspelt their own name on their name badge.

Shint0

I think people who have full face tattoos are probably not going to opt for mainstream or conventional job roles anyway. Personally, I don't like tattoos of any description. Never had one and never will.

andekwarhola

Anytime I've considered getting a visible tattoo, I just think of myself as a pensioner and it usually has a self-correcting effect.

gramar

Your Face wrote: »

Only Pacific Islanders can pull that look off.

Or Sinead O'Connor. She has that lovely hairy chest one aswell. Looks great with a low cut top.

McDermotX

Shint0 wrote: »

I think people who have full face tattoos are probably not going to opt for mainstream or conventional job roles anyway. Personally, I don't like tattoos of any description. Never had one and never will.

Agreed......that Chakotay fella got a plum job on a starship. Just under the boss as well if I recall.

Just goes to show there's opportunities out there - not just in tattoo parlours, but also on spaceships and s***e TV shows.

El Tarangu

The Raptor wrote: »

No.


So if you were dying, would you think anything less of a doctor who has tattoos?

No - but I have yet to encounter any doctor with visible tattoos.

CalamariFritti

I'm sure I'm not doing justice to some people who have them, but most neck/face tattoos look rough as hell. I've seen some that are a bit neater or even a little stylish but for example a big f*** off dragon's head on the side of your neck says I stab people for a living. Or at least I've been a total muppet at some point in my life. I know thats not necessarily true, but thats the message most people would see. And considering that you restrict yourself almost immediately to certain types of careers like bouncer, footballer, criminal - and there aren't so many Firminhos around - the message wouldn't be too far off either.

conorhal

The Raptor wrote: »

No.

A doctor is in a customer facing role. The OP said they wouldn't hire them if they have tattoos like it makes them useless or something.

I think there is a perception of people with tattoos like another post said they were unemployable by guessing he was collecting his dole and they belonged on a building site.

So if you were dying, would you think anything less of a doctor who has tattoos?

Personally I'd have a preference for a doctor capable of good judgement, which is kind of important when a person is making life and death decisions on a minute by minute basis. Somebody with a face full of tats in my opinion, is not sombody that thinks things through very carefully or displays a capacity for good judgement. Have you ever seen a doctor with a face full of tats?

bigpink

Irish lads are think there ultra hipster or chav premier league soccer players seem to have them

Teyla Emmagan

There are several grounds on which it is illegal to discriminate (age, gender, religion etc). But having tattoos is not one of them.

I think if you're stupid enough to get your face tattooed then you probably deserve the discrimination. Neck tattoos aren't much better.

Son Of A Vidic

PowerToWait wrote: »

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Little known fact; Steve Jobs had neck tattoos, tons of them.

He was a bit of a wanker in fairness.

A bit?

ElectroTechno

It affects.

I worked for a company that would turn you away on first sight for visible tattoo's.

Not mention, they looks pretty foolish on most people.
If you're not a bad ass already, tattoo's don't make you one.
They merely enhance the effect if you are already a proprietor of bad ass'ery.

ElectroTechno

That being said, I wanted to get UV tattoo on my forehead.

The artist wouldn't do it.

Mental Mickey

There's a construction worker working across the road from my place of work, and he has a hideous looking tattoo going from above his eyebrow down to his neck. F@&king hideous looking

livedadream

Specialun wrote: »

Im not for or against tattoo's but i do wonder if these tattoo's affect the persons career opportunities. If i was hiring for a job which is customer facing i dont know if i would hire somebody with v visable tattoo's. I know its illegal to discriminatate but it would be impossible to prove

Have you have these tattoos. Do you think they affect career prospects or is the world more accepting now.

its illegal to discriminate on certain grounds, tattoos arnt one of them

i think the world is more accepting now but still a face tattoo is making a pretty bold statement.

i have four tattoos none are visable at work. i dont have to try to keep them covered their just hidden..

harr

Speaking of Mike Tysons tattoo...I know a lad who has been on dole since he left school nearly 20 years ago ...so the social welfare started making him go for job interviews...what does this chap do only go get a tattoo just like Tysons and a group of stars running down other side of face all the way down to his neck 😯
Now he was rough looking before the tattoos but holy **** he looks some muppet now... Absolute gob****e.. Needless to say he got no job offers..
He is very proud he got one over on the social..

elefant

Saw a lad in the airport recently with a solid black Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle face mask tattooed across his eyes, all the way around his shaved head with the ribbons tied on the back and all.

What was going on when he decided that was a good life-choice.

uch

Personally, I think Neck tattoos are poxy looking, but each to their own

dodderangler

As someone who has plenty of tattoos I just don't think getting them on the face is a good idea. Only profession it would be acceptable is being a tattooist but then again having a tattoo on your face shouldn't define who you are as a person. Being judged on tattoos is wrong. It's like judging everyone who is Muslim by the bad ones.

_Kaiser_

Don't like tattoos anyway and have seen some people absolutely destroy themselves with them, but getting your face/neck done is a new height of stupidity IMO

No matter how cool or expressing-your-right-to-do-whatever-you-want-to-your-body you think you're being, most people in the working world (especially client facing roles) will have an issue with it.
Alas there are many who think their own sense of righteousness trumps societal norms and expectations but these people usually get a rude awakening and then cry about discrimination etc.

It's life.. get over it and don't put yourself at an unnecessary disadvantage - especially if you have other depending on you like kids/family.

RWCNT

The Professor Green-style script neck tattoo is so overdone now that I do cringe when I see it due to the unoriginality.

I've never seen someone with a face tatt in person.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Would reputable tattoo artists actually do a face tattoo on a client?

uch

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Would reputable tattoo artists actually do a face tattoo on a client?

Not being smart here, but thats like asking would Arabs sell oil, it's all about money

Boom_Bap

uch wrote: »

Not being smart here, but thats like asking would Arabs sell oil, it's all about money

No it's not.

bodice ripper

uch wrote: »

Not being smart here, but thats like asking would Arabs sell oil, it's all about money

I wouldn't. No faces, no hands, no side/front of the neck*. I have passed up a great deal of money by being unwilling to tattoo the fingers of middle class women 18-30.


*I have been known to do it on friends, especially tattoo artist friends. Or on clients over 30 with heavy coverage. But still no faces.

wakka12

uch wrote: »

Not being smart here, but thats like asking would Arabs sell oil, it's all about money

Its really not, if a tattoo artist knows that face tattoos end up looking **** on everyone who gets them, no matter how much the client wants them then Im sure they wouldnt operate on them. Could risk getting bad reviews or bad press about their business because of the client and losing out in the long run.

Arghus

I suppose, as utterly stupid as it is, there is a certain faulty logic in a facial tattoo. Tattoos would have been for a long, long time a relatively rare thing to see on a person; to have one at all was a bit of statement. Nowadays though, they're so commonplace that their presence on someone's arm almost signifys nothing - at least at first glance.

So obviously some, deranged, individuals feel that the only way they can make that same impact of a statement, for these louder and vulgar times, that even a teeny-weeny swallow on the hand tat would have achieved back in the day, is to fully commit to plastering some permanent ink on their faces.

dodderangler

bodice ripper wrote: »

I wouldn't. No faces, no hands, no side/front of the neck*. I have passed up a great deal of money by being unwilling to tattoo the fingers of middle class women 18-30.


*I have been known to do it on friends, especially tattoo artist friends. Or on clients over 30 with heavy coverage. But still no faces.

I wish the tattooist who done my finger told me not to. I've had it done 4 times as it still won't hold the ink after 2 weeks starts to fade

darkpagandeath

Unless its a swastika or something like that Employers don't own your body.

riclad

Unless you are a rugby player from new zealand i think any face tattoo looks
awful, the serial killer ,gangster look , its not exactly friendly .