Stretched earlobes ....horrible

ardinn wrote: »

I work in hotels and certainly would not employ anyone with that stupid Shiite on their face - ears, Arse! Tattoos are fine once covered - this stretching and nose bars and horns and all the rest would instantly tell me that the person is a knobend. I would even go as far to say if I was to go into a retailer which had someone with this dumb **** all over them working in it I probably wouldnt go back!

Even looking at that pic makes me want to smack her and her parents! Facking Dope!

I think the main reason why people have this sort of attitude is because they are scared of people who are vastly different than them and scared of things they are not familiar with.

So once you stop using them your ears need reconstructive surgery to go back to normal?
What the hell is wrong with people.

I try to not be judgemental but I struggle with stretched ear lobes. They're so gaggy to look at....

I wouldn't hire anyone with them. It displays an inherent lack of professionalism, akin to wearing a Slipknot t-shirt to a job interview when you should be wearing a suit or other formal attire.

By all means, it's your body, it's your choice. But it can and likely will have a negative impact depending on what job you want to go for, and that needs to be taken into consideration when making that choice. If someone does make that choice, I would be free to make the choice to not hire them.

I don't like the stretched earlobes look meself but I don't judge a person's character or abilities because of it, I got enough shít over my own hair so would be a bit hypocritical of me.

Piercings and tattoos have some chance of making it past HR especially these days and in IT or other fields where they value creatives but stretched ears/lip plates are on another level bordering on self harm, they imply the person might have mental problems, nobody wants them facing customers or meeting clients, you are literally destroying your lifetime prospects for a temporary fashion fad.

lanos wrote: »

people have all sorts of prejudices, myself included.
we have all heard the stories about job applicants being screened by the receptionist based on postal address.
eg. the boss tells the secretary:

go through these few hundred CVs and bin all the ones from blanchardstown, coolock, crumlin and ballymun

based on the negative reactions of a lot of posters in this thread,
it would seem that many people might take the same view of people with extreme piercings

See, the above is all grand IMO, I'm prejudiced against people who include a relevant third level qualification in their cover letter, but the cover letter itself is littered with careless spelling and grammar errors.

there may be positions that require that the applicant has sound judgement.
you would have to question the judgement of a person who embarks on a fashion statement that
later will require surgery to reverse should the applicant have a change of heart.

That the applicant is of sound judgement would be an essential requirement of any position surely? You might question their judgement based on any number of criteria, but those are your criteria, for a position that you have in mind. Other people have their own criteria upon which they may judge a potential candidate for a position.

so why is it so difficult for some people here to believe that HR personel are so different from people here.

Why is it actually so difficult for you to understand that employers don't all feel the same way you do, and may not use the same criteria that you do, to determine the suitability of a candidate for a position?

Believe me they will get no job in the public service with stretched lobes. and no job facing the public in the private sector.

No, I for one won't believe you, because your assertions do not align with my experience at all. That's why I'm so particularly adamant to correct your ill-informed assertions. You cannot guarantee that someone who has what I used call "rings" in their ears, or what I used call "stones" in their ears, chin, neck, wherever (I've seen all sorts of piercings and stretchings in all sorts of places), wouldn't get a job in the public or private sector facing the public.

stretched ear applicants might get a job in IT, communicating with clients by phone or email but they will NEVER get to travel to
conferences or consulting gigs where they meet important clients and will be stuck on 20 odd thousand a year for ever.

I can't tell if you're just actually trolling for a reaction, or if you're genuinely serious here, but I do hope that another poster comes along and is able to tell you just how wrong you are. "IT" is a huge, huge variety of careers, and you're having a laugh if you think some of those people working in IT aren't working in top positions in many areas, many of them entrepreneurs and CEOs of their own companies.

If I held some of your prejudices, I'd probably never have met some of the most incredible minds in the IT industry that I've had the absolute pleasure to work with over the last 20 years.

You can have your personal distaste for stretchings, piercings, tattoos, whatever (probably clear to you by now that I fcuking love 'em ), but that's all it is - your personal distaste, your prejudices, but, you can only speak for yourself, because you sure as hell don't speak, and can't speak, for every other employer out there, and certainly not those who don't share your prejudices.

See a lot of it in hipster coffee shops and burrito joints where they are trying to convey a certain vibe and seem to deliberately hire staff with body mods and tattoos.

wyndham wrote: »

See a lot of it in hipster coffee shops and burrito joints where they are trying to convey a certain vibe and seem to deliberately hire staff with body mods and tattoos.

Yes I've seen that too. But working in a coffee shop is probably the most they can hope for. But I'm not sure they're the type of people who reach for the stars, as unfortunately you do have to be a conformist to get to a high level position.

lanos wrote: »

I'm my IT career, I have attended dozens of conferences
many attended by engineers middle managers, upper managers etc
and how many have visible tattoos, face piercings or lobe stretching
Zero
These people are smartly dressed and successful.
a few bearded lefties dressed casually i'll admit, but no weird stuff on them.
I attended the HEAnet conference in Cork last week and how many stretched lobes did I see ?
Zero

Hey I never knew the smartly dressed guy I worked with every day for 10 years had a prince albert, until one day I did... :pac:

Ahh hell I could give you dozens of examples, but why would I bother, you're clearly under the impression that people who have tunnels don't work at all, or that somehow having tunnels would deter all employers, and you still hold to that, in spite of a number of posters here saying that they have tunnels and they're employed, or that their piercings have never been a deterrent to their employment prospects, careers that they wanted to get into!

I don't know what area of IT you work in but we're definitely not moving in the same circles
Thank god.

Ahh I wouldn't say that now at all, as long as you knew your stuff in your particular field of IT, and if I needed your particular skillset, I'd be willing to talk business, because that's all I'd be interested in, rather than your take on piercings and tattoos. Your lack of piercings and tattoos wouldn't immediately hinder your business opportunities.

I have no more to say on the matter
Mods, may I suggest that the thread be locked.
I didn't realise it would be such an emotive issue.

That's about the first time in the thread you've spoken for yourself, because it doesn't appear to be an emotive issue for anyone else who has tried to inform you with the facts. When piercings, stretchings and tattoos are done well, and they're done right with all due regard to health, safety and proper maintenance, they offer no hindrance to a person's prospects in life, and it's utterly misleading and incorrect to suggest otherwise.

Whatsisname wrote: »

One of the most ridiculous sentences I've ever read.

The majority of people with ears like that have severe self esteem issues.