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Even if this person would be hired to directly interact with customers, I would still have no problem with it. If a customer is going to have a problem with my employee solely on his or her ink without any regard to performance, then that's a customer I don't want or need.
My company only works on half a dozen jobs a year. They are what pay the bills. If I lose one of them, I'm going to lay off 15-20% of my workforce. I can't take the chance that a customer will find something offensive about one of my employees and not give my company work as a result. I'd rather keep people working than accommodate a potential hires "personal expression."
I can't like any of the choices.
If the tattoo guy was the most fabulous candidate for the job, I would hire him. If he wasn't, that would be a strike against him.
The title of the post confuses me, though. If it's a white collar job, then the shirt would have long sleeves to hide the tattoos, right?
I helped to hire a woman for a professional sales position selling to banks and credit unions. Part of the job required going into 10 bank branches a day to drop off marketing material and talking to the branch manager. This woman interviewed well, dressed professionally in pants suits, but showed up for her first day on the job wearing a skirt. Which then revealed the huge snake tattoo that went up her leg from her ankle to past her knee. There is no way I would have approved her for hire if I had seen the tattoo first.
I agree. If I see a woman with tattoos, right or wrong, I assume she was drunk when she got them, or otherwise has bad judgement.
My company only works on half a dozen jobs a year. They are what pay the bills. If I lose one of them, I'm going to lay off 15-20% of my workforce. I can't take the chance that a customer will find something offensive about one of my employees and not give my company work as a result. I'd rather keep people working than accommodate a potential hires "personal expression."
But I bet you are more than willing to have customers who do have tattoos?
There are people who get offended over everything ranging from the waiter is Russian, to the HVAC tech is a woman, to the sod layers are Mexican; it is like trying to go through mine field not to offend people.
The title of the post confuses me, though. If it's a white collar job, then the shirt would have long sleeves to hide the tattoos, right?
This gets me as well. If I'm hiring for an office environment I would be turned off by the fact that the applicant showed up in short sleeves regardless of what they exposed.
Aside from that, I'd be more likely to hire someone with ink if he or she was working in an environment where they wouldn't be interacting with customers. I make no personal judgements against what people choose to do with their bodies, but some people do; if I were to open a business my goal would be to build wealth for myself and provide a living for my employees. If having a guy covered with tats could potentially cost me even one customer I can't risk it.
Some people get it. When I worked at a big lumberyard I had an employee out in the yard who was a hard worker, wonderful with customers, and had flames up and down his arms. He was intelligent enough to understand that a lot of people who shop there wouldn't like his ink, so without even being asked he wore long sleeve shirts every day of the year to cover it up. Because I appreciated his professionalism I would usually try to find something for him to do on the hot days where he wouldn't have much customer contact and order him to shed the long sleeves.
But I bet you are more than willing to have customers who do have tattoos?
There are people who get offended over everything ranging from the waiter is Russian, to the HVAC tech is a woman, to the sod layers are Mexican; it is like trying to go through mine field not to offend people.
Some of my customers employees have tattoos, but the key decision makers, if they have them they keep them covered. They are paying me, so I don't care if they look like The Lizardman.
This gets me as well. If I'm hiring for an office environment I would be turned off by the fact that the applicant showed up in short sleeves regardless of what they exposed.
Aside from that, I'd be more likely to hire someone with ink if he or she was working in an environment where they wouldn't be interacting with customers. I make no personal judgements against what people choose to do with their bodies, but some people do; if I were to open a business my goal would be to build wealth for myself and provide a living for my employees. If having a guy covered with tats could potentially cost me even one customer I can't risk it.
Some people get it. When I worked at a big lumberyard I had an employee out in the yard who was a hard worker, wonderful with customers, and had flames up and down his arms. He was intelligent enough to understand that a lot of people who shop there wouldn't like his ink, so without even being asked he wore long sleeve shirts every day of the year to cover it up. Because I appreciated his professionalism I would usually try to find something for him to do on the hot days where he wouldn't have much customer contact and order him to shed the long sleeves.
A lot of my shop employees have tattoos, I don't care about that. Most of my customers never come to my shop. But my professional, customer facing people are a different story. I think they all have tattoos, I know some of them do, but I can't see them under their business attire, so I could care less.
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