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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
People have certain expectations for police officers. One of those expectations is that they have good judgment. Bad tattoos = Bad judgment.
The tattoo in question happens to be a reference to a couple of characters in a movie. The characters are (apparently) vigilante killers and they have similar tattoos to the tattoo in the above picture. Maybe not the best thing.
But whatever, I don't care about this tattoo, and it wouldn't bother me if I was dealing with the guy. Some people would be bothered though.
That being said... in the bigger picture -- I don't care if the tattoos are inoffensive or not, if I'm hiring a dog walker or housepainter and one guy has a tattoo on his neck and one guy doesn't, the guy without the tattoo gets the job, all things being equal.
If I'm hiring an accountant, a schoolteacher or a retail clerk, tattoo-neck-guy doesn't get considered even if he's overqualified.
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Yeah like I posted I can't see the picture.
A neck tattoo is one thing, clearly many in society are not open minded enough to deal with that, I get it, that's a poor decision on that person's part. Of course all the former inmates with neck tattoos aren't helping that group of people either! lol...
I would have some reservations when you get into neck tattoos as well I think, but anywhere else (other than face) and I have zero problem. Even with the neck, if the person is clearly qualified, I may just scrutinize the background check a little more closely, but of course that depends on the tattoo and the job....
I guess I can see the point, when you see real bad tattoo work, you think homemade, prison, etc. Thats going to make a bad first impression of course.
I have close to 100 hours of tattoo time at this point. I have a university degree, (double major), I have a professional job, and I'm working on a program from UBC currently as well. I keep my stuff hidden at work, but I personally think thats crap.
My work is VERY well done by one of the best in Canada (at least according to an earlier post
), so I guess I'm lucky there.
Of course, I've gotten into these threads before, and we all have our opinions.. I"m sure I've posted this post several times at this point!