“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
If you are making decisions to hire someone based solely on their tattoos, it sounds like:
Folks have tattoos. Stop clutching your pearls with the holier-than-thou attitude. Are there other looks-based judgements that you choose to leverage in this non-existent hiring situation?
Employers aren’t looking for the best possible candidate for a job. They’re looking for an easy to find candidate who is good enough and doesn’t have major issues working long term.
Nowadays, employers get far more applications than they can reasonably deal with, thanks to AI. They have to find some way to narrow it down.
I remember hearing about a hiring manager who threw out every resume of candidates who mentioned having been a lifeguard. Not for every position, but just for one day of sifting through resumes. There were hundreds of applicants for the one job and almost everyone’s resume was enough to qualify them, and he didn’t have the time to interview everyone, so he just used weird random methods to narrow it down.
If I would have to hire someone for a role in a professional setting with direct customer contact, anyone with visible tattoos would be off the list immediately.
Sounds like bigoted logic to me. If a customer doesn’t like that employees have tattoos then they are a customer I’m happy to lose.
No, that is business. People don’t want to lose customers over that if it can easily be avoided by hiring someone who doesn’t look like an accident in a paint factory.
Yes yes, we all know that business puts profits over people.
Fuck business and fuck anyone who argues for acting in its favor.
As much as I don’t like capitalism, it’s not the job of businesses to coddle people who made bad life choices.
Fuck that bullshit excuse.
Why is it “a bad life decision” if not because jobs discriminate about a little body art? Having visible tattoos hurts no one. Why do we have to cater to the closed-minded bigots by having society structured to discriminate against people that they don’t want to look at? It’s entirely because of capitalism that it’s a company’s “job” to care more about their profits than the people that make those profits. Any excuse to socially justify that is bullshit.
A lot of the reasons why tattoos are a bad life decision are listed in this thread. That’s the point. Everyone wants to do what he wants, but nobody wants to bear the consequences. I hate capitalism, but it is not capitalisms fault that someone got a tattoo.
No one ever said it’s capitalism’s fault they got a tattoo. It is however capitalism’s fault that someone getting a tattoo is considered a “bad idea” as explained above.
There are no legitimate reasons why tattoos should be considered a bad idea. None. Absolutely zero.
I judge people for bad formatting in their resume, like bulleting a numbered list
(If you use the numbers just like you did, but without the asterisks, it will look better)
I must agree, but the formatting on my app doesnt have a numbering option. It only has the bullets.
I agree with your judgement.
I fully agree with the above, which is why it is far from the only data I use.
I happen to find tattoos to be attractive in many cases. I suggest that it is you who needs to drop the holier-than-though attitude.
Obviously yes, like any human I treat people different based on how they look. If a potential employee came into an interview in dirty and tattered clothes that would affect me more negatively than a well dressed person.
All of this would obviously depend on what kind of work the interview was about, and their appearance would not be the sole disquallifier.