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6 Responses to “Tattoos: Grounds for discrimination?”

1. By dick on Jun 25, 2007 7:15 pm | Reply

   I can’t say yes or no. It depends on the work he would be doing.
   If he’s a heavy equipment operator, maybe yes. If he’s woriking in my store where my customers see him, no way.
   A business has to appeal to the customer. If a worker offends a customer, good by customer. People have to take responsibility for their actions and how they appear to the public..
   Dick

2. By zoomie72 on Jun 26, 2007 11:56 am | Reply

   I can say “yes” or “no”..Every day of our lives we make choices that affect our current and future potential: hiring, education, spouse. If I decide to go to college instead of a trade school, I expect certain consequences. And vice versa: if I go to trade school instead of college, I realize that I am forgoing future opportunities. Every tattoo, while a meaningful inscription to him, was a negative to many future empployers. It is a case, again, of people ex post facto, regretting decisions along the way and wanting to “change the rules” to suit themselves. What about the employer’s right to have a work force he trusts and respects,and to convey an image he is prouod of through his work force? Or do employers no longer have rights either? Only “aggrieved” non-employees??

3. By luis98sm on Jun 26, 2007 1:49 pm | Reply

   I had a selling business many years ago, the only way I would hire this man is to handle the stock away from customers eyes. It is no fault of his but when customers come into a place to do business they want to do so in a relaxed manner. It is up to the business owner as to what face HE will have present to his customers. As an owner I would have this man up front greeting the customers. Why would any one make/pass any law forcing an owner to hire and pay this young man? NO ONE forced him to get tatooed ! He made those decisions and now must live with them !

4. By psutton on Jun 27, 2007 12:37 pm | Reply

   Lighten up on the guy, at least he isnt beggin for welfare or an illegal alien, he just wants a job, and you are right Zoomie, our decisions do come with rewards or consequences. We have all made some bad decisions. If he had a shirt and tie on, he might be a hell of a guy? there is something in this book that i read, it is called the HOLY BIBLE and it says something like ” judge not, yest you be judged”…

5. By zoomie72 on Jun 27, 2007 10:24 pm | Reply

   no one is judging anyone, psutton; besides, I think that if you put that old hestnut that everyone trots out of the Bible into context, the sense of the words is that don’t condemn anyone to Hell [non-salvation], lest you be similarly condemned; the Bible in fact encourages us [some would say requires us] to admonish our brethren when they do wrongly; but beyond that- there was no condemnation agains the young man with the tattoos, just the statement that having decided to undertake a behavior that many people find offensive or less than entrancing, he should not feel entitled to enact a law requiring everyone else to accept and tolerate his choices; he MIGHT be a hell of a guy with a short and tie on, so if he IS, and he wants a “suit and tie” job, wear one to the interview instead of [apparnetly] exposing the tattoos and asking for prejudice; of course, it seems that the extent of his art coverage prevents him from covering them all with reasonable clothing; as I said, each decision you make has a concequence, and each tatto you get has an outcome; think ahead, and don’t legislate ex post facto to make a mistake all right

6. By hwojo on Jun 28, 2007 11:25 am | Reply

   Perhaps he should learn Spanish, go to Mexico, sneek back across the border and pass himself off as another illigal. All the traitorous scumbag Ammerican business owners would be falling all over each other to defend their right to hire him.

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