So, I went to Justice Court

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Dunno. I may be showing my age and middle-classness, but there's something about a neck tattoo that screams, "Please do not employ me." You know?

Side Note:

The classic counter comments about a book and its cover, that I have a neck tat and I am doing fine, and that its not like it was twenty years ago, should be skipped. Our Lemur has, I suspect, heard them all a time or 16 before. Moreover, in a majority of cases, he's quite right. Whether or not employers should consider such a thing, they do, and your chances of employment are less.

[Strike For The South]

Is this the thread where we bitch about poor people?

[Papewaio]

No it's a thread where we bitch about people making poor life choices.

[Strike For The South]

Is that you Pa?

[Papewaio]

I pay high Aussie taxes, mortgage for over priced Sydney property and am a Westie.

So yes I have an opinion about people who have no barriers to getting a job other than their life choices.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Always bear this in mind if you want to get a tattoo:

[Kadagar_AV]

I think we might have a winner...

[Lemur]

your chances of employment are less.

To get semi-serious for a second: What's the single most important thing you look for when you're hiring somebody for a position? Any position?

I'd say good judgment, or "common sense," or whatever you want to call it. IMHO, this is more important than degrees, accreditations, work experience, or even basic competence. (Although these things may indicate good judgment.)

What tells the forklift operator not to park where he's blocking the truck bay? Good judgment. What tells your secretary/attendant not to get weird or cute when answering the phone? Good judgment. I don't care how low somebody is in the corporate structure, they are making decisions all day long, and the quality of their thinking/judgment/common sense will be reflected in the results.

I'd rather take someone with low experience/skills and train 'em up if they can demonstrate good judgment, rather than deal with someone who's highly qualified but full of unnecessary drama.

And what does a neck tattoo indicate? A lack of good judgment, at least for anyone trying to get along with the basic norms of business life.

So ... yeah. I'm not being flip: A neck tattoo says "I don't want to be employed."

P.S.: I have worked in organizations where management tried to compensate for bad judgement by making policies for absolutely everything. I have never seen this succeed in a real-life setting. All this sort of managing does is make your competent people mad, while having low-to-no effect on idiots. You can't train stupid, and you can't make policies that cover every possible way somebody might screw up. Better to just look for people with a certain level of common sense, and be willing to fire the idiots. There's no other way that works.

[Strike For The South]

People who get neck tattoos are generally a bit déclassé.

Tattoos are trashy and you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery

[Lemur]

I got six tattoos, including some on my forearms and one on my leg.

Fair enough, but speaking as a stuffed shirt who hires and fires: I don't give a damn about forearms and legs. Perfectly rational, sane, common-sense-endowed people get ink there.

It's face and neck tattoos that set me back, and make me go, "Huh. Maybe you don't make great decisions."

[Husar]

Tattoos ruin a perfect skin, they make you unclean and unworthy. You have been gifted a working body with a delicate ecosystem and then you burn parts of it for shallow optical effects. As a purist I can only oppose this, people also don't buy apples and bananas with tainted skin, why should humans be any different from apples?

TL;DR: I'm a tolerant person but I am not fond of tattoos, I like my humans bio-natural.

[Montmorency]

Does that mean Germany will send people with acne to the camps now?

[Lemur]

Does that mean Germany will send people with acne to the camps now?

Yes. Acne Camp.

Or maybe Camp Wonder.

[Husar]

Does that mean Germany will send people with acne to the camps now?

Acne is not something people do to their body voluntarily, it is caused by rogue bacteria.

[Rhyfelwyr]

If you are like me, you get tattooed compulsively knowing that you will regret it when you are older and more settled.

It's concealed by clothing, but I'm gonna have some explaining to do to future Mrs. Rhyfelwyr, haha.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

People who get neck tattoos are generally a bit report buttonable.

Tattoos are trashy and you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery

I'm far from being the most "politically correct" of persons, Strike, but the last word of the first sentence you posted here is inappropriate and inherently misogynistic. Nor was it even necessary, as "trashy" "déclassé" or "nekulturney" could have conveyed the essence of your comment just as well.

[Strike For The South]

I'll change it. I don't think it's misogynistic though

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I'll change it. I don't think it's misogynistic though

I certainly do not believe that you intended it to be so -- nothing I have seen from you over the years would lead me to believe that you have any sense of hatred for women. Given your stated location, it was no wonder you chose the French option from those I suggested.

[Strike For The South]

I certainly do not believe that you intended it to be so -- nothing I have seen from you over the years would lead me to believe that you have any sense of hatred for women. Given your stated location, it was no wonder you chose the French option from those I suggested.

I can't be trashy, I can't be classy.....I love it when you play hard to get.