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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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Discrimination based on looks is fucking stupid.
People should be able to look the way they want and not be disqualified from getting jobs.
"You can learn a lot about people by how extensively they want to mutilate themselves."
So by this logic every person who has had body modification done is exactly the same. |
It's not based on looks, it's based on what those looks tell me about the person. Someone who thinks it's a good idea to intentionally cut their ear in half, then stitch it up in such a way so as to create a point so they can look like an elf, is a screwed up person. It's just a fact.
I know enough about human psychology to know I don't want anything to do with people who intentionally mutilate themselves in a conspicuous area that is almost impossible to cover up, especially if I'm running a business. It's just not something rational people do. To me, it's the same nuttiness as getting a Pikachu tattooed on your cheek.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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| Alowishus wrote: |
| That happened to me. I was accepted for my current job and the first day they were like you need to cut your hair. Luckily they were happy enough for me to tie it back and don't have a problem with my beard. Though i don't get why women are allowed to have their hair not tied back yet mine does. Double standards really. |
I think it has to do more with the idea that customers might point it out more on a guy than on a girl. |
Employers shouldn't be concerned with catering to customers older than my parents, and my parents grew up in a time when long hair on guys was on the rise, and it is considered unusual by their generation. Multiple, visible tattoos on the other hand, have only been popular since the 90s.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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I know, but the standards for working at places have only become relaxed in the last 15 years or so.
So while it may be alright to be around people with long hair, having Mr. Greasy McRedneck who keeps pushing his hair back every 20 seconds touch your food is going to make you not want to go back there.
Moral is: If you want to be in a relaxed working environment where you are allowed to look however you want to look, stay in school and start a business for making modified headphones for triangular shaped ears, until then...shut the fuck up and give me my goddamn French fries.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
| I know enough about human psychology to know I don't want anything to do with people who intentionally mutilate themselves in a conspicuous area that is almost impossible to cover up, especially if I'm running a business. It's just not something rational people do. To me, it's the same nuttiness as getting a Pikachu tattooed on your cheek. |
I'm sure you've heard of this guy:
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 "Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!" |
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Alowishus
Joined: Aug 04 2009
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| Doddsino wrote: |
I know, but the standards for working at places have only become relaxed in the last 15 years or so.
So while it may be alright to be around people with long hair, having Mr. Greasy McRedneck who keeps pushing his hair back every 20 seconds touch your food is going to make you not want to go back there.
Moral is: If you want to be in a relaxed working environment where you are allowed to look however you want to look, stay in school and start a business for making modified headphones for triangular shaped ears, until then...shut the fuck up and give me my goddamn French fries. |
I work in a hardware store.. not a place where my hair is going to get in food or anything.. i sell drills and stuff.
However like i said i don't really have a problem with tying it back.
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Deadmau_5pra
Title: Amatuer film/podcaster
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
Posts: 1126
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| Doddsino wrote: |
I know, but the standards for working at places have only become relaxed in the last 15 years or so.
So while it may be alright to be around people with long hair, having Mr. Greasy McRedneck who keeps pushing his hair back every 20 seconds touch your food is going to make you not want to go back there.
Moral is: If you want to be in a relaxed working environment where you are allowed to look however you want to look, stay in school and start a business for making modified headphones for triangular shaped ears, until then...shut the fuck up and give me my goddamn French fries. |
Are these work-places, just so happened to be fast-food? If so, what's the big deal? Those are like the only places where I've seen people (that and Borders) who have the tats, guages, spiked tongues etc. It's not the end of the world if someone trims their ears and they happened to work at a food establishment. There's a time and place for everything. Simple as that. 
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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I have no ill will towards someone with long hair, I'm saying from a standpoint of other people, but yes I have walked out of places where someone is constantly touching their greasy face or long hair and they work in an environment where they handle food.
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AtmanRyu
Title: The Wandering Dragon
Joined: Jun 25 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
| I know enough about human psychology to know I don't want anything to do with people who intentionally mutilate themselves in a conspicuous area that is almost impossible to cover up, especially if I'm running a business. It's just not something rational people do. To me, it's the same nuttiness as getting a Pikachu tattooed on your cheek. |
I'm sure you've heard of this guy:
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Cowardly Lion!? What happened to you!? 
Oh wait, it's that guy...
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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That's fucking retarded. I can't stand shit like this,and it's not just people over 40 that are really put off by this, because I am too. Even at fast food places I'm disgusted by the people with all sorts of ridiculous body mods.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| So while it may be alright to be around people with long hair, having Mr. Greasy McRedneck who keeps pushing his hair back every 20 seconds touch your food is going to make you not want to go back there. |
Make him wear a hairnet.
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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I think you should have to look professional if you're working in a professional field. Why the fuck do you care if the kid serving you at McDonald's has a ring in his nose? Yeah, it's different if it actually poses a health threat, though, like in the situation above. But at every place I've worked at, or any of my long haired friends have worked at, we've had to wear hair nets or at the least tie our hair back.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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whatever. I'd fuck an elf chick if she was hot.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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I can understand having concerns with hiring someone with tattoos or a large amount of piercings, but should something as seemingly insignificant as pointed ears also be that big of a deal?
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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I don't see how the two are all that different, Cam-o. It's the desire to mutilate yourself so that you're separate from everyone else, which makes you less marketable. Pronounced individualism like that isn't a good thing in the business world.
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<Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| I have seen a growing number of tattooed IT guys. |
Tattooes are on the rise in general. It's depressing. The chances of me ever finding a nice, pretty, available girl who doesn't have any tattooes are very slim. And the chances that our kids wouldn't get any tattooes are almost 0%.
This is why I wish a neutron bomb holocaust would wipe out 95% of the world's human population. Most of the tattoo artists would die, and those who didn't would have to find more constructive things to do with their time. Eventually, the "art" would be forgotten and lost for centuries. |
Oddly enough, the last holocaust destroyed a large population of unwillingly tattooed people who don't approve of tattoos.
Jews as a general rule do not get tattoos because of the adage "you cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you have a tattoo". As it turns out, it isn't even true, Jewish scholars have proven time and time again, that this is just a way that the elder populations scared the younger away from inking their bodies.
I personally do not like tattoos and won't be getting one, but it seems that 40% of the US population in my age range disagrees.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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She's gonna feel silly when she's an old bag in a nursing home. I've got a tattoo but it's on my arm where it can be covered for job interviews, so no biggie.
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