Press-Enterprise (CA): Working on tattoos

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Working on tattoos

Some employers loosen up, will hire the 'inked'

Saturday, November 12, 2005

By CARLA WHEELER / The Press-Enterprise

Up to 20 million people sport at least one tattoo and about 36 percent of 25- to 29-year-olds report getting inked, say findings by the Mayo Clinic and a Harris poll.

While America's bodies are becoming an ink pad, many parts of the American workforce must still cover up. Tattoos and piercings clash with the image some companies want to project, Inland experts said.

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This fact of professional life is causing job counselors, employers and older people with tattoos to warn young people of the pitfalls of getting tattoos on their faces, necks, hands and feet. "In our workshops, our message is that tattoos and piercings really aren't accepted by corporate America," said Deborah McCoy, director of the Career Counseling Center at UC Riverside. "There are more students getting tattoos, so it's one of a laundry list of cautions we give (them)."

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Change is in the air at some companies. With many young, creative job applicants coming in with visible tattoos, firms such as Ford Motor Co. and Yahoo have seen the writing on the wall and adopted tattoo-friendly policies.

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Online at: http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_tattoo1112.12ef94c0.html

[msongs]

1. the DALLAS press enterprise of riverside makes it to DU nt

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3. Straight from BELO

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[undergroundpanther]

2. If you can do the job

The employer should shut the fuck up.Why do people tolerate a boss of all people telling them how to live,what to wear,.,who to be in their PRIVATE LIves..With their own BODIES? If you accept a boss telling you you can't get inked and you must pee in a cup and be drug free or get fired, quit smoking lose weight or get fired how FREE are you really?
Time to tell the boss he is not your lord and master. Remember the idea called national strike? If all people who work can get their shit together and stop working and the corporate thugs will crawl to you begging for another chance and lay offers like health care and better wages more vacation and freedom,of a life at your feet.