@cascade505 122171 wrote:

I once applied to a movie theater and was discriminated against.

you don’t have any tattoos!

Ive had a mixed background lot of jobs, Ive been a bar maid, waitress, clerk even been a wedding planner. And they have have their own degree of discrimination I think.

As far as tattoos go, mine are fairly new and my current job well it’s a call center and they don’t give a fuck. But the amount of jobs I have been declined and fired from due to my piercings is unbelievable. When I was 17 I had my labret and snake bites done, went for a job in a call center and I was interviewed by a fossil of a woman and she denied me a place in the call center, even though I scored the highest for the week on the aptitude tests and typing tests, on the fact that she could hear the metal clanging against my teeth, which isn’t even possible unless I make it hit against them.
at one time I have had 11 piercings in my face I was unemployed for about 2 years and I had no idea why, my cv was solid my work ethics good. Then I realized it was the piercings. My 1st job out of leaving school I had my lip pierced and was told to take it out everyday, even though there was a woman who had her nose pierced. I ask my boss why she was okay to keep her in and I not, and her reply was, because it’s more esthetically pleasing and not reminiscent of thugs. We did not get on well after this.

There was a big thing in the UK a few months back where one of our leading music stores HMV was changing it’s policies on tattoo’s and piercing was anyone on here caught up in that? I’d like to see how it’s effected folk. I worked there years ago, was great! That and Gamestation have been the number 1 place where people have really been able to be themselves when working that I have worked, save from the tattoo parlor obviously.

I hope things go well.

@MikeyC 128064 wrote:

I work at a restaurant/gas station and they state I can not have any visible tattoo. If any of you know it its called sheetz.

I go into Sheetz with visible tattoos and they sure take my money. Maybe not so much any more.

@buttwheat 128074 wrote:

What kind of restaurant do they have in a gas station?

In the blockbuster movie starring Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason, Smokey and the Bandit, they were called a “Choke and Puke”.

@MikeyC 128154 wrote:

I mean we will taken anyones money. But we can’t have any visible tats.

What I mean is that if they won’t let you show your tattoo I won’t give them my money. (FUCK THEM!)

I’ve only had issues with discrimination due to my tattoo’s here in the States, since I’ve been back home from Canada no one wants to hire me because I have wrist tattoo’s (which I can cover up with bracelets/watch) and I did at all of my interviews until they told me I couldn’t wear bracelets that were distracting.

Now luckily I got a job in Chile (moving there soon) as a Sign Language Interpreter for an American company and they told me they don’t care if I have visible tattoo’s as long as they are offensive or obscene. Most of the people who work for this company have tattoo’s as well and believe in freedom of expression.