Being Judged By Your Body Modifications?

okay so i have a question for all of the heavely tatooed and pierced out there...how many people who look like me have been discriminated against for your body art..i personally was fired from a job and they were forced to bring me back on the very rules that discrimination is all forms...not just color or religion or sexual preference...so who else out there has been falsely ridiculed for their body art and such?..oh yeah and did i mention i am the only member of their management now with tattooes and piercings and theres not a damn thing they can do about it? i got my merits on work alone and not on the way i look or how people percieve me to be som as i said anyone else have stories of judgement?

 

The only visable piercing or tattoo on me is my nose ring, and being that I tend to work agricultural/building trades oriented stuff I don't find it to be a problem at all with employers. I even work with the shirt off from time to time, leaving the tat on my back and nipple ring exposed, and that has always been cool with ppl too. I'll get ribbed for it now and then, but it's all in good fun right, no worries.

 

I'd look into the legalities of that, it sounds like discrimination to me, and there's no legal reason to have that sort of standard at work, particularly if you were already working there (and it wasn't just a case of them deciding to not hire you because of some piercings/tattooes). I'm 99% certain it's illegal to do here in Canada, based on prohibited grounds, but I'm not sure about teh US's legal codes on stuff like that

 

I dont know of any laws.
It really sucks because I had to quit my job that I had for 3 years just because all of a sudden they decide to change their dress code policy. and I even had one of those clear nose studs. They said not even that was allowed
I so silly... i mean they employed me with piercings I was even promoted and never had a problem...
I was going to write a letter to the person in carge of dress codes but I decided to forget about it... I wasn't going to waste my time on them...
it was the gap if you're wondering.
and it's really contradicting because at that time Lenny Kravitz was their top model. He's covered with tattoos and piercings... what example are they setting...
well...that was a long time ago ... just sharing my personal experience with descrimination.

 

Sorry, but firing someone for their piercings and tattoos isn't the same as firing them for their sex, religion, etc...
Sadly that's how it is.

 

Thats FUCKED up! Im glad I don't support the Gap.... I don't like alot of what I have read that goes on among the top dawgs there.

 

Some time ago, I sported a mohawk. I got so many dirty looks and rubberneckers it was ridiculous. No one gave me shit for it, but there was definitely a difference in the way people treated me.

Rolled right off my back, though, since I knew they were reacting to the hair.

 

during the hippie years we were persecuted too for the way we dressed, and the men really got abuse for having long hair, so many of the dudes couldn't get jobs cause of their long hair. it's the establishment and it always messes with anyone that doesn't look like the status quo. that's what's so cool about being your own person, who wants to look like everyone else?
angel

 

I used to be a fully decked out "fuckin' goth kid". People would stare at me. Probably because I looked like a thirteen year old retard. God, I'm glad I grew out of that. Now I see kids like that and make fun of them.

Oh, the circle of life.

 

fucking hell, you're gonna be like me in a few years..hahahaha poor you!

 

I get a lot of questions about my piercings at work and pretty much everywhere else. But I just shrug it off anf tell them what they want to know. some people are like 'how could you do that top you're beautiful face?' muwahahaha it's only beautiful because of the metal sticking out of it!

 

i am waiting for the day when tattoos and piercings ARE like sex,religion,etc. i am going to be so happy when society takes their head from their ass and sees its nothing to be afraid of and people like me who are heavily odified are not people who are going to run up and mug you or bite yer ear off yahno?...i dunno i think employers need to be a bit more lienient...especially since 90% of america has at least one tattoo and 70% have at least one peiercing other than their ears.

 

i have visable tats on my arm,neck,and hand.people really arnt botherd by it and my clients kinda like that i have the creativity to have these.I get shunded and lookde down on more for my hippy hair and berd and clothes than i do for my ink.but ya know who cares wat people think.
woodenfrog

 

wait no longer..

http://www.uscobm.com/

they are working on getting all the paper work together so that its a registered religion. the members will have immunity from employers. since its a religion, its just like an employee wearing a turban.

 

i think that everyone even barbie has been misconstrued at one time or another and though i feel that it is wrong i know that everyone has been guilty of it in one form or another whether it be outright discrimination or just mentally judging them

 

thats like firing some one for having boob implants

 

I'm not heavily tattooed or pierced....but I do get dirty looks for the piercings and tattoos that I do have. Mostly from the older crowd. I don't really worry about it, though. I say if someone wants to keep me from having a job I know I'm capable of doing....that is his/her loss. Being tattooed/peirced doesn't make me lazy or any less qualified than a bible-toting Christian.

 

I just made a new signature, not for this thread, but since I saw this I figured I might as well post and let it speak for itself.

 

yes it is. discrimination is looking down upon anyone who is the minority no matter what their difference is. everyone is the same. we are all people, and to think otherwise is close minded and unintelligent. management in many places doesn't see it this way, and it is sad. i've never gotten fired for my body modifications, but i was made to wear long sleves and take out my piercings during work. i was however denied jobs because of them. you can tell. but they say it's for other things which obviously wasn't true because i was the manager of a store before i moved and when i applied for a clerk position they company wouldn't hire me because of dress code. stupid companies. soon everyone with be pierced and tattooed and the old ways will die and we will control the world. =)

 

While I agree its not the same as their sex (as we can't help what sex we are born as...yet we can help if we have piercings or not), I think it is very similar to a religion. No one is making that person practice a religion. Doesn't make sense to me if a boss says take out your nose ring if you want to work here...yet allows someone to wear 'religious garb'.
Luckily, i've been lucky in the jobs i've had so far