The casino near me makes their dealers cover any visible tattoos with bandages while dealing.

The worst thing I ever saw was a girl with a barbell in her tongue and a nose ring. She kept hooking the barbell into the nose ring and unhooking it over and over.

It wasn't at a restaurant, but it was in public. It made an audible click every time she did it. That's why I noticed it.

While they’re not something I’d personally get, when employees I’m shopping have tattoos and face piercings and dyed hair it sure makes the employee physical description field of my reports a lot more helpful to the client than another “female, 5 ft 5, 30s, medium black hair.”

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I totally disagree that tattoos are some kind of newer trend and that they're not prevalent in other countries. I know people in Great Britain, France, Australia, etc., who have tattoos. Many soldiers have come home from serving with tattoos--going back to at least WWII.

I'm 68 and will be getting a tattoo. It's going to be on my ankle, will be relatively small, will be done in a soft watercolor style, and will be a crescent moon and stars, a dream catcher, or a floral motif. Haven't met with the artist yet to discuss in detail. There's nothing offensive about it, imo. I don't go for large sleeve tattoos or full body art. But a tastefully done tattoo can be attractive. If some people think I don't have class because I'm getting a tattoo, so be it.My niece's daughter has a nose piercing, and she is an absolutely sweet, thoughtful, and intelligent young woman.

Class is more about what's inside a person than what's on the outside. I'd rather know an outside-the-mainstream person who is well-spoken, well-educated (and I don't mean with loads of degrees, but someone who is informed about the world), kind, thoughtful, etc., than someone who dresses and *looks* like the epitome of tradition, but who is unkind, judgemental, uninformed, and mannerless. That's not classy.

More to the point, our job as shoppers is not to judge a salesperson, server, cashier, etc., on whether or not they have a pierced nose or a tattoo. If a server's hair is falling down around their face, that's an issue. But if they have a wrist tattoo, it's not. I was doing a shop last week, and the salesperson had a nose piercing. None of the specific appearance questions addressed this, but there was a box for additional comment. I struggled with whether or not to mention it--but only as a means of identification. But since she was the only employee in the store at that time who matched the general description, I opted not to. If there'd been another salesperson with long blonde hair, no eyeglasses, and the same height, I'd have mentioned it for I.D. only purposes. If the employer being shopped doesn't care about piercings or tattoos, it's not our "job" to be either offended or impressed by them as concerns our shop. Whatever our personal feelings are don't matter.

Sorry for the rant, but, honestly, I find some of the comments here to be very judgemental. If people don't like piercings or tattoos, that's fine. But judging others as people based on that is weird, imo.



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If I see some with a nose ring, it conjures an image of a booger hanging out. It's not what I want to see at diner.

@AZwolfman: Haha, and just when I was smugly feeling non-judgmental, along comes you.

I'm not judging; I'm just stating what it reminds me of.

Just like I said about farmers using nose rings on their pigs. You can't help what it reminds you of. No disrespect is intended but you cannot control your thoughts.

As a mystery shopper, I don't remember reports ever referring to tats or piercings/gauges used as identifying characteristics of client employees.

As a consumer, my personal expectations (opinion, judgement, call it what you want) are situational. I would not expect the employee appearance standards used in fast food to be used in fine dining.

I would never expect agreement on what is good, tasteful, cool, extreme, etc.

I'm not keen on nose rings myself, but as I see more of them, I'm not as turned off as I once was. Having said that, I agree that one wouldn't expect the same body adornments to be worn by servers in a fast-food place vs. that in a fine-dining location. However, I've seen servers with tats in fine-dining restaurants.

I agree that there will never be consensus on what people think of these things, but there's a difference between having an opinion on what someone exhibits (piercings, tats, etc.) and judging someone for who they are as a person based on that. IOW, you might disapprove of someone's nose piercing, but to take your personal opinion of that attribute and extend it to *decide* that the person is a low-class, tasteless, or ignorant or stupid human being is a stretch too far.

When I get my tat, it's not going to dumb me down or change who I am.

Some of the nastiest people I know have no tats; some of the nicest people I know do have them.

I guess what makes me uncomfortable with the piercings is the fights I had with my teenage daughter when she wanted them; I told her once she moved out of my house, she could get all the piercings she wanted, but not under my roof.

She went ahead and got them (age 15). The infections were horrid, and now, at 36, she still carries the scars from the infections.

For me, SOME piercings have overtly sexual connotations. I think that's where my discomfort sort of starts pinging.

But that's just me.

@ceasesmith wrote:

I guess what makes me uncomfortable with the piercings is the fights I had with my teenage daughter when she wanted them; I told her once she moved out of my house, she could get all the piercings she wanted, but not under my roof.

She went ahead and got them (age 15). The infections were horrid, and now, at 36, she still carries the scars from the infections.

I get this. A few of my friends and I pierced each other's ears during a sleepover.--when we were 11! I'd wanted mine done, but my parents had refused. Needless to say, all the parents were angry. Mine were going to let me keep mine, as upset as they were. But the holes started getting infected, so I let them close up. About a year or so later, when I was 12, my mom let me get my piercings. By a doctor. Sadly, the guy didn't get them even on both sides, so I have crooked ear piercings! Pierced ears are a culturally acceptable and normal thing in my heritage; even very young girls get pierced ears. But my parents were adamant that I had to be of a certain age and show some responsibility.

As to tats, I honestly used to hate them. But as I got older and became more open to different things, I saw that some were really beautiful. I got a temporary one when we were on vacation a few years ago, and it looked so nice that I decided to get a permanent one (but all the good artists in my area are booked out for months). Even my husband, who doesn't like tattoos, thought the temp one looked great.

But I will say that the movie "Tattoo" creeped me out big time.

Poor piggy!

@Texans wrote:

I don’t know the answer but I think this jewelry is disgusting. Back years ago, nose rings were worn by pigs so that farmers could lead them around. They had poles with a hook on the end that fit into the nose ring. Every time I see someone wearing one, it reminds me of the pigs.

If you want to work in a rough hole on a trailer park get some tramp stamps is my advice.

Or Be a teacher.

@Book wrote:

If you want to work in a rough hole on a trailer park get some tramp stamps is my advice.

@BirdyC wrote:

I get this. A few of my friends and I pierced each other's ears during a sleepover.--when we were 11! I'd wanted mine done, but my parents had refused. Needless to say, all the parents were angry. Mine were going to let me keep mine, as upset as they were. But the holes started getting infected, so I let them close up. About a year or so later, when I was 12, my mom let me get my piercings. By a doctor. Sadly, the guy didn't get them even on both sides, so I have crooked ear piercings! Pierced ears are a culturally acceptable and normal thing in my heritage; even very young girls get pierced ears. But my parents were adamant that I had to be of a certain age and show some responsibility.

I had a similar ear-piercing experience when I was about 9. No infection, but my mom made me remove the "sleepers." (What a waste of pain.) At 14, I was allowed to get my ears pierced by a doctor, who, indeed, put the holes off center. Drs. don't know how to pierce ears; the people who do it 10 times a day do IMO.

I made sure to allow my daughter to get her ears pierced at the mall when I thought she was mature enough to make the decision (8 yrs. old). All went fine.

Funny aside: I asked the young woman to put the holes just inside of center in case my daughter wanted more ear piercings later, like I have. The woman did as asked, and my daughter, almost 30, still has only those two holes in her ears.

Full sleeves, to me, do a disservice to each piece of art. A viewer really can't appreciate one piece or another because everything's kind of jumbled into each other, unless it's one big piece.

My question is: How can these places.... ALLOW PEOPLE TO PLAY WITH THEIR HAIR while working??? Yes, I yelled! It drives me nuts!

An absolute no-no in food service and they do it anyway. But it's not just there. As I waited to see a banker she sat at her desk doing her hair and makeup. Whatever happened to going to the ladies room to "Powder your nose?" (Not in the 1980s sense.) A grocery clerk kept running her fingers through her long hair during my whole transaction. And touching my items. Then some have hairstyles that require them to constantly brush their hair out of their eyes. A male phone store employee stroked his luscious locks throughout our interaction. STOP! JUST STOP! Ewww.

Awhile ago I accepted I'm a dinosaur. So mullets, tattoos, nose rings, smug attitudes - those are not my thing at work. I interviewed at at age 14 to be a Sbarro Pizza busboy and my Father physically hit me because I didn't have a dress shirt and dress pants on before he drove me to the interview. Yeah, I got hit. The belt even made cameo appearances sometimes. Looking adults in the eye and shaking hands and conversing - was just the way it had to be. Same for kid sis. She's not a Fortune 500 attorney - and I'm 47 and retired. So missed out on "being who I wanna be' and organic food, and I was abused with high fructose corn syrup in my school's yummy lunch food. Conversely I don't remember being told about "emergency exits" and "drills" at school ro the movie theater. Fast forward to today. Times have changed. I accept that. I usually had 40-47 full time employees - now I have zero. The 'grey hair' that was my nucleus had put their kids thru college, paid for nice weddings and were retiring in their late 50s. I looked around - and felt that while Aidan and Cassidy and Logan and their new tattoo-nosering- I dont want a regular boss and 9-5 job stances were becoming reality - I opted out. But even likes of Disney are bending on things like tattoos.

The world changed. So merely shrunk mine. I have young kids though - so I can't altogether adopt the get-off-my-lawn attitude that suits me so well

As someone said - on shops - I would not make mention of tattoos and rings and piercings - unless asked to by the MSC or client. Someone told me once - if it's you against the world- bet on the world every time.

I listened. Quiet day today. $8.17 McD Breakfast coming up, some online Scrabble, make numnuts(my boy lol) prep for a science test and pop a DVD in. (Daddy don't do streaming

I am pretty much OK with tattoos on other people but I personally wouldn't deface my body. Yesterday an employee had a large Sigil of Baphomet tattooed on her chest worn with an open button down shirt. I admit, it kinda shook me.