A very common question is whether or not you should hide your body art during a job interview, many professionals say yes. Although some people are okay with body art some are not and you are more likely to get the job if they don’t see your tattoos or piercings. People want to hire people who can represent their companies in the best way possible and body art might conflict that, so to save your own butt, cover it up! I think it is okay to cover up your body art for an interview. You want people to focus on your qualities as a worker not your personal views that are shown as a tattoo or a lip piercing. Although I believe that it is your body and you should be able to with it as you please, I can also see where an employer comes from. If I walk into Wal-Mart and my cashier has her face covered in tattoos I might be spooked, which isn’t good for the company.
I don’t believe that this is a form of discrimination at all. Yes some people truly dislike tattoos and piercings but I don’t think asking you to cover them up for work is discrimination. I don’t believe that they truly care if you have them, its whether or not you can cover them up in a tasteful way for those people that come into the business that don’t like body art. For example if a little old granny walked into her favorite craft store and saw a person with green hair, rings coming out of their mouths, and a tattoo on their forehead, she will probably have a heart attack. I think business owners have the right to hire whoever they like and not who they dislike, as long as they dislike them for a valuable reason such as they don’t have the education, he seems unsanitary, or he will drive away customers.
If I owned a business I would hire the people appropriate for the job. If I am opening a skate shop in the mall my restrictions will be less than that if I were opening an accounting firm. I think standards about tattoos are much different now than it was 15 years ago. Back then if you had a tattoo you were a hippy or delinquent now and days you can’t even spot the “types” of people who have body art on them. In my opinion it is okay to deny someone a job if their body art is offensive and it is okay to ask them to cover it up.
Suing people in the work force for discrimination has its ups and down. For example Lily Ledbetter lost her right to sue because she had not made a complaint the first time her pay was deducted due to sex discrimination. Because of this she couldn’t do a damn thing about the fact that she was not getting equally treated. Along with Ms. Ledbetter is Mr. Humphries, a man who worked at a thriving Crackle Barrel between 1999 and 2001. When he got a new supervisor he complained about racist remarks and was fired soon after. When Humphries first brought forward his case against Crackle Barrel for the racism and some technical issues it was first dismissed. But he didn’t give up! He changed his strategy and went back to work. After a while of fighting the claim he finally got the verdict he wanted, Crackle Barrel owned him money for discriminating against him for being black and firing him for unfair reasons.
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