#Tattoo Perception - What is unprofessional about #tattoos? #The_Tattoo_Project
Having a tattoo is like “I am sure of everything I am”. From prince to princesses to priests & prisoners, tattoos have dwell on all. In fact it arguably is one of the oldest forms of art in documented history. Remnants of tattoo into an art form have evolved over the sweep of civilizations dating back to early tribal aborigines when scars in humans epitomized The Chieftain cult.
How it all did began? Tattoos started with a scar...
Tattoos are distinguishing marks that are more than often related in terms of their acceptance or rejection of values in traditional Western or Japanese culture while modern conceptions are identical to traditional Tahitian tattoos because of their prominence in reflecting expressions of physical and social interactions within the cross sections of a society.
Elizabeth M Rapp in her Senior Thesis "Stigmatization or Decoration: Tattoo as Deviance, A Cross Cultural Study" brings to light the Iceman mummy discovery in 1991 concluding affirmations to the practice of tattooing in the “iceman” age and describing it as the art of placing ink under the skin to leave a permanent mark.
History is evident of a range of tools found by archaeologists that were used for tattooing, excavations of tattooed mummies from different regions of the world and tattoo like marks found on statues to confirm that tattoos dates back to varying time periods including the likes of ancient Greeks and Romans.
Tattoos started with a scar. The Chieftain cult!
According to an archaeological discovery in an ancient cave in Spain, history of tattoos can be traced back to over 40,000 years when people used bone needles to scrape colour patterns in the skin.
Centuries of evolutions later, today tattoo artists use small electric machines with sterilized needles to engrave tattoos and give you crafty body art forms for varying state of expressions.
What is unprofessional about tattoo? Tattoos in the workplace!
Having said all this, notion of the hour is about inhibition of a myth that the impression of Tattoos in the workplace can sometimes be attitude with non professionalism.
Google this phrase and the answer will surprise that there is a notion about tattoos being deemed as an unintended slur that may implicate your professional stride further implicating scenarios for job seekers having to hide tattoos from the neck up.
Your job is like the loaf of your life! Can you afford to harm that by sporting a tattoo?
Meaning of tattoos & their desired expressions or bold style statement may vary from person to person. Two people having similar tattoos may not necessarily intend the same meaning. For some it’s a memoir for someone significant in their life while some may intend tattoos as a reminder of a struggled past or where they came from, where they are and where they are heading! Many mark a tattoo as a sense of belief!
Socially visible tattoo marks often draws negative attention, stereotyped and can even extend invitation for discrimination. Society eyes them as unequal, delinquents, gang hood, and so on. In fact many MNCs & organizations may not hire in case you are sporting a visible tattoo mark in your body.
How does the physical act of tattooing reflect individual adaptation to cultural beauty standards?
People in cultures all around the world are “judging books by their covers,” and bodies, existing as they do in society, are one of the ways in which people classify those around them.
Regardless of its origin, the primary focus of modern tattoos is self-expression. Once seen as taboo in Western cultures, the stereotypes associated with tattoos are slowly being disbanded and now accepted. In the United States, Japan & Tahiti, Tattoos are said to be in a “renaissance period” and gaining wide spread popularity although at one point of history Western cultures deemed them as taboo.
If anything, tattoos are a modern adaptation of self-expression & the physical act of tattooing is a symbolism to freedom.
Searches related to tattoos in the workplace
Source: Extracted from Google Phrase Search "Tattoos in the Workplace"
So we have a survey where you are the actor.....
Stage 1: You are in a board of meeting, one of the directors actually and have ............walk in with tattoo ......visible body mark .......will it inhibit implication that may influence balance of order?
Stage 2: You are in a family function with your uncle, aunts including distant relatives .... you decide to call in few of your friends too .... most tatted men & women .... what are the inhibitions ....is it a social stigma?
Your Opinion Matters!
Tattoo issues for employers depend largely on what kind & where the tattoo is sported by employees and certainly the law tends to support employer dress code/appearance policies. Moreover employers branding image must be regulated with consistency by retaining flexibility in creating rules for their policies.
Consider it this way, a concierge of a four-star hotel with large tattoos of skulls & crossbones on the back of each hand will implicate scenarios that might concern the management compared to a dishwasher from the same hotel with the same tattoos due to lesser direct contact with the hotel’s customers.
A survey conducted by Pew Research Centre on the perception & implication of tattoos in the workplace offers the following interesting statistics:
- Nearly 40% of people who completed the survey between the ages of 18 and 29 have at least one tattoo;
- 12% have a visible tattoo that can be seen by their managers & colleagues during work hours;
- 76% respondents feel tattoos & particularly piercings can lessen the chances of being hired during an interview;
- 39% of those surveyed – believe employees with tattoos reflect poorly on their employers.
- 39% believe that employees with tattoos can poorly implicate the employers brand image.
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Walmart, doesn’t allow facial piercings but they do allow tattoos provided they are not offensive. In case the tattoo is offensive then they must cover them cover up properly during work hours.
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Book sellers Borders, view body art form including tattoos & piercings as something that makes employees interesting and is considered a positive.
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Senior executives and other employees Form Motor Company are allowed to sport a tattoo with the only exception of refraining from piercings as that could lead to factory settings endangerment and/or worker safety.
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California-based fish taco chain of restaurants allows employees to prance their tattoos in the restaurants as well as the corporate office.
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Title: Does a tattoo harm professional impressions about you? What is unprofessional about tattoos? #The_Tattoo_Project
Author: Pallab Kakoti // Bio
Published: 18 September 2014
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9yOne interpretation is that a tattoo is a permanent expression of a feeling of inadequacy on one or more levels of self-assessment. In that context it reflects negatively on the wearer/owner since is screams "I'm not enough - so look at this design I had inked into me!" I've had some tattooed people and tattoo 'artists' tell me they make a person fell more unique/special. I believe that is a fallacy and a amounts to a lie they tell themselves. Because your DNA is already unique and therefore so are "you". If you can't comprehend that, and then find ways to express yourself as yourself by yourself, you may feel you need a tattoo so it will make you seem "more unique" - which is impossible.