Please don't misunderstand my faux incredulity.

I'm fine with any person's appearance. I have chosen many unconventional appearances; Mohawks, dreadlocks, long skirts with combat boots. That set up combined with a suit jacket and tie was a real hit in high school. I prefer transitory expressions, so I have avoided tats and piercings myself.

For me, Smells are a far more difficult sense to overcome predisposed uncomfort. I might leave a restaurant if the server smelled bad, or had on too much perfume or cologne. Don't eat out much, so I have never run into it.

Huh?

Yes, absolutely.

And that's why Alex is a crazy person.

This is very well put and makes me rethink my slight aversion to this stuff.

Not sure what you mean by discrimination. Unless it's a hate/racist tattoo, I don't care what my waiter has.

I'm an employer though. A lot of body art that can't be covered could definitely affect a salesperson who goes into customer's homes. (This hasn't actually come up. I've never had a heavily tattooed or pierced person want to do sales.) Also, a lot of people in construction have gang or gang-like tattoos. That's not usually a deal breaker, but I'll ask about it.

Large obvious gang tattoos on the face or neck (eg. a big 13) might be too much for residential construction. Might be ok on commercial jobs though.

So, it depends.

The entertaining bit is that the back of house people that you don't see are the ones actually coming into contact with the food. It isn't like the wait staff is going to floss their ear gauges with your pasta at your table.

Roofers FTW. Don't trust them at all to do a good job unless they have lots of tattoos.

You have the direction of causality wrong.

Cultural variation. More recent immigrants from Mexico doing roofing don't usually have tattoos.

Motorcycle mechanic in LA is almost guaranteed to be tattooed.

And the back of house people are waaaay more likely to have full sleeve tats, gauge piercings, etc.

Yes.

Non-hispanic white roofers should be considered to be an ethnic group.

Yes. Unless they say "que?" or are teenagers, it is almost a job requirement.

My CSB for the day:

Hired an iron worker in 2005 in Austin. Good worker, friendlier than the average, basically a pretty decent guy. He took off his shirt one day and he had a full Bandidos back tat. Straight up 1%er, no bull****.

A few months later, some idiot who was trying to start a Hells Angels chapter in town got taken out with a single sniper shot to the head from a distant highway overpass. All fingers pointed to the Bandidios.

The next week, my worker stopped showing up to work. His girlfriend picked up his last check, and I never heard from him again.

The murder is still unsolved.

That post made the thread right there, awesome.

I feel the same way and always think to myself "wtf is wrong with that person"

Lol!!!!! and they will never have a job with a fortune 500 company unless it's a low level position like janitor or mail room or something. Have fun being confident with that.

Class warfare, or how a 'class' is told to conform to a certain 'look' or be poor. Please don't offend our delicate sensibility acquired from smelling money.

This is a message from people who tie knots around their own necks. I always liked clip-ons, and of course, the ubiquitous t-shirt tux.

Do you think they're going to put tattoos on your food? Gauges inside your sushi?

Too soon Payne Stewart has only been gone 15 years.

Yeah I do think that

No it's more that I feel they have bad judgement and possibly bad hygiene ( people with stretched our earlobes lol ) so were they say to drop my steak on the floor I'd expect they would just stick it back on the plate.

Not that other waiters wouldn't do something like that either but at least the ones that don't have a forehead tattoo aren't screaming out " I need attention any way I can get it "

What's unconventional about a tattoo?

i would discriminate (in terms of hiring). people with neck/face tattoos have questionable decision making skills at best. the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. of course they could turn out to be great workers, but you have to play the odds when hiring.

Exactly. There is great risk of them getting more tattoos.

depends on whether they make them look stupid or not.

first dude looks ****ing stupid.

plus gauging your earlobes is really ****ing disgusting.

re the grotesque waiters, some things about the eating environment are not exactly rational. Like who wants to hear people talking about gross stuff at the dinner table. It doesn't literally affect the taste of the food but it can still matter to some people.

Tattoos in general, no. Face Tattoos, yes.

Piercings, no. That stuff that makes your earlobes bigger, yes.

Why? Not sure.

In the OP, the dude just looks kinda stupid with that look. In the 2nd picture, girl just has a bad tattoo.