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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they weren’t inappropriate tattoos I don’t see what the big deal is. The way you described them, you just cut a candidate for choices that were made 20 years ago. People grow and change.[/quote]

The decision to get them may have been old news but the decision to display them in an interview was made today.

I've done hiring in a couple different offices where the person who has the final say on new hires would rule out anyone with visible piercings anywhere but ears and any visible tattoos. They didn't say it out loud but but no one with those attributes ever made it all the way through. [/quote]

That's not remotely plausible. Hiring is expensive. Why would they keep wasting the organization's time by passing them to the final stage? Unless this was one person imposing their own preferences, in which case, you noticed but no one else did? Across multiple offices? Where there was a single person who got hiring approval across all new hires?[/quote]

These were for pretty niche roles, rather specialized, and low turnover, so not a massive hiring operation. For the one I spent the most time at, for entry level position there might have been like 100 applicants, 10-20 phone screenings, a next round of phone it video interviews and then 4 finalists brought in for in-person interviews. Sometimes piercings or tattoos would escape notice until the on person

The head honcho wouldn't see them until near the end of the process. He wouldn't say it was appearance based. He'd find something else to disqualify them.

The irony was that his favorite pet employee had a rather large "tramp stamp"and a navel piercing, both of which I only saw when we ran into each other at a club. Neither was ever evident in the workplace. We eventually became friends and she was the one who pointed out the boss's prejudice.[/quote]

What are you getting from this?[/quote]

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