Ok, I know I said today would be a BMEBoys day, but I can’t seem to find these two guys on IAM, I’m going to post them anyway as I’m sure someone will recognise them!
Second photo after the break..
“Poland is a crazy country!! People here don’t understand that if you have piercings or tattoos you’re a normal person. I am twenty years old and I cant find a job in my city because of how I look.”
I know how he feels in a way as I’ve lost a job due to my piercings (although they really were being unreasonable and I wasn’t willing to let them get away with such ignorance, but I’ll save that story for another day). Personally though I’d much rather sacrifice a job if it meant I could be myself and find employment in an atmosphere that made me happy. If an employer can’t look past physical appearance and are incapable of basing their decision on your skills, experience and personality, it’s likely they’re not worth working for anyway.
Just don’t wear a t-shirt like that to the interview. Kthx
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89 responses to “One Chance, One Life. So Get A Job!!”
Sometimes a person has to make some sacrifices in order to get a paycheck. I’d love to have full sleeves tattooed and multiple facial piercings but I won’t because I know how it’ll affect my professional image. I dream of a day when people can do what they want to their bodies and not be judged by it, but unfortunately that’s not the world we live in, and bitching about other people’s closemindedness when you’ve deliberately chosen to go against the norms of society in general isn’t going to do a damn thing to change the way people think. Prioritize.
“yes. our little crazy country. i will not lost a chance to escape from it. i’ve got my job only beacause my boss thinks that my tunnels are “normal” piercing, and there are no holes but mirrors Oo
zychu on June 12th, 2008 at 4:51 pm ”
That made me lol hard! :)) I wish employers here in Romania would be so stupid
They are really beautiful men there!
*clicks the “save as” button*
Call center can’t be said enough. I work at one that is open to mods and many of them are. A few here are more ‘business’ is business and mods are professional (even if nobody sees you cause you’re on a phone). I think they do it to keep everyone thinking they are special to work at a professional level. Most call centers here are happy if you are competant and show up to work.
A few here are more ‘business’ is business and mods are **un**professional (even if nobody sees you cause you’re on a phone).
Yeah, I typoed it. 😛
Haha I don’t know what amuses me more: the people who don’t get “the mods that they really want” because of the job potentials, or the people that think they’re getting away with ‘being modded and working” while they rock 00g ears and a tiny labret.
I think mods are a copout. You’re not jobless because of your piercings/tattoos. And if you are, clearly you’re only applying at the bottom of the barrel places that can be picky as all hell. Once you have some qualifications and can stand on your own feet “mods” don’t mean shit all. You just need to learn how to sell yourself PAST your physical appearance. Yeah, you might be getting more static because of how you look, but that’s part of the package. Step up or sit out, seriously.
If anyone culey with retail work in brissy Australia wants a part time job in a few months ,emale me.. Facial tats etc don’t matter as long as your not an idiot 😀
Email , hahah @ “emale” , ugh
clap clap to t. thomas and nyne.
Yay Ohio!! <3
Kinda like sweden then..And if they want to hire you even if you’ve got mods they almost always tell you to take them out or wear retainers.
One of my bst mates has ‘One Life One Chance’ tattooed on his wrists, but I love it in that placement.
I swear to god I will find that boy and steal his sex.
i think i/m in love
What Nyne said.
I really like the script on the that boy’s jaw. And he has a really cute chin.
The other boy is cute, too.
I live in Spain, and have nothing visible, but no one will hire me ’cause I am American. I speak Spanish perfectly, but they don’t care.
Co prwda to prawda, Polska jeszcze dow ielu rzeczy nie dorosła;/
Gotta love the H2O tattoo. 🙂
“Once you have some qualifications and can stand on your own feet “mods” don’t mean shit all. You just need to learn how to sell yourself PAST your physical appearance.”-nyne
But even if you’re qualified and suitable for a certain job, there most likely are at least few other applicants that are about as qualified as you are and are not visibly modded. Guess who they will most likely choose?
But I do agree that visibly modded people need to take more time to learn how to sell themselves, network etc.
The boys and their mods are yummy <3.
Love the facial work! Very bold, to take that step forwards like you have is re-assuring to say the least, I have my eyebrows, chin, sideburns, beside my eyes, side of my head tattooed and I can safely say I am one very happy satisfied person. The tattoo’s I see every day in the mirror remind me of how I overcame ‘fitting’ in to what everyone told me I should be.
I know that is very non-specific, but that is the basics of how I feel, in all honesty I am 30 now, I am a piercer and also a qualified sheet metal fabricator, if you are struggling with direction just come over to australia and do a trade, we need more qualified people, no matter what they look like!
I really like the script it would have been nice to see a front side shot of his face as well, very cool facial work,the only thing he needs now is more ink on his face haha.
Wow… now that is a pretty face.
I feel it’s not always the mods themselves that create this image to employers, but to the crowd it associates you to. In my area at least (huge generalizing here) there are many pierced teenagers, and high schoolers who have no strive for work ethics and bring down the community. Unfortunate as it is, these are those who take mods as a trend and I believe that is true with a lot of individuals that I know. Employers then judge and categorize others who look similar in a negative manner. Thats why I work harder and go the extra distance to be kind and helpful both at the workplace and in public. Not because I feel I have to, not at all, but because I want to give off a better image for myself and those who take mods seriously.
i could side with the “you know how it works, deal with it” argument as much as could side with the “mods affect neither intelligence nor personality so maybe the rest of the world should open the triple bolted doors their minds are behind” theory. but when it comes down to it, i, as someone who very much expects to be a Director of IT one day, would RATHER hire modders (who are qualified) because, well, they are stereotypically some of the most open-minded people in the world, and life experience often counts just as much as work experience and school education combined. i am in my last year of college with a very solid resume (with professional experience) and am scared to death to get the mods i want (lots of ink and 1/2-1” lobes) because i really really really like money. i guess it’s all about balance? my ramblings
also, i love all of the first guys facial tats and the guy in the get a job t-shirt has some of the most awesomely-placed & perfectly symmetrical piercings
i completely agree with #31 and #33.
the only visible mods i have are 0g lobes and a couple of cartilage piercings. i work in government and i am VERY lucky that the atmosphere in my office is kind of casual (it’s a science department)
i HATE seeing 17 and 18 year olds thinking that they can get 2″ lobes and stars on their faces and that the world is required to accept them and that they are entitled to a job. think again. that isn’t how the world works.
sure, you can be an idealist and hope that the corporate world will change its ways but right now there are still blacks and asians and even women being unfairly discriminated against in job opportunities and wages, let alone people with giant tattoos or lip plates! let’s take this one step at a time.
anyway, nobody says you can’t get 1/2 sleeves under your suit, or a fuckload of genital piercings. just hide them when you go to work at World Bank.
I believe the top dude’s name is jason and he plays in a death metal/ hardcore band called “Salt the Wound” from Cleveland. That’s if that really is jason.
I can sympathize with the employers. Before I started in the industry I worked in the back of a lot of restaurants that didn’t even let me enter through the front door. I didn’t complain because I was the one who decided to get my skull tattooed. On the other side of the coin there is a tattoo artist in town that does really nice work, but doesn’t have any visible tattoos. He can’t get a job in my shop no matter how good his work is; I expect my employees to look a certain way and I think any good business person has the right to do the same.
if anyone knows this guys contact i need to know him, hes from the same area code as me which is hard to find lol !!
his myspace:
surprised no one clicked on the tattoo studio and saw him in the top 8 friends.
http://www.myspace.com/coryeis
The second guy is absolutely lovely!
I have to go with #76 as well.
Certainly, if you’re stand out and have a resume as long as your arm, eventually mods aren’t a problem, particularly in technical fields.
That said, at 18, most people aren’t anywhere close to that position. They’re looking for “bottom of the barrel” jobs as someone put it, because that’s where you start. Fresh out of school, you’re one of the herd, and yeah, people discriminate.
It’s the combination of unhideable mods (particularly face tattoos) with very young that makes me go “hmm. Was that the best idea?” And places I’ve been, it’s THAT association, that “big face work at 18 = doesn’t think ahead” that dooms the applicant, even for those same tech jobs. Not to justify it, but that’s very often the thought process. Just… know you’re joining that battle.
I do like the script here though. One question = what is the Ohio with 740 in it about? Highway? Area code? (Googling I see it IS the area code now used in the place my neighbor grew up, interesting…)
hahaha job stoppers, i’ve been thinking of getting my hands lasered
I just graduated from some prestigious & elitist high school in my country and took up an internship in a bank as “summer job” (yes, I did have an interview with the HR). I was quite surprised that at one of the branches where I had to work, the whole staff, especially the assistant manager, were actually intrigued and then interested by the few visible mods I have (but which are nowhere close to 2″ lobes or stars tattooed on the forehead). I probably got lucky to work with open-minded people, or maybe the name of my school or the way I was doing my job somehow influenced the way they judged me. Even if I intend to gradually increase my mod-count in the near future, I still have some doubts about whether walking out of some law school or having my walls covered with degrees is actually going to speak louder than any visible tattoos. So even if this generation thinks it’s going to bring about some drastic cultural liberation, it should still remember that this is the intermediary stage of the whole reaction. So, no matter how unfair it is, it just can’t assume that individuals aren’t going to be judged by their appearance when they’ll be propelled onto the job market (and consequently I’m admitting that the rest of my family is right! haha!).
Hey everybody, I would just like to say that that is me in the first picture…lol
I just got sent this link, I didnt even know my pic was being used.
Just wanted to say whats up to everyone!
sooo gorgeous.
I used to work for Motorola. and they had implemented a program called IDE- individual dignity entitlement, and they did not look down on anyone with mods of any type. I worked with people with facial tattoos, piercings, turbans, burka,etc. I think it all depemds on what type of business you work in, and how much you are exposed to the public at large. I personally have no problem with any facial mods ( I have some too), but use common sense, and stick with ones that are hideable, as I did.
OOPS! I misspelled ” depends” above. Nowadays, I drive a school bus, and our district just dropped the restriction on facial mods, but they can only be small or easily hidden. I keep my tongue, septum (retainer), and remove my nostril piercings during work.
i just thought i’d drop this note in (after all this time)
in england, it is illegal for an employer or potential employer to make you remove piercings or cover tattoos, or to refuse you a job due to your mods unless it is a genuine health and safety risk. i.e. electricals / food
the law was passed in 2006 i believe.