Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Job Seekers Turning To Tattoo Removal To Help Land Jobs

By Cornelius Nunev


Lots of people, specifically recently-graduated 20 year olds, are out there looking for work. However, a few of them are having a tough time of it, some for the egregious sin of just having a tattoo. Some companies will not hire people with ink, leading to an increase in the tattoo removal business.

Some people need tattoo removal

Discrimination depending on age, gender, race, sexual orientation and more are not the only things you have to stress about when applying for jobs. As much as we wish discrimination did not exist in the workplace, it does, and it does not matter how skilled you are if you have some bad appearance. A tat-too is something companies discriminate against.

In many cultures past and present, tattoos were or are normal, part of a rite of passage or a core as-pect of a culture's identity. The word "picture" was coined by the ancient Romans, who encountered the Picts, a Celtic tribe known for extensive and incredibly vivid tattoos. However, not every person is accepting of tattoos, including prospective companies. As a result, according to the Daily Mail, tattoo removal companies are booming.

Visible tattoos not okay in USPS

According to Forbes, the U.S. USPS, Denny's and Starwood Hotels will not hire any person with a visible tattoo. Likewise, everyone with visible ink cannot help people save 15 percent or more on their car insurance by switching to GEICO, as the business will not hire them. Neither, according to the Omaha World-Herald, will sandwich chain Jimmy John's. However, B of A and All-state Insurance will.

During the last year, there as a 32 percent increase in laser tattoo removals, according to skin car group publication Patient's guide. Visible tattoos are one of the top reasons that a hiring manager would say no to an applicant, on top of bad breath and piercings, as shown in a CareerBuild-er.com survey, according to Forbes. About 40 percent of people getting tattoos removed are doing this to try and get a job.

Paying for tattoo removal can cost large short term loans for a lot of people since, depending on the size of the treatment, a person will need about 10 treatments costing around $200 each. And that is the cost for just one tattoo. The removal process demands a topical anesthetic because it is very painful. It breaks up the ink in the skin and puts it into the blood-stream to be filtered out.

Not good for consumer ser-vice

Not everyone is okay with seeing someone help them who have a ton of tattoos on t heir body. About 90 percent of jobs in the country deal with services, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and companies do not want to lose consumers depending on the appearance of their staff.

It is unknown what legal rights people really have for tattoo discrimination. People are always protected if the tattoos have religious value, such was the case when a male sued Red Robin for firing him over religious tattoos, according to the Equal Job Opportunity Commission. The suit was settled for $150,000 in 2005. A man in Pennsylvania sued the state for not hiring him in 2011 because of his tattoos. He was ap-plying to be a liquor enforcement agent at the time. That is one court case that had nothing to do with religion.




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