“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
Neck, head, facial, and hand tattoos are great, they let me know who doesn’t make the best decisions, and tells me that someone may not be suitable for a job.
This is semi sarcastic, I mean that these kinds of tattoos are general known to reduce the available job opportunities for a person, meaning that a person with any of those has deliberately made it harder for themselves to get a job, thus impacting themselves negatively.
It is their choice, and I will never tell someone off for doing that, but if I were an employer, it would definitely negatively impact their chances for a job.
Other tattoos can all be covered up and would not impact my decision.
If you are making decisions to hire someone based solely on their tattoos, it sounds like:
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- You arent objective enough to be employed in that role
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- You obviously dont care about filling the role with the right candidate
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- You are a bigoted asshat
Folks have tattoos. Stop clutching your pearls with the holier-than-thou attitude. Are there other looks-based judgements that you choose to leverage in this non-existent hiring situation?
If you are making decisions to hire someone based solely on their tattoos, it sounds like:
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- You arent objective enough to be employed in that role
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- You obviously dont care about filling the role with the right candidate
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- You are a bigoted asshat
I fully agree with the above, which is why it is far from the only data I use.
Folks have tattoos. Stop clutching your pearls with the holier-than-thou attitude.
I happen to find tattoos to be attractive in many cases. I suggest that it is you who needs to drop the holier-than-though attitude.
Are there other looks-based judgements that you choose to leverage in this non-existent hiring situation?
Obviously yes, like any human I treat people different based on how they look. If a potential employee came into an interview in dirty and tattered clothes that would affect me more negatively than a well dressed person.
All of this would obviously depend on what kind of work the interview was about, and their appearance would not be the sole disquallifier.
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If I would have to hire someone for a role in a professional setting with direct customer contact, anyone with visible tattoos would be off the list immediately.
Sounds like bigoted logic to me. If a customer doesn’t like that employees have tattoos then they are a customer I’m happy to lose.
No, that is business. People don’t want to lose customers over that if it can easily be avoided by hiring someone who doesn’t look like an accident in a paint factory.
Yes yes, we all know that business puts profits over people.
Fuck business and fuck anyone who argues for acting in its favor.
As much as I don’t like capitalism, it’s not the job of businesses to coddle people who made bad life choices.
Fuck that bullshit excuse.
Why is it “a bad life decision” if not because jobs discriminate about a little body art? Having visible tattoos hurts no one. Why do we have to cater to the closed-minded bigots by having society structured to discriminate against people that they don’t want to look at? It’s entirely because of capitalism that it’s a company’s “job” to care more about their profits than the people that make those profits. Any excuse to socially justify that is bullshit.
Employers aren’t looking for the best possible candidate for a job. They’re looking for an easy to find candidate who is good enough and doesn’t have major issues working long term.
Nowadays, employers get far more applications than they can reasonably deal with, thanks to AI. They have to find some way to narrow it down.
I remember hearing about a hiring manager who threw out every resume of candidates who mentioned having been a lifeguard. Not for every position, but just for one day of sifting through resumes. There were hundreds of applicants for the one job and almost everyone’s resume was enough to qualify them, and he didn’t have the time to interview everyone, so he just used weird random methods to narrow it down.
I judge people for bad formatting in their resume, like bulleting a numbered list
(If you use the numbers just like you did, but without the asterisks, it will look better)
I must agree, but the formatting on my app doesnt have a numbering option. It only has the bullets.
I agree with your judgement.
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Shows me they are individuals who will stand up for what they believe in, even if it means taking personal risk to do so, and those people are far more genuine than anyone else I know, and that’s worth far more respect than you give it credit for.
An employer who would discriminate based on someone’s visible tattoos is one who doesn’t deserve any employees.
Again, this is not the only factor I use for judgement.
No other factor you use is relevant to the thing you just said.
They are fine for folks that like them. Just like anything they want to wear is fine. Its their thing. I have thought about it but could never figure out anything so big it would be worth it. Something I would definately like years later that encompassed the thing. My brother has gotten quite a few and it was a neat collage. He does some neat things with earings to.
everyone says they get tattoos for themselves but whenever I think about one for myself I think how little i look at the spots i would get a tattoo. id rather people pay attention to my music and no tattoo is going to do that.
Art I don’t like is bad art, upvoted that’s definitely an unpopular take
The problem is that most tattoos are bad.
Yeah, this post is either “I don’t like tattoos”, which is very much a popular opinion among a certain segment of the population, or “I don’t like art when it’s on a body”, which is a weird take on art.
There are loads of bad art tattoos out there by third rate tattoo artists.
I would say fewer than 1/1000 tattoos make me stop and think “oh that’s beautiful.” Most I see are so ugly I feel bad for the person, knowing I would regret it if I had their tattoos.
You can hang up a licensed poster of comic book character on your wall. Or you can hang up a landscape painting of your favorite natural wonder. Sure, you could say one is more artistically sophisticated than the other, but they both work fine in the right style of room.
Now apply the same logic to tattoos, even the kind you really don’t care for. They might not be a fit in your room, but not every room looks like your room.
As a bonus, if you grow out of that taste, you can easily change those pictures. Imagine the people who got the Tesla logo tattooed when it was still cool?
Was gonna downvote but then saw the community so I guess I’ll upvote it? People want to etch something onto themselves permanently, I think that is pretty cool a person likes something so much they want to mark themselves with it. Some of the things people get tattooed tho, not so much lol.
In this community - doesn’t upvote means it’s a unpopular opinion?
And downvote if it’s a common/popular opinion?
So your voting is correct!
My unpopular opinion is that just because an opinion is technically unpopular doesn’t mean it should be upvoted. I think if an opinion is reasonably well thought out and has more than just “personal opinion” vibes to it. Like, if you could reasonably argue your opinion and potentially sway them, its a good unpopular opinion.
“I dont like them therefore they’re bad” does not fall in this for me. This is a bad unpopular opinion.
I had a few vaguely planned before I turned 18, but I never got to it. Now I feel like everyone has some to make them unique, but they can’t even begin to compare to the uniqueness of my blank slate.
I agree. I wanted them when I was younger but by the time I was like 22 I was beyond relieved I never went though with it. I did get a face piercing though.
My first thought when I see someone with a ton of tattoos is “Fuck that looks terrible/painful/expensive.”
It’s only after that I try to appreciate them as a personal choice and artistic thing.
That said, I do want one tattoo, from the show Fringe, episode White Tulip. Just haven’t made it a priority at all.
10/10 choice. I feel like Fringe has a good selection of imagery for tattoos.
For a lot of people tattoos are indeed a luxury they indulge in. Also, for a significant amount of people who get tattoos, the pain is part of the point.
Kinda depends, where you get it and how much shading there is makes a big difference on how much it hurts. None of mine were all that painful but the shading wasn’t comfortable by any stretch of the imagination.
That said, you never just get one tattoo. You get that first one, then think, well you can’t just have one that’s silly. Then suddenly you’re covered in ink and looking for room for more.
Maybe, get that design in a sticker first, slap it on something everyone will see and see how long you enjoy being asked about it.
Maybe, get that design in a sticker first, slap it on something everyone will see and see how long you enjoy being asked about it.
Upvote for good advice!
Different opinion : Tattoos are cool AND stupid at the same time.
I like how they look… But they cause cancer.
Saw a bunch of old people in swimsuits recently. TONS of old people have tattoos. Like - gray, wrinkly, can’t walk very well OLD people with tattoos.
It wasn’t . . . beautiful unless you mean in a kind of Diane Arbus way, then yes.
Indeed. A beach with elder people can be the perfect argument against getting a tattoo.
And those “tons of old people” were those who were young in the 60s and did this mainly to rebel against their parents.
One day you will be the wrinkly old person at the beach. At that point I don’t think it matters at all, does it? I can’t imagine they are trying to look good to you. Lots of things only look good when you are young, doesn’t mean you ought not do as you like.
I had a friend who said all she wanted was one day to be that wrinkled old lady smoking a cigarette at the beach, because those people looked so happy and did not give a fuck.
Absolutely, its just - they didn’t seem like they had really planned for it.
It isn’t something that needs to be planned for.
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So what if my tats get wrinkly when I’m older? Won’t make me enjoy them any less when I see them in the mirror.
“What will it look like when I’m old and grey” isn’t really a concern to be had when getting a tattoo.
IMO if it’s somewhere you can see it it’s different from a tattoo meant for others to see. So, I’m not a fan of tramp stamps because they’re on your lower back. To me, that means it’s meant for others to see. I’m especially not a fan of neck or face tattoos because they’re not for you to see, and are always visible to others. But, a forearm tattoo is something you’ll see often, so it’s for yourself.
It also depends on what it is and what it means. If it’s just something you thought was a cool design, I’m not a fan. OTOH if it marks a significant event / milestone in your life, I can see that. I think the traditional naval tattoos are interesting because they use a traditional design to mark a significant event in a sailor’s life.
What’s truly unfortunate is when someone gets a tattoo and doesn’t think carefully about what other people will see. I’m not talking about bad art. That’s a common problem with tattoos. It’s when someone gets a Nazi symbol without realizing, or gets something in a language they don’t speak that isn’t what they meant, or they try to get a Vox Machina tattoo but end up with something that looks almost identical to the Gmail icon.
This gatekeeping is odd. Tattoos are bad if decorative but good if meaningful to your standards?
Who’s gatekeeping. This is Unpopular Opinions. I’m expressing an opinion.
I thought I made that clear with “IMO” which means “In My Opinion”.
People with tattoos used to be considered rebels. Now it’s the people without any.
My standards for getting tattooed is higher than I can afford, that’s what stops me. I like them on other people, but then they tell me how much it costs them. I’m all in or not at all, not doing 1 or 2 kinda thing.
I went through some years thinking I’d get a tattoo. But there were always a few dozen things that were a much higher financial priority.
Dumbest statement ever.
With out any what? Rebels?
People without tattoos are now the rebels
How? Is someone forcing them to get a tattoo and they’re resisting it?
on the contrary, people without tattoos look…plain?
Original recipe.
Vanilla bean
I agree, yet I don’t judge them. Unlike the weird purity fetishists like some people in this thread.
Excuse me. We prefer to be called “basic”.
Many people regret getting tattoos when they are young and then spend money removing them. I dont think its a unpopular opinion!
