Since I'm bored at work, what do you guys think about piercings
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
No no and thrice no! No matter what the law is and equal opps and all that, if I were interviewing someone who is a walking freak show, my judgement would be somewhat clouded by their appearance. This could be thought of as non-pc but that's the way the world is.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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Here Here.....something similar happened to me - in an interview I was wearing a white shirt, black tattoos on my arms showed through, et voila - "sorry, although this isn't a customer facing role per-se, you may have to go on site from time to time, so we can't employ you"
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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dan neely wrote:
but you're going to make things much harder for yourself getting any sort of white collar job.
I wouldn't say harder, I mean, I know a few developers that look pretty damn wierd that have decent jobs and due to the fact that im a developer myself, I don't see a problem with it because I don't have to work with the customers face to face :)
Ruan_B wrote:
work with the customers face to face
if your app goes live at a customer and a huge bug is found you'd probably have too... That's what i was at Denel the other day, fixing stuff the "technicians" are supposed to know.
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Ruan_B wrote:
Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced
What do I think? X| !!!DISGUISTING!!! X| Marc
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dan neely wrote:
but you're going to make things much harder for yourself getting any sort of white collar job.
I wouldn't say harder, I mean, I know a few developers that look pretty damn wierd that have decent jobs and due to the fact that im a developer myself, I don't see a problem with it because I don't have to work with the customers face to face :)
Just look at a CIO meeting or a CEO meeting and tell me how many of them have visible piercings and tattoos. I'm not saying that this is right, but the fact is that most people will not give you higher jobs if you have those things on your body.
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
I don't mind em personally, my gf has her ears pierced in 3 places on each ear, a stud in her nose and 4 tattoos (all easily concealed if necessary), and myself I would like a tattoo similar to that of hers on my inside arm, but I digress... I understand how it can look unprofessional, but I still think it's discrimination. I'll stop here before it ventures to wards soapboxy material :)
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
i got my Brosnan Pierced, once
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
Ruan_B wrote:
what do you guys think about piercings
It's for (stupid) kids.
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Ruan_B wrote:
what do you guys think about piercings
It's for (stupid) kids.
And for Emo kids. X|
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Well for interviews and going to site, I could just take it out for that period of time. Where tatoos, well thats a whole different storie :)
IF the PTB find it objectionable they'll find an excuse to fire you after the fact. Probably by putting a ban on it in the employee dress code/etc. I know we have visible tats banned and think body piercing is as well, we have 3x 250 person buildings in the area and I don't ever recall seeing anyone with piercings outside the ears.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
Piercings are disgusting! I'd get a tattoo on my back, where I can't see it. And it would have to be something really meaningful, colorful and correctly spelled. Then again, I hate pain, so I'd be content with just a custom-made t-shirt with the same thing on the back.
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dan neely wrote:
but you're going to make things much harder for yourself getting any sort of white collar job.
I wouldn't say harder, I mean, I know a few developers that look pretty damn wierd that have decent jobs and due to the fact that im a developer myself, I don't see a problem with it because I don't have to work with the customers face to face :)
Even as a mere Minion1, I've met our clients occasionally. Both formally (driving a PC during a demo and when we hosted an interest group meeting), and informally (ran into them with coworkers in the halls, and when I picked the same restaurant they and the more senior people were eating at). Even if you're working on strictly internal projects running into other peoples customers in the hall occasionally is inevitable.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
it's your body, and your life. do what you want. sure, there is a world full of people who won't like it, and you'll have to deal with them from time to time. but in the end, as Jimi said :
i'm the one who's gonna have to die when it's time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to.
or, you can live the life you think they want you to lead. spend all your time worrying about what strangers think.
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
Why would you make it harder on yourself than needed (from a carrier point off view) Take it from someone who had to search for a job for over a year just because the interviewers didn't want someone with scars on his face (got them from an accident 8 years ago). It's depressing to hear them say 'Sorry we went with someone else.' or 'The job opening is no longer available' or ... , while knowing that it's based purly on the fact that I have some scars (you could see the interviewers face change when he/she noticed it)
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You can't look professional and have visible nonconventional piercings. If you want to work in a starbucks it won't matter, but you're going to make things much harder for yourself getting any sort of white collar job.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
I like to think programmers can be a little wild sometimes... but now that you mention it, I have never seen a programmer with piercings... bad personal hygiene, yes, but never piercings. Some I have worked with previously from DOD contracts have some Navy oriented tattoos but nothing outrageous. The graphics department on the other hand... those guy n' gals are absolutely freaky. It’s like a piercing/tattoo are a requirement for employment. It’s a double standard. I want justice. :)
MrPlankton
modified on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:08 AM
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Piercings are disgusting! I'd get a tattoo on my back, where I can't see it. And it would have to be something really meaningful, colorful and correctly spelled. Then again, I hate pain, so I'd be content with just a custom-made t-shirt with the same thing on the back.
sk8er_boy287 wrote:
I'd get a tattoo on my back, where I can't see it.
I suppose this could be applied to piercings as well.
sk8er_boy287 wrote:
correctly spelled
You're funny.
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
We don't know you well enough to think about or comment on your piercings. Besides, real men don't get "piercings". They're run-through in the course of battle, or impaled as a means of punishment, but they certainly don't get "piercings". -20 man points.
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Well having my tongue pierced and considering to get my lip pierced, just thought it would be good to get some feed back on what other people think...
If you want to be a Rent-a-Coder programmer, well I guess it doesn't matter then.
MrPlankton
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I like to think programmers can be a little wild sometimes... but now that you mention it, I have never seen a programmer with piercings... bad personal hygiene, yes, but never piercings. Some I have worked with previously from DOD contracts have some Navy oriented tattoos but nothing outrageous. The graphics department on the other hand... those guy n' gals are absolutely freaky. It’s like a piercing/tattoo are a requirement for employment. It’s a double standard. I want justice. :)
MrPlankton
modified on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:08 AM
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dan neely wrote:
but you're going to make things much harder for yourself getting any sort of white collar job.
I wouldn't say harder, I mean, I know a few developers that look pretty damn wierd that have decent jobs and due to the fact that im a developer myself, I don't see a problem with it because I don't have to work with the customers face to face :)
Ruan_B wrote:
I wouldn't say harder, I mean, I know a few developers that look pretty damn wierd that have decent jobs
Of course there are some that have piercings and decent jobs, that doesn't mean it wasn't harder to get those decent jobs. Say you have 10 software companies in your local area. 50% are prepared to hire people with piercings. A developer without a piercing has 10 available options. A developer with a piercing only has 5 options. My advice would be, don't do anything permanent in a visible place. Piercings are OK, if they can be removed without leaving a scar just in case in the future you decide that it is affecting your career.
Simon
