Let's start out with something completely asinine

[Neal Boortz]

OK … if you’re a listener you know that I’m not fond of tattoos,
piercings and body modifications. I really try to never miss a chance to
make fun of people who have graffiti all over their bodies, humps and
bumps where there shouldn’t be humps and bumps, and various types of
hardware sticking out of orifices and through things. They call them
tramp stamps for a reason.

Predictably, I get emails and messages asking me why I “hate” or why I’m
“hating on” people with tats. The people who send these messages are
beyond understanding. There is a difference between disgust, repulsion
and hatred. If someone wants to ink their body from their toes to the
top of their skull it is certainly their privilege to do so. I have
NEVER challenged a person’s write to pierce or ink whatever they want to.
The other side of the coin, though, is that they must then suffer the
societal consequences of their strange obsession. One of those
consequences is that they typically have a difficult time finding a job.
Some of these people have very marketable job skills ideally suited for
hiring them and them tucking them out of sight of fellow workers and
especially customers. If you’re obsessed with tattoos and body
modification perhaps you might want to consider this in your development
of job skills. On the other hand, if you’re applying for a job where you
will be in constant contact with your employer’s customers you’re simply
going to have a hard time. That’s why I am far more likely to encounter
someone covered in tattoos behind the counter at a convenience store than
I am in a professional office somewhere.

Additionally --- if I was in the hiring business, and someone covered in
tattoos applied for a job I am going to form a rebuttable presumption
that this person lacks a certain degree of pride in themselves, a lack of
pride that I will assume (again, subject to rebuttal) that this lack of
pride will show up in their work ethic as well.

Clearly I’m on to something here. Just look at this website. It’s a
Facebook page for something called change.org. The title is “Include
Body Modification in Equal Opportunity Employment.” These fools are
seeking 100,000 signatures from people who want the federal government to
make it illegal to consider someone’s tattoos or other body modifications
in a hiring decision. Take a look at the girl in the picture! Wouldn’t
you just be oh-so-proud to have her greet customers or clients at your
professional office?

Look, my friends. If you want hockey pucks in your ear lobes and tattoos
up to your nostrils … go for it. But don’t ask someone else to consider
your behavior as anything close to normal .. and don’t presume that you
have the right to affect some business owners bottom line by forcing him
to hire your absurd self to place before his clientele.

Oh … and I still haven’t figured out why fat women like cankle tats. And
is there anything more amusing yet pathetic than a guy with a tramp
stamp?

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[Geoff Miller]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:00 -0500, Neal Boortz <Boo...@WSB.com>
wrote:

[a fine rant about tattoos, piercings, and the entitled nitwits who
have them]

After reading "Sombody's Gotta Say It," I'm surprised you didn't find
a way to work in a sub-rant about government schools.




Geoff

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