I have tattoos.: This delinquent could save your life.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

This delinquent could save your life.

Here's a Facebook forward worth passing along.

This came from the Facebook page, "Tattoo Acceptance in the Workplace" (https://www.facebook.com/ThINKequality), which has more than 1.1 million likes.

Here are some of the stories from this page:

I am a cop with over 40 tattoos.

I'm covered in tattoos and I have a corporate office job that not only hired me but lets me wear what I want without hiding them.

I'm a social worker for the local authority- i have two half sleeves (one lower) and a chest piece...clients that notice them usually compliment me.

Im a Paramedic in Pa. I have a full sleeve on 1 arm, and a large tat on other arm between wrist and elbow. My 2 current employers welcome them.

I am a dental assistant in NY, have 9 tattoos, 1 of which is on my wrist, a bracelet with a cross and roses for my deceased grandparents.

I work for the US federal govt and the public loves my tats. A good number of folks in my office have tattoos and none of us worry about covering them up.

I have a full sleeve, full thigh..I used to manage accounts for a boutique wealth management firm, assets totaling 500 million. All under my oversight. Now i'm starting up my own financial firm, 6 employees so far.

I run an assisted living business for elderly people with dementia. I wear short sleeve polo shirts everyday. Before this endeavor, I worked as a financial planner, same attire choice. Knowledge trumps most people's reservations about my tattoos.

I'm a teacher at KinderCare. Visible tattoos and piercings - not a problem!

I'm a mechanical engineer at W. L. Gore and Associates, and I have half sleeves on both arms.

I work in a law office with 2 attorneys now in their 70's & they had absolutely no problem hiring me with my visible tattoos & piercings.

I work for one of the major banks in Canada and there is absolutely no problems with my visible tattoos.

I work in an IT department for a govt contract company with two full sleeves.

I have visible back/arm tattoos and my employer has no problems - I'm a Senior Business Analyst at a UK University - I work with the executive and people on the boards as well as other business users. My boss said "you're more memorable which is great for networking".

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I have tattoos.

The most recent research shows 40 percent of Americans between 26 and 40 have at least one tattoo. That's nearly half of us. Furthermore, 36 percent of people between 18 and 25 do. Normal people. Successful people. Smart people. Truly, anyone.

Yet outdated stigmas and discrimination still exists, based solely on some people's unfounded misconceptions about the way a tattooed person looks -- completely disregarding the statistics, individual characters and the stories behind the tattoos.

Yes, tattoos are a choice. So is practicing a narrow perspective.

Perhaps the increase in tattoos amplifies some people's already prevailing prejudgments about people who look different than them. It's so much easier to write off a person based on something you, on the surface level, do not understand than it is to actually consider what lies underneath, below the skin.

This website was created after I witnessed an incident of discrimination against the "tattoo demographic," as a whole. This website is intended to help educate and dispel myths that you can even begin to classify people with tattoos in one "demographic," much less as all trouble-makers, all out for attention or in any way worth diminishing based on assumptions; no one deserves that.

Ultimately, this website is not even about tattoos, but it is about the real stories behind each person's surface. This website is not intended to convince anyone that they should get a tattoo, or that they should even like tattoos if they don't choose to get one themselves.

After all, as the saying goes, the only difference between people with tattoos and people without tattoos is that people with tattoos don't care whether or not other people have tattoos.