Many with multiple tattoos can't find work

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:52:34 -0000, "KavinTaylor@gmail.com"
<KavinTaylor@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 7, 9:22 am, N Jill Marsh <njma...@storm.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Well you know, if I'd /known/ I was going to be in Atlanta for twenty
>> four more hours than expected, I would have baked you a cake.
>
>Hey, you coulda had a layover at my place. Fluffy bed, 15 pillows, 2
>down comforters, down mattress topper, 2 dogs 4 cats.
>
>I might have even made French Toast.

Torment me with the thought now. I had to stay in a place that was so
nasty I wouldn't open my suitcase and I put a chair up against the
doorknob.


nj"okay, not actually that nasty"m

--
"I do not rhyme to that dull elf
Who cannot imagine to himself..."

Kavin Taylor wrote:
> Curt wrote:
> > Kavin Taylor wrote:
>
> > > Yeah, multiple tattoos equals
> > > stretched lobes.
>
> > Yeah, multiple tattoos and stretched
> > lobes are, however, bodyart.
>
> What a typical Curt reply.

What? Accurate? So tattoos and stretched lobes aren't bodyart? No
connection whatsoever, eh?

Whatever, Kavvy. Typical Curt reply, okay. Which is in direct conflict
with you...

> Useless.

I'd say so.

> Kavin
>
> And have you noticed how many of the
> posts now concern the subject line?

No.

But I have noticed how many have taken the time to question my
context.

> Exactly.

Yes, exactly.

--
Curt

On Jun 8, 7:14 pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kavin Taylor wrote:
> > Curt wrote:
> > > Kavin Taylor wrote:
>
> > > > Yeah, multiple tattoos equals
> > > > stretched lobes.
>
> > > Yeah, multiple tattoos and stretched
> > > lobes are, however, bodyart.
>
> > What a typical Curt reply.
>
> What? Accurate? So tattoos and stretched lobes aren't bodyart? No
> connection whatsoever, eh?

Not even the point. Your comment starts out with what appears to be
agreement, yet you change the sentence. Typical of Curt.

>
C> Whatever, Kavvy. Typical Curt reply, okay. Which is in direct
conflict
C> with you...

And again, you are the idiot, the person who is wrong, the one that is
not correct, etc.

C> But I have noticed how many have taken the time to question my
C> context.

That is because most don't give a fuck about you. At all. I think
you should be dead. Most wouldn't waste the time to respond to
you. I think your words should not go unanswered.

But Curt, never assume the lack of response to your posts means you
are correct. It is ALWAYS the opposite.

Kavin

Kavin Taylor wrote:
[...]

> But Curt, never assume the
> lack of response to your posts

Let's you and me see how this works, eh?

> means you are correct.

~*Kavin, it's perhaps surprising that you seem to have nothing better
to do with your time. Just imagine if you'd work on your purported
musical instead rather than chiming in re posts that I've initiated.*~

> It is ALWAYS the opposite.

Cool.

Ignore that. :oD

--
Curt

On Jun 8, 10:51 pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just imagine if you'd work on your purported
> musical instead rather than chiming in re posts that I've initiated.*~

Once again, stellar logic.

One does not prevent the other.


Kavin

Kavin Taylor wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
> > <snip> imagine if you'd work
> > on your purported musical
> > <snip> rather than chiming
> > in re posts that I've initiated.<snip>
>
> Once again, stellar logic.

Thank you.

> One does not prevent the other.

Assuming a finite amount of time, one activity does, however, reduce
the amount of time spent on another activity. Good luck with that.

Hmmm...

--
Curt

On May 31, 3:51?pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Many with multiple tattoos can't find work
>
> TAMPA - You could call it his body of art. Every line, every design on
> his body says something about Russell Parrish's life.
>
> "My first tattoo was after my father died," he told FOX 13.
>
> He was 15. Over the past 14 years, he amassed quite a collection.
>
> His tattoos cover his right and left arms and hands. There is a spider
> in a web crawling up his neck.
>
> On the inside of his elbow the scripture, 'If thine eye offends thee,
> pluck it out.'
>
> "It means if you can't stand to look at me, don't," said Parrish.
>
> But don't let him fool you, what people see when they look at Russell
> bothers him.
>
> "We walk through stores and people grab their purses and wallets. You
> go for jobs and most times they won't give you an application. They
> tell you don't even bother, you have too many tattoos," he said.
>
> That's his other struggle. With a wife and dreams of kids on the way,
> he wants a career. He's looked at theme parks in Kissimmee, home
> improvement stores down the street in his hometown of Lake Wales, even
> straight-laced coat and tie jobs. Everywhere he went, he said, "I got
> a door shut in my face."
>
> Russell says in the last two months he's applied for over 100 jobs. In
> almost half of them, he says he was denied because of his tattoos. He
> says that's discrimination.
>
> John Campbell is the managing partner at Constangy, Brooks, and Smith
> in Tampa. His firm handles labor and employment issues for companies
> all over the Bay Area.
>
> Campbell said it's not discrimination.
>
> "He has marked himself in such a fashion that he may have made himself
> undesirable because of his appearance. Appearance discrimination is
> not illegal - may not be fair - but it is not illegal," Campbell
> explained.
>
> He said tattoos are not protected under Florida law, federal law even
> local law.
>
> But Russell's trying to change that. He's organized a small grassroots
> advocacy effort called 'Tattoo' with friends Shaun and Tiffany Blayer,
> local tattoo shop owners, and others to get change.
>
> "I want it to be where people like me, good people who deserve the job
> and are qualified - more qualified in some cases - can get the job,"
> he said.
>
> He's tried the EEOC and the Department of Labor with no luck. Now he's
> turning to local lawmakers
>
> In the meantime, Russell refuses to make apologies for his choices.
>
> "I don't regret any of em - I wouldn't go back and not get any. A
> person's gotta be themselves," he said.
>
> On the inside of his elbow the scripture, 'If thine eye offends thee,
> pluck it out.'
>
> "It means if you can't stand to look at me, don't," said Parrish.
>
> But don't let him fool you, what people see when they look at Russell
> bothers him.
>
> "We walk through stores and people grab their purses and wallets. You
> go for jobs and most times they won't give you an application. They
> tell you don't even bother, you have too many tattoos," he said.
>
> That's his other struggle. With a wife and dreams of kids on the way,
> he wants a career. He's looked at theme parks in Kissimmee, home
> improvement stores down the street in his hometown of Lake Wales, even
> straight-laced coat and tie jobs. Everywhere he went, he said, "I got
> a door shut in my face."
>
> Russell says in the last two months he's applied for over 100 jobs. In
> almost half of them, he says he was denied because of his tattoos. He
> says that's discrimination.
>
> John Campbell is the managing partner at Constangy, Brooks, and Smith
> in Tampa. His firm handles labor and employment issues for companies
> all over the Bay Area.
>
> Campbell said it's not discrimination.
>
> "He has marked himself in such a fashion that he may have made himself
> undesirable because of his appearance. Appearance discrimination is
> not illegal - may not be fair - but it is not illegal," Campbell
> explained.
>
> He said tattoos are not protected under Florida law, federal law even
> local law.
>
> But Russell's trying to change that. He's organized a small grassroots
> advocacy effort called 'Tattoo' with friends Shaun and Tiffany Blayer,
> local tattoo shop owners, and others to get change.
>
> "I want it to be where people like me, good people who deserve the job
> and are qualified - more qualified in some cases - can get the job,"
> he said.
>
> He's tried the EEOC and the Department of Labor with no luck. Now he's
> turning to local lawmakers
>
> In the meantime, Russell refuses to make apologies for his choices.
>
> "I don't regret any of em - I wouldn't go back and not get any. A
> person's gotta be themselves," he said. /copy and paste fromhttp://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=334408...
> akahttp://tinyurl.com/yt4fxh
>

There's a very, very good reason most tattoo shops
don't tat on the hands or the face, unless possibly tats are
already there.

Even neck tattoos are a bit iffy, but those are much more
common.

Bottom line, is that if you cannot hide the tattoo with normal
work/inteview clothes, then it's not the best idea for your career.

Tattoos are still associated with rebellious attitudes towards
society in general, and although small, hiddden tats are very
mainstream now, when people cover more than 40% of their exposed skin,
or when they get "H-A-T-E" on their fingers, one cannot expect a
stranger to react in the same way as if they had a clean slate.

A swastika on your hand will bar you from working at the
local gas station.....

On Jun 8, 10:51 pm, Curt <curtja...@gmail.com> wrote:

<snip>. Just imagine if you'd work on your purported
> musical instead rather than chiming in re posts that I've initiated.*~


According to your recent reasoning, the play has to be about "Many
with tattoos . . . "

Kavin