Girl With 22 Piercings Cries Discrimination

[OlafSicky]

I wouldn't hire her because she is fat i can barley see the piercings on her fat disgusting face.

 

[justoh]

Jeesh why all the hate toward this girl in this thread, wow..

Maybe because she decided to submit herself to public scrutiny, on tenuous grounds. Also because she's fat.

 

[Zaap]

Stop kidding yourself. Most people here would never hire her...

...because you'll never be one of the people to hire *ANYONE*. Just sayin'. All self-backpatting over it is kinda silly.

 

[smackababy]

Stop kidding yourself. Most people here would never hire her...

...because you'll never be one of the people to hire *ANYONE*. Just sayin'. All self-backpatting over it is kinda silly.

If my experience dealing with technical interviews and their reaction that I thought the questions were so incredibly easy nobody should miss them, I don't want to be in the position to hire people. I would be entirely too harsh on these youngin's that can't answer the most basic of computer science questions.

Most money with the least responsibility!

 

[highland145]

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/holey-moley-german-man-takes-body-art-level-article-1.1796231

Damn, Kurt, think you can get some govt assistance to have that reversed?

 

[Victorian Gray]

And unlike garden variety ugly people she doesn't deserve pity. She went to great effort to make herself look as ugly as possible.

Go find an iron bar and a playmate and have some fun.

 

[irishScott]

Oh look, another angsty entitled "artist" who doesn't care what anyone else thinks yet demands to be accepted.

 

[Orignal Earl]

I'm guessing those are wigs she wears eh

She doesn't dress like the pic on the first page when she applies.
So it really just comes down to her piercings since most people outside of P&N are not offended by her chubby face
They don't really look bad to me

 

[PokerGuy]

Oh look, another angsty entitled "artist" who doesn't care what anyone else thinks yet demands to be accepted.

Not only accepted, but to have their idiotic choices not be held against them.

 

[justoh]

I'm guessing those are wigs she wears eh


She doesn't dress like the pic on the first page when she applies.
So it really just comes down to her piercings since most people outside of P&N are not offended by her chubby face
They don't really look bad to me

Maybe she's a muslim?

 

[Texashiker]

Not only accepted, but to have their idiotic choices not be held against them.

Isn't that the core of liberalism?

Liberalism defined is to be without bigotry.

If you do not hire her because of her piercings, then you are a bigot. You are discriminating against someone because of their life choices.

 

[irishScott]

I'm guessing those are wigs she wears eh

She doesn't dress like the pic on the first page when she applies.
So it really just comes down to her piercings since most people outside of P&N are not offended by her chubby face
They don't really look bad to me

They look completely unprofessional. If I was running a company I wouldn't want to risk a client so much as seeing her during a routine tour.

It's like someone with prison tats and a mullet applying to be a police officer, then bitching about "civil rights" when they ask him to cut his hair and get the tat lasered off.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Maybe she's a muslim?

Why would you say that?

 

[alzan]

I'm guessing those are wigs she wears eh

She doesn't dress like the pic on the first page when she applies.
So it really just comes down to her piercings since most people outside of P&N are not offended by her chubby face
They don't really look bad to me

Perhaps the pic of her on the first page doesn't fit the agenda being pushed, e.g. the first pic has more "shock value".

If the second pic is more representative of her everyday appearance then I agree, her piercings do not look bad.

 

[Orignal Earl]

They look completely unprofessional. If I was running a company I wouldn't want to risk a client so much as seeing her during a routine tour.

It's like someone with prison tats and a mullet applying to be a police officer, then bitching about "civil rights" when they ask him to cut his hair and get the tat lasered off.

What was she applying for?
Your extreme example really doesn't help me
Regardless, the employer did nothing wrong outside of being an ass by tossing the resume in front of her
I'd hire her as a secretary or such though

 

[nehalem256]

Go find an iron bar and a playmate and have some fun.

I am not interested in you and your creepy bar fetish. But the Internet is vast and I am sure you can find a partner for your acts somewhere

If the second pic is more representative of her everyday appearance then I agree, her piercings do not look bad.

All facial piercings look bad.

 

[boomerang]

Damn, Kurt, think you can get some govt assistance to have that reversed?

Hell, I want government assistance to get more! I've got some more body parts that need ventilating. I've already made it easier to pick my nose and I've got some plans for scratching my balls that are going to be awesome!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Her biggest problem is geography. If she was doing her job search in Portland, Oregon, no one would have heard about this, as she would have been hired without even submitting a resume because hipster HR people count facial piercings as experience. Anti-conformity won't get you very far in a world that expects people to look and act a certain way.

 

[werepossum]

She is interested in furthering the rights of the entitlement generation.

They are entitled to a job, regardless of how they dress.

They are entitled to a good paying job, regardless if they have a useless degree.

They are entitled to everything society has to offer, regardless of how little they contribute.

Pretty much.

Which isn't surprising given that she is being "non-conformist" in exactly the same way as 1000s of other people.

So, she doesn't even bring the advantages of a real con-conformist that might actually bring new original ideas to an organization.

lol That's an excellent point.

I was speaking of progress more in the terms of not judging a book by it's cover; assessing and valuing a person based on their character and not on their looks. Whether this young woman has such lofty minded goals or whether she has an "have her cake and eat it too" mentality can only be discerned by talking with her.

Like I said in my original post, I mostly agree with a given companies stance on dress codes and employee conduct when they are in public facing positions; a significant portion of a companies personnel do their work behind the scenes.

But she went to all the trouble of getting her cover pierced, stitched and studded! Surely she wants us to judge her by her cover.

I don't disagree with you, but as far as talking to her, I'll pass. As Neil Boortz says, the more tatooed and pierced a person is, typical the less inherently interesting is the person.

And as far as the OP's idea about seeking employment in a strip club, unless Edmonton has a My Sad Little Pony Rainbow strip club and alternative poetry shop, that is not likely.

 

[irishScott]

What was she applying for?
Your extreme example really doesn't help me
Regardless, the employer did nothing wrong outside of being an ass by tossing the resume in front of her
I'd hire her as a secretary or such though

All I know is my local pharmacy wouldn't let her work as a cashier from what I know of their dress code (GF used to work there). Walmart would probably be cool with it, so there's your standard. She'd also probably fit in in a skateboard shop.

You might be fine with her, but fact is a lot of people would look at her piercings and go "blech" or "wow she's a little out there" or "ewwwww" or something equivalent, which is typically bad for business. I certainly wouldn't want her as a secretary with all those piercings, what would potential business partners who came to my office think?

It's not fair, but that's the way the world works. It's the same reason you don't show up to a job interview in a t-shirt and boxers, however good your resume is. It was her choice to get those piercings, and for that matter it's her choice to get rid of them. It is not a company's responsibility to risk damaging their image to accommodate her particular fetish.

I agree that ripping up a resume in front of an applicant is a dick move regardless.

 

[Matt1970]

Yeah, nothing says "attention seeker" like wanting a job.

Unless someone can show me research showing conclusively that people with "too many piercings" cause workplace problems such as falling down flights of stairs because the shiny shiny piercings were simply too distracting, I say bullshit.

Employers should employ dress codes appropriate to the circumstances, not according to their personal tastes.

Even in a customer facing role, only a complete idiot is going to think "OMG! This person has too many piercings, I'm in fear of my ...." or whatever.

The topic of stupid dress codes reminds me of my first almost-serious job, database development (almost serious because I was still at college at the time). The employer insisted that everyone wear a shirt and tie to do this job, and a customer might visit the office maybe three times a year. I was once asked to take off my roll-neck jumper on a freezing cold January so that I could be seen to be following the dress code.



Is your business routinely testing extremely powerful electromagnets?

You can say bullshit all you want but this is not how the real world works. Employees are supposed to represent your company and part of that representation is image. Just like in this case it's not about fear, it's about not grossing your customers out, and for that matter your other employees. Sorry if this is not to your liking but reality is the more crap you do to your body, the less employable you become.

 

[irishScott]

Yeah, nothing says "attention seeker" like wanting a job.

Unless someone can show me research showing conclusively that people with "too many piercings" cause workplace problems such as falling down flights of stairs because the shiny shiny piercings were simply too distracting, I say bullshit.

Employers should employ dress codes appropriate to the circumstances, not according to their personal tastes.

Even in a customer facing role, only a complete idiot is going to think "OMG! This person has too many piercings, I'm in fear of my ...." or whatever.

The topic of stupid dress codes reminds me of my first almost-serious job, database development (almost serious because I was still at college at the time). The employer insisted that everyone wear a shirt and tie to do this job, and a customer might visit the office maybe three times a year. I was once asked to take off my roll-neck jumper on a freezing cold January so that I could be seen to be following the dress code.

Wait, so your employer wanted you to wear a suit?! And a tie?! To a white collar non-labor-intensive job?!

As for freezing cold January, overcoats have been around for well over a century now.

I'm a goddamn millennial and I have zero issue wearing a suit and tie to any job with minimal hard labor and constant air conditioning. You remind me of myself when I complained about putting on dress clothes to go to church... at age 5.

There are stupid dress codes out there, but looking professional at a white collar job does not qualify.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I am not interested in you and your creepy bar fetish. But the Internet is vast and I am sure you can find a partner for your acts somewhere

You know what it's in reference to little troll boy.

 

[IGBT]

yet another self punishing liberal.

 

[Hugo Drax]

A real nonconformist would be doing something new and radical, not working for the man. Instead of coming up with new ideas and solutions to problems and making a living from it.

She is just another poser with nothing interesting to say so she mutilates her body. Because she has nothing else to offer but shock value.

Another dime a dozen dilettante who thinks they are special and deserve a trophy.