Hello Jill,

Hear, hear!

Thursday, October 5, 2006, 2:28:48 PM, you wrote:

> People keep talking about "these young people" with their tattoos and
> piercings, but I'm homing in on 40, and I know a lot of professional
> people in my age range that are tattooed and/or pierced.  In fact, I'd
> say most of my friends - most of whom are either professionally employed
> or stay-at-home moms - have one or the other.  It's been part of the
> youth culture for several decades now, so there's no use pretending like
> it's not part of grown-up culture.  In other words: get used to it,
> people.  Stop freaking out when you see people that don't look like you.

> Going back to the original protest about the dis on "goth girl": it's by
> all means fair to judge a person's performance, but slamming someone
> based on their appearance is out of line, whether that appearance is a
> genetic trait or a personal choice.  If every employer was willing to
> hire only Barbie and Ken dolls in khakis and polos, the world would be a
> dismal, boring place, and lots of unqualified people would be getting
> jobs because of their looks.  Is that what we want?  There's a way to
> balance individual expression and professional appearance, and it takes
> practice.  If Kinko's saw fit to hire goth girl, but didn't see fit to
> train her properly, that's a failure on the management's part.  Customer
> service is a learned skill, not something you are injected with when you
> go to Banana Republic to buy a preppie uniform.  All the more reason to
> *train* your front-line staff, and not just slap a logo shirt on them
> and send them to the front desk. 




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Best regards,
 Padraig                            mailto:[log in to unmask]

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