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.
Jill R. Chancey, PhD
Curator
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39440
www.LRMA.org
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