It’s just a bigger hole than what society has considered to be “standard”… If there wasn’t such a pointlessly negative view on stretched ears, people like teachers and professional golf players wouldn’t have to get them sewn up.
Observer readers discover that not all employers favour the Urban Bush Warrior look.
I don’t harp on my kids much. DD is 13 and DS is 11 and I like the satisfaction of seeing them make the proper choices based on our trying to raise them properly.
However every time I see a dufus with those ear plugs or other such disfigurements everything going on at that moment comes to a full stop such that I can vigorously point out that this will not be tolerated in my presence.
when I was in business the people who worked for me were in front of the public during their work hours. I would never have hired anyone with multiple piercings, large visible tattoos or any other abnormal addition to one’s body. there is nothing wrong with what we are born with.
Hey Justin! I found a root cause for you. The belief that you are owed a job instead of feeling the need to compete for a job. You don’t feel that outward appearance, body odour, attitude or ability should have any bearing on employment? Fine! Simply look for a business that share your core beliefs and you’re a natural fit, or start your own business and hire whoever you like without imposing restrictive guidelines that most successful companies have on those that represent their brand or service. I’m not saying it can’t be done, and I truly wish you every success.
As I point out to my kids whenever we encounter one of these so-called body art misfits, “See that? That there is a lifetime of minimum wage.”
The work place is NOT a democracy – or a group encounter venue – and the marketplace (like Dawinian capitalism) has a way of ridding the skills gene pool of the weak, foolish and marginally skilled.
Millennials will learn the hard way they were lied to by their teachers and their Kulcher.
‘Clark had begun stretching his lobes at university’
University once was a place for stretching your mind.
When presented with the full body tatoo or mega piercing my reacion is the unabashed stare and mouth slightly open. That is the expected response, isn’t it?
“Oooga Booga dude, medium black” for the rest of his life if he’s really super nice and can make a leaf when he pours.
“Until you know that person, you have no right to criticise”. Oh, I think we do know him.
Give me one good reason why you’d want to hire someone who craves attention to such an extent that he’d make himself look like one of Foghorn Leghorn’s harem.
When the kids were little there were times that we’d be walking down the sidewalk and they’d tug at my sleeve to point out some clown with a head like a Finlander’s Dick walking towards us. “Just ignore the stupid looking son-of-a-bitch – don’t give him the satisfaction of letting him know that you see him”.
Story time!
So this old guy is sitting on a city bus and a tattoed/pierced dickhead with a foot-high orange mohawk gets on and sits across from him.
The dickhead gets irritated because the old guy is staring at him.
“What’s the matter old man, you don’t like my tattoos?”
“Nope, your tattoos don’t bother me at all”
“Its my hair, my hair. You don’t like my F****** hair, right?”
“Nope, you hair doesn’t bother me either”.
“Okay, it’s my piercings…you got something against my piercings?”
“Nope, your studs and pins don’t bother me either”.
“Well, what the **** is it? Why the **** are you staring?”
“Well son, I’ll tell you. A long time ago I had a job working at a chicken farm that was waaaayyyy out in rural Saskatchewan. I was young, and single, and horny, and I hadn’t seen a girl in months. I couldn’t stand the lack of activity any longer, so finally, out of desperation, I boinked a chicken….and I was kinda wondering if you might be my son.”
OUTSTANDING!
Try this one and you would gladly accept ear tunnels.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2797275
I’ve only seen one person in the oil patch with stretched lobes and it was a safety girl, but if most companies ban “hoodies” from the work site for snagging reasons, I can see stretched earlobes also becoming banned.
I would to love see a guy have his ear hooked by another “hands” hand while making a connection.
Just think….in another 40-50 years, the most common features among all of the grannies in the local nursing lodge will be tramp stamps. Imagine the faces of the orderlies when gramps needs a Depends change and they discover the old codger is sporting a Prince Albert piercing.
In 50 years those won’t be called tramp stamps anymore. They’ll be hag tags.