Tattoos: Jobs Hate Them

 According to this article, many people are losing their jobs simply because of the fact that they have tattoos. One woman had her job interview terminated due to her tattoos. While she was in the middle of her phone interview, the issue of uniforms was brought up. The uniforms were short sleeved, so the woman informed her employer that she had tattoos, but the interviewer simply hung up on her, with no explanation or statement telling her that the company did not allow tattoos. However, while some companies shy away from tattoos, other companies are jumping right up to the rise in popularity of tattoos. Companies such as Dunlop have created ways to incorporate tattoos as advertisement. Goodyear's Dunlop tires promised a set of free tires for anyone who would get the "flying-D" logo tattooed on their body. 98 people stepped up to the challenge and one man returned to get his third tattoo and set of free tires. If you think that getting a tattoo just to get a free set of tires is crazy, that isn't even close to the weirdest thing in the world of tattooing.  That goes to the art of eyeball tattoos. Yes, you read that right, eyeball tattoos! This new craze just seems insane to me. The tattoos can basically change the eye color to whatever the person wants or a complete image can be inserted into the eyeball. Even though this may be fairly popular now, the standard body tattoo still reigns supreme. Tattoos have become a $3.4 billion a year industry. Tattoos are becoming more and more popular as the years go by, but companies do not seem to realize this. Businesses need to realize that just because someone has tattoos does not mean that they are terrible people, they may actually work better than those without tattoos, they are just normal human beings after all.