Tattoo documentary

The documentary that I choose was a little different in a way that it wasn't about tattoos in the workplace but could connect in that way. This documentary was called Erasing Hate, it is about a guy that was a skinhead when he was younger and growing up. He believed in doing things for white people. He was pretty much a "gang banger". He didn't care about anyone that was colored, he only cared for the white people.

This guy had gotten multiple tattoos to show he was in the skinhead gang and he also got some of them as an achievement for doing the deed to get those tattoos/ rewards. I would in no way shape or form say that he earned those because the only tattoos on his body were symbols of bad things. For example, he had a straight razor on his cheek as a symbol that he killed people with one. He also had multiple tattoos symbolizing a Nazi.

This also can go back to me looking into facial tattoos I personally don't like facial tattoos and I think this is a perfect example of a tattoo that shouldn't be allowed in the workplace. This guy is showing us that he doesn't respect anyone and he is also scaring off others with all these rude and scary tattoos on his face.

This is him with all his tattoos on his face.

While I watched this documentary I noticed there were 4 kids and women I wasn't sure who these people were or how they relate to this man. Later on in the documentary, he goes on by saying he thought he would never settle down and get married but he sure did with the help of his wife's daughter. He said that he saw them running around and dancing with their mother and thought they were so sweet and cute and then the little girl asked her mom if she could take a picture with him. The mother then proceeds with asking the man if she can get a picture with him and he then said of course and then the two adults began talking for months.

One night he got super drunk and got in a bar fight and just wasn't happy and he started to feel angry but he felt like he could talk to this women because she made him feel comfortable in her trust. He then began with calling the lady and they talked for awhile but then asked her if she would marry him and she responded with yes. He then started hating himself for the bad things he did back in the day and really started hating his tattoos because it would remind him of everything he did that he now didn't like. Soon he started figuring out ways he could get them removed and he was lucky enough to have help from the doctors that did the laser removal. The doctor said they would cover his bill so he can have an opportunity to change his life around.





This man changed his life completely by getting a family, becoming a dad, going to church, and then getting his tattoos removed. One day he called up an old friend from his gang and the friend was a bit hesitant to answer him and hang out with him because of what people are capable of. The friend didn't know if it was a set up to beat the guy up, but then realized it was just a reach out to hang out with friends no gang relation at all. Later on in the documentary he hangs out with his friend again and realizes he was smack talking and bad mouthing this 20-year-old woman that left her on the side of the road. The man with the tattoos was not ok with that so he punched him, they are no longer friends because he doesn't know how to respect women especially because he was much older than that 20-year old that he used.

After he got into a fight with his friend he decided he wanted to reach out to this African American man that was also a preacher. He wanted to reach out to him because his whole life he was saying they were bad and didn't want anything to do with them. After three years of talking on the phone and waiting for the right time to meet they finally meet. The African American man flew down and spent time with them at their house and talked about their lives and childhood, to them this was someone they could trust but also a big step in the right direction.

After about maybe over 10 treatments he finally has gotten rid of most of his tattoos on his face, neck, and hands. He hopes that people look at him differently but that he also can look at himself differently. Until this day he's still with god and is trying to forgive himself and without all those tattoos he's dealing with forgiveness a little better.

Survey

Surveys are always really neat to use when you are trying to get opinions but without all the words and rude comments. When I did my survey I started out by doing my question as "What are impact's of having tattoo's in the workplace?". I did 8-9 questions and I tried to keep them pretty general to where not a lot of people could give me their rude comments if they didn't agree. Looking at my results I found that a lot more women were drawn to this survey than men, out of 16 people that did my survey 11 were women and 5 were men.

From all the people that did my survey, I had 14 in the age group of 18-24, 1 in the age group of 25-34, and 1 in the age group of 45-54. Half of the people who took my survey think visible tattoos are ok, 31 percent said they loved them, 12 percent strongly disliked them, and 6 percent said they didn't have an opinion. When I asked what types of tattoos do you like my class responded with mostly meaningful, hidden, and art. My class would say the purpose of a tattoo is 56 percent art, 25 percent honorary, and 6 percent self-awareness.

 I then went on by asking if they had tattoos for the reason of knowing if they say these things because they do, don't, or will never get a tattoo. My results for that question would be 25 percent said yes, 62 percent said no, and 12 percent said I don't want any. I then closed my survey with two more questions asking about their work. I wanted to know if their work allowed visible tattoos.

I got 68 percent that said yes, 18 percent said no, and 12 percent said I don't work. My next question I asked how the employer should respond to visible tattoos. My results were, 18 percent said they should allow them in all job fields, 6 percent said they shouldn't let anyone show them, 75 percent said they should allow aesthetic or job appropriate tattoos.

The information has brought me to the conclusion that in our class we have a lot more women drawn the attention of tattoos. It is hard to figure out what gender liked which question but I can see that a lot more people that are in the age group of 18-40 like or have some interest in tattoos. We see a lot of younger people having more tattoos nowadays so that makes total sense but I know from my work area I get a lot of customers that are older than 40 that comment on my tattoo and tell me it is beautiful, which leads me to the
next part.

I got that a lot of people like meaningful or art tattoos which make a lot of sense also because of a lot of tattoos nowadays are about family, friends that have passed or even children, maybe even your pets. We also get the tattoos that have art. For example, I have a tattoo on my hand and my arm it is a flower tattoo, it doesn't mean anything but I thought it was pretty so I got it. I would consider my tattoo as being art. I couldn't help but think that most these people dislike tattoos link to the ones that don't want tattoos to be visible, I just wanna know why and what is their reasoning behind it. How is it affecting them?

In the working environment

Working at Target we get all types of people. We get babies, toddlers, pre-teens, teens, adults, and elderly people. At my job, we're allowed to show our tattoos. I don't show my boy art off that much as it's super cold outside and I rather wear long sleeves and sweatshirts a lot.

Even wearing those types of clothes my tattoo peeks through because it's carried on into my hand. I don't worry about getting it covered up or always paying attention to it to get it not to show. I've been working at Target for about 5-6 months and some of the people that comment on my tattoo I get kinda shocked about. Most of the people I get comments from are from the age group 15-30 and 50-70.

 What is really shocking is that I get most my comments from the 50-70 age group. All in which say they love my tattoo it's very different, pretty, and that they love the placing. My customers frequent questions are, did it hurt? are you gonna get color? or are you gonna get more? I respond with yes, Thank you for asking.

Customers love knowing what Ideas I would like to get for my next markings. I tell them and they think my ideas are unique and different. My ideas come from ideas I see online but with a different twist, my own markings. My body art/ ideas are symbols on personal things and just life's beauty.

I personally love looking at others body art and thinking about what could those mean. Sometimes I will ask and I love hearing their personal stories and sometimes I like to just read it for myself kinda like artwork. We don't know what that drawing is about in the art place but all we can do is imagine and have our own thinking on that peace.

Background on why I chose tattoos

I chose this topic because I've been super interested in body art for a long time and I've been interested since I saw my aunt had one. When I was younger I looked up to my aunts and wanted to be like all them. I didn't just like tattoos because my aunt had them, I also had a very big interest in them. I love art, everywhere around us is beauty and art and I think that's what tattoos are about. I have tattoos myself so I'm even more interested and passionate about this topic.

I also chose this topic because I know that some companies don't let you show your tattoos. I don't understand why employers or companies don't allow employees to show off that part of them. I am annoyed by this rule so I want to dig deeper and figure out why this is a rule and figure out what can happen to make this rule not be one anymore under the circumstances. I'm trying to be biased about this research but sometimes it can and will be hard as I love tattoos and I think it's part of something special to people.

In some of my research, I learned that tattoos can maybe be a contribution to why the unemployment rate is so high. I've also learned that having the tattoo and letting them show sends of good vibes to others coming in the store or restaurant or wherever you work.

More Research

Some states are super strict on more than body art. They won’t let people with colored hair or non-groomed workers work either. Nobody should judge a book by its cover but people still do. Volkswagen is just one of few businesses that let their employees show their existing body art. They said that if an issue came about with one of their customers they would address it and figure out if it needs to be covered up or not.
perceptions on tattoos in the workplace  (hyper link)

People with bad breath are ranked higher of not getting a job than having markings on their body. Tattoos are a way of expressing yourself. If you have appropriate tattoos it should be ok to show them if you have a curse word then I get cover it up. The person with the butterfly has had a different life than the person with the curse word but we can't judge them. Tattoos shouldn't be in a workplace (hyper link)

Companies don’t wanna play favorites or say that one tattoo is ok and the other one is not so they just cut them all out. I would say always think about your future and your career path, if your gonna go into a workplace that allows you to have body art then yes get them when you are younger but if you are not then maybe you should think about not getting them. Always cover up your tattoos in interviews, that makes it so they can't judge you by what’s on your body and just on you as a person. Thinking of inking (hyper link)
Trudeau (world leader) is known to be the first known world leader to show he has a tattoo. There’s a lot of stereotypes with tattoos. Getting inked  (hyper link)

Body ink could send off a positive vibe for younger adults and make them feel more at ease in the environment. Bartenders choose people to work there that have tattoos rather than them not having tattoos. In restaurants, they didn't want waiters having body art. Researchers think that jobs should let employees have body art because it's part of this world's generation.  Visable tattoos can be an advantage for job seekers (hyper link)


Discrimination could be a factor if they decide to not let someone who has a cultural background and body markings because race could be a factor in their eyes. Tattoos have become more accepting unless it's harmful or it lowers the employer's work-ability.  What lawyers say (hyper link) Self expression (hyper link)

New and Old

This goes around I've looked into tattoos in many different ways. I wanna take it from the outside in. I've looked at how and why a lot of people get their tattoo's. I found out a lot of their tattoos come from culture or symbolizing themselves/ work field or relatives that mean something to them. Here is an article that talks more about culture and the meaning behind the person's tattoo. Culture is a big impact on tattoos. Back in the day, many cultures would get tattoos as a sign of accomplishment. Then it turned into getting tattoos for professions that they loved, example a chief would get something related to food or cooking equipment.
1. (MLA 7th Edition)


DeMello, Margo. "Half Title Page." Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014. [i]. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 Jan. 2017.

URL http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.pcc.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R1&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=pcc&inPS=true&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX6141300397&&docId=GALE|CX6141300397&docType=GALE

My second article talks more about how tattoos may be what is affect the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate could be semi high because of people having tattoos whether that be people being turned down or people being scared to even apply because they have tattoos. Managers are judging a book by its cover and not even giving some employees a chance just because of tattoos.

2. Editor-in-Chief, By Stephanie Snay |. "The Online Reflector." RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2017.

https://reflector.uindy.edu/2011/11/22/the-effect-of-tattoos-in-the-workplace/

In my third and last article, I looked at it talked about tattoos being more accepting in more workplaces. Some workplaces are totally not for it but some love to have you show that part of life. Some workplaces are starting to allow tattoos and letting them be visible. With that being said some are still covering up because of choice, certain tattoos, and just to stay in the safe zone. More of the negative impact is in the face to face jobs.

3. Singer, Annie. "Tattoos in the Workplace: The Research Forbes Was Too Lazy To Do." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2017.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-singer/tattoos-in-the-workplace-_b_9321408.html

Intro about me...

Hey there new friends,
My name's Kayla. I'm very outgoing, love to adventure, and I'm very friendly.
I'm from Dayton/ Mcminnville area but I moved to Portland right out of High School. I am currently a full-time student that goes straight to work after class.
I am working at Target and I love it there. I'm studying to be a vet tech and doing my prereq's this year, I hope to get into the vet tech program at Rock Creek next year. This term I'm taking math 65, Writing 121, and a Medical Terminology class. In my writing 121 class, we are supposed to figure out a topic to write about.
I have one idea in mind, tattoos and what the impacts are in the workplace. I want to elaborate on what others think when they see tattoos, the age group of who likes the tattoos, and what the tattoo means to the person who has it. To me I want this to show how pretty isn't everything about a tattoo or vise verse.
I've always loved tattoos, not crazy ones but the ones that piece together and have a meaning behind them. I've also worked at a lot of different places so I've seen the owners the won't let you show your tattoos and piercings and the ones that don't care and love them. Everyone has things that say as me about my so in so, we should make on that says ask me about my tattoo. It may change your thought about tattoos and also make that person show a smile and make them feel special. They may be sharing a very special story with you.