I've been an IT professional for 20 years, and have had piercings and tats for 10 of those years. Knowing what kind of small-minded, prejudiced people like solafide are out there, I've been careful to get my tats and piercings in places that easily covered, with one exception: my pierced tongue which, depending upon the company, I take out when I work.
I've noticed that the large Fortune 500 companies that I've worked for have had no problems with such things. It's been the smaller companies that seem to think that such things affect the quality of one's work. It would appear that, in this instance, the larger companies are more enlightened.
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I've been an IT professional for 20 years, and have had piercings and tats for 10 of those years. Knowing what kind of small-minded, prejudiced people like solafide are out there, I've been careful to get my tats and piercings in places that easily covered, with one exception: my pierced tongue which, depending upon the company, I take out when I work.
I've noticed that the large Fortune 500 companies that I've worked for have had no problems with such things. It's been the smaller companies that seem to think that such things affect the quality of one's work. It would appear that, in this instance, the larger companies are more enlightened.