Didn't we cover this topic a few weeks ago? It didn't bring out the best in people, as I remember it.
Ok, totally hypothetical question here but I am curious what most people would pick. If you could hire one of, and only one of these two guys who would it be. The guy who had hair like Troy Polamalu's and has no tattoos, or the guy with the nice haircut but has full tattoo sleeves...........I have attached photos for your viewing pleasure.
Basically what I am after is what would be more of a turn off to an employer, the hair or the tattoos? You have to treat them both the same, thus to say since the tattoos are permanent, then you cannot just tell the guy with the long hair to go get a haircut.
Didn't we cover this topic a few weeks ago? It didn't bring out the best in people, as I remember it.
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oh c'mon its all in fun, I was just curious. For those insecure people who have to make a big deal out of a hypothetical question, they are just silly and over-dramatic.
no one forces anyone to reply to these posts, if you feel it is worthless move on, it won't hurt my feelings.
I pick the dude with the long hair. If he has the patience and ability to grow that kinda hair maybe his patience on a heat pump malfunctioning in 95 degree weather will be just as good.
If they can both do the job, the longhair is only a hairut away from looking the part. No way would I hire someone with that many tattoos, unless I was looking for a tattoo artist, not an HVAC tech.
If the hair really was permanent, I still think it looks better than the tattoos, and I think our customers would be more comfortable with clean long hair than tattoos.
I have met plenty of longhairs that looked presentable. In this trade, tattoos and long greasy hair go together. They often come with DUI's, substance abuse, absenteeism, and crappy work. I keep hoping to be surprised. We just hired 3 more tattoo'd longhairs, I probably won't learn all their names before they are gone.
Jason
I just read my reply, and I sound like my father. He used to address men with long hair as "Sally." Then I find old pictures of him in the 70's with long hair! I think we both like to be grouchy old men.
Jason
Hair can be cut, tattoos can be covered.
If either guy was going to be dealing with the home owners,general public, then I'd have a hard time employing either.
If it were new construction/retro-fit work, I really don't see a problem.
I think a lot of the arguments here, are from people automatically thinking everybody else is in the residential sector. Not all of us are, there's a lot of different facets of this business/trade where looks don't matter one bit.
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Tattoo vs. long hair.
I view them differently, and I think it runs deep in the psyche.
One I see as resistance on a benevolent level, while the other I see as branding on a semi-tribal, level. Owners have always branded property. In the case of other humans, either forcibly or to prove acceptance ... Never made them grow hair, as far as I know. The same way they tattoo a purebred's ear, this proves acceptance into the fraternity of Pugs or Schnauzers.
Independence vs. acceptance. Almost like the Left vs. Right thingy... again... eh?
Personally, I want the person who knows their stuff or is willing to learn hard and fast. I run a business... not your life. You are here for a reason. Once YOU forget that, I have to put aside my daily work and take on more... That's when I start thinking long and hard about the person I hired.
Then again... Gandhi didn't have hair, now did he...
Is this a Fabreze moment? C.Y.D. I'm voting white elephant. 2¢.
IF that's the only difference, I'm hiring the tattoo'd guy but he's getting long sleeve uniform shirts.
Both may be great employees but my wife's 90 year old grandmother would refuse to let either of these guys in if they knocked on her door with a toolbox in hand and that sort of thing has to be considered when you own a service business.
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If they have the same other qualifiers, I guess it would be how they presented themselves if they both came into the office looking like the pictures then neither, if the tattoo guy came into the office with long sleeves and wore long sleeve uniform and the long hair guy came with his hair pulled back and looking professional then it really doesn't matter which one I hire.
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Personally for me it would be the tattooed guy because long sleeves cover it however I hate long hair and earings on guys and . I watched my old man pull an earinng right out of my brothers ear growing up so I always wondered what he would do if one of us got a tattoo. I like having two arms I guess my dads beliefs about long haired hippie people have stuck with me. Whether I like to admit it or not I am way too much like my dad. Tattoos are fine with me if they can be covered but I just cringe when I see people with them on their hands or up the back of their neck. Whether or not its right imo they made their life a lot harder for the sake oif some ink.
I have exposed tattoos on my arms so maybe I am biased. I have though worked for some of the biggest residential companies around. Now, I do not have any vulgar or scary tattoos either..I believe that makes a difference.
Who you going to trust the guy with a tattoo that says by the grace of God, and King of Kings around a cross...orrr the guy with a naked chick with a swazi on her forehead?
Most people haven't even noticed my tattoo's and I do a lot of work with the elderly, occasionaly one will ask and I'll explain to em what they mean I might not share with them my whole story but assure them I'm not a thug or an axe murderer.
I think being clean, smelling nice, not looking like a homeless person or smelling like a nicotene freight train is more important.
Now by the end of the day no promises but carry around some febreeze and maybe an extra shirt..I always get too close to my work.
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Clean cut is what most clients are looking for, so hiring clean cut employees is what it takes to run a profitable business.
A person is free to look however they want to, but I am free to hire whoever I want to as well as long as I do not discriminate based on race, sex, religion or sexual persuasion.