Your Family/Friend/Employer Discrimination Stories Needed
Tuesday August 5, 2008
Friends/Family - If you've been a victim of prejudice by your own family members or friends because of your tattoos or piercings, your story is needed for the book I am currently working on. Please email me at tattoo.guide@about.com with your personal experience and contact information. Please put "social discrimination" in the subject line.
Employers - If you've been discriminated against by an employer or during an interview with a potential employer, those stories are also needed. Please follow the same instructions above, but put "employer discrimination" in the subject line.
Comments
In many states employment is considered to be “at will” meaning (in part) that the employer doesn’t need to give you a reason to not hire you, or to lay you off!
The majority of people who are discriminated against by employers will not have it articulated to them, and the overwhelming majority of those who are discriminated against by friends and/or family will say nothing that everyone hasn’t heard before.
Because I’m not visibly modified a large portion of the general public treats me like a different species than those who are heavily modified. I’ve trolled airports asking about piercing discrimination and there is plenty. I know things that you aren’t supposed to know because it’s assumed that people with lots of tattoos don’t want to hear the truth, and rather live in their own world by their own rules.
How about the story of a fully certified teacher who while being interviewed by a panel was ridiculed via a passed note- you want to hear that one? (A note going > that way) “Does he have a dimple in his tongue from a tongue piercing?” (A note going