Should people with visible face/neck and other tattoos be employed in customer-facing roles?

I think most people would say 'no' but I'm interested to hear other people's views? In my industry (railways - freight) we are not always in customer-facing situations but sometimes we are.

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smiler2012 · 61-69

@zonavar68 🤔rather judgemental they could be perfect nice people and competent at there job . should not sterotype them because they have tattoo as bad people 🤷

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@smiler2012 I specifically said 'customer-facing' roles for that reason. In many jobs, people with lots of tattoos on arms/legs/etc. are required to cover them as a condition of employment. Face/neck ones are a lot harder to conceal, same as having excessive body jewelery, etc. on the face etc. areas.

smiler2012 · 61-69

@zonavar68 why should they cover them if the tattoos are not suggesting anything that may offend 🤷

zonavar68 · 56-60, M

@smiler2012 businesses have the right to specify whatever standards of presentation they deem necessary. Including whether or not visible body art besides basic things is acceptable. They can hire or not accordingly. In my job being industrial plenty of people have visible tattoos but when I used to drive passenger trains staff in frontline passenger facing roles were required to not have visible tattoos.

smiler2012 · 61-69

@zonavar68 but if that is the case is this not victimisation