Help Make Esuna Presentable!
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Anyway.
Coming soon, very hopefully, i'm gonna be having a job interview. The position is essentially for a website backend coder, so there won't be any dealing with clients, infact, there will be little interaction other than with the small team of people working there.
Anyway, i need to make myself look presentable.
The first thing to go is the beard, without a doubt, it's scruffy, ridiculous, and generally i only ever grew it for a joke anyway, so i don't much care about that.
The real issue here is the piercings.
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In total i have 9 facial piercings, the 3 labrets, two in left nostril, top of left earlobe, both lobes around 10mm (00 guage) and tongue. These things have stood in the way of getting me a job in a number of piercings, but to be honest, i'm really attached to them.
I don't want to hear any replies like "piercings suck, just take them out", it's not that simple. <b>Just because you don't like piercings, it doesn't mean that i don't like them either.</b>
Anyway. The lobes can come out, but they will pretty much have to stay, if i remove them, due to their size, until they heal up they look like dilated anuses. Not a pretty site, as you can imagine. And the one at the top of my left ear will stay, most people are comfortable enough with ear piercings anyway.
But this is where it gets hard to decide. The labrets will last a few hours at best before they start to heal up and become painful to put back in. Putting them back in after so long can also be bad for the health of the piercing, so i'd like to avoid doing that if possible. For the purposes of a job interview, yes they can come out, and i'm tempted to, but when it comes to a full working day (if i get the job), i won't be able to leave them out all day without inflicting quite a bit of pain on myself, which i would prefer to avoid. So with the labrets, it's literally a case of that they'll have to go if i get the job, and i can't make that kind of decision myself.
The nostril piercings, again, will start to close up pretty fast, and to make matters worse, the CBR (or BCR, depends where you're from) is extremely stiff and i don't have the necessary tool to put the balls back in after, so again, they would have to go for good should they come out.
The last one is my tongue, and is of no real issue really. Dunno why i brought it up.
So this is my dillemma. I really like all of my piercings and would prefer to not have to remove any one of them, so the option is there to just leave them all in for the interview and take my chances. But should i remove any of them for this interview? What should i do? Again, if you're just gonna flame me or post crap like "omg UR LOOK dumb TAEK TEHM OOT!!1", please, consider committing suicide before hitting "add reply".
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Say hello esuna!
<img src='http://dump.creativeblank.com/esunawave.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Anyway.
Coming soon, very hopefully, i'm gonna be having a job interview. The position is essentially for a website backend coder, so there won't be any dealing with clients, infact, there will be little interaction other than with the small team of people working there.
Anyway, i need to make myself look presentable.
The first thing to go is the beard, without a doubt, it's scruffy, ridiculous, and generally i only ever grew it for a joke anyway, so i don't much care about that.
The real issue here is the piercings.
<img src='http://dump.creativeblank.com/collage.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
In total i have 9 facial piercings, the 3 labrets, two in left nostril, top of left earlobe, both lobes around 10mm (00 guage) and tongue. These things have stood in the way of getting me a job in a number of piercings, but to be honest, i'm really attached to them.
I don't want to hear any replies like "piercings suck, just take them out", it's not that simple. <b>Just because you don't like piercings, it doesn't mean that i don't like them either.</b>
Anyway. The lobes can come out, but they will pretty much have to stay, if i remove them, due to their size, until they heal up they look like dilated anuses. Not a pretty site, as you can imagine. And the one at the top of my left ear will stay, most people are comfortable enough with ear piercings anyway.
But this is where it gets hard to decide. The labrets will last a few hours at best before they start to heal up and become painful to put back in. Putting them back in after so long can also be bad for the health of the piercing, so i'd like to avoid doing that if possible. For the purposes of a job interview, yes they can come out, and i'm tempted to, but when it comes to a full working day (if i get the job), i won't be able to leave them out all day without inflicting quite a bit of pain on myself, which i would prefer to avoid. So with the labrets, it's literally a case of that they'll have to go if i get the job, and i can't make that kind of decision myself.
The nostril piercings, again, will start to close up pretty fast, and to make matters worse, the CBR (or BCR, depends where you're from) is extremely stiff and i don't have the necessary tool to put the balls back in after, so again, they would have to go for good should they come out.
The last one is my tongue, and is of no real issue really. Dunno why i brought it up.
So this is my dillemma. I really like all of my piercings and would prefer to not have to remove any one of them, so the option is there to just leave them all in for the interview and take my chances. But should i remove any of them for this interview? What should i do? Again, if you're just gonna flame me or post crap like "omg UR LOOK dumb TAEK TEHM OOT!!1", please, consider committing suicide before hitting "add reply".
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But the thing here is first impressions. I've been turned away in the past because i didn't "fit the company image" or somesuch. If i took them out for the interview and put them back in, if i did get the job, they're most definately going to take issue with it.
Well I guess that's the way that life is, and if you take them out it probably won't help. If you're applying for a job with a nice boss, maybe he won't really care as you don't see anyone else except for your team.
You'll have to wear them all the other days when you go to work anyway, so why not when you go to the interview? I mean, if you don't wear them, they'll get the wrong impression. If you do decide to take them out, you should at least tell them that you normally wear peircings, and if they're half normal people I'm sure they'll understand.
If you keep your current image, 98% of companies will have made their decision as soon as you step in their building.
I don't know what answer you await from us, there are 2 possible ways to handle this situation and both may be wrong. I don't want to tell you what to do, this is a very personal decision, maybe a compromise: taking a few out. On the other hand, if you already take a few out, there are still some left.
Can't think more, this is verry difficult.
Good luck :D
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Sad but true. No clue where such policies come from, but the policy makers don't tend to live on the intarweb like us NewGen kiddies...
The only place for those kind of looks(read: pierced to all hell) tends to be universities, piercing shops, bartending, and Hot Topic, I'm afraid...
Personally the Laberets(sp?) are hella intimidating... Everything else will just mildly creep out your interviewer.
1) Wear the piercings, and tell the employer that you don't want to remove them.
2) Take them off for the interview, but inform the person intervieing you that you do wear piercings and will wear them on the job.
Some of them he can't take off because he can't put them back on. Suspense++!
After much pondering on this issue esuna, I have devised a devious plan! the plan is to simply wear something that will act as a distraction, cleverly averting eyes away from your piercings.
Example:
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Piercings? What piercings?
Just tell the employer that you hope your apperiance doesn't play a role in the decision making process. Point out that you have the peircings, but that they don't effect your work ethics and that you can be very professional with them.
Honestly, I'd rather hire a person with facial peircings that has a personallity than some drab, boresome, uninteresting, pathetic waste of a human body. But that's me.
Also, don't drag on about them so that it sounds like an obsession. Just meirly bring up that they're there. If they bring it up, politly say somthing along the lines of "I'm here to talk about my qualifications, not the bits of metal extruding from my face you ****", again, politly <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I agree. This is one of those things you can get away with sometimes if you have a cool interviewer.
Good idea. If i turned up in a nice little pink dress they'd forget about the piercings and beard. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
not a piercing guy myself so I don't know the ropes, but don't they have piercing hole retainers for certain types of piercings? like some invisible thing you stick in there so it doesn't close?
I honestly think it doesn't matter. If you do decide not to take them out, which is what I'd do, just make sure you're not preoccupied about your image in the interview.
Go in there with an air (heir?) of confidence and show them that you are the best person for the job. Show how skilled you are at the job, how you would benefit them and I like to ask what they, the company, can offer me if they had the pleasure of me joining. This is a good way to reverse the power tables while also demonstrating that you're geared towards personal success. Demonstrate you can be a team player etc. so that you'll be a valued asset to the team.
It's all <b>B</b>ovine <b>S</b>lurry but I do it every time and it really works.
[Edit:] Having read the last few comments I do think that you should consider making a good impression with the things you can change. Your clothing and general appearance. If you want a beard, fine. Just trim it neat and business-like. Stick on a suit and tie and if even if you hate wearing one, you can haggle about work clothes later when you've got the job. GL btw.
If you're going to get your foot in the door then you'll have to remove them permanently.
If you decide to keep them, post in this thread twelve months later and let us know how you're getting on.
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for truth.
He didnt get a job (more than one too) with that until he made his hair brown again.
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Id take them out, or look to find a job where your employers are just as inclined to have more piercings than you.
If you're going to get your foot in the door then you'll have to remove them permanently.
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Well my last job had no problems whatsoever, hell, i even had bright red hair when i turned up for the interview. And my job before that was when i got most of my piercings since i would get them in my lunch hour since there was a piercer's across the road, again, there was no issue.
Oh, and thanks for considering me a degenerate, nice to know that there's still shallow ****wits around the boards.
Getting a paycheck and paying your bills, or sticking a bunch of **** in your face.
It doesn't matter what they think as long as your priorities are clear.
OK. Prove me wrong in a year.
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[Edit:] My avatar should not be used as proof or indication of how I look.
Yup-become the company ****.
Just like that guy on office space....
Walk in, and if you see em lookin at you funny just be like, "ha ha ha dont be scared, there just peircings" or something.
Say something to make them be like, "woh this is the kind of attitude we need! <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> "
But seriously, can't you go half way and at least switch the labrets with something smaller and less obvious? At least only the time being.