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My friend is thinking of getting her nose pierced. She works an office job in a moderately liberal/moderately conservative setting. I've told her to wait and see, or ask around about it. She says there's nothing in policy preventing it in the dress code. She's said she has even noticed some companies using employee models with tattoos and piercings in their recruitment ads lately. Have you noticed society loosening up in this regard? Advice (so I can show her this thread)?
There is no practical benefit to getting one's nose pierced.
1) Just because there's nothing in the policy against it doesn't mean that the policy will remain the same. And if it changes, now she has a problem after getting the piercing.
2) Even if her current company is the most liberal and tolerant one on the planet, what happens when she goes to work someplace else? The hard reality is that the more piercing and tattoos you have, the fewer job options are available to you.
Note that society's views on piercings and tattoos may not be "right," but they still exist nonetheless. Personally, if I were hiring for a customer-related position, I'd want to minimize piercing and tattoos not because I really care, but because somebody else might and a customer might be lost.
As has been said, just because you can, doesn't mean you are well served to do so. Where I work (in an legal office environment), we have no official dress code. One guy apparently likes to wear t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops to work during the summer. I on the other hand, despite not being required to, wear slacks and a polo to work 98% of the time. 1% of the time I may wear jeans (if I come in on a Saturday or I am taking off part of the day to go somewhere else) and 1% of the tie dress clothes (when out-of-town guests are visiting). Why? Because I want to move up. I want to be taken seriously. I don't want to seem too casual.
One of the female managers has a tongue ring at my work, but I wouldn't advise one of my coworkers to get one lol
What if she wants to work somewhere else in the future? I worked at a law firm that did not allow visible tattoos, so women who had them on their ankles had to cover them with make-up every day. I suppose this is why tattoo removal services are doing so well.
What if she wants to work somewhere else in the future? I worked at a law firm that did not allow visible tattoos, so women who had them on their ankles had to cover them with make-up every day. I suppose this is why tattoo removal services are doing so well.
This. While I could probably get arm-length tattoo sleeves at my current job and still wear short-sleeve shirts , most of the legal profession wouldn't be so accepting.
Plenty of directors in my office have tattoos, even the regional director.
A little heart on her ankle.
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