Tattoo policy in the Public Service?

Tattoos should be the least of any pube’s worries.

I wish Department’s would lay into people who take multiple ciggie breaks every hour and people who spend all day making personal, sometimes intimate, sometimes aggressive phonecalls… so many staff issues, tatts aint one.

Numerous AFP officers have tattoos and are visible to the public while on general duties, facial tattoos are not allowed unless it is for religious beliefs. So I can’t see a problem, go for it!
If you get the job celebrate by getting some new ink done, if you don’t get the job maybe it was because you didn’t have enough tatts!!
Cheers

Having worked at PM&C, I assure you that profound eccentricity and social dysfunction is no barrier – as long as you are a brilliant workaholic.

Still, that lets out 99.99% of us.

dpm said :

Pandy said :

…You wont go far (at least in Prime Ministers or Foreign Office) having too many visible tatts…

Oh well, in that case, I may as well end it all now. There’s no point in me going on.
My dream in life was to ‘get far’ in the Foreign Office. Why didn’t someone warn me earlier…???
Hahahahaha!

+1

This is possibly the best reason for getting tattoos I’ve heard in a loooong time.

Pandy said :

…You wont go far (at least in Prime Ministers or Foreign Office) having too many visible tatts…

Oh well, in that case, I may as well end it all now. There’s no point in me going on.
My dream in life was to ‘get far’ in the Foreign Office. Why didn’t someone warn me earlier…???
Hahahahaha!

IMHO having tatts makes you a testosterone induced pushy hippie with BO. I will always think you are strange and wont give you the time of day.

You wont go far (at least in Prime Ministers or Foreign Office) having too many visible tatts, unless you look like Sporty Rice.

So you have been warned

Tootza said :

I work for a department that is currently consulting on draft guidelines that will require that they be covered up whilst on duty.

That won’t get through. What about traditional Maori chin tatts etc?

VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :

aceofspades said :

What about my Prince Albert? Do I have to keep that covered also?

No. No you don’t.

Oh yes you do, at least if you’re anywhere near me.

HenryBG said :

People with tattoos shouldn’t be able to get security clearances. Which means no PS jobs for criminals.

As much as I’d like to simply enter the fray with a similar comment to my co-poster (which are all spot on), I’m going to take the bait this one time and ask:

Why, Henry, should body art preclude someone from obtaining a security clearance?

I assume, with a blanket statement like the one you’ve made, you’d also expect anyone in the military to be ink free, therefore kicking out any who’ve inked with their brothers and sisters in arms and precluding anyone with existing ink from joining?

To the OP…

You don’t suppose having this brainwave would have better occurred before getting inked in a fashion that may inhibit future employment?

Reminds me of this – http://us8.memecdn.com/sorry-we-are-not-hiring_o_180828.jpg

Worked at several departments without issue regarding my tattoos, although they are upper arms only.

HenryBG, you should try harder, mate. You’re efforts really are slipping, and it will be reflected in your performance review.

VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :

aceofspades said :

What about my Prince Albert? Do I have to keep that covered also?

No. No you don’t.

Oh good, I was worried people might judge me by it.

Ahoi-hoi,

I have tattoos on both hands and forearms, and in the 8 years I have worked in the ACT public service, it has never been raised as an issue. Not even slightly.

aceofspades said :

What about my Prince Albert? Do I have to keep that covered also?

No. No you don’t.

HenryBG said :

People with tattoos shouldn’t be able to get security clearances. Which means no PS jobs for criminals.

I do hope you express this opinion to a Maori with ta moko.

And I had the right accent on that and my computer ate it.

What about my Prince Albert? Do I have to keep that covered also?

Flyinghurts said :

HenryBG said :

People with tattoos shouldn’t be able to get security clearances. Which means no PS jobs for criminals.

While we’re at it, should we stop giving security clearances to people with piercings? Maybe people who smoke shouldn’t get clearances due to their addiction to nicotine? Public servants who drink alcohol might have lowered inhibitions while drinking, can’t risk a security breach there so they should probably be booted out of the APS too.

Does the BG at the end of your user name stand for bigot?

Nah, you’re forgetting Henry is OK with drinking (and drink driving). Didn’t you know? He could drink us all under the table and still qualify on pole at Bathurst! Losers…

oh, and answering the question: i worked in DoHA they had no problem with visible tattoo’s (none that I heard of at least) ….

I have chest, arm and legs tattoo’d and wore a short sleeve top to interview and all through summer

isn’t it some form of discrimination …. or did they change that??

rosscoact said :

Flyinghurts said :

HenryBG said :

People with tattoos shouldn’t be able to get security clearances. Which means no PS jobs for criminals.

While we’re at it, should we stop giving security clearances to people with piercings? Maybe people who smoke shouldn’t get clearances due to their addiction to nicotine? Public servants who drink alcohol might have lowered inhibitions while drinking, can’t risk a security breach there so they should probably be booted out of the APS too.

Does the BG at the end of your user name stand for bigot?

Nah BG stands for troll.

Henry, I’m getting a little disappointed, the passion and ingenuity seems to have gone out of your trolling. It seems like you’re just going through the motions now.

Can we help? If you let it all out we could perhaps come up with a strategy to get you firing on all cylinders again.

+1 Henry it is like your not even trying anymore.