Has anyone had any personal experience with tattoo policies in the APS?
I currently work in a government department but am planning to move on.
My current employer has no concern with visible tattoos but I’m a little concerned that I may have to conceal them in another department.
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What’s Your opinion?
Tattoo policy in the Public Service?
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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 :
+1
This is possibly the best reason for getting tattoos I’ve heard in a loooong time.
Pandy said :
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 :
That won’t get through. What about traditional Maori chin tatts etc?
VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :
Oh yes you do, at least if you’re anywhere near me.
HenryBG said :
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 :
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 :
No. No you don’t.
HenryBG said :
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 :
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 :
+1 Henry it is like your not even trying anymore.