soo i cant use a word professionalness instead of professionalism when you idiots use words and phrases like "leet sauce" or "kewl"? good talk
that word is not half as bad as some of the words you people make up around here. you might as well discredit the majority of the post on the internet then.
Actually, the reason people don't tend to hire people that look a certain way isn't because they don't want people like that representing them. Its based on broad generalization.
When someone wears tatoos, piercings, or look "lazy" or "slobby", its
most of the time not because they don't like the way they look. They put them inside a box, and think "This guy looks lazy", and thus assume he will be the type that comes late to work, doesn't pull his weight etc. That's what's called First Impression. Someone with piercings and tatoos doesn't necessarily look lazy and slobby, but it DOES send a message about how the person is as a person. It isn't necessarily true, but its a safe card not to hire them.
Then there's the places like Hooters that only hire a certain type of person, but that is more often than not people that work directly with customers. For example, a store selling skating clothes will not want to hire someone dressed like a rich brat, because that's not the kind of style they represent.
If you're looking for a desk job, its better to dress respectable, since that's the message you want to send out. If you want to keep your tatoos, piercings etc. its better to look for a job that fits your style, like a CD store. Finding a girl and finding a job is pretty much the same deal. You're selling yourself. You hide your bad sides, and talk a lot about your good sides. And you can lie a bit too. Its the very same thing, really.
However, the same does not apply when attending a school, in my opinion. Schools should encourage their students to find themselves, who
they are as a person. What they represent, etc. By putting them inside a box and forcing them to dress and look a certain way that they don't feel comfortable with, just isn't beneficial.
Even those 12-year old kids dressing like Peris Hilton is, in a way, expressing themselves. They're screaming of low self-esteem and attention. But that's who they are. They're still in the process of finding themselves.
