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Earrings in the workplace

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leighmundo40:
All down to workplace requirements and personal tastes. My workplace asks any employees to remove nose studs, lip rings, big earings, because we go into schools and meetings around child protection issues and it isnt deemed professional.

My personal taste is that I dont like tattoos or extreme piercings. Bit old fashioned like that! the ear piercings where the ear gets stretched out big freaks me out!

But again, it's up to the individual. If you want a career in a certain field, then you have to adapt your look I guess

Blitzed:
I was invited to a board meeting of a Fortune 500 corporation. Some of the members did have one, a few, two, but the most noticeable "ring" was their senior counsel who had a pierced septum and a bull ring through it. Of course, he didn't have any earrings.

What you wear has a bearing on how accepted it may be. This is personal taste but some young man with tunnels that you could drive a Volkswagen through has already made a statement of some sort. It might be hard for many "corporate cultures" to accept something like that. It's also about the person, if they're basically likable and make an effort to integrate themselves into their situation then their selection in jewelry or tats is probably going to be more accepted.

I'm a corporate officer, didn't start getting ink until I was in my late 60's and now have ten rather large ones. (32" wide and 17" high for my chest piece.) I'll eventually have at least one sleeve and it's quite likely they'll say, "look at that old fool, trying to be young." But this is what I would have done when I was young had I not grown up in the era of conformity and repression.

Sir Harry:
Through my years in the military, I have met many men and women with piercing holes....and not just in the ears. For obvious reasons, men are not allowed to wear earrings of any kind on duty and women's earrings choices are pretty limited. I have seen many tattoos, which are permitted as long as they are in areas that can be covered by the uniform, especially when wearing the dress blues uniform. Many of the guys have the holes and/or covers that Bill mentioned, but once off duty they wore them (except in a combat zone). I never paid attention to either, because it was more about getting yourself and your brothers and sisters in arms home safely....At my civilian job, I have seen a few guys wear a stud but the dress code is pretty lax, as the majority of us are going to get dirty at some point. I guess this adds up to the old adage (in most cases) "When in Rome, do as the Romans do....

VoodooSyxx:
It's pretty common in my type of work. Typically at least one in three guys has their ears or other parts pierced and plenty of tats. Most of the guys have their ears gauged at least some. Mine are at a 6g, but honestly it wasn't even a matter of being interested in stretching. My lobes are just too darn fat to heal properly with normal earrings, so I started at 12g. Every now and then I get the urge to go up a size, but I don't see me getting up to the ginormous plugs some of the dudes are sportin.

Switchy:
Depends on where you work and what you are doing and want to do.  I have no problems with different items but a person has to use the Golden Rule.  Understand your job and how it will effect it .  If you want to get to the top.  If you dicide to change jobs, and can't wear large earing's and you have to take them out are you going to have to saggy bobb's with holes in them hanging .  Looking like  ;D

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