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Well it IS so common today that Nobody should be shocked At All~! Sure you may take a 2nd lok but Move on it IS called Individualism. Don't judge anyone by their Outward appearance. Heck I sold stable equipment many years ago. A guy stop by in a ragged looking t-shirt old tennis shows hole in the side of one. Did I think for once he did not have money enough to buy what he was looking at? Well a little but then Who Am I To Judge. He bought several hundred dollars all stuff. Well the moral of the story is this. I Later found out He OWNED not only the Pepsi Bottling Plant where I went to HS, BUT Also owned a Chevy Dealership~!!!!
I pulled into a very very fancy horse ranch in MN. I had my farm name on the car but that was it. But it was a old Rusty Chevy. Did I get turned away NOPE. I got the red carpet treatment and got to see the entire farm. Yes Do NOT judge a person just from what you see on the outside~!!!!!! And That my fellow person Do Not judge a person by the color of their Skin either.~!!!!!!! Like so many are doing today. Some ought to hang their heads in SHAME at that practice~!
Apparently amputation as a fetish is big these days.
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I'll take the green-haired, pierced, tattooed guy who loads my plywood in the truck at Home Depot swiftly, efficiently, and with a pleasant attitude over the clean cut guy who stands over in the shade giving customers the stink-eye and only grudgingly helping when his manager forces him to.
Maybe it's just Hawaii with their cultural affinity for tattoos and piercings, but if I had to wait for a 'normal looking person' at a store then it would make for a very long day indeed. I'm just happy to get good food or good customer service.
I had to go thru 62 employees to find 3 that didnt look like freaks, or they worked in an ink factory.
My customers were old school, and didnt put up with a loser looking people or they vote with their feet...
That's fine.
I expect my banker to look a specific way, and different from the kid who sells me fishing lures.
A lot of those things start out as cultural "I'm not in the system" flags. When I had long hair it was because I was outside of the system. I looked non-hirable because I wanted to look like I wasn't anyone's hire.
But the more and more people who do it the more mainstream those flags become and so that fringe edge is always looking for something a little weirder.
If you're judging people's work ethic or intelligence based on those cultural looks then you're probably the stupid one. I've been around in a lot of industries and I've seen some HIGHLY competent people who looked like they just rolled out of a hippy van on a beach somewhere.
When I lived in Austin during the dot-com boom, one of the things that was so very noticeable was how WELL all the salesman treated you. Normally if you don't look like money and you walk into a furniture store, you're not going to get the best attention from the sales staff. But during the dot-com boom ... ANYONE could be a millionaire so the stores all put their best foot forward. That kid in the tank-top, cut-offs, and flip-flops might just be the multi-millionaire on the cover of Forbes last week and willing to drop $30k on patio furniture on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
ETA:
The inverse is probably true too though. If you show up at a job interview in an industry which doesn't tolerate that look ... and you look like that .... you'd better damned well be as good as you claim you are.
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