Here is the final installment of our tattoo series. I hope you have found it useful and enlightening!

Hard to know for sure, but have your tattoos ever hindered you getting a promotion or advancing within your current employer?

Reg: That’s not hard to know.  I know for a fact that it has and it’s been quite blatantly told to me that it has.  Early in my career I knew straight away I was automatically excluded from roles.  It didn’t stop me going for them, but I knew for a fact that it was never gonna happen.  The bank has a reputation and image it wants to maintain and I’m well aware that I sit outside that.

James: Sure.

Reg: So, as I said, it didn’t stop me showing that I had ambition for going for roles, even though I knew I wasn’t going to get them, and now I’ve been told quite clearly that advancement is there if I want it.  I know what I need to do to get there.  So it’s my choice to stay where I am.

James: So, have they made it really clear that, saying, ‘Look, it’s not your skills.  It’s not your experience.  It’s not even who you are.  It’s really your appearance.’

Reg: Yes.

James: That’s the only thing that holds you back from a promotion or advancement?

Reg: And then the opportunity for the advancement to be there, so obviously the role has to be there to fill.  So there’s a matter of timing comes into play, but yes.

See you next post.

All my best,

James E

James Evangelidis

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