Nose Ring At Work

[majorcatfish]

sounds like you need to update dress code/ personal appearance in your employee/pre-hire hand book....of course you need to have it look over by an attorney, so you dont step on someone's sorry ass feelings...

what would martha think if nose ring walked in and said here's your dog..?

 

[seedcorn]

She’d be fine. After all prison hardened her....... tough times.

 

[baymule]

@majorcatfish and @flowerbug I do not have nose rings in the hogs noses. But the next ones I raise will be nose ringed. I'm tired of the craters they dig. It ain't like they're hungry, they have plenty to eat and drink. Pigs are destructive.

@Nyboy I do not have a nose ring. Nose rings are for hogs. I do not have a tattoo. My ears are pierced, but only one hole per ear lobe, not 16 per ear. None of those stretched out ear holes that look so weird either.

 

[Beekissed]

I have a new employee he is in his 20s been here about a month. His job does require him to interact with clients. I have been very happy with is work, shows up early works hard. He was off for weekend came to work today wearing a nose ring, I hate those things !!!!!!! I think they are nasty am going back and forth about asking him to remove during work hours. In todays world of body art, full tattoos and piecing does it brother you ?

I agree with Bob, which is a miracle unto itself....but the nose ring is a safety issue. A dog can snag a claw in that and rip it right out. People caring for the elderly are not allowed to have piercings of that kind due to the incidents of such things being torn out by the patients when they are agitated. I can imagine the same issue happens when animals are stressed by grooming.

I'm glad he removed it for you. You may take this incident as a cue for future employees and make it a work policy.

And, yes, it all bothers me. I see a generation so obsessed with getting attention that they will get all manner of body deformities to get it. How sad is it to have so little self worth that they count their bodies as a throw away item, to be covered in graffiti, stretched, pierced, or otherwise modified beyond its normal appearance.

My sons have struggled to find girls to date who do not have tattoos and abnormal piercings. Finding an unmarred young lady is like finding a needle in a haystack. I can only imagine it's even more difficult in more urban areas.

 

[Collector]

I draw the line at facial hardware no thanks. When I was in late teens maybe 20 I liked this gal the worked at a salon. We went out for a brief while, and let her talk me in to getting my ear pierced and doing up my hair. As soon as my friends and family saw me all duded up they let me have it lol. Couple days later I told her I really didn’t want to look like some pirate Billy Idol idiot and ditched her. Best thing I ever did for those around me. I don’t mind colored hair or a few tattoos, hog ring no.

 

[canesisters]

@majorcatfish and @flowerbug I do not have nose rings in the hogs noses. But the next ones I raise will be nose ringed. I'm tired of the craters they dig. It ain't like they're hungry, they have plenty to eat and drink. Pigs are destructive.

@Nyboy I do not have a nose ring. Nose rings are for hogs. I do not have a tattoo. My ears are pierced, but only one hole per ear lobe, not 16 per ear. None of those stretched out ear holes that look so weird either.

I had no idea that nose rings kept pigs from rooting!!!
Hadn't really thought about WHY people would put a ring in their noses.. learned something new.

 

[Nyboy]

She’d be fine. After all prison hardened her....... tough times.

 

[Nyboy]

He did not have nose ring when I hired him. He looked like a clean cut young man. He told my groomer that he is making almost double the money he did at last job. He would have to been brain dead to quit job rather then remove ring. I though nose rings on animals made them easier to move. Why do bulls get ringed ? or is that only in cartoons ?

 

[canesisters]

Bulls get a ring to lead/tie them with - it can be hard to get their attention...

 

[digitS']

One of my most dramatic experiences in life was Dad "ringing" the bull.

I had a good relationship with our cows, grew up with some of them. The bull was different but we got along okay, at a distance.

He took an interest in the neighbor's cows. Pushed through our fence of electric wire, cattle fencing and two lines of barbwire. Sheesh. I had real trouble getting him back through the fence.

Dad proposed to put a ring in his nose. Drove him into the squeeze shoot built from posts, 2 by 6's with 2 by 4's over the top. The ring went in. He raised up and made kindling out of that shoot! Dad backed up the corral fence holding a long chain attached to the ring. Tossed it back at the bull's feet.

He went through that fence one more time, to visit the neighbor's herd. The chain tangled in the barbwire. I rescued him. He was as gentle as a lamb coming back over the fence with me holding his chain. He never attempted crossing it again and we removed the chain after another week or so.

Think a nose ring might make you look like a trendsetting trailblazer? Not to some of us ...

Steve