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Derelict
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Swastika tattoo
#5351827 - 03/01/06 12:04 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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We have a new guy at work. Like some of the other employees, he has several tattoos. Cool. I noticed one of them is a swastika... on the top of his right hand. Very visible area, especially when doing cash transactions.
In my neck of the woods, confederate flags tend to be par for the course, but their meaining can be open to more speculation ("heritage not hate," etc.) Its a redneck cultural thing; kind of like the mentally disabled kid with an erection, you just ignore it, ignorance (on both parties) being bliss.
However, this is a free country, and people are entitled to their own (albiet often misguided) opinions.
I work in the pizza delivery business. While the respectability and prestige factor isn't that high, there should be some standards. Really, I work for one of the majors, and they're all about company image (I can't even wear this ass kickin' white belt I've got).
I work for tips. I try and look decent and presentable, and this guy with his proclamation of bigotry and ignorance is making ME look bad(and in some roundabout way costing me money ie loss of tips/customer goodwill).
Suggestions, comments? Maybe a bandage is in order for the guy? A cover up job? Simple discretion?
OR Should I just chill the fuck out?
Thanks.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5351836 - 03/01/06 12:07 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Chill, as people should on most things.
"The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism, Heathenry and Buddhism."
Ya never know. I'd bet it wasn't for those though. 
As long as he doesn't specifically offend you, leave it be...
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pantsboy
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Kick his ass and get him fired. There is no room for inappropriate conduct in the pizza business. I personally wouldn't buy food from a place where the cashier has swastikas tattoed on him.
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5351849 - 03/01/06 12:11 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just become friends with the guy who knows you might learn from him.Then get him drunk and tattoo gary coleman on his forehead
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5351866 - 03/01/06 12:16 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Send him to a concentration camp.
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: buckwheat]
#5351868 - 03/01/06 12:16 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mcdoopy
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Quote:
McKennaDMT said: Chill, as people should on most things.
As long as he doesn't specifically offend you, leave it be...
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Mcdoopy]
#5351882 - 03/01/06 12:23 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It probably is offending the customers.
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Mcdoopy
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: pantsboy]
#5351884 - 03/01/06 12:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Then let them say something.
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5351887 - 03/01/06 12:26 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Have him deliver a pizza to some guy with a Jewish-sounding name.
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5351890 - 03/01/06 12:26 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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For all you know, it may be a "mistake-tattoo". There might've been a point in his life where he was rather..niave, or just plain stupid and got caught up in some group-gang mentality and ended up getting tattooed and screwed. But even if he couldn't afford to have it removed, you'd think he could at least do a cover-up if he actually regretted it.
I used to know a guy who had a massive swastika on his back, as well as several other swastikas around his body [none explicitly visible]. He was a tattoo artist, and looked intriguingly similar to Edward Norton in American History X. He ended up getting the swazi on his back partially covered up, so he could enlist in the military - only to decide that the military wasn't for him. Now he's a store manager, and has obviously wisened up a bit.
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Just wait until a customer like me walks in and knocks him out. If it doesnt happen, than I dont think its an issue. See ive always felt that free speech is perfectly fine, but you have to be prepared for a guy to knock you out.
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SkorpivoMusterion said: For all you know, it may be a "mistake-tattoo". There might've been a point in his life where he was rather..niave, or just plain stupid and got caught up in some group-gang mentality and ended up getting tattooed and screwed. But even if he couldn't afford to have it removed, you'd think he could at least do a cover-up if he actually regretted it.
I used to know a guy who had a massive swastika on his back, as well as several other swastikas around his body [none explicitly visible]. He was a tattoo artist, and looked intriguingly similar to Edward Norton in American History X. He ended up getting the swazi on his back partially covered up, so he could enlist in the military - only to decide that the military wasn't for him. Now he's a store manager, and has obviously wisened up a bit.
If he wasn't still with it he would have gotten that shit changed up to something else
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TheCow said: See ive always felt that free speech is perfectly fine, but you have to be prepared for a guy to knock you out.
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: pantsboy]
#5352219 - 03/01/06 04:15 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Pants Boy said: There is no room for inappropriate conduct in the pizza business.
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rawtoxic
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Everyplace like that I remember working for had a no visible tatoo policy usually.
When I worked at Domino's no earings, jewelry or anything allowed. They even thought they controlled under shirt color and sock color. Talk about Nazis 
Just wait until a 300LB nig asks him about that thing on his hand. That'll be the day.
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Prisoner#1
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Quote:
RandalFlagg said:
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Pants Boy said: There is no room for inappropriate conduct in the pizza business.
I've seen the movies, pizza delivery is all about inapropriate conduct
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McKennaDMT said: Chill, as people should on most things.
"The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism, Heathenry and Buddhism."
Ya never know. I'd bet it wasn't for those though. 
As long as he doesn't specifically offend you, leave it be...
I'm not sure but i think their swastikas are usually inverted...
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5352895 - 03/01/06 09:44 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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"The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism, Heathenry and Buddhism."
Ask him if he is a Buddhist, if he says no press his hand to the oven 
Umm on a serious note: you clearly take offense, and you don't have to be a minority to take offense at a swastika. I'd say complain to the manager that it's rude and makes the place look bad, because it is. Recommendations by friends are oimportant to small businesses and you can bet many good customers would DISrecommend such a place to their friends. It might attract bigot yahoos, the nightmare of most managers.
It brings the whole place down in the eyes of many people, and you work there to. Complain.
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I'm not sure but i think their swastikas are usually inverted...
The ancient cultures honor the symbol for thousands of years, so it's hjitler who inverted it, not them
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5352902 - 03/01/06 09:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Chill the fuck out.
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JonnyOnTheSpot
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Re: Swastika tattoo [Re: Derelict]
#5352973 - 03/01/06 10:09 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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just spray a bunch of white power graffiti all over the bathroom walls. that should get him fired.
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