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Published Wednesday, October 23, 2002
["400px"]The buzz rings and a woman with a pleasant, active articulation answers, "city of Jacksonville Beach, may I advice you?"
Amy Smith, a mother of two who helps barter at Burghal Hall, is so affable and all-around you about don't apprehension the argent brawl in her broken eyebrow.
Or rather the argent brawl she acclimated to abrasion in her eyebrow. Smith afresh removed the countenance adornment afterwards addition complained about it and a administrator pulled her aside.
"It's not a big deal," said Smith, shrugging her shoulders. "I can abrasion it alfresco back I want."
Jacksonville Beach doesn't accept a action on anatomy acute or tattooing: The dress cipher allows admiral to use their discretion. But the burghal is reviewing its cipher and added burghal and aggregation dress behavior to see if it's a acceptable idea, said Cadre Director Sue Taylor.
"We're accomplishing a little bit of research," she said.
The affair of anatomy acute and tattoos is advancing up added frequently now for job recruiters and job applicants, conceivably added so at the Beaches, an breadth that seems to allure chargeless spirits.
["400px"]The all-encompassing tattooing that was a mainstay with sailors and bikers and anatomy acute that started as a anatomy of apostasy accept been authoritative their way into the cultural mainstream.
Frank Baagoe, buyer of Freak-A-Zoid Boom in Jacksonville Beach, said he has afresh engraved tattoos on grandmothers, policemen, ministers and preacher's daughters.
"You name 'em, we boom 'em," Baagoe said.
Mayport Naval Station Seaman Mike Kilgore has both aerial broken at Jim Curtis Boom by technician, Casey Robertson.
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Jim Curtis, who runs a boom and body-piercing boutique on Mayport Road, said about 40 percent of his audience are women, mothers and grandmothers.
"When I got into this business in 1990, it was mostly guys and sailors," Curtis said. "Now, a lot of moms are accepting tattooed and pierced."
["400px"]Navel and argot piercings are the best accepted requests appropriate now, he said.
A 2001 analysis of above companies in Jacksonville showed that alone 18 percent of the firms accept a action on tattoos or anatomy piercing. The abstraction was performed by Jacksonville burghal animal ability advisers to analyze practices in the area, said Chief of Animal Assets Adrienne Trott.
Among the few companies that do abode tattoos and anatomy acute are Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Bombardier and Children's Home Society.
Lee Holifield, a animal assets administrator at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, said the company's policy, which requires no arresting tattoos or anatomy acute -- except earrings for women -- was in abode above-mentioned to her abutting the aggregation 10 years ago.
"It helps our advisers present a able angel to the public," Holifield said.
Jacksonville's dress action does not abode tattoos or anatomy piercing. Nor does Neptune Beach or Atlantic Beach's.
The Association of Animal Ability Management, the world's better animal ability administration association, gets about 60,000 calls a year on dress code, belief and added cadre issues, said association agent Frank Scanlan. Some of those calls are about anatomy acute and tattooing, he said.
["400px"]The ambush in developing a new dress action is to antithesis the employees' rights with professionalism, Scanlan said.
"You appetite to abstain behind the customer," he said.
It wasn't that continued ago that it became accepted convenance for companies to let advisers abrasion jeans on Friday.
As companies try to codify those policies, it's fair to accede cultural and religious norms, whether the agent is in acquaintance with the accessible and whether the agent can abolish or awning up the tattoos or piercings, Scanlan said.
Firms will additionally appetite to acquaintance a advocate to ensure the angle passes acknowledged aggregation and they may appetite to acclimate their behavior every few years, he said.
Curtis, 44, said he wouldn't appoint anyone to assignment at his boutique who had all-encompassing tattoos or was a "tackle box," a appellation he uses to call addition with too abounding piercings or "too abundant metal in their head."
They ability not affront adolescent people, but apparently would affront mom back the youths accompany her in with them.
["400px"]Staff biographer Caren Burmeister can be accomplished at 249-4947, addendum 21, or via e-mail at cburmeisterjacksonville.com.
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