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Here's the scenario: you get a tattoo of the company's logo (cost is covered, I might add) and you get a 15% pay raise. Just to add another twist it doesn't have to be anywhere normally visible or anything. You can hide it on your body somewhere and no one has to know except your significant other and your boss. (wasn't worth the effort to make that not sound dirty ) So, do you do it?



I have to admit I haven't made up my mind yet. 15% is pretty big; early in a career that could add up a lot over time. It's surprisingly tempting especially if you don't mind your employer or anything. At the same time, it's not like I go around wearing the t-shirts I have either.

Think think...

Edit: What the hell, I chose yes...

Edited, May 2nd 2013 1:23pm by someproteinguy

You bet your *** I would take the money to get inked somewhere I could cover up. Maybe the bottom of my foot so I could always be walking on the company logo, which would cheer me up if I was in a bad mood.

Unless that bad mood was from an infected foot tattoo, of course.

Sure, I'd do it. Been lucky enough to not work at any place that I'm not relatively proud of, and though I don't have any, I'm perfectly fine with tattoos - even "insignificant" ones.

Our company doesn't really have a logo, though. Just a letterhead. Mebbe I could turn it into an armband.

No.
Why?
'Cos its a short step from this (looking like a ****), to this (looking like a ****) or even like this (etc).

The sort of company that would want you to do this isn't the sort of company that would be paying much anyway, I wouldn't have thought, so 15% of not much is sod all anyway.

Thanks for asking tho.

Any flag.

Hell yeah. If you tattoo'ed on a barcode, what would it scan to?

Whatever happens to be within reach.

I dub thee "Hot and Spicy Cheetos"

What part of "it doesn't have to be visible" do you not understand?

Get it on your taint, and show it to your boss.

Fun poll or not branding human beings to establish corporate ownership has some pretty uncomfortable historical connotations imo. But please, if your comfortable with it, go get it done. Its your skin/mucous membrane.

Free ink and a pay raise? I can't imagine saying no unless it was an absolutely ridiculous design.

That would be a nice chunk of change. Still, I don't think I'd do it now, as I really don't plan on being with the company that much longer. If it would have been offered years ago when I first started, it would have added up quickly. Doing the math it would be something like 80-85k over the last 9 years. That ain't nothing to sneeze at. And laser removal surgery wouldn't be that much in the grand scheme of things.

I suppose it's no worse a commitment than some of these dimwits who get their girlfriend/boyfriend's name tatooed on themselves. At least you'd be getting paid for this.

Sure, I wouldn't mind doing it.

I did have a similar reverse offer. I was told that if I had a small tattoo on my neck removed, I would then be eligible for a promotion and a raise. Tempting, but then I decided that the cost of getting it removed wouldn't be worth the increase from $8.00/hr to $8.25.