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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
As I believe I once posted in some internet lawyer chat board, when I was younger and drunker and going to bars to play pool more often, there was one fellow who frequented one of these bars, and who used to play pool a fair amount. Among his many tattoos was a large hemp leaf tattooed across his face. It displayed an admirable commitment to marijuana.
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Back when it looked like Whole Foods was going to break into a larger market than just Texas, late 80s/early 90s, the managers at the Alabama and Shephard store here in Houston decided to fuck with the staff a little. They put out a fake memo from corproate headquarters about the new standards for employee appearance, which included limits on the numbers of piercings that an employee could display and a ban on visible tattoos. One of the guys from produce walked into the manager's office and practically cried. He rolled up his sleeves and started waving around his heavily tattooed arms yelling, "Where am I going to find another job with
these?"
On a somewhat related note, when we got to the drug testing section of my Employment Law class in law school, one of my classmates confessed that he had been a ski-instructor/patrol/bum in a prior life in Colorado. One of the mountains, in an effort to appear more family friendly, instituded a no drug policy, complete with random drug-testing. My classmate said that within days, the policy had to be amended because otherwise it was impossible to staff the mountain.
