I have a lot of tattoos on my arms, so I always wear long sleeves, even during informal outings when everyone is wearing t shirts. Is this weird? The tattoos are inoffensive and I am in the banking industry, but very new to all the business culture stuff.

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Good call with hiding it. I'd continue to do so.

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It’s fine as long as you don’t look like this

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Lol nah. Just on my arms. No one would know if I had them if I wear long sleeve shirt

Do you mean informal work outings, or in your free time? If the latter I hope you start wearing tshirts, too.

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And I don't work in banking, so take this with a grain or bucket of salt, but as someone with 0 tattoos I feel I'm the nonconformist today. All of my friends have one, even if hidden, as do my coworkers.

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I think it depends on your culture. I work at a law firm that at some point was pretty traditional (getting more business casual now). There was a summer associate that has a lot of tattoos and even a neck tattoo. Couldn’t tell at work bc of his suits, but they were not hidden at outings. Nobody cared.

Depending on the culture of the company I’d own it

Someone on my team had a sleeve and still rocked it like it wasn’t an issue. They got promoted.

Never understood the issue around tattoos to be honest. I have quite a few as well and during business meetings, they are obviously covered. Anything informal in which I am wearing a T-shirt, they are showing.

I had a partner at an old firm and a few senior managers along the way that had sleeves/half sleeves/random forearm tattoos.

Woman lawyer here and same issue. Waiting until I'm in my most profitable mid level years to show my arms :(

I have old self harm scars on my arms and I hide them around colleagues, period. Not a big deal in the office because it’s frigid from the AC in the summer but I can see it being really inconvenient otherwise. Tattoos are becoming way more mainstream and I’d probably be fine showing them in certain situations where everyone is dressed casually.

Tattoos are a great way to mask those scars

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