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Would You Bleed Purple for Corporate?

By Lynne DeVenny

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So you're at the annual employer conference, in a recessionary economy, and your boss mentions that the really loyal employees (the ones he seems to lunch with the most) are all getting the company logo tattooed on their bodies, and coincidentally, there's a tattoo artist right there on the premises to help you show your team spirit - forever.

What do you do? Hope you're being punk'd? Submit - and tell your family that you were a victim of the open bar and your only memory of the last day of the conference is the company logo on your butt? Look your boss right in the eye and tell him that you have a rare tattoo ink allergy, which you know from firsthand experience, because you have "Mo" written in a very personal place and that you're so traumatized you told the only person in a position to see it, i.e. your gynecologist, that it's your nickname - and wasn't really supposed to be in memory of your sainted mom whom you lived with until you were 38?

You're probably thinking, "I'm a paralegal. No way will my employer suggest company tattoos when it's still against company policy not to wear pantyhose with skirts."

Yes. Way.

Minnesota paralegal Katie Edmeier, employed by Anytime Fitness, now has the company logo, a running man symbol, tattooed on her upper arm. So do 200 other seriously loyal staffers. Edmeier isn't worried that she'll regret the tat if she moves on. She told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that she'll just view it as a reminder to live healthy.

In "Taking Company Brand to a Whole New Level," Melissa Hinote at Paralegalese wisely and firmly points out that she'll go the distance for an employer she respects, "but I will not get a tattoo of the company logo on any part of my body."

I'm with Melissa. Not only am I deathly afraid of needles and of having limited space for future company logos in the event I don't retire there, but I'm afraid of what the company logo might look like when I'm 80.

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).