You are seeing it everyplace. I worked at a box store for a 2 year stretch during college. Tattoos, piercings, etc were not allowed. period. If you had them, you didn't get hired from the get-go. It has probably gotten to the point of not having a hiring pool if those rules were still followed, so you see what you have now in the work force. There was a time when you told high school kids that if you want to get hired for good paying jobs, don't have visible tattoos. (hands, wrists, necks, etc) That is no longer the case as it seems harder to find people without tats than with them. It's what happens when society no longer has rules in place because the people who are supposed to follow them no longer care. Business continues to bend even lower because they feel they have to if they want employees. I wonder if the pendulum will ever swing back to a more conservative look, but I doubt it. Tats, piercings, oddly colored hair, long shaggy beards and hair seem to be entrenched with today's younger work force. I don't see that changing.