CHAD TAFOLLA AND his friends used to call hand tattoos “job stoppers.” A little ink around the knuckles would surely make someone unhirable, no? Mr. Tafolla, 39, whose body was already amply tattooed elsewhere, decided to find out, getting a wolf inked on one hand and an astrological sign on the other. “It was pretty nerve-racking,” he said, “like ‘Am I gonna have a difficult time getting a job?” Fortunately, the creative agency he worked at didn’t boot him. Nor did Mr. Tafolla’s hand tattoos stop Oculus, a virtual-reality startup that’s owned by Facebook, from hiring him last year as its design director. His colleagues...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 01, 2018 16:01 UTC