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xinster
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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: Pertinent Nipples/ Pertinent Question |
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| On my EPIK application I did not disclose that I had any piercings. However I do in fact have my nipples pierced (I am a male). Upon discovery during my physical, will I risk losing my job? (I start work in February). I also have my ears pierced but do not wear anything in them. |
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duke of new york
Joined: 23 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Enjoy Korean prison. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| duke of new york wrote: |
| Enjoy Korean prison. |
I'm not sure if that's still applicable. I think that the law was changed recently and you now just get sent to a forced labor camp for half a year. But that might only apply to belly button piercings. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Pertinent Nipples/ Pertinent Question |
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| xinster wrote: |
| On my EPIK application I did not disclose that I had any piercings. However I do in fact have my nipples pierced (I am a male). Upon discovery during my physical, will I risk losing my job? (I start work in February). I also have my ears pierced but do not wear anything in them. |
All kidding aside, no worry.
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plchron
Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| at my group's physical no one had to take of their shirt. Also, the doctors aren't holding your application in one hand and examining you with the other. It isn't something to worry about. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Just don't show them or talk about them to your students and coworkers and you won't have a problem. (maybe avoid any tight fitting shirts if they show through)
Also be careful if you go to the public sauna near your school/home. Parents, students or coworkers might be there who could see them. |
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xinster
Joined: 04 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay good. It's not like they're shaped like swastikas or anything. |
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Rutherford
Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| During the physical you probably won't take your shirt off but you will take a chest x-ray. I'd take them out for that or they'll think you have crazy symmetrical lung tumors. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Rutherford wrote: |
| During the physical you probably won't take your shirt off but you will take a chest x-ray. I'd take them out for that or they'll think you have crazy symmetrical lung tumors. |
This. a friend with a nipple piercing freaked the doctor out during the X-ray. Good times. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| xinster wrote: |
| Okay good. It's not like they're shaped like swastikas or anything. |
Buddhism is big here, fyi. |
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pikadoopoo
Joined: 19 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| For the chest x-ray, we can just wear a light cotton shirt, right? (I'm a guy, but I'm a bit self-conscious about a scar.) |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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ayahyaha
Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| pikadoopoo wrote: |
| For the chest x-ray, we can just wear a light cotton shirt, right? (I'm a guy, but I'm a bit self-conscious about a scar.) |
They'll give you a pajama-type robe sort of shirt to wear for the whole exam.
OP: It's been said, but just take out your piercing(s). My friend and I didn't and our chest X-ray images were left up on a computer screen in the room where the school director's wife was chatting with the nurse. Uncool.
Good advice about local saunas -- go on the off hours, at least (late on weekdays, for example), so you don't run into your students or their parents. |
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