Want to have your work logo tattooed on your body? Most people don’t think about it, but the name of the restaurant where he works is on the arm of Djordin Claassens (28) from Dongen. “They said I wouldn’t do it, but I drove to the tattoo parlor the next day.”
Djordin has been working as a chef at the Tilburg restaurant Rodeo for five years. He enjoys it there and gets along well with his colleagues. We work hard and there is room for a joke in between.
Djordin’s colleagues once talked about his tattoos two years ago. “Because I have quite a few,” he says. “We were just joking around when someone said he would give me 150 euros if I got a Rodeo tattoo.”
The boss of Rodeo just walked in and he went even further. “He said he would pay for the tattoo and that he might come along,” says Djordin. “The rest of the colleagues laughed. They thought I wasn’t going to do it so I said: ‘Don’t push me, because I’m really doing it!’”
No sooner said than done. Djordin went to the tattoo parlor the next day to get ‘that thing’ done. “Just bang on it.” Of course, his boss had to witness this and so the tattoo was done while making a video call. “You are crazy, you are completely crazy in the head,” said Djordin’s boss.
Djordin’s father and stepmother were not surprised when they saw the tattoo. They now know what he is like. “My stepmother looked at me and she immediately started laughing very hard,” says Djordin.
Djordin’s biological mother found it a little less funny at first. “What are you doing to yourself, boy? You have now done something that you may regret,” was her response. Djordin himself thinks that everything will not be too bad. “And now my mother can laugh about it too.”
Now, two years later, the restaurant is still laughing about the action. “When there is a new staff member, the whole story is told again,” says Djordin. “And at every staff party there are a lot of jokes about it. And rightly so, of course, because no one is crazy enough to tattoo a logo of their work on their body.