Anyone who submits to this, and allows their employer to perform a surgical procedure upon them in order for them to work, needs their head examining. I'd personally be straight out of the door for a new job.
That's not how they get you though.
They get desperate people to do it, then build momentum in the number of people with it. Then sooner or later everyone has one.
That's definitely how these things are played, no argument at all. But, this is one of the things I would never, ever compromise on. Allow my personal being to be violated for a job. Never.