American Apparel Loves Style, Hates Ugly Employees
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
July 5, 2011 1:15am CST
If you want to be an American Apparel Employee, you must wear that store's brand of clothes which are very expensive in the manner the store tells you to according to the store's extensive dress code.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-american-apparel-dress-code-manual
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While American Apparel's is longer than most school book reports, dress codes are fairly common in the work and school environments. What is not so kosher is American Apparel's anti-ugly hiring and firing practices.
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http://gawker.com/5564171/life-at-american-apparel-the-employees-speak
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The above link is full of stories about this facet of American Apparel's corporate management. American Apparel apparently hires employees based on their 'style', which they judge on a photograph of the person in question. That is the cute word for is he or she attractive or ugly?
1 response
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
5 Jul 11
Sounds cheesy. I've never bought an American Apparel's product before so I wouldn't know how comfortable they are. That's one of the things how I base how good a clothing is. As for their hiring standards, I think they have their own reasons why they only hire attractive people. Actually, I think I know why, although it's fairly simple. I think they hire beautiful folks because they think they have a higher chance of selling their product if pretty women are selling them instead of a mediocre looking babe. Sounds awful but it would work on me, more or less. If I had the money and a 10 babe is trying to sell me something, I'd pretty much try it and probably buy it too.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
5 Jul 11
The clothes are expensive and the craftsmanship is shoddy.
A sales lady can be heavy and still be attractive and good at selling clothes, as well as old. I've run into both. The Gap had some of them.
Young, slim sales people can be quite poor at sales, as they can be thick as bricks. As the store we are discussing paid no attention to what was between the ears of their staff, that was more often than not the case.
