American Apparel says "Ugly??...you're fired"

[BlackLantern]

http://gawker.com/5323472/we-predict-more-lawsuits-in-dov-charneys-future?skyline=true&s=x

 

[Wolfwood]

I'm drowning in the irony.

 

[The Squirrel]

So he's out of a job then.

 

[PyroChamber]

It's funny how an industry involving attractive people is usually run by people who are unattractive.

 

[BlackLantern]

usually your captains of industry are not that attractive...Bill Gates, Jobs, this guy,

 

[Star]

Hahaha

 

[Carcharodon]

Let's just kill all the ugly people.

 

[PyroChamber]

usually your captains of industry are not that attractive...Bill Gates, Jobs, this guy,

Yeah, but I mostly meant fashion.

 

[Star]

Let's just kill all the ugly people.

I've always thought that too

 

[The Squirrel]

How Hitler of you.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

How Hitler of you.

Your inability to understand jokes is amusing.

 

[The Squirrel]

Your inability to understand jokes is amusing.

I understood just fine.

I can't make a Hitler joke in response?

 

[Sarge 2.0]

The dry smiley made it seem like you were disapproving of her remark.

 

[BlackLantern]

Yeah, but I mostly meant fashion.

Karl Lagerfeld looks like a lord of the undead

 

[Wolfwood]

The dry smiley made it seem like you were disapproving of her remark.

He was being the David Spade to their Chris Farley.

 

[The Squirrel]

Yeah, I'm still learning how to use those properly.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

He was being the David Spade to their Chris Farley.

I always hated how that *****e would start out the straight man, and then like mid movie it was as if he thought to himself "Hmmm, people love Farley and not me...maybe they're not giving me funny stuff to say! Maybe I should act like Farley!" and then he would go in to goofy mode. Urgh.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

This is kind of funny since I thought always thought the models in the ads for American Apparel looked like crap. Also, not having much fashion sense at all I thought American Apparel clothes looked awful, whenever I walked by a store, the clothes looked like the type of thing people wore on laundry day.

 

[terry78]

Who do they think they are, Abercrombie and Fitch? That place blatantly says that their employees have to be no less than CW hot, and for the most part they usually are. Have you ever walked past that place and seen a fugly?

 

[BlackLantern]

a friend of mine made a decent point about the clothing industry pushing an image and I get that, but be upfront about it...if you're going to put a Help Wanted sign be honest

"Help Wanted....but No Uggos or Fatties"

 

[Heretic]

Amazingly, I actually support this decision. I admit, I have no clue what American Apparel is, but if it is a fashion oriented mall-type store, then yes, employees should be wearing the clothes they sell, and yes, employees should look the way the customer hopes to look in those clothes. When selling fashion, the employees act as low level models, in a way.

As a fan of comic books, wrestling and heavy metal, I am of course dead sexy and a gift to women everywhere, so I'm exempt from all of this.

However, it will HURT business if you hire a team of obese people to sell donuts. It will HURT business to hire people to sell clothes who dont look good in those clothes. It will HURT business to hire someone with acne to sell an acne medication. It will HURT business to hire a male dancer at your strip club (though sometimes I wonder about some of those girls...)

Once again, this is trying to force businesses to lose money because of personal shortcomings. The policy should be unspoken to avoid hurt feelings, but I have no problem with the unspoken policy existing.

 

[Heretic]

double post

 

[ross2287]

AA has horrible clothes anyway.

 

[ChickenScratch]

As much as you may disagree, it's their company and they can decide the hiring practices. It's that simple, they have an image they want to portray and some people just don't fit that. You can't ***** and moan about who a company wants to hand pay checks to.

My mother's a banker working for the Seminole Indian tribe and it's well known that if you applied for a job and a Seminole applied for the same job they would get it, qualifications be damned.

 

[knowsbleed]

Psh... what's next? Hire only attractive flight attendants?