Why do you have to be "pretty" to work at Hollister/a.e. etc..

[Anonymous]

isn't that illegal, to hire based on how you look? I mean its one thing to be good looking but to be above average just to be able to work at such places, seems odd to me

[Anonymous]

I used to work there well abercrombie, which is the same company, and ya they only hire good looking people. If you get a job there it is the easiest job you will ever have, all I had to do was stand at the front door with a really hot chick and greet people who came in the store. I was in high school so I didn't really care that I only made minimum wage.

By law they do hire pretty much anyone, now if you don't have the looks they want, then you work in the back room, or you set up the store.

[SillyG0000se]

I actually have no problems with it, beauty may be subjective, but you are npt the boss of the company. They should have some right concerning who they hire. I'm sick of people complaining about discrimination, its not exactly gonna go away, so just get used to it. A fat guy isn't likely to get hired at hooters anytime soon to be a waiter, its the company's right. And actually its not really that they hire pretty people, its people who wearclothes from those stores. Same thing happens at hot topic.

[secondbestkiller]

Officially, no. Unofficially, yes. Like, they might hire an uggo to work stocking shelves or something, but yeah generally only attractive people work the floor. They're legally not allowed to discriminate based on looks, but honestly, they can make up any reason for hiring or not hiring a person, so no one can really stop it. They do it cause they're not just selling the brand, they're selling an image. And a big part of that image is being above average looking.

[SonicBoomBoom]

you are shallow

[secondbestkiller]

Uh, why? I'm just telling the truth.

Did I ever say that this is what they *should* do? lrn2read

[Nerdyberd17]

My friend applied for a job at A.E.

She's a little bit overweight, but not too much. She's really sweet, and a super hard worker. They declined her. She walked into the store a month or so later, with her good fried: she was tan, and skinny, and gorgeous. And the manager actually CAME up to her friend, and OFFERED her a job, when they had declined the other "not as pretty" girl just a month earlier.

Completely stupid and shallow, I think.

[Asker]

was the "hot" friend wearing a.e. clothes? sometimes they want the person whos advertising the clothes, right away

[Nerdyberd17]

Oh, actually... she probably was, come to think of it. Never thought of it that way.

But it's still pretty cruel, nonetheless. :P

[Asker]

oh, def. I mean its w/e, I was just curious

[Red_Raconteur]

Hollister calls their salespeople "models", so under the law they are allowed to discriminate based on looks.

[Asker]

i asked this cause I saw your question. just wanted to ask other people, so I asked it as a ?

[paperplanes]

Ppssshh. Discrimination. Beauty is subjective. Imagine workers in a Hollister, etc. having debates on the prettiness v.s. ugliness of their employers. To hire or not to. How pathethic. But yeah, there is a lot of judgment for a lot of job interviews, with tattoos, piercings, etc. A lot about the look and status. It's really lame. It gets done. The ones at the top get the decision, so can't say it's illegal. I'm not sure if there's something you can do about it..

[paperplanes]

I am sadened by the other comments. It is not right people! Let me go in an interview looking like how is properly qualified. When hired, I'll look like the opposite. Ah-hah! The ways of society..

[peace-love-couture]

Why are you saddened? The workers are considered models and models should be attractive not ugly

[Asker]

ive seen some "ugly" models

[paperplanes]

So people are meant to be robots now? Be this way to get this job. I don't know. It bothers me how look plays an important part in stuff. And individuality is not valued as much. I am saddened because people are just accepting it the way it is. I mean, in a way, that is the way it is. And I don't find it too abnormal, thought it still bothers me. Oh yeah, and this whole attractive thing. Why don't you go be born with some disorder or something "not attractive", I'm sure you'll love this then.

[Anonymous]

With television promoting beauty over brains, and now these kind of stores discriminating against average people because they are not models, the plague is spreading. Pretty soon, you will have to be pretty to either get hired at a job. You might not even be allowed to go shopping at the mall unless you are pretty.

[smallz660]

It's because if you walked into a hollister and you saw a bunch of ugly people working there, you probably wouldn't want to buy their clothes.

[Blobb]

lmao blunt, shallow but true.

Worls isn't a fair place ^^

[nermalinda]

you just have to be thin I guess. but all stores hire according to their style. like hot topic is not gonna hire preps, yknow?

[HGR15]

I don't think they do, I've seen plenty of unnatracctive people working at stores like that

[Anonymous]

people tend to buy more shops with attractive people because that makes that story seem more high class

[Anonymous]

people are that shallow