Abercrombie And Fitch Worker Suing

Abercrombie Doesn’t Think A Prosthetic Arm Is Very “All-American”

Posted by: Zandile Blay Filed in: news
10:00AM, Monday June 15th 2009

So maybe it’s time Abercrombie & Fitch reviewed its “Look Policy,” which requires employees to project a “natural, classic, American-style.” It sounds cute, but their insistence on it is becoming costly. A&F has already shelled out millions of dollars to employees who felt discriminated against by the policy—and they just might be paying more. Riam Dean, a 22-year-old disabled British student who worked for A&F’s London flagship store, claims she was forced to work in the stockroom because her prosthetic arm didn’t fit the company’s “look.” But perhaps Dean shouldn’t have been so surprised by A&F’s shallowness.. When she interviewed for the job, she says “All they seemed interested in was taking my photograph to make sure I had the right image.” [Daily Mail U.K. via Jezebel]

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Lizard
wrote on June 15 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]

Heh… a friend of mine (5’5”, geeky Asian guy with glasses) went for a job interview at Abercrombie and they practically threw him out of there. As he got up to leave he took off his jacket because he was getting warm… and they saw his buff arms, called him back and asked when he could start. He lasted about a week before he got fed up with it. I think that little anecdote says all you need to know about Abercrombie.

sam04
wrote on June 15 2009 @ 12:57 pm: [report]

I can barely walk past an Abercrombie & Fitch store at the mall. The smell of that place gives me an instant headache. And why do they have to be so dark inside? So nobody notices that their clothes are paper thin and overpriced?

s'more please
wrote on June 15 2009 @ 10:39 pm: [report]

What a pretty girl.