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A “pissed-off American Apparel store manager” has blown the whistle on Dov Charney’s latest business strategy.
It seems the CEO “is demanding the firing of employees he deems unattractive and thus detrimental to the ‘AA aesthetic,’ as he feels they may be hurting his bottom line.”
The tipster reports that flagging summer sales have Dov demanding employee group photos from AA store managers so that he can “personally judge people based on looks.” In the name of “aesthetic” Dov is encouraging that anyone “he deems not good-looking enough to work there” be fired. At risk of stating the obvious the store manager writes “this is blatant discrimination based on looks.”
Read the whole email here. It’s news like this that makes us at The Rumpus happy we don’t have an American Apparel near headquarters.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Issac… c’mon. Anonymous tip from Gawker is the source? Please. Because they’ve NEVER printed something that turned out to be untrue before.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Gotta take that up with Gawker and their fact checking staff.