Kind of a scary story:
One of my friends shops at Abercrombie religiously. I swear she owns everything they've ever made. She was randomly shopping one day when she was cornered by an employee who badgered her about taking a job there. She took the job, for lack of any way to get the girl to leave her alone.
On her first day, they made her take a 'survey'. Some of the questions: "what makes you hot?" "what do you like to do to chill?", etc. Just silly things that are absolutely not work related.
She was made to sit through photo shoots with the managers, districts, etc.
She was studied by all the higher ups.
During her first week working there(after all this crazy orientation stuff,) her boss said it would be a "recruitment" day. They basically told her that if she saw anyone who "looked like Abercrombie material," to offer them a job. She picked out a couple people and showed her boss, who rejected both girls(GORGEOUS girls). Her boss said that the girls "weren't 10's" and proceeded to critique tiny little things about them.
She's not allowed to dye her hair anymore. She got highlights and nearly got fired because it looked "too streaky", when really it looked like she'd just gotten back from the beach.
She had to buy like $200 of their clothes, that she has to wear on the days they tell her to.
Seriously. WHY doesn't she just quit??? Man.
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