Psst, Captain “No Fatties”! Customers can hear you. And, you know, see you.
The 4 Most Weirdly Outdated Corporate Policies
#4. Abercrombie & Fitch Hates Ugly People
Back in the day, you could keep your “no uggos” policy a dirty little secret, and some people might genuinely be fooled into thinking that “only the most attractive people wear those clothes that look like the bottom drawer of an unemployed surfer’s wardrobe; I must join them.”
But those were the good old days of consumer ignorance. How did you think that the Internet wasn’t going to spread this story everywhere the very second they realized that your CEO looks like he’s allergic to his own face?
Seriously, he looks like the shit Ron Perlman took after he ate a plateful of Gary Busey…And this is the guy insisting that only beautiful people wear his clothes?
“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
The people who were teenagers during the Civil Rights Movement are still alive, y’all. Their lives were affected by blatant, government-sanctioned racism. It astounds me that people act like it was thousands of years ago.
yo i’m tearing up a little bit
This is beautiful. So beautiful.
“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/19/living/civil-rights-prom/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
The people who were teenagers during the Civil Rights Movement are still alive, y’all. Their lives were affected by blatant, government-sanctioned racism. It astounds me that people act like it was thousands of years ago.
yo i’m tearing up a little bit
This is beautiful. So beautiful.
