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Following the scandal that American Apparel got caught in a few weeks back, when the entire online community and the media â€" including regular customers â€" criticized a series of ads that looked more like hotline commercials than as part of a promo campaign for a clothing line, CEO Dov Charney’s name makes headlines again, The Telegraph says. According to an anonymous email from one of the employees at American Apparel, one of the criteria used for firing and hiring people is good looks. While it’s an established and even proven fact that good looks never hurt in terms of getting an interview for a job, or even further down the process, in terms of promotion and a bigger check, firing people solely on the grounds that they are what you call “ugly†is nothing short of discrimination. However, Charney doesn’t seem to preoccupied with the nuances of the term, since he’ll let go anyone who does not fit his standards of beauty because he believes such a person i!
s bad for business, one of his store managers says. “One week, he [Charney] went on a huge tirade and made stores that weren’t doing well send in group photos. Why, you ask? He made store managers across the country take group photos of their employees so that he could personally judge pe...
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