Abercrombie

I was shocked to hear about the lawsuit with Abercrombie and Fitch. The reason this really was hard to read was because my sister works at Abercrombie and Fitch, and my cousin used to be a general manager of an Abercrombie in New York City. My sister has worked there for a few years now in the summer when she's home from school, and it was hard to comprehend what the article said, especially since my sister had never complained about any of her managers in charge. I know for a fact too, that some of my sister's coworkers are of different races. It is commonly known, however, that Abercrombie does only hire "attractive people", and even my sister sadly admits that it's true.

However, Abercrombie is still a corporation. I'm not anti-capitalism or anti-corporations by any means, but I have no problem admitting that higher-ups are greedy, and to them, sales and making money is the most important thing. It's all about promoting the business to them, because all the care about is really making the money. So how are they going to bring in customers? By having attractive employees. It's a really terrible thing to discriminate by looks (which are subjective), but when it comes to the business aspect, if it brings in more money in a bad economy, I honestly don't think the higher-ups really care, which is terrible. That being said, like I mentioned in class, I still think it's pathetic that a company needs to get sued such a large sum of money just to change their ways and become more diverse.

But as for me, I don't really go there much myself because I don't like the stench of cologne, and I actually like to see what I'm buying, but it's hard to just say I won't shop there when my sister works there, and I know it would make her happy. So it's difficult for me to truly turn against a company like that.

--Cameron