Hollister - only hire good looking people?

To be honest I don't see the difference between discriminating on looks and discriminating on race. You can help your looks to an extent, but really you are born with them just as with race. I respect the honesty of these companies but otherwise they need to open their minds.

Bull**** isn't it? Yet if I said I'm only hiring men because they produce a better output then women and the fact women normally don't have a clue unless it's food making, I'd have every women in the country screaming at me.

Again. You could work on your image and change it. Unless you're truly ugly (In the bottom 20%) you could work there if you so pleased.

A woman will always be a woman. A black man will always be a black man. A gay man, bar horrible self conditioning, will always be a gay man.

Do you see the difference?

Bull**** isn't it? Yet if I said I'm only hiring men because they produce a better output then women and the fact women normally don't have a clue unless it's food making, I'd have every women in the country screaming at me.

and rightly so... lol

Oh it doesn't bother me to be honest. I hate all that Hollister, Jack wills and all that faggot clothing line. I would rather live like a bum then work in one of those shops.

They claim it's quality, Yet I can find better quality when shopping in Selfridges.

I'm sick of the people with an intellectual advantage, and generally those who wish to flaunt it, dismissing people with a physical advantage. People work hard on their looks, most average girls could be seen as attractive if they got in shape and worked on their hair, make up and clothes. Even more so with average guys. Sure some girls are ridiculously genetically good looking, but the same is true of some genetically intelligent people. Like most things in life though, if you work hard you'll get the results you desire.

Actually, I doubt they don't think a larger person is 'unnatural', it's just like any modelling agency they have their own specific requirements for employees/models.

You wouldn't ever see a 5foot catwalk model because they need to be longer, just like you'd never see a 150lb catwalk model as they need to be skinny to act as a 'coathanger' per say.

You are just making assumptions based on something that, as a model yourself, you should know are basically the ground basics for entering such an industry, and it is not based on one person or company beliving in what is 'natural' or 'unnatural'.

Yep, the last time I was in there the manager went up to me and asked me if I wanted a job. I didn't exactly have my resume taped onto my face. Plus when I worked at Abercrombie they admitted that it was company policy. It's called "look policy."

I work in Hollister, and i wouldn't say i'm particularly good looking, alot of the people i work with are a bunch of idiots too.

Given that i'm perfectly within an industry standard size, agency signed etc, I can't see why my size would be an issue for them when it isn't for anyone else? (and i say this having booked work ahead of skinny girls on jobs that have included fashion as well as headshots/beauty work)

It just strikes me that they have this weird ideal, all their female models in the Newcastle store with one or two exceptions, are like 5'5 and one is chunky as hell. I don't wanna sound cocky but I'd do a better job, not because of my looks but because i'm actually a genuine, friendly person - some of them seem so forced and fake, however natural they look.

I heard (I dont know how true this is) that a girl who worked in Hollister went in, one day, wearing one of those pink bows for breast cancer and she got told to take it off or they would discipline her because it wasn't part of their 'look policy'.
If this is true, fair enough it's not part of her uniform, but its for a good cause...

I presume you wouldn't class yourself as an idiot then? :P
I recently visited the Hollister in WestQuay to buy my brother a t-shirt and we had to ask this guy about sizes... I swear to god he was so thick. I dont actually think he had his GCSE maths.