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Hierarchy of hotness
By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture
August 27, 2008

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Oh puh-leeze Abercrombie & Fitch, get over yourself.

In the Dallas Morning News, an interesting little article about this hotter than thou retailer shed light on the company's more...ahem...questionable hiring practices. Like, um, hiring only really really good-looking people (can I get a high-five for a random "Zoolander" reference?).

It seems there is hierarchy of hotness when it comes to who they hire and who gets promotions. In fact, if your mug looks like it may have grazed a branch on the ugly tree, you get stuck back in the stockroom. And if you happen to be, oh-I-don't-know, not white, forget about getting hired all together.

Check this out: They actually have a hotness rating scale for their employees. As in "Hmm, I'll give Brenda's face a 3 and her body a 2.7 since she gained that freshmen 15...I think it's time for her to be sent back to the stock room."

Better yet, their salespeople are referred to as "models."

Someone hand me spoon, cause I think I'm about to gag.

Now back in my more materialistic teenaged years, I used to shop at this store (once every three years or so after I saved up enough money to buy a brand new T-shirt that already looked worn out and cost as much I now pay in rent). But that quickly stopped once I noticed that the salespeople were snooty little [insert offensive mumbling of unlady-like terms here].

It kind of makes you wonder who is running this company (Barbie on a major PMS binge?)...and how long can they last with this attitude?

Let's just hope it's not long. Meanwhile, I'm heading to the Internets to shop online...where no one cares that I'm in my sweats and haven't brushed my hair.