Amputee "bullied" out of her job at Abercrombie & Fitch sues

Ho shit. A&F discriminates?

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I am a grad student doing a Public Dissemination Project on Societal Constructs and individuals with disabilities. I just concluded a discussion on the ignorance and stupidity of adults and their views on people with disabilities. How sad for this young woman to have to deal with such discrimination! I will never shop at A & F again. I will use this in my project. You would think that in this day and age corporations are past such stupidity.
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Abercrombie clothes suck major cock, and balls anyways. Who ever wears that shit is some modern day Kanye loving asshole. And that's all I have to say.

Abercrombie is a abomination!

Awesome, thats one more reason I despise A&F.

Abercrombie is a bunch of jerks.

boring gray, blue and white depressing, overpriced cheaply made clothes that fall apart and snotty shitty staff. perfect way to bring them down with their attitude.

I hate everything this stupid clothing company and it's numerous branches stand for. Exclusivity, sexism, racism, misogyny among other things. She is really pretty and a law student too that is awesome :) she is way too good for abercrombie. I am glad that she is suing these bastards. Riam if you read this or see this on current i just want to tell you that you are beautiful and you are standing up for what is right.

i've heard a lot of bad things about how A&F treats their employees. not good

I don't think this should be an attack on A & F because I'm sure any retail store as huge as A & F would do the exact same thing. I'm not saying that it was right - it's completely unacceptable - but, I'm pretty sure Bloomingdale's or Urban Outfitters would do the exact same thing to an employee with a disability.

It's all about that $$$$$$, folks. Sad but true. I hope she gets a huge settlement out of this, though.

Fuck A&F those stores are a fucking joke. The clothes suck and the people are morally questionable.

I used to work at A&F’s sister store Hollister. They make you dress a certain way because they use their employees to advertise their clothing.

this is not the first time! i watched a video in college last year about a&f doing this to minorities... they would only allow minority workers to work in the back, away from view of the customers... some got fired because they weren't 'pretty' enough.. stuff like that. and im pretty sure that the video was made in the 90s! this makes sense that they would treat someone missing an arm the same way.. that doesn't exactly fit into their barely legal catalogue shoots does it? stupid abercrombie. their clothes suck anyway...

What about the Americans with Disabilities Act? I'm very certain that this was violated when they couldn't make accomodations for her...it's only sleeves for heaven's sake! Anyway, I don't like A&F and their discriminatory attitudes and I hope they get what's coming to them...

Actually, companies are required by law to make reasonable accomodations to workers with disabilities. I don't think anyone here could say that allowing the woman to wear a cardigan is an unreasonable compromise.

The following attitude: "this is dumb. if the dress code says you can't wear sleeves on the sales floor, then you can't. end of story." is quite the slippery slope.

Using that logic, one could argue that a dress code requiring everyone to wear pants with a 26" waist is acceptable and if one does not meet such criteria, then they are subject to dismissal. Both situations are beyond the control of the individual.

@jskinne2 and @JosephJinx - It would appear that she was given permission to wear the cardigan at first and then A&F changed their minds.

I think until the full outcome of this we won't know for sure what she did or didn't go through at the store.

I agree with jskinne. While I hate A+F and the insanely materialistic, slave-labor-wearing demographics they cater to, if the store's policy has a dress code and she breaks it, they can legally let her go. This isn't an equal rights issue, as she could operate just fine without her sweater. It's her psychological issue of dealing with having a prosthetic arm and not being the same as everyone else.
I'm sure that working at A+F isn't helping that. However, it's not the store's fault she cannot deal with her self-confidence issues.

I hope she can find a job that is a little more open to her needs, but A+F doesn't have to oblige, even if they should.

this is dumb. if the dress code says you can't wear sleeves on the sales floor, then you can't. end of story.
it's the stores rules, and if she doesn't like the rules, then she shouldn't work at the store. end of story.

she is hot!

I agree, good for her! A&F have for years made a fortune on tailoring clothes for a specific demographic and actively ignoring or demeaning everyone who doesn't fit into it. I hope she takes them for all they're worth. Not only for moral reasons, but then they'll also stop making hideous and boring clothes with their own name blasted across them.