SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 — It was not the kind of order that Elysa Yanowitz, a regional sales manager for a giant cosmetics company, was used to hearing.
After a top executive of her company, L’Oréal, visited the perfume department of a Macy’s store in San Jose, she said, he ordered her to fire a saleswoman for not being sexy enough. In court papers, Ms. Yanowitz said his words were, “Get me somebody hot.”
A few weeks later when the executive, John Wiswall, general manager of L’Oréal’s designer fragrance division, again visited the store, he discovered that she had not dismissed the saleswoman, and, Ms. Yanowitz said, he told her, “Didn’t I tell you to get rid of her?”
Later, Ms. Yanowitz said in a sworn statement, as the two passed an attractive blond woman, Mr. Wiswall said, “Get me one that looks like that.”
“Suit Says Refusal to Fire Unattractive Woman Led to Dismissal”
I hate how this guy will probably get punished for cutting through the bull. No duh they hire attractive sales ladies. I mean does that surprise anyone? They were just more subtle about it, which wasted hours and money for everyone involved (including applicants trying for a job it was preordained they wouldn’t get) This guy just cut through the treacle and saved everyone a butt load of time and money.
What if the boss hires nothing but blondes and then loses his job. If his replacement prefers only brunettes, wouldn’t we be wasting just as much time? You’ll never get to be the boss, Cookiepants, unless you learn to think things through.
From here it looks like you care more about this bullshit perfume salesman than you do about any of the civilian casualties or looting in Iraq. You’re quite a work of art.
Where your theory falls apart is that no one is gonna go out and hire ugly sales people on purpose.
Edit: and no he wouldn’t be wasting just as much time if he was able to ask for brunettes only. Then blondes just wouldn’t show up, meaning they wouldn’t waste their time and money.
The true story of a non “hot” salesman who outsold most of his peers. Unfortunately, I think the point would still be lost because Cookiepants would spend the whole film making fun of the guy’s cerebral palsy voice.
I never said that good looking people were GOOD at sales. I never gave anyone any inherent worth over anyone else.
Alls I’m saying is that by stating your intentions up front you save a lot of time, money, and effort.
When you put a personal ad in the paper do you say ‘everyone welcome’ so as to not offend men? Of course not. Do you go to the store and spend 10 minutes looking over the back of a game you know you aren’t gonna get anyway just to be fair?
It’s the same thing with searching 89 year old grandmothers of three at the airport. You know I’d try to live with the insult of them thinking I’m suspicion if they would just shorten the damn line by letting everyone who is not suspicious go through without their nail clippers confiscated.
You’re confused. The guy is firing people who are already proven themselves good at sales. What about the time, money, and effort, of the gal being fired?
I’m confused- it’s a sales position for a perfume company. Shouldn’t he have asked for someone who smells pretty? Also, given that the vast majority of customers would be women, why would there be an issue of whether the salesgirl is hot?
What if the boss hires nothing but blondes and then loses his job. If his replacement prefers only brunettes, wouldn’t we be wasting just as much time? You’ll never get to be the boss, Cookiepants, unless you learn to think things through.
He could just play it safe and only hire women with big tits.
It’s image, and pretty common in upscale retail. Nordstrom used to do the same thing, at least ten years ago. If you were too fat or too rumpled or too…anyhting, really, you might get hired, but you’d get canned eventually, even if you were good. I was with them for 3 years, and used to see it happening in all the fashion departments. Luckily I worked in shoes, where speed and the ability to carry lots of weight were more valuable :roll:
You know where it really works…restaurants with big lunch crowds. Businessmen, construction workers, landscapers, all like the air conditioned 30 mins. to fill their bellies and gawk at 19 year old women.
