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The high point of my Abercrombie & Fitch career, a part I've never addressed in any great detail, was the "recruiting." I would put on some layers and set up in the Streets of Southpoint food court area, approaching various "collegiate" and "quality" teens
I would approach these teens and, after telling them I found them to be "collegiate" and "quality," try to coerce them into accepting a minimum wage folding job as a "brand rep" in exchange for some 50% discounts on a limited number of "seasonal items"
I was told to approach "tanned" and "blonde" teens, so that was where I concentrated the majority of my efforts. Eventually I stopped trying to recruit female brand reps because that was very creepy, and made me extremely uncomfortable at age 20.
So I began focusing exclusively on tanned teen men, "ephebes" if you will, and actually was pretty successful at convincing these teens to work a few shifts before quitting or getting fired for stealing.
Being the guy who was out there in the food court 2-3 days a week recruiting "ephebes" was not a good look. In addition to all the other awful things about A&F, which I've addressed elsewhere, this was very uncomfortable but I volunteered for it bc it got me out of the store
If you are monomaniacally focused on recruiting "ephebes," and also some kind of "volcel" -- which I was -- you yourself become the subject of a lot of bizarre gossip. None of it bothered me, but it was certainly strange to have other female managers speak of my "boyfriends" etc.
@MUGGER1955 , you can expect a short essay about these recruiting forays
@MUGGER1955 honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Fr Harris grasped the weirdness of this
Imagining this going down at Southpoint is tragic and hilarious
but it was southpoint in 2002, so fresh and so new, the glorious potential of the combo "open" and "classic" mall designshttps://www.salon.com/2014/05/05/i_sold_my_body_and_nearly_my_soul_to_abercrombie_partner/ …
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