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Employee Told To Remove Poppy; HOLLISTER - SCUM
Topic Started: Nov 8 2010, 03:33 PM (687 Views)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637

A shop assistant from Southampton says she was told to remove her poppy as it "was not part of the store uniform".

Harriet Phipps, 18, who works at Hollister clothes shop in the West Quay centre, said the store's assistant manager had told her to do it.

Miss Phipps initially refused to take it off, but was made to feel so "uncomfortable" she eventually did.

Hollister, which is owned by American clothing giant Abercrombie and Fitch, said it was looking into the matter.

Miss Phipps said she wore her poppy in honour of a friend currently serving in Afghanistan.

Fought for country

"It did make me very upset. I was so angry, I didn't expect it at all," she told the BBC.

"I kept it on and then I did get told again to take it off and I felt really pressured and quite intimidated so I did take it off because I thought I had to.

"He [the supervisor] just said it wasn't part of the uniform and that it's not company policy.

"But I don't suppose it is part of any company's uniform when it comes to the 11th of November.

"It's [showing] respect for people who've fought for our country.

"It's taking it back to values of why we're all here. It doesn't have to be for World War I or World War II, it's people fighting today as well."

It is not the first time Abercrombie and Fitch has been involved in a disagreement with staff over its uniform policy.

In August 2009, following a tribunal, a disabled woman was awarded £8,000 for unlawful harassment after she was made to work in the stockroom of the company's Savile Row store in central London after wearing a cardigan to cover her prosthetic arm.
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boycott the bastards
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what a joke, do we no anything about the assistant manager? or was he just being a knob
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a rumour of a demo outside the store would soon change their mind i bet.
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Has anyone got an e-mail addy of the store. NS
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I just found this picture of the supervisor. It's just as I expected, he's a knob head.







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Is this the company, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollister-Southampton/307538842968
if so keep your entries civil but let them know how you feel and perhaps the threat of a flsh demo, may do the trick. NS
Edited by UK-Jack, Nov 8 2010, 03:45 PM.
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Nov 8 2010, 03:44 PM
I just found this picture of the supervisor. It's just as I expected, he's a knob head.







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is it in southhampton?
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I think so, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637
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arhhhhhhhhhh after what are grandfather's did for us and thay say remove the poppy arhhhhhhhh
P.S AND GRANDMOTHER'S
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Nov 8 2010, 03:45 PM
Is this the company, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollister-Southampton/307538842968
if so keep your entries civil but let them know how you feel and perhaps the threat of a flsh demo, may do the trick. NS
i hope thats the one as ive just posted on thier wall
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I can't stand Abercrombie and Fitch clothing. Their stores are trumped up designer wannabees, but their designs and quality is SH*T.
They don't like it up 'em.
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Nov 8 2010, 03:37 PM
what a joke, do we no anything about the assistant manager? or was he just being a knob
My guess just a Knob.
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fcuking disgrace.
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apparently the bodyform shop in the gallerys shopping centre in wigan has made an employee remove her poppy,
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Nov 8 2010, 05:30 PM
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Nov 8 2010, 03:37 PM
what a joke, do we no anything about the assistant manager? or was he just being a knob
My guess just a Knob.
more than likely
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dont confuse abercrombie owners of hollister with the great british 'crombie' thats over 200 yrs old...different stores.
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Nov 8 2010, 05:35 PM
apparently the bodyform shop in the gallerys shopping centre in wigan has made an employee remove her poppy,
bbc news uk england manchester store bans staff wearing poppys
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Nov 8 2010, 03:39 PM
a rumour of a demo outside the store would soon change their mind i bet.
I really hope theres a flash demo :)
Any type of thing happen to british people will need a flash demo. Then the person who done it will sh1t himself!!!
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Nov 8 2010, 05:37 PM
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apparently the bodyform shop in the gallerys shopping centre in wigan has made an employee remove her poppy,
bbc news uk england manchester store bans staff wearing poppys
whoa just seen that they have reversed the ban after talks with chorley mp ,well done that mp,seems at times mp,s can be useful
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Telephone number for the store is 02380237024.

Customer service email for complaints

Hco_service@holisterco.com

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-11708637

They should be ashamed of themselves.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollister-Southampton/307538842968?v=wall
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i just rang and the manager told me he was not prepared to discuss the issue over the phone .
e-mail only . then we shall seak a decent reply
knobheads
we cannot let this go
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silly twats im just about to ring em
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I think the company had a few e-mails and phone calls, lol, well done to everyone who made an effort to contact the company.
This is what we need a mass campaign and not one or two... we should all fcuking do it. NS
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apparently , the company has reviewed the situation, and are now allowing the wearing of poppies , only on remembrance sunday !
fcukers
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WHAT A WAY OF GETTING OUT OF IT.
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I bet these are the same people chanting freedoms to choose what to wear when women wear the burkha.
They don't like it up 'em.
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more emails to the bastards me thinx .
they are an american company , so you'd have thought a bit more respect was due
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nice work gazzads
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They are scum so black the company
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Unbelievable. :(
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This just shows how theres been a seachange in norms and values since Labour came to power in the 90's.

We have been so 'dumbed down' and attuned to political correctness, that even wearing a poppy, a campaign which has been run by the British Legion for donkeys years, is in this day and age, seen as offensive to some minority groups.

I remember the reverse. I remember when I first started work you were frowned upon for NOT wearing a poppy. Loads of shops had them. The supermarket next door, the cake shop, the chemist had them on the counter etc. Conversely last year I struggled to get one and the same this year. I nipped into a corner shop on Sunday for a few bits and asked if they had poppies and he said no (it may have been because he was a muslim).

Anyway, I got one in the (greek) chip shop who had them on the counter but this whole incident with the shop girl just shows how society sees the poppy as a political hot potato these days :(

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Nov 8 2010, 11:04 PM
I bet these are the same people chanting freedoms to choose what to wear when women wear the burkha.
I was born and raised in Southampton. My ancestors must be rolling in their graves. What a bloody disgrace!!!!! ^o)
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Our Canadian brothers and sisters, who's brave military have stood beside us throughout many wars, realise the newsworthyness of this disgraceful action... and have just (within 20 mins of me writing) reported in the Toronto Star that, fearing a backlash, the pathetic management have reversed their decision.
A result, I would say. But it would be a pity for these weasels to slide away from the full public disgust they deserve.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/887841--outcry-over-poppy-ban-forces-fashion-store-to-reverse-policy
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ive written to hollister stores in southampton telling them what i think of them also i enclosed a poppy to give to harriet phipps the employee in question we have to stand up to these people and let them know there actions are unacceptable if any other infidels want to contact them the address is hollister stores west quay shopping centre southampton hampshire so151qb cheers no surrender we will not lie down
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i thought we'd got past all of this overly p.c. crap but i seems that there are still alot of people using times like this to show their management how clever & considerate they are. Maybe it would help if any businesses not supporting remembrance day were outed in the media - show them for what they are and screw their trade.
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You couldn't pay me to wear that sh1te anyway.
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i do not understand why she would have to remove it? its a disgrace they should be very ashamed!
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just rang them and registered a complaint,i was very civil and asked for it to be noted,they must be getting fed up with all the hassle now , good:)
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well done people
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
everytime we should stand strong like this
and be victorious
one nil the EDL
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Nov 9 2010, 07:47 PM
well done people
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
everytime we should stand strong like this
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Get a whole bunch of poppies, go to one of their stores and place a poppy in the tops of all the stock that they have.
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