Monday 6 December 2021

"We have to be very careful, it's a very sensitive time and it's very easy to offend people."

The fashion chain Zara, on male encroachment into female changing rooms:
'As a general rule, if people are carrying women's clothes to try on then they can use the changing rooms on the women's floor.'
I ask another staff member if she knew the policy and she says the same thing: 'Our managers tell us to let people into the women's changing rooms if they are carrying women's clothes', she said.

Of course! God forbid anyone challenge them! 

And how does that work if there are women in the changing room from more conservative cultures?

Ooooh, good one! 

'Yes, that is a problem in our Marble Arch branch,' the manager concedes. That area is home to a large Arabic community.
'Our decisions also have to depend on the ethnic profile of the other customers in the room at the time. Different branches have different problems, and it's something that has been cropping up for two or three years now.'

Who knew being a salesgirl in retail clothing would require the diplomatic skills of a UN Secretary General..? 

6 comments:

Henry Crun said...

Ethnic profile of customers? I thought that sort of thing is verboten

Robert the Biker said...

"Who knew being a salesgirl in retail clothing would require the diplomatic skills of a UN Secretary General..?"
No, merely requires a bit of jam from them and support of managers: You have a fanny, change in the fanny section, you have a knob, change in the knob section, you have a problem, fuck off now! Back up with a couple of large lads with axe handles and a policy of chucking any gobby shits right out (or through) the door, and your problems go away.

Nemisis said...

@Robert the Biker:
Well, your solution is a tad draconian, but when (not "if") all else fails you have to do something to attract their attention.

Lord T said...

They are now dealing with people that solve their difference with sharp pointy objects so they won't push as much. They are just a bunch of prima donnas leveraging laws made up by idiots.

Ted Treen said...

Unfortunately, the wokerati still insist on giving preferential treatment - adulation, even - to any vociferous minority which plays the victim card. It's simply delicious watching them twist themselves in knots trying to simultaneously appease minorities which are implacably and violently opposed to each other.

Popcorn rules, OK?

JuliaM said...

"Ethnic profile of customers? I thought that sort of thing is verboten"

Yup, popcorn delivery services is on redial!

"You have a fanny, change in the fanny section, you have a knob, change in the knob section, you have a problem, fuck off now!"

👏👏👏

" They are just a bunch of prima donnas leveraging laws made up by idiots."

Indeed... *sighs*

" It's simply delicious watching them twist themselves in knots trying to simultaneously appease minorities which are implacably and violently opposed to each other."

Channel Five should televise it!