After Layoffs of 175 Workers, J.Crew Exec Instagrams His Night Celebrating, Making Hunger Games Joke

[Ichingcarpenter]

After telling members of his team they had lost their jobs, a J.Crew executive went drinking and celebrating with other employees at a bar, posting goofy photos and The Hunger Games jokes on Instagram.

The New York Post reported that Alejandro Rhett, vice president of men's merchandising at the struggling clothing company, delivered the news Wednesday to some of the 175 workers affected by the layoffs at the company's New York City headquarters. He then went drinking with other employees at the Linen Hall bar, their celebrations documented—and extensively hashtagged—on Instagram.

One photo depicting Rhett and a female friend jumping for joy used the hashtags #hungergames and #maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavor, ostensibly comparing the bloody battles royale of the young adult dystopian novel to the layoffs. J.Crew employee Julie Stamos posted another photo where she and Rhett pose for a "casual photo shoot" outside Linen Hall, complete with hashtags #forthewin and #damnitfeelsgoodtobeagangster.

The photos have since been taken down, and a J.Crew spokesman said the company "does not condone" the behavior of Rhett and the other employees. “As soon as we were made aware, the appropriate actions took place,” said the spokesman without elaboration.



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[Skittles]

1. asshole

[Art_from_Ark]

6. That was the first word that came into my mind

Great minds think alike

[msongs]

2. seems I recall he was fired a few days later for this type of b ehavior nt

[Unknown Beatle]

3. Good, he got fired.

This is a picture of the asshole. People probably hated working for this fucking loser.



He has a shit eating grin that probably turned into a frown when he got fired. Karma hits hard sometimes and this was one of those times.

[JI7]

7. he looks like a fucking douche

[rpannier]

11. It doesn't say he got fired

Only that the appropriate actions have taken place.
WTF that is

[Duppers]

4. Narcissistic sociopaths

[wolfie001]

5. Corporate America....

....screwing workers since the 1860s.........

[JDPriestly]

8. It's just horrific. Just so ugly. So inhuman. I could go on and on.

It makes me sick. Devaluing people in that way.

I don't want to go into details but we humans are designed to rationalize cruelty. And it really shows in the relationships between corporate employers and employees in America.

For shame. For shame. For shame.

Go, Bernie!

Enough of this cruelty and crassness.

[wolfie001]

9. Yes! Love Bernie and All He Represents!

Kudos!!!

[JDPriestly]

12. The corpoate bosses have no clue as to just how they disrupt the lives of employees

that they fire.

And the methods they use in firing people -- creating a "file," then calling employees in on a Friday afternoon, perhaps giving almost no notice, then having the employee empty the desk under the watchful eye of some embarrassed security guard, and then the march to the door.

For most people who are honest and hard-working, and most Americans are honest and hard-working, what could be more humiliating, more devastating, more depressing than being told that they are no longer needed.

This system has to be changed. Employers have to be held to some standard that requires respect for employees, that responds to the level of trust that is needed between employers and employees if a business is to succeed and that does not leave the employee personally and financially devastated.

Change is necessary. Businesses fail and go through hard times. But there has to be a better way to treat employees when a business is going through change and failure.

And to start with, the business should take the blame, clearly let employees know that the failure is the fault of the business and not of its employees. That is generally the case, but somehow business executives and leaders love to make the employees the scapegoats for their own errors in judgment or miscalculations. Employers should be required to try to rehire fired employees in cases in which the employee has done nothing wrong. Employers should bear some of the burden of retraining employees in cases of reorganization.

I don't think that American employers and investors in American companies fully understand what the psychological effects of firing an employee is on the employee and just how responsible they are for the lives of their employees and their employees' families and how that affects society as a whole.

[wolfie001]

13. I was sickened by the recent Disney IT layoffs and their H-1B Visa replacements

One more of about a thousand or so reasons never to go visit Florida. I still shake my head at the Bush vs. Gore ruling.

[47of74]

10. I don't think I have any J Crew crap

If I did I'd burn it in protest.