out of curiousity, *serious question*

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

Do you need to be homosexual to work at Diesel?

The story:
I need a night job, and my options are limited. I've tried to apply for Diesel in the past, got as far as the interview stage. But never heard back, I did follow up but got the run around.

Now first I thought that my having to much coffee shop experience may have turned them off, or even my not having a friend that works there may have effected me.

So before I look into applying again, I would like to know if my being straight effects my chances of being hired.


Thanks

Sorry if this offends anyone.

Comments

[sekala.livejournal.com]

I get what you're saying. I've worked in a couple of different kinds of coffee shops and been rejected from some too. I also come from an all women's college which gives me some perspective on what I think you are seeing in Diesel. There is a culture there without a doubt and whether or not that culture has anything to do with being gay or straight is questionable, however there is a very distinct culture. When I walked into diesel for the first time my first impression was that about 95% of the staff could have been people I knew from my school -- people that went in looking like your typical high school girl stereotype and somewhere in their sophomore year decided that short spiky hair, dyke clothes, and a piercing or two was the way to go. I had friends who did it, some gay, some straight, but all of them participated in the culture that that particular look signifies.

Enough people above have commented that any business would be stupid to discriminate based on sexuality, or rather, assumed sexuality(they can't actually ask you that in an interview or you can sue them big time) but what most places that hire do is look for people they think would get along in their particular work culture, which in this is one that the large majority of the public would consider a type of gay culture even if it isn't.

Apart from that though, you're right about one other thing. Sometimes having too much coffeeshop experience is a bad thing. Where I used to work, I would help my boss weed through some of our applicants and sometimes he would dismiss people based on where they'd worked before, or when he'd have them demonstrate what they knew how to do, he wouldn't hire them. This was because sometimes people in a job like this get so set in their ways that they can't or won't be re-trained. There was a very high level of quality control where I used to work, and when I first walked into diesel I noticed that same kind of attention to their product. So that could be another factor altogether.

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

thanks.

[suzybuzz.livejournal.com]

mount holyoke or smith? i went to holyoke, and i'm straight, and i swear i get a snotty vibe in there.

[sekala.livejournal.com]

Mount Holyoke :)