Texas woman says potential employer shamed her over bikini photo

NBC News ^ | October 3, 2019 | By Minyvonne Burke and Courtney Brogle

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A Texas woman said she was shamed online by a potential employer who took a photo of her in a bikini from her Instagram account and shared it on the company's page while warning other applicants that it was unprofessional.

Emily Clow, who according to her Twitter account lives in Austin, said she applied for a marketing coordinator position at a business startup, Kickass Masterminds.

Clow told NBC News that shortly after applying, a company representative reached out to her and said the firm wanted to move ahead with the application process and recommended that she follow them on Instagram. Hoping to improve her chances of landing the position, she did.

But as she was scrolling through the company's Instagram story, Clow said she saw a photo of herself in a red two-piece bathing suit with a warning message to potential applicants.

Clow said the company had swiped the photo from her personal Instagram account, and when she saw it she was shocked.

"You don't expect a potential employer to do something like this," she told NBC. "To have someone that seems really intrigued and wants to meet with you, only to see this is shocking."

Since Clow's post has gone viral, the company's website and social media pages appear to have been taken down.

[NorthMountain]

Keep the personal and professional separate. It’s one of the reasons I have two cell-phones and two email addresses.

[Enterprise]

"I’m gonna take a wild guess and figure she’s had sex"

Kick ass sex.

[Ceebass]

That’s a much better picture than the one you usually post.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Hell you say! I’d hire her in a New York minute as my personal assistant.

[aquila48]

You mean she needed the employer to shame her? She didn’t have enough self respect to feel ashamed on her own?

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[LeoTDB69]

No face, but I see no shaming at all from that picture. And to the potential employer, maybe I’m not a marketer but that picture seems like it would be a good marketing tool for clientele who would use a company named “Kickass”.

[Magnum44]

[Vendome]

[MayflowerMadam]

The company was wrong. I hope she sues them. Her account is none of their business. I’ve heard that potential employers demand that applicants provide their passwords to personal social media sites.

[moovova]

Their YouTube channel's still up. Here's a list of various CEOs that have done videos for this company. I'm sure they'd like to hear from interested parties. Comments there are interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIiLRfLhR0kStP_P1d9dJpQ/videos

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[redshawk]

....without the face, how can you be sure.

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

[LeonardFMason]

Rodney Dangerfield TWO BAGGER.

[Vendome]

This whole thing is some sort of put up...

I could go for days looking at her bikini pics on her instagram...