She Owns A Fashion Design Company But Refused To Give Her Underqualified Stepdaughter A Job, And Now Her Husband’s Furious She Didn’t Bend The Rules
Have you ever had a friend or family member who wanted to work in the same field as you, and they expected you to help get them a job?
One woman recently upset her husband and stepdaughter after she refused to give her stepdaughter a job at her company because she was underqualified.
She is married and has a 23-year-old stepdaughter named Mia. She became Mia’s stepmother when she was 15, so she’s known her for a while.
Sixteen years ago, she started her own fashion design company.
“It was very small and low budget, but I was lucky enough to expand it to where it is now,” she said.
[It’s] still not the biggest company out there, but [it’s] big enough for my region. Part of my expansion plan was to hire other young designers. So, my team and I are quite selective of who gets the job and who doesn’t because they design [the] products we sell, so it has to be good.”
She has a board of people who help her hire designers based on their experience and other factors.
Now that Mia’s older, she’s been interested in fashion. Her husband’s been boasting about how Mia’s been taking design courses and recently asked if she could give Mia a job as a designer at her company.
“She’s good at picking fabrics and colors; however, she isn’t good at designing,” she explained.
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“She’s a good stylist but not a good designer. I told my husband [to] have her apply for the job and submit her papers for me and [that] the team [would] look at them and examine her skills.”
Her husband was surprised that she wouldn’t automatically give Mia a job instead of having her apply the old-fashioned way. Later, she got a text from Mia, thanking her for the opportunity. She tried not to get Mia’s hopes up and reminded her that her team would review her application thoroughly.
When Mia’s application was reviewed, her board did not approve of hiring her, as they didn’t think she fit the right criteria. Mia was sent an email from the company letting her know she didn’t get the job.
Then, everything fell apart.
Her husband began getting angry, telling her it was unfair that she didn’t bend the rules for Mia to get the job. She reminded her husband that she isn’t the sole decider in who gets hired at her company and that if she had automatically hired Mia, she would lose her credibility, and the other designers wouldn’t respect Mia.
“It is a huge risk for me ethically and financially to include Mia,” she added.
“My husband proceeded to tell me the list of courses and work Mia has done to achieve her dream. I told him I understood, but she still [lacked] the skills to meet my criteria. [Instead], she could apply somewhere else and get accepted.”
Later that day, Mia sent her a long text, saying she had failed her and that she never wanted to see or hear from her again.
Was she wrong not to automatically give her stepdaughter a job, or was she right to make her apply like everyone else?
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