Horrible bosses: Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn drops ‘bizarre’ request for staff underwear photos
- The Netherlands’ top supermarket chain asked workers at one of its stores to provide photos of themselves in their underwear to work out sizes for new uniforms
- The Albert Heijn supermarket chain reversed course after stunned employees complained
The Netherlands’ top supermarket chain said it has ditched plans to ask staff to upload photos of themselves in their underwear to work out sizes for new uniforms.
The Albert Heijn retailer had asked workers at one of its stores in the eastern city of Nijmegen to send the pictures using an “innovative mobile app”.
But it changed course after the Dutch newspaper NRC quoted stunned employees as complaining about the plan.
“I saw a poster hanging in our canteen and I was shocked,” 17-year-old Jochem de Haes, who works at the Nijmegen branch, told NRC.
“My mother thought it was a joke. But the manager told us that if we do not do it, we can’t be in the store any more because we do not have the right corporate clothing.”
Albert Heijn insisted the plan was voluntary and was aimed at helping bring in new uniforms for staff at its 1,000 Dutch stores.