A 24-year-old was left shocked when a company she’d applied to for an internship publicly shamed her by sharing one of her bikini photos on its Instagram account.
Emily Clow, 24, from Austin, Texas, applied to the marketing company Kickass Masterminds, which later posted her photo saying it was ‘looking for a professional marketer – not a bikini model’.
A caption on the image read: ‘PSA (because I know some of you applicants are looking at this): do not share your social media with a potential employer if this is the kind of content on it.
‘Go on with your bad self and do whatever in private. But this is not doing you any favors in finding a professional job.’
Emily called out the company for objectifying her and has since received more than 2,000 likes on Twitter.
Kickass Masterminds has since disabled all of its accounts due to the overwhelming response.
Emily Clow, 24, from Austin, Texas, found herself baffled after Kickass Masterminds posted a bikini picture of her online
The marketing company shamed Emily for posting a bikini image on her Instagram, and advised others not to do the same when seeking a ‘professional job’
While the original Instagram post was deleted by the company, it was later shared by the Twitter account @SheRatesDogs
The original Instagram post shared by the company, which has since been deleted, was later re-posted by the Twitter account @SheRatesDogs.
Its tweet read: ‘This girl applied for an internship at a company, and they put up this screenshot of her in a bikini on their company Instagram, publicly telling everybody they wouldn’t hire her because of this photo.’
Taking to her own Twitter account, Emily wrote: ‘I was objectified earlier today by a company because of a picture of me in a bikini. They claimed it made me “unprofessional”.
‘They screenshot the photo, posted it on their Insta story and called me out.
‘I am still baffled that the company handled it in such a manner.’
Emily has since received an overwhelming response from users on social media coming to her defense, with many calling out the company for public shaming.
Emily called out the company over the post in her own tweet, and has received an overwhelming response from social media users coming to her defense
Taking to Twitter Emily said that the company had objectified her and wrote: ‘They claimed it made me an ‘unprofessional’
The Austin resident later thanked social media users for their support and added: ‘Thank you! I appreciate the support from everyone, it has truly been a whirlwind of a day.’
One user wrote: ‘She’s just wearing a bikini, it’s not like she’s naked, and even if she was so what? It’s her Instagram she can post what she wants.’
Another commented: ‘You dodged a bullet with that company. You look super cute in your bathing suit and your professionalism isn’t based on what you wear outside of work. I hope the next place you deal with treats you properly.’
While another person wrote: ‘I would hope @kickassmasterm is in the process of firing the person who incited harassment and bullying against an internship applicant.’
Many on social media called out the the company for public shaming and said that a person should not be judged by what they wear
Another user wrote: ‘ How absolutely absurd that @kickassmasterm would be looking for a ‘professional marketer’ while being incredible unprofessional.
‘Aside from that, you should probably learn that clothing does not determine work ethic or intelligence.’
Another user warned: ‘Everyone reading this…yes this is wrong but you should know that tons and tons of companies do this, but they are smart enough to never talk about it. Social media has stopped many a people from getting jobs.’
Kickass Masterminds founder Sara Christensen said: ‘The woman in question was not disqualified because of her social media profile. In fact, she was not disqualified at all. There was no communication to her saying she was disqualified.’
Regarding the publishing of the bikini photo Sara added: ‘She requested that I removed it and I did immediately.’