Black Old Navy employees alleged they were 'shooed' out of 'Queer Eye' shoot, treated like 'maintenance'
Ever since three employees of a Philadelphia Old Navy store came forward to allege they faced racial discrimination during an in-store taping for Netflix’s Queer Eye, more troubling details have continued to emerge from workers in interviews with Yahoo Lifestyle.
Another employee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, echoed Williams’ thoughts in an interview in Philadelphia Magazine. “Most of [the regular employees] worked additional overnights to make the store look top-notch… corporate brought in new clothes, signs, and repainted parts of the store,” the employee said. “I was super-excited up until the day of and a random group of white folks came in to replace us at our own store.
Williams refutes this. “I can guarantee that not one of [the new employees] was black.” Furthermore, while a source close to Old Navy tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the extra employees were brought in to clean for the entire week, both Williams and Alvarado say that’s untrue. “We were the ones cleaning up that store all week,” says Williams. “They brought in those other people the day of filming… they were gone only a couple hours after cameras left.
In the wake of the incident, the employees tell Yahoo Lifestyle that HR has been conducting investigations, but that Alvarado — who was the first to call attention to to it — wasn’t invited to meet with them until she requested it. She says she is “fearful” that she may face retaliation, so she wanted to address it in public to “save herself and save it from being buried.
There have, incidentally, been demonstrated incidents of racial discrimination in other locations. In June, a Canadian woman posted videos of an employee accusing her of stealing a T-shirt she already owned and asking to see the receipt. The woman, Lisa Calderon, says the employee physically grabbed her and demanded an explanation; the store later apologized.
#OldNavy forced POC workers from the floor and kept them out of sight for a #QueerEye taping. They spent all night preparing the store, only to be told to sit in the back during filming the next day. @QueerEye @OldNavy @netflix #racism #Discrimination #Hollywood #Netflix pic.twitter.com/xGcEBnJLF4
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