Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

Writing emails is a more stressful task than it should be: just one wrong click and so many things can go wrong. What is more, emails are more often used for business and at work, so it’s not like making a typo in a message for your friend. That’s why people typically are more attentive and think over the way they say things more.

A business owner got involved in a very unpleasant situation just because he sent an email to the wrong person. Not only did he get the addressee wrong, but the message itself was unprofessional and shouldn’t have been written at all. The addressee was a 21-year-old girl and in the email she was called ‘not that cute.’

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A girl applying for a job received an email that wasn’t meant for her and in it, the VP of the company said she is “not that cute”

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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The girl’s name is Gracie Lorincz, she is from Michigan and she recently graduated. So she went to apply for a brand representative job at Ava Lane Boutique, which is a clothing store. But the answer she got was not supposed to reach her and, to be honest, shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

Gracie shared the contents of that letter in a TikTok video that now has 2M views and 303k people liked it, but mainly to support the girl, not because they agreed with what was said in it.

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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The email read, “This girl is fresh out of college (Hope college) and not that cute. She applied to the sales model position. Are you sure you want me to interview her?”

The part that was inappropriate, hurtful to Gracie and outraged people was the vice president of operations and the husband of the boutique’s owner, Chuck DeGrendel, saying that she is “not that cute.”

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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Gracie posted the letter on her TikTok account and 1.3 million people were interested to see what it said

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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The email and the comment were meant for his wife Laura, the owner of the company, but somehow mistakenly reached Gracie. What is ironic is that the clothing company’s motto, according to Gracie, was “Beauty through confidence” and these kinds of remarks don’t fit the belief they should have. In fact, now on their Instagram, you can find that their motto is “Confidence through fashion.”

Bored Panda reached out to Gracie to ask a few questions, but she was not up to an interview right now. Instead she said that her intent with the video “was simply to call out bad behavior and to encourage individuals to stand up for themselves.” She also added, “I don’t want to prolong the narrative. […] I want to spin this situation into a positive one.”

In response to the TikTok video, Chuck and his wife apologized on Facebook live

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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In response to Gracie’s video, Chuck and Laura went live on Facebook and the VP apologized for his inappropriate words. He said “I didn’t feel she was that cute. So I didn’t know if I wanted to proceed with an interview. I don’t know why I said that, but I did, and I am very sorry for saying that.”

Both Chuck and Laura were talking with tears in their eyes that many people in the comments couldn’t let slip as they were convinced they were fake. They also thought that it was manipulative for Laura to say “I’m pretty sure the girl who Chuck has apologized to didn’t mean to, when she asked her followers to contact us, to threaten our family, the families who work here. I’m pretty sure that was not her intention, but that’s what happened.”

Here you can watch the full recorded Facebook live in which Chuck and Laura talk about the situation

Video credits: kristen simmons

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

It seems that Gracie didn’t expect to reach so many people with her video and that they would defend her so actively. That’s why in the comments of the video, she asks viewers not to bother Chuck’s family. Also, one of the commenters noticed, in the viral video, that she didn’t ask anyone to contact him or his family in the first place.

In Gracie’s video, you can see that the email really upset the girl, even though she didn’t really say much

@ggggmoneyyyy:))))) feeling amazing ##greenscreen ##foryou ##foryourpage ##CompleteMyLook ##FriendsReunion ##rentfree ♬ original sound – gracie

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What do you think of the email and the internet’s reaction to it? Do you think that people are treating Chuck and his wife too harshly and do you believe their apology was sincere? Another thing to think about is whether bosses looking for people for a brand representative have the right to make remarks about their looks. Let us know how you see the situation in the comments!

Most people seemed to support Gracie and condemned the owners for being insensitive in that email

Woman Receives An Accidental Email From Her Potential Employer Calling Her ‘Not That Cute’

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Marsha Sturgill 3 years ago

I just watched the husband and wife try to tone down this mess they are in. I am angrier at the wife for trying to accuse the applicant of asking the public to post negative comments about them, their business, and involve their children. The applicant did NOT do this. The wife is trying to steer the anger off of them and back on the applicant. She, of course, plays the " children being threatened" card. That tore it for me. Husband deeply regrets what he did because he knows very well what his wife has in store for him. He's sorry for what he said, sorry for sending it to the applicant, and sorry that he got found out. I think he's a sorry excuse of a man. His show of remorse was sadly lacking. My gut feeling about this couple is not good. The wife is a " Karen", and the husband is a sniveling wimp. He is receiving his punishment for the rest of his life. His wife will make sure of that.

53points

JennyLaRue 3 years ago

THIS!!! It felt like crocodile tears to show they were sorry, but it was so insincere and felt like thin excuses.

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zite 3 years ago

Best summary ever

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Jonas W. P. 3 years ago (edited)

The girl isn't more right or any better than the couple running the business. Posting something like this on social media almost always causes a huge uproar and can potentially end the business altogether all because of an email sent to the wrong person. It's awful what's in the email, for sure, and the girl has all the right to be feeling insulted on a personal level. The husband is right to apologize for what he wrote about the girl, which undermines her on a personal level and for sending the email to her in the first place but everything else is just nonsense. I know this is an unpopular opinion and I would probably also feel terribly, had something like this happened to me, but posting it on social media calling out NOT just the company but also the privat individuals behind it is crossing the line. This is called vigilantism and it's just as ugly as not wanting to interview someone because of how they look.

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Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago (edited)

First of all people shouldn't threaten anyone no matter what, that's just wrong. Second thing is I like to welcome "cancel culture" criers to the concept of free market and capitalism. People needs to realize and understand that so called "Cancel culture" is just free market at work. If people don't like you for some of your action they will spread why thru word of mouth to like minded people and they will spread it further. Free market will weed out businesses that customers don't agree with. If you don't adapt with market you will be removed from market.

39points

elfin 3 years ago

All she did was post what he wrote in context. So how is that threatening his family? It would be just as accurate to say that he caused the threats to his family. The people most in the wrong are the threateners, followed closely by the blamers.

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Stille20 3 years ago

This is so odd.. But she had to send photos... so it seems like appearance is part of the job, no? Also, he didn't say fat or ugly... just not that cute. I'm sure it stung, but it was pretty minor.... and the apology made the whole thing worse.

26points

Rachel Elizabeth Dare 3 years ago

It was the fact that he didn’t want to let her have a chance at the job because she wasn’t that cute. Basically, she applied for a job and he said ‘I don’t want to interview her because she’s not that cute’

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