Posted on 09/05/2014 1:08:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Employees at Walmart are about to be forced to dress a little nicer at their own expense.
The world's largest retailer has unveiled a new dress code for its massive workforce, Business Insider reports. Starting Sept. 29, associates must wear navy blue or white collared shirts paired with khaki or black pants, capris or skirts.
Employees will also be required to wear a Walmart-branded vest, which the company will provide. However, Walmart says its employees will have to purchase the rest of their work uniform at their own expense. The company even set up a website for employees to buy their new required work clothes at Walmart.
The news has much of the mainly part-time, minimum wage workforce upset. According to post by Gawker, many of the employees have been sounding off on social media saying they can't afford to buy new clothes on a minimum wage salary, even with their employee discount.
Gawker points out that last year, "Walmart gave its shareholders nearly $13 billion in dividends and share repurchases. Walmart employees may purchase new Dickies work pants for the low price of $19.97."
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1. OHMYGAWD. After giving them free clothes for all these years, they are now going to make employees BUY them?
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2. Good. I get tired of looking at slobs and bums at Walmart, only to see that - yep - on duty employees.
and they must buy them at Wal-Mart, right?
Oh the huge manatee...
My son works at Wal-Mart and has always worn nice clean blue turtlenecks. He has already bought the required shirts.
How many people expect their boss to buy their clothes?
Good. It is depressing to see walmart workers. In general, Target workers look much more professional and the stores are far superior in customer service, aisle spacing, produce, etc. It also does not hurt to have higher class customers.
I’m surprised government workers don’t.
No, but they will get a discount.
But still - Walmart clothes are cheap and poorly made. Thin material and will lose buttons and wear out in 6 months.
Never mind the clothes... can they teach the employees how to speak English?
I'm no fan of fashion by any means, but I dress better than most of these clowns when I'm doing yard work.
This is new? My son worked there for several years, left just over year ago and always had to buy his own clothes.
Most places with uniforms provide them, unless they’re very loosely defined. And I’ve gotten tons of logo-wear from jobs, and refused a lot because my current company is addicted to polo shirts and I hate polo shirts.
How many people expect their boss to buy their clothes?
The entitled class or your basic Obama voter.
Only shovels purchased at the company store may be used to dig in the mines.
The Company Store....
Expect to hear libs whining about that...
The military half of my brain likes the idea of uniforms in the workplace.
The OTHER military half of my brain understands that brown-shirted thugs love uniforms, too.
I think Wal-Mart should give them a clothing allowance and then a deep discount after that. I have never worked for a company that required uniforms, yet didn’t pay for, or kick in for, the purchase thereof.
I got 99 problems and worrying about Wal-Mart uniforms ain’t gonna be one of them. *SHRUG*
Totally agree with you. While in high school and college I had jobs that required a uniform, from waitressing to cleaning hotel rooms, and I had to buy each one. At least khaki pants and a blue or white shirt are things you could wear away from work, unlike the totally ugly clothes I had to buy.
My son (first real job) needs to dress in all black for work with nice, black dress shoes. He has two changes of clothes so he can put on a clean set each time.
A friend of his from work spent the night - he’s been couch hopping for a month until his college apartment is open.
“Would you like to take a shower?”
“Oh - that would be great. It’s been awhile since I showered last!”
“Oh my. I’ll wash your work clothes then.”
“That’s okay - I can go a week without washing them. I’ll do it over the weekend.” (The young man is in constant close proximity to the customers!)
While I don’t see the problem in having your employees buy their own clothing, there may be some “unintended consequences” when people start trying to save money on their wardrobe.
Cheaper than anyplace else. What’s the new khakis and shirt going to cost? $20? 30? Besides, they’re clothes you can wear outside of work. Not like having to buy a uniform with the company name all over it.
“...associates must wear navy blue or white collared shirts paired with khaki or black pants, capris or skirts...”
I would hardly call the above clothes a “uniform”.
Logos only on the company provided vests....
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