Walmart Employees Are Not Happy About A New Mandatory “Dress Code” Or That Workers Have To Pay For Clothes To Comply (interview, dollar)

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by 30to66at55

40% of the nations wealth? Where could you possibly come up with that....guess exxon and apple dont come into your picture.

Perhaps you shouldnt be concerned with the Walton family wealth and be more concerned that those who work for walmart shouldnt be expecting the so called Livable Wage and perhaps should have spent more time getting an education or training to make a good living.

Hate to tell you this but someone needs to....A lot of those people checking you out have a college degree...

[Houston3]

Originally Posted by Driller1

People complain because "the rich" have tax write offs.

This makes their costs a write off.

I wonder how many will write it off???

Last I heard if you can wear it at anytime then you can't write it off....But that could have changed...

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by Houston3

Last I heard if you can wear it at anytime then you can't write it off....But that could have changed...

I write off all of our clothes....never had a problem.

I can wear about anything to work on the rig.....or, take clients out to dinner.

[EricS39]

Very happy about this. It will help mam and paps survive against Walmart's viscious prices by forcing walmart prices up due to either 1) Walmart coming to terms with that they will need to help pay for the employee uniforms or have retail worker shortages of applicants unless they up their wage pay..both which will force price increases on walmart merchandise to maintain the previous profit volumes. Since none of this is price increase due to product quality improvement on Walmart's end, it's awesome news for mam and paps

[tinman01]

I am no fan of Walmart, in fact quite the opposite. That said, dress codes are not unusual. If the the employee doesn't like it, no one is forcing them to work there. I work in a factory and we have dress codes.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by EricS39

Very happy about this. It will help mam and paps survive against Walmart's viscious prices by forcing walmart prices up due to either 1) Walmart coming to terms with that they will need to help pay for the employee uniforms or have retail worker shortages of applicants unless they up their wage pay..both which will force price increases on walmart merchandise to maintain the previous profit volumes. Since none of this is price increase due to product quality improvement on Walmart's end, it's awesome news for mam and paps

Are you saying that Walmart will have to raise their prices across the board because they instituted a dress code for their employees ?

For crying out loud..Walmart has the pants for $11.00 and with their discount it comes to $9.90.

Hardly a "huge chunk of their take home pay" as noted in the article.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by Driller1

I write off all of our clothes....never had a problem.

I can wear about anything to work on the rig.....or, take clients out to dinner.

It's a legit deduction only if the clothes are unsuitable for street attire. For example, a hard hat could be deducted. A suit, not so much.

That one's return has not been selected for audit, does not make a deduction legal.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Are you saying that Walmart will have to raise their prices across the board because they instituted a dress code for their employees ?

For crying out loud..Walmart has the pants for $11.00 and with their discount it comes to $9.90.

Hardly a "huge chunk of their take home pay" as noted in the article.

Adults with the emotional maturity of a child don't like rules. The second toughest job in the US must be a Walmart store manager.

[rhawkins74]

Originally Posted by Caligula1

Not greed at all, perhaps there are some low income folks out there who would actually like to get off food stamps. But then we open up another entire can of worms right..?

See, we would all rather ***** because folks need public assistence.
Offer a solution of raising the minimum wage, we ***** about that..

Everyone has a gripe, seems nobody wants to think of a solution..
Even if it means that double whopper with cheese goes up a quarter in price..

Or Great Value OJ goes up a few cents..

Wal-mart workers need to get over the uniform thing..

Jobs require a dress code, we all have to pay...

Be it a suit and tie, Black pants and non slip shoes..
it's the price we have to pay to be employed..

I do not get a clothing allowence and most of my stuff get's bleach and all sorts of nasty stuff on it..
I want to work, I buy comfortable cheap clothing mostly at Goodwill, I know i'm going to ruin it...

Keep the minimum wage where it is and than make it, where one has to make less than minimum wage to qualify for food stamps. Now, those people are off of food stamps and we don't have to pay any more for the double whopper or Great Value OJ.

Since people can live off of minimum wage already, wanting more would be greed. Just because someone can get public assistance at a certain wage does not mean that they couldn't survive with out it.

[HappyTexan]

Newsflash people..Walmart already had a dress code and this "new" one is just slightly changing it and adding back the blue vests. So these people already had the pants and just need to buy a few polo shirts.

A white polo shirt at Walmart costs $6.00 and with their discount comes to $5.40.
And there's "outrage" over this ????? Give up one single Big Mac meal and you have your shirt.
America is in worse condition than I thought.


Walmart Changes Up Dress Code For Employees | 5NEWSOnline.com
The old Walmart dress code simply consisted of blue t-shirts and khaki pants, but new additions to the code include black pants and white tops, as well as, blue collared shirts, officials said.