Walmart Makes Employees Pay The Company To Wear Shorts During Summer

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 9, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

When I met people who were banned from wearing shorts in school, I could not believe it. Then I remembered not everybody grew up in the South. Growing up in Texas, you would die of heat exhaustion if you wore jeans on the first day of school. The weather is in the 90s during at least the first three weeks of school, and it never gets any colder than 45 degrees. Shorts are the most essential clothing item in that climate. 

Even though I don't love wearing shorts as an adult, I don't understand the implication that they are "inappropriate" to wear. If you're working in a hot environment with no air conditioning, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to wear shorts. One Walmart employee took to Reddit to share his story of pants-related woe. Walmart is allegedly making employees pay $3 to be allowed to wear shorts or yoga pants to work on weekends. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/DoubleDungeon Coffee 20h. i.redd.it $21 Walmart wants ME to pay THEM for my comfort
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    Rectangle - Wear shorts or Yoga Pants every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday For $3.00 a day. 31/2 inches (the width of your associate badge) above the knee. Yoga pants can not have mesh or see through
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    Font - I live in the south where it's going to be 90°-100° for the next two weeks (at least) and I work in a non-air conditioned warehouse. They want ME to pay a billion dollar company to be able to wear shorts. Only on weekends too because, ya know, it can't get hot Monday through Thursday. Absolutely ridiculous. less
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    Font - DangerousAd1731 • 20h Where does the money go? ... Reply 3.7k
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    Rectangle - DoubleDungeonCoffee OP. 20h It's for a "fundraiser" aka tax write off for Walmart 44.9K
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    Font - gkijgtrebklg. 17h my gut tells me someone in mgmt is pocketing the money. ... 4 1.8k
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    Font - Hotdog Georgia - 20h I don't know where the money goes, but it's not a tax write-off for Wally World. To expense it to contributions, they'd have to also record the employee money as taxable income, which means the funds would cancel each other out. 4514
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    Rectangle - DoubleDungeonCoffee OP. 20h Either way, I shouldn't have to pay to be comfortable in extreme heat 4611
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    Font - alohadood. 19h Companies be like "great benefits"; this is the benefits. ... Reply 676
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    Font - exotics 17h Wear them but say you read the sign as meaning they would pay you $3 if you did. There is no fine print saying it's the other way. It sounds like you wear this FOR $3 meaning you get $3 Reply 579
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    Happy - Octopiinspace . 15h That's actually what I understood first and I was highly confused ... 164
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    Font - iheartstartrek. 20h Ask them for a 3 dollar a day wage raise for fri, sat and sun to dress as usual. If they say thats ridiculous just point out so is paying a corporation to be comfortable on shift. ... Reply 5.8k 5.8k
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    Font - Rogue_Vaper • 18h No corporate letterhead. No contact details for how to make payment. 100% a middle management scam. No charitable donation will be made. Just straight into their pockets. Reply 2.1k
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    Font - ReloadJo. 17h Yeah I'd actually say OP should report this to corporate. This seems like a manager went rogue. If Walmart had a corporate policy like this it'd probably make national news. 4906
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    Font - JohnnyBoySloth - 15h . Exactly what I was thinking. Walmart's greedy but not $3 for wearing shorts greedy, especially with potential bad PR. I can confidently say no way Walmart would enact such policy. Could be a contracted warehouse who mainly supplies Walmart. 4309 ...
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    Font - matheusco • 19h -Use it -Don't pay Let them ask for the money (record it) - Ignore - Get fired - Sue - Profit. ... Reply 4.4k 4.4k
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    Font - KrevinHLocke. 18h If I was a largely overweight dude over 50, I'd pay the $3 and show up in yoga pants for the luls. Reply 443
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    Font - CermaitLaphroaig 19h ● And this is them tipping their hand right here. Because every reason companies claim for dress codes ("professionalism", safety, etc) is obviously bullshit in this case, since they're willing to ignore all that for 3 bucks a day ... Reply 277
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