Wait... What?

So, I was browsing through some forums, and I happened to see a topic titled:  "[Idea] No clothes for people who work at minimum wage"

The original post states:

Are you okay with this change? Do you appreciate the fact that clothes should be for those who actually work real jobs? If clothes are no longer available to those who work at minimum wage, will this change your decision to work?

There has been much talk about clothes and how they should not be given to minimum wage employees anymore, and I would actually agree that they should not even be a possibility for those who work minimum wage. Nor should shoes for that matter.

Now let's break it down sentence by sentence.

Are you okay with this change?
The change of forcing people to walk around in the nude (the extreme version I jumped to at first) or in old clothes (I do this anyway, so... it isn't really a change?).  I assume the poster meant the "in the buff" option, since they specifically said "No clothes."  Okay, whatever, moving on.

Do you appreciate the fact that clothes should be for those who actually work real jobs?
Um... excuse me, bitch?  What do you mean "real" jobs.  A job is a job is a job.  Some are shittier than others, yes.  But does that not make it a "real" job?  Employees get paid as if they work a job.  They perform their duties like they're at a job.  I'm not comprehending what makes a difference between a "real" job and a minimum wage position.  Sure, a good job may require a college degree of some sort, years of working experience in that industry, etc.  But why should people working these "real" jobs be the only one deemed worthy to wear any clothing?  How would one get one of these "real" jobs if they were not allowed to have any?  Ugh, lets move on I guess...

If clothes are no longer available to those who work at minimum wage, will this change your decision to work?
So... now they're NOT working... Right.  Okay.  So, I work at a quick-lube (read:  I change oil in vehicles, all day every day, preferably in under 8 minutes).  I get paid slightly more than minimum wage ($0.75 over to be exact) so at the end of the week, I get paid somewhere around $30 more than a person on minimum wage would (assuming a 40 hour work week, before taxes).  But now I'm (or they're, since I technically don't qualify) not working.  I get some people have a holier-than-thou mindset for people in service jobs.  I didn't think it would be so easy to find, but I run into at least one person a week with this type of attitude.  But I assure you, it is work.  In my case, I have to get dirty, burnt, risk being run over, and risk slipping and breaking something on just about every vehicle that comes in for an oil change.  In the fast food industry, they must pump out food pretty quickly, risk being robbed / attacked by customers, and there are probably some injuries they could sustain in a high customer volume situation that I just can't think of at the moment.  Even at Wal-Mart, the employees have to worry about being robbed/attacked, having items fall on them, being run over in the parking lot, possibly even the store.  I think you see where I'm trying to go with this by now.

As far as changing my decision to work (I think I talked about the work thing already, right?)  My decision has never changed.  I'm still looking for a job somewhere that I can use my degree.  But either I don't have the required work experience in the industry (none), or I don't have what the employers are looking for skill-wise.  Of course, I'm working on this.  Trying to teach myself new programming languages, building on what I already know, working on some projects to show what I can do.  Moving on.


There has been much talk about clothes and how they should not be given to minimum wage employees anymore, and I would actually agree that they should not even be a possibility for those who work minimum wage. Nor should shoes for that matter.
Who has been talking about this?  When?  For how long?  Maybe I've just missed it, but this is the first I'm hearing of this.  I've even looked this up to see if I can find something somewhere about it.  But I've found nothing.  And as for taking away the shoes as well... really?  Now you're just being a sadist.

Oh well, I guess there wasn't much of a point to this, and maybe I took it too personally, but I just saw it and wanted to say something about it.  Are there other people who feel this way?  Anyway, until I have something else that I just have to rant about, see ya!