Yes. "Sam's Club" is named for Sam Walton, who founded it and Wal*Mart. "Sam's Club" is the brand Wal*Mart uses for their costco-style stores - membership required, but you buy in massive bulk.
That doesn't look like a solid colour to me. While I've no doubt the policy is enforced more in its absence, but solid colour tshirts don't have two tone colour designs across the entirety, unless the term is different in Floridian English?
Eh, I can see why that shirt is not acceptable under the dress code. It's hardly a "solid colored T-shirt with a logo", it's a bit loud. Probably if he was wearing one of the official Obama shirts, with the blue and red O symbol, no one would have bothered him.
That said, you'd have to look around and see if other employees were wearing similarly "loud" shirts. Sounds like the supervisor was kind of a jerk too, but that's not really relevant.
I concur. Work is not, in my mind, a place where one expresses political views. Wear solid colours, and keep your opinions to yourself unless you want to have a customer screaming at you in an environment in which you aren't allowed to scream back.
Correction: The policy is flawed; it is written in a manner that states the logos may be worn and that offensive material cannot be. It fails to state that only logos which do not contain offensive material can be worn, and I think that's what it is meant to say.
A logo is an ideogram or symbol. The man's T-shirt contains a jarringly large photo-realistic image. It's a swell shirt, and I might go get one of those myself, but I would never think to wear it as a part of a corporate uniform, y'know?
Naturally, we'll never know if he would have been asked to remove a T-shirt with the plain Obama '08 logo. At least that would have been a story.
That's a toughie. It's not entirely dress-code appropriate given the "solid color shirt" standard. But at the same time, no one else gave a shit until a panties-in-a-knot, presumably racist and/or Republican customer complained.
"avoid pissing off people of the Republican persuasion."
Avoid?
There's nothing you can do to prevent them from being pissed off due to your mere existence as a free and independent individual, doubly so if you're a female.
We're well past "Avoid". Now it is a matter of degree.
You have an excellent point. Though I do know one or two people who consider themselves financial Republicans but social Democrats... however the heck that's supposed to work.
They'd be financial conservatives. Given how badly the Republican's economic model (created by Phil Gramm) screwed the US and world economies through deregulating the financial sector in pursuit of greed, right now only hardcore ideologues are financial Republicans.
Heh, this is true, doubly so now that the economy is in the shitter. Most of my friends who previously identified as Republican have now backed down to the status of Moderate.
Welllllll I would say that it's a bad idea for employees to wear any political t-shirts of any kind -and they were silly not to include it in the dress code
Apart from the colour thing, I think it's not too much of a stretch to include political or politically linked clothing as inappropriate
Now, if it turned out that Sam's Club were happy to allow McCain shirts, Palin skirts or Bush masks or some such, then I'd be pissed. But no politics seems not only reasonable but down right sensible
I've worked in places which also had a "solid colour t-shirts only; cannot have ANY print on them whatsoever" even to the extent of "only these colours permitted."
While it's not a logo, it's not a solid shirt and it's not neutral. I can see why he would've thought it would be okay, but I can see why it doesn't comply w/ the dresscode, either.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:12 pm (UTC)But yes. I have nothing against wholesale clubs in principle.
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Date: 2009-01-23 07:31 pm (UTC)That doesn't look like a solid colour to me. While I've no doubt the policy is enforced more in its absence, but solid colour tshirts don't have two tone colour designs across the entirety, unless the term is different in Floridian English?
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Date: 2009-01-23 07:33 pm (UTC)That said, you'd have to look around and see if other employees were wearing similarly "loud" shirts. Sounds like the supervisor was kind of a jerk too, but that's not really relevant.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:27 pm (UTC)And the dress code seems to agree with me.
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Date: 2009-01-24 04:23 pm (UTC)Naturally, we'll never know if he would have been asked to remove a T-shirt with the plain Obama '08 logo. At least that would have been a story.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:33 pm (UTC)So, what was offensive about the logo?
And, if they're going to crack down on non-dress code shirts, they need to make sure it's for every Sam's employee. Everywhere.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:40 pm (UTC)To the department of redundancy department!
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Date: 2009-01-23 09:55 pm (UTC)Avoid?
There's nothing you can do to prevent them from being pissed off due to your mere existence as a free and independent individual, doubly so if you're a female.
We're well past "Avoid". Now it is a matter of degree.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:46 pm (UTC)Apart from the colour thing, I think it's not too much of a stretch to include political or politically linked clothing as inappropriate
Now, if it turned out that Sam's Club were happy to allow McCain shirts, Palin skirts or Bush masks or some such, then I'd be pissed. But no politics seems not only reasonable but down right sensible
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Date: 2009-01-24 04:40 pm (UTC)While it's not a logo, it's not a solid shirt and it's not neutral. I can see why he would've thought it would be okay, but I can see why it doesn't comply w/ the dresscode, either.