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[iainballas]

Old hotel I worked at they had us wear white button-up long-sleeved shirts, vest, dark slacks, and black polished shoes (average room price was about 250 bucks in summer, so not THAT fancy of a place). One day, the boss lady told us we needed to buy our new clothes from the company website. I had gotten my clothes at wal-mart, for about 50 bucks an outfit... and suddenly they wanted me to get even cheaper-feeling stuff at about 120 bucks an outfit (sans shoes) and another 100 bucks on shoes. I looked them up online, and showed everyone else. We could order the EXACT SAME from taiwan for about 15 bucks an outfit (5 bucks a shirt, vest and pants). Company was marking it up. Turns out, that was illegal for them to fire me for buying the regulation clothes at a different venue. The hotel here in town is STILL paying out to ex-employees as they get in contact.

[Country_Swagger]

The company I work for gives us a $200 voucher every year for boots. It's a blessing for sure.

[Shambley]

Anybody who has worked a full day in a pair of those knows what it's like to work a full day with plywood on your feet.

[RK-ejto]

I’ve always bought 150 dollar boots, my new job gave me $150 per year for new boots. First time I ever bought $300 boots lol. Employee owned, union friendly, made in America. Go team.🇺🇸

[ralph]

"You paid $24.48. You're charging us $495?"
Ladies & gentlemen, the housing market explained through work boots!

[randolphstead]

I drove rigs for 30 years; safety boots mandatory, we got an annual boot allowance. I drive school bus now, safety footwear not mandatory. I still wear safety boots. At birth I was issued only two feet, no spares provided.

[morphytyme]

I work in a battery manufacturing plant. We have a guy that always pipes in just like this, started there 32 years ago.
Easily his best line was when we ran 1.2 million batteries in a month and they gave us cupcakes.
cupcake handin out cupcakes..." LOL even the floor managers had to turn away to hide a grin.
Keep this kind of content up and you'll be at 200k in no time at all, great stuff man.

[israelsedano]

4:54 HAHA, You go right ahead and take it out my check PLEASEEE. I'm about to sue you to high Hell 😂😂 Go right ahead

[briankulesz]

The boots come with a free jar of Vaseline! And cheek spreaders.

[tankfu]

The family-owned company I worked for was bought out by a huge corporation and they made all kinds of changes. They owned facilities more dangerous than ours, but we had to be compliant for the company to keep some certification. Not really the environment to need steel toes or special soles for 99% of the jobs. I worked in the office but had to go on to the production floor every day, so I qualified for their work boots requirement. I was able to get a really nice pair with no out-of-pocket cost. If they wanted to waste the money getting a couple hundred people new boots, that's fine with me. They "downsized" 6 months later and fired me and 50 others, so we all still have a really nice pair of work boots.

[simonausmus]

Pay for safety equipment, only once boss man then I visit a lawyer on my lunch break. They LOVE these cases because they usually settle out of court for big figures.

[Flying.Flocks]

Brother your videos are hilarious and truthful!

I recall working on a job where the GC was just like the owner character. Him and his wife were definitely scamming their guys, their customers, and the contractors working for them. Bless you!

[bookkeeper]

If your company does something like this to you notify LARA in your state.

[NoName-ikdu]

I used to deliver newspapers. The papers were required to be delivered in plastic bags so they wouldn't get wet, but we had to _buy the bags_ from the company to put the papers in. It was the biggest load of crap. Fifteen years later and I still have a couple of those packs of bags left in my shed...

[BarnacleBoy]

As soon as he whipped out that box that said "company boots" and said th y cost $495 I knew they were gonna be Brahma's lmao 🤣🤣

[dave]

This reminds me of getting an allowance in the military for clothing. But, there was never enough allowance to cover 2+ sets of BDU's, boots, dress uniforms, patches, winter gortex, etc.... gotta love it.

[theoregonguy]

I've been on the opposite side of this, our company had a string of foot and ankle injuries. They made it a big priority, and assigned me to gigure out the problem, it turned out a bunch of people were wearing the wrong footwear. I suggested we give them a voucher of some sort to get the right boots for the job, and crunched the numbers to show it would save us tens of thousands of dollars in lost time, and workers comp if we worked with a certain well known company that had a redeemable voucher program. They settled on a $300 dollar boot allowance that went on their paycheck instead. 2 months later half the employees still didn't have the right footwear and had blown the money at the bar or strip club that was up the road from us. I of course got the heat for that one, even though they only took half of my advice.

[carmineacciai]

Big thanks for pointing out Rockrooster. I've been looking for a pair of boots/shoes that won't disintegrate in three months and they were a godsend!

[pathfinderlight]

If OSHA wants to mandate new boots for everyone, sounds to me like OSHA needs to pay for some new boots.

[WhatWillYouFind]

In most other DEVELOPED nations, not the 50 incorporated individual nation states brought to you by C-Corp America . . . companies pay for those boots and you don't have a credit or allowance because it the LAW. The LAW says if it is required to perform your job, it must be issued to you at their expense. The cost of doing business is the responsibility of the company, not the employee because otherwise why would the CAPITALIST who OWNS the business assert that they have rights OVER you and everybody knows they are already exploiting you. This is why tradesmen who bring their own tools don't put up with certain kinds of crap. That is also why they command a higher rate or salary, because the INVESTMENT "ie: these bOoTs" is factored into the associated business costs.

Food for thought, we should stop allowing capitalists to have their lunch AND eat ours too.