Gross practice. Companies would charge their employees money to wear more comfortable clothes. They’d often say it was a fundraiser. I have heard of people who did not want to or could not afford to participate getting chastised for not supporting kids with cancer.
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Shellbeach@lemmy.world 5 days agoSometimes employees would have to pay a few dollars to wear casual items
I’m sorry, what?
gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Not OP, but I saw this at an old-school Fortune 500. To get Casual Fridays, you had to donate a certain amount to a specific charity (ours was a local food bank). It wasn’t a lot, something like $25/quarter, but it was definitely an expense