I get spanked for minor infractions all the time.
It's incredibly frustrating. I do my job, customers love me, I'm training kids almost everyday, but goddess forbid I'm wearing a pink long sleeve shirt!

I was a store manager for 10 years. The worst DM I ever had used to threaten “if I ever walk into your store and a partner is out of dress code, It’s a write up for you”

Even if I wasn’t working at the store that day

Depends on what it is, if someone comes in with say a hoodie, ripped jeans, a color out of dress code, we’ll let them know they’re out of dress code and if they can’t change we’ll let it slide for that day but only that day. If they’re a repeat offender or they have something against health code like nails, and the nails don’t come off it turns into a verbal coaching

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my store doesn't care about dresscode

I definitely think it’s out of dress code but my manager lets us wear leggings as long as we wear a shirt long enough to cover our butt… maybe this is the dress rule? But I think athletic leggings go against dress code anyways

My manager wears ripped jeans then dress codes people for having small subtle patterns that are within dress code 😍

usually verbal warnings unless they’re really out of dress code. they’ve somehow made the dress code so laid back that’s it’s a little hard to follow, the dress code when i started was very straight forward (polos, black pants, khakis) but now it’s almost like you can wear anything. generally my store is good at following it but occasionally there’s people with ripped jeans or wild colors. usually they just get told they can’t wear that

Sm wanna coach me about dress code when half the store ain’t in it. He only coach the coachable ones. And I’m like nah. If they not in dress code I won’t be in it too

There’s so many options on the color palette now that I mean it’s not that hard to just wear something that falls within it. If a partner shows up and is out of dress code I will let it slide the first time after notifying them they need to be in dress code. Second time I send them home. Sucks to be that guy but it’s not fair to let someone constantly be out of dress code when everyone else is following the rules. Plus GM will hold me as a SSV accountable for letting it happen. :/

Edit: I will ask if they might have an extra shirt/pants/shoes in their car that they can change into before sending them home.