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Walmart employee forced to wear a yellow vest after boss found out he was gay.

Believe Walmart employees are required to wear yellow vests when they patrol the lot to bring the carts back in. Sounds sort of like this guy may have gotten re-assigned to cart duty and is trying to twist the incident into some kind of "scarlet letter" melodrama claiming it was done because he happens to be a homo.....




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I agree. In retail a special vest caries special meaning. And I doubt it's "I'm gay". Usually when I see discrimination in the retail workplace, it's making someone do some kind of undesirable/unreasonable task. Not wear a different colored uniform that someone around there is going to be wearing anyway, and walk around doing nothing. Though, I've seen ignorant people do some stupid things they thought was funny, but was mostly just baffling to everyone else.
 
If he was walking around doing nothing and being paid, that's just wrong and unfair to other employees. He should find something to do or quit instead of taking money he didn't earn. I really doubt his whole story.
I have great respect for the greeters etc. who work there. Wal-mart should be commended for giving them work. However I don't think they should be required to keep on lazy bums. Lazy bums should be shunned.
 
No one picked up on this yet?

A Walmart spokesman, Phil Keene, said that Gallardo's yellow uniform may have been nothing unusual.

"It is my understanding that the former associate was a temporary hire while the store is under remodeling," Keene told The Advocate. "Between the 50 or so temporary associates in that store, there is a rotation through the position of 'May I Help You' associate. The several associates in this role wear a vest so customers can identify them and ask for help in finding products that may have been temporarily moved to a new spot."

There was apparently a specific, justifiable reason this employee was weaing a colored vest and wandering the store and it had nothing to do with discrimination.
 
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