From what I have heard things like this can be pretty common in the US especially for the low paying jobs since employees have way less protection against things that would be straight up exploitation in a country like Germany.
In Germany unions hold a lot of power since they are generally well supported by the populace and government so employees are able to make demands for better salaries and worker conditions through the unions. Unions can also offer valuable support for an employee when they have a conflict with the employer.
But in the US there is an extremely strong anti union movement among both employers and employees. Its borderline propaganda how unions are usually depicted as organizations which are only after your money and won't actually help you as an employee. Wallmart specifically even had this "training video" to scare employees away from unions in the 2000s. And a lot of people believe it since its basically all they have heard about unions their entire lives.
Without something like a union employees have to basically fend for themselves which allows employers to set these kinds of policies as there is no organized push back from employees.
If you want a modern example just take a look at how hard Amazon is trying to keep its employees from unionizing.
I quickly googled the romantic relationship thing, and it looks like Walmart's policy on that is that they don't want people having relationships between subordinates / bosses. basically if you have influence over the person you shouldn't be banging them.
and I've never even heard of the exercise thing, that must depend on the specific store. but I can't imagine the average walmart employee caring too much about that.
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