dress code

Head of department criticizes new mother for wearing flowy dresses to work, says her dresses look like nightgowns: 'I didn't violate the dress code.'

Emmy Pratt

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Who determines appropriate attire in the workplace? — New mother becomes the target of workplace complaint about her appearance from an anonymous coworker shortly after returning to work, despite her dressing business casual according to the dress code

Brad Dickson

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Clinician moves to a new clinic, maliciously complies with business casual dress code, wearing fitted chinos that cause workplace chatter, and management reverses back to scrubs: ‘I'm back in my joggers. Problem solved’

Etai Eshet

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'I came back in a 3-piece suit': Boss insists employee comply with dress code, forcing him to go home and change out of his jeans, employee takes his sweet time during the trip

Bar Mor Hazut

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Coworkers dress like it's 1996 to get back at the new manager's dress code mandate, showing up in increasingly formal garb to make a point: ‘The office was a time capsule by Wednesday’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Warehouse workers comply with a strict hair-length policy of "can't touch the collar", by wearing increasingly absurd wigs, forcing management to eventually drop the rule: 'The wigs became more and more ridiculous'

Emma Saven

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Teacher tests school's strict dress code policy, claims 'sore feet' to be able to wear whatever he wants: 'There were a solid 10 of us that were [...] in blatant disregard of the dress code'

Ben Weiss

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On-call employee reprimanded for her work clothing, even though her boss's wife wears the same outfits to the office: 'She complains to her husband about me needing to cover up'

Emma Saven

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UPDATE: 13-year-old maliciously complies 3 times with 7th grade teacher who is the "keeper of the dress code": 'No frays on clothing allowed'

Remy Millisky

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'[I was] wildly conspicuously overdressed': Employee wears formalwear to a casual office after a micromanager complains about his dress code-compliant clothing, ends up getting his boss demoted by the CEO

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I decided to be petty': Boss tells employee to dress better, so he wears a full suit out of spite and gets boss demoted by the CEO

Isabella Penn

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Boss bans jeans on Fridays and enforces business attire, entire team maliciously complies: 'All 15 of us [wore] hideous outfits, but all meeting the business attire dress code'

Ben Weiss

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Clever mom challenges school dress code policy via malicious compliance, gets the original shirts phased out: 'Admin was furious'

Ben Weiss

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Micromanager Ends Up in the Cross-Hairs of a Poorly-Worded Write-Up After Scrutinizing the Wardrobe of the Company's Most Talented IT Guy

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Corpo baboon gets proven wrong when underling employees insult his 'strict suit' policy, undermining his examples with deadly accuracy: 'Where are the suits?'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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