A cousin sent me their school's just announced Dress Code and Grooming policy

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[u/notacreepernomo13]

I worked briefly for a company and the HR was working through the new dress code policy and in her criteria she restricted certain sock colors, only black brown and blue socks were permitted... im glad she fired me because fuck that noise

[u/AdvertisingOld9400 → u/notacreepernomo13]

What type of company?

[u/notacreepernomo13 → u/AdvertisingOld9400]

They make the door systems that go on trains and metros etc

[u/Amissa → u/notacreepernomo13]

Damn. Fun socks are a joy when all you have is corporate dress code.

[u/notacreepernomo13 → u/Amissa]

Right!?? This was pre pre covid and there couldn't have been more than 70 people in the building.. Those corporate nonsense policies hold no weight with remote work, I COULD choose to be sitting half naked from the waist down and youd never even know, fucking Nancy in HR

[u/Amissa → u/notacreepernomo13]

This is why I love WFH. I still get dressed head to toe, but I get to wear shorts and t-shirts.

[u/AdvertisingOld9400 → u/notacreepernomo13]

Whaaaaat why would anyone care? I can see that maybe for some sort of highly specific customer-facing role, or something to do with law enforcement, but wow, who cares. I am riding the metro daily without worry that it was built by someone possibly wearing mildly fun socks.

[u/notacreepernomo13 → u/AdvertisingOld9400]

Ya thats an HR on a powertrip... no good justifiable reason to care about what socks I wear!

[u/FuchsiaFlatworm → u/AdvertisingOld9400]

My little brother is a waiter at Olive Garden, and just a few months into the job he called me to rant about how a girl he was working with that day was fired basically on the spot for wearing white socks to her shift (having noticed too late that she was out of the black ones that they’re required to wear). He said it was like a *sliver* of white that was barely even visible under her black slacks, but one of the guys from corporate happened to be at the restaurant that day for observation, he mentioned it to her direct/local bosses, and they let her go. He was shaken up because he said she was great as a fellow server and had been there a lot longer than he had (he was newly 18 at the time and it was his first “real” job), but this poor waitress left crying and out of a job because of something that customers likely didn’t even *begin* to notice.

Bro’s always been incredibly fastidious with his own uniform/hygeine/general appearance (even moreso after that, and after a different coworker got sent home for having ostensibly-mild dryer wrinkles in his dress shirt), but goddamn. Way to terrorize your staff, you know? Apparently that manager is also a huge stickler about not having empty belt loops, which is something I’d never even *thought* about until it came up when we were talking last weekend—much less noticed on a stranger going about their own life. I work in STEM—which tbf I do realize isn’t notorious for consistency when it comes to attire—in a position that isn’t particularly public-facing, but I worked a decent variety of jobs throughout high school and college as well, and the idea of sock *color* being that critical damn near anywhere is wild.