An employee disenchanted with her company’s dress code has dug into her closet to make a point, dressing up in Cosplay every day in a bid to highlight the code’s futility.
June Rivas was told by her boss that “wearing her hair in a ponytail or donning a head scarf was unprofessional,” despite the company not having a dress code and simply stating employee’s clothing needed to be “clean and pressed” – Yahoo reports.
When Rivas filed a harassment complaint over this, the boss responded by updating the dress code to include the banning of “straps, hats, sandals, cleavage, back out, lace, and cultural head wraps.”
Rivas has since reported her boss to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but in the meantime has taken to finding a way around the dress code by wearing Cosplay outfits each day.
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