New Manager Enforces Ridiculous Uniform Rules On Female Employees, Cue Malicious Compliance

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 9, 2022 10:00 AM EST

Why is it that every time a new manager enters the equation, crap hits the fan? They always come in with this pompous 'I'm gonna fix everything' attitude, and just end up making things worse. Let's say the company had a rule or two that wasn't necessarily enforced… there is probably a reason for that. People just want to come in, show off, and 'change things for the better'. Sigh. Why fix something if it isn't broken? If the bosses don't care, then why do you? 

 

While scrolling through r/MaliciousCompliance, I happened upon a post that sounded all too familiar, as I have worked in plenty of restaurants before. A manager in food service usually doesn't last long, at least in my experience. So I've seen a lot of them. They all come in, promising a 'New World' and end up enforcing petty rules, and changing up systems that have been historically proven to work. u/Left0fcenterr wrote a post about a frustrating situation she had encountered back in the day when she was working for an Italian restaurant. Her manager was an AH, but she found a way to do as he asked, without technically doing as he asked.

 

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    Font - r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/LeftOfcenterr 12 hours ago 5 I altered my uniform to comply with the dress code in my employee handbook.
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    Font - Back when I (now a 37f) was younger with a lot of attitude and a loud mouth, I worked for a nice Italian restaurant in my hometown. I didn't have a single issue with management until seven months into my employment when a male manager joined the team. He was a bit of a misogynist. He would make backhanded comments about
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    Font - women, and he only had issues with the female staff. He wrote me up for some ridiculous reasons, one being opening the dock door "too hard", when it was a heavy steel door that you had to put some muscle into to open. He fired another lady who was pregnant for asking to be put in a section closest to the kitchen. She filed a
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    Font - lawsuit and won too. One day, I walked into work. He pulled me into the office immediately and presented me with a write up slip. It was because I was not wearing a belt. The dress code stated "IF pants have belt loops, a belt must be worn". Okay, my uniform that day didn't
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    Font - comply with the dress code. The issue was that I hadn't worn a belt in 7 months while he and the other managers never mentioned it. In my opinion, the appropriate thing to say would've been "hey, I see you haven't been wearing a belt and we haven't been enforcing it. Dress code says you must wear a belt if you have
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    Font - belt loops. I'll give you (x amount of days) to purchase one before I start enforcing". I just got a straight write up. So I went home and cut off all the belt loops off all of my work pants. The next day, immediately upon walking in,
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    Font - he asked where my belt was. I pointed to my pants and said "where are my belt loops?" The employee handbook stated “IF there are belt loops" but I no longer had belt loops. Let's just say it didn't make him like me any more, but I felt like a hero standing up to him in such a petty manner.
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    Font - 958Silver 11 hr. ago +1. So you found a loophole.
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    Font - toocleverbyhalf 12 hr. ago Rules lawyering the employee handbook in response to a newly and unevenly enforced minor infraction, it's one of my favorite categories here. Nice one.
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    Font - RoomNo9256 · 6 hr. ago Taking it one step further, you could technically leave one belt loop out of spite because the policy only applies to plural belt loops.
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    Font - Coconut Cyclone · 7 hr. ago At my call center job, 20 years ago, it was because "Sometimes we give clients tours and they might look into the window in the door to this office and see you."
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