'You want to send me home? Sounds good!': Micromanager sends employee home for violating uniform, employee pulls out company handbook to prove him wrong

It's time to discuss dress code at work. Within reason, people should have at least some sense of flexibility depending on the job. This is not the Pleistocene era. This employee simply wanted to wear shorts during his shift at a home convenience store because it was objectively "shorts weather."

His manager, however, who was seeking promotional opportunities and brownie points from the higher-ups, decided to be a stickler and to insist that the Redditor go home and return with pants. What this micromanager did not realize, however, was that the Redditor had already checked the company handbook to confirm in advance that he could wear shorts that day. That being said, he followed orders, went home, and returned to work in pants, though he still brought his shorts with him. When he spoke to a different manager, he explained what went wrong and got some much-deserved petty payback.

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