Supervisor mistakes employee's medically necessary dental crowns for 'grillz,' writes them up for violating dress code: 'I'm not sure how to navigate this level of stupidity'

Sometimes things are so funny that you can't be mad at them. For example, if you're having a loud argument with someone and you accidentally pass gas, you have to take a pause to laugh at yourself. It's just the rules. Life has an interesting sense of humor and will test you with its sense of irony all the time. Like the psychic who tells you that "prosperity is coming for you" and then you find out your debt collector's name is Prosperity. Happens all the time.

If you can't laugh about all the weird little happenstances of life, then you're doomed. There are so many reasons to be angry in this world, and just as many reasons to smile. You just have to choose to focus on the ones that make you smile. But what if one of these goofs ends up threatening your job? Then you might have the right to be a little angry.

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That's what happened in this story, when a manager mistook someone's gold dental crowns for the mouth accessory that hasn't been popular since the 2000s, grillz. But instead of having a laugh about this goofy misunderstanding, they used it to threaten their employment. Read on for the story.
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Supervisor doesn't know the difference between medically necessary dental crowns and grillz- trying to dress code me

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