Guy Battles Stupid Work Tie Policy by Buying Ugliest Ties Possible

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Eric Lund
Aug 24, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

Companies and institutions around us like to impose inconvenient rules for dumb reasons. Companies will make you wear uncomfortable hats. Colleges will make you comply with unfair printing fees. It's a minor, but meaningful success when you can get revenge within the rules and beat them at their own game.

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    Text - r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by 5 3 5 u/CrazyCatLadyBoy 2 days ago Wear a tie? Sure thing. oc L The entry about Bob wearing a suit reminded me of my old job. I worked for a computer warehouse type super store. Right after I was hired I learned it was a great job. Almost everyone hated it, but you had some potential to make good commissions in sales so people kept their heads down and never questioned anything. Most competent people never stayed longer than a year and employee turnover was
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    Text - I had recently sold my computer store and was taking a year off. After a few months I got bored and got this job as a part time to get me out of the house and supplement the cash out from the computer store sale. Being in this position gave me some freedoms some of the other people who worked there didn't have. If someone was complaining about something, I was more than happy to bring it up with management since I didn't care if I got fired. I'm pretty sure the store manager hated me.
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    Text - Dress code for guys was white button down shirt, tie, and some form of Dockers type pants. Since this job didn't pay much for non-sales staff, many employees had cheap ill-fitting button down shirts and one cheap tie. Honestly, the staff would have looked better in a store branded tshirt or polo shirt. But since this store was crazy cheap, that would cost them overhead, and you can't have that.
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    Text - I've got a collection of some really nice ties I'd collected over the past 15 or so years -mostly vintage silks from the 50's and 60's. I actually hardly ever wore ties, but collecting them was a little hobby of mine. If I saw a particularly nice one, I'd nab it One morning I was getting ready and managed to forget my tie. It was about a 40 minute drive to work and I noticed my missing tie when I got out of the car at work. No big deal I thought Nope. Wrong.
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    Text - About a hour into my shift I get pulled aside by my direct manager. I explain I somehow forgot about my tie and didn't really think it was a big deal. I also explained I was 40 minutes away from home and didn't have time to go back before my shift started. My direct manager was pretty cool, but he has his stupid rules to follow so I got passed over to HR and the store manager
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    Text - The store manager acted like I just poured epoxy into all the toilets. He was crazy pissed at me. He lectured me for 25 minutes about the importance of the dress code, how those that don't follow it aren't "team players", and how, if it happens again, I'll be looking for a new job. He actually made me read the section in the employee handbook on the dress code "so I knew it and could follow it to the letter". All this over a tie I got written up and sent home to get my tie Since I was 40
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    Text - That weekend I went thrift store shopping. I spent all day hitting every thrift store I could find. I found the ugliest, widest, shittest ties I could find. Massive 1970's brown vomit coloured ties, ugly green avocado coloured ties as large as a lobster bib, patterns that made eyes bleed polyester atrocities time forgot. I also bought some Christmas ties with Santa and holiday wreaths (it was summertime). To top it off I bought some terrible oversized white button down shirts a few where
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    Text - My next day at work I went from being the guy who looked fairly sharp to someone who looked like they escaped a mental ward in the 70's. My direct manager saw me and started to laugh. He got it. He just patted me on the back and I was back to work. The store manager saw me later in the day and was not pleased, but since there was no wording in the employee guidelines on ties being within reason, or shirts fitting, he couldn't do anything. I sure he thought it was just a fluke for the day.
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    Text - My ties just got worse and worse as I uncovered them in thrift stores and garage sales over the next few weeks. I'd tie them short or uneven so the back hung lower from the front. I'd triple wrap a Four in Hand knot to make it look wrong and sideways. I found so many I started giving other people these terrible ties and within a few weeks 1/4 of the people in my department looked completely ridiculous. I ended up quitting about a month or so later. My last day at work I distributed all my
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