Dude, the point is that it’s none of this creepy dipshit’s business what she’s wearing. If his ‘issue’ was legit, he’d just tell the HR or the boss. It obviously isn’t legit. And you’re making ridiculous, implausible excuses for Creepy Dude because you’re just as bad.

I sure hope so.

PS: The LW says the employer is a corporation, so it’s unlikely to be a charity. Also, the big reason he gives for not saying anything to his colleague is because she’s a woman, so no, it’s not that her clothes are too expensive.

Because wearing something mega-fashion mega-high dollar to a place where disenfranchised people come to get free food would be an example of “dressing too nice” and “inappropriately so.” There are other reasons something can be “innappropriate” besides showing skin.

Oh, bullshit. If she were wearing Gucci in a kitchen or whatever, why would he care about it, or be nervous about saying something to her directly? If I were working a messy job with someone who was wearing a thousand-dollar outfit, I wouldn’t feel at all nervous about pointing out my concern that they’d be likely to…

Is this Joel Osteen arsehole related to Martin Shkreli?

I strongly urge you not to read his last novel. Even Raising Steam had me in tears because it was so obvious that Terry was losing his faculties.

I think that’s a bit of a grey area. Purely for political reasons, in a business big enough to have an HR dep’t, it’d be wise for even a direct supervisor to refer the person to them, rather than raise such a potentially sensitive topic directly. In a smaller business, were I their supervisor, I’d want to have a…

Then maybe the LW should’ve made clearer that he didn’t think that his colleague was slutty, because it seems pretty clear to me that that’s what he meant. Again, if you have a plausible alternate explanation, feel free to offer it.

In total honesty, I’d have to go back & re-watch a bunch of episodes to be sure, but that’s how I remember it.

Patrick’s advice was spot on. As a matter of both ethics & employment law, it’s completely inappropriate for a person to attempt to enforce a dress code on a co-worker, unless they’re the co-worker’s direct manager. Unless you like being written up yourself, you don’t do dumb shit like that. And please, what’s your…

Nuh uh! He’s obviously one of we BLM supporters, & we need to say so loudly & proudly, just like he did with his heroic spraypainting, even if there’s a tiny risk of him being martyred by one of the Nazi gangs in prison!

“Tracing calls” where you have to keep someone on the line isn’t a thing with modern (ie; non-electro-mechanical) phone exchanges. It’s all down to whether you can convince the phone company to give you the records.

I believe that was a different universe Ethan.

“we see the two vanished to a murky garbage world”