Article: I was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code

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62. I wouldn't consider it a threat

I would however consider it a sign of an inability to both follow procedure and take direction. They raised the issue, it was responded to. Just because that response was one they didn't like was no reason to make a public point about a disabled employee and waste time using an inappropriate method to escalate (whoever heard of petitions in a workplace? What's wrong with ask manager, then go to HR on matters of personnel policy if you don't understand, then accept it?) I'm no fan of overly strict dress policies except where necessary to protect the product or eliminate offensiveness. I certainly see no need for blaazers and leather only shoes in 99% of jobs, but if I was offered a job where these were the policies, I'd decide whether I could follow them before taking it not after, and I surely wouldn't leverage a disabled colleague to moan about it when I'd already been told they were not interested in exceptions.