I got dress-coded at work – my manager said my shorts were ‘inappropriate’ but my coworkers copied my outfit in protest | The Sun

A WOMAN has shared her experience being dress-coded at her place of work, a popular sportswear brand.

She explained how her manager said the shorts she wore were "inappropriate," but her coworkers jumped to her defense and copied her in protest.

Niki Davis (@nikkidavis202) went off on social media about being dress-coded while hard at work at a Nike store.

She aired her grievances and shared details about the situation in two distinct videos.

In the first video, she gave the full story about how and why she was dress-coded by her manager while she sat in a car.

The subtitle over the visual read: "Dress coded at Nike by managers who don't know their own policy. Managers have always tried to prove their power over us."

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According to the blonde, she was told that the dress code was finger-tip length and a three-inch inseam while in training for the sportswear company.

She works in a predominantly male environment and was hired in the winter.

When summertime came around, she wore a pair of pink shorts one day that were finger-tip length and supposedly appropriate.

Davis even checked the length with her mother and received the "mom approval" but was dress-coded anyway for the style.

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A new manager that had only been there a few weeks called her into the office and said her "shorts were really cute but inappropriate for work."

Davis asked them multiple times what made them inappropriate and explained that they were finger-tip length, but the manager didn't budge.

"And so she was calling me out and she didn't even know the dress code policy," she added.

To prove that she was in fact right about her manager not knowing the dress code, she showed up in increasingly shorter shorts for consecutive days.

"I showed up on one of the following days and there were posters everywhere of the dress code policy, and everything was highlighted about the shorts," she said.

A male coworker of hers was so upset by the action that he ripped the posters down because he felt that they were targeting the content creator.

"The following week all the guys that were working on a Saturday ended up showing up in short shorts to prove a point of how ridiculous it was," she shared.

Davis ended the video by claiming that she was called out for a policy that her own managers at Nike did not know of, and fell within the finger-tip and inseam guidelines.

As a follow-up, she posted a second video that showed exactly the shorts she was wearing when she was dress-coded and the athletic shorts that fell within the uniform policy.

She also claimed that her place of work tried to come out with another policy targeting her.

It said that people can't roll their shorts allegedly because she did that with her loose soccer shorts.

Many people came to the young woman's defense in the comment sections of both videos for her fashion choices.

"If Nike sells it, you should be allowed to wear it WORKING FOR Nike," one viewer commented.

"I don’t even know why dress codes are a thing during a “worker shortage”. Oh, you showed up for work? Yes? The managers should be thankful," a TikTok user wrote.

"I worked for Nike for seven years and none of the management that went through my store through the years ever had a straight answer so I’m not surprised," another shared.

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"It’s literally the product they sell, like what do they want from you? It’s athletic wear. Why are they afraid of legs all of a sudden," a fan chimed in.

The U.S. Sun has reached out to Nike PR for a comment but has yet to hear back.

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