On Your Coat-Tails

We’re allowed to wear solid-color jackets at work, and my boss turns the A/C all the way up. Unpatterned black, white, and the company colors are allowed. I arrive with my first jacket, but it’s the wrong shade of green. No problem; I have a black jacket. That is forbidden for having a hood.

I finally get a plain, white, hoodless jacket. It gets banned because, “I can’t see your shirt when you wear it.” Keep in mind, I have offered to keep it open. She tells me that I should be wearing just the company shirt. I tell her that she should stop pretending that people are allowed to wear jackets.