A young woman was lost for words when her manager asked her to leave the office because her ‘hard nipples’ were ‘distracting’ her male colleagues.
The 27-year-old engineer shared that the air conditioner setting at her office had been ‘freezing’ for a month before she put in a work order to have the temperature raised.
While she brought a jumper into work to deal with the cold, she no longer felt the need to have an extra layer after the temperature was turned back up.
Weeks later, the air conditioner had been lowered once again.
‘I was not prepared because it had been warm enough after I put in the request. I didn’t dress for the colder temperature and was wearing slacks with a thin white blouse,’ she said.
‘I was so cold that my nipples became visible through my shirt… to the point where it bothered one of my co-workers so much that he had to go and whine to my manager who told me to work from home or go back and change.’
A young woman was furious when her manager asked her to leave the office because her ‘hard nipples’ were ‘distracting’ her male colleagues
The woman was ‘extremely frustrated’ by the pathetic ultimatum.
‘I had work that needed to be done in person and I didn’t have time to go all the way home, change, and come back. On top of that, my manager approached me about this in front of my co-workers,’ she said.
Infuriated, the woman said she would not be doing any of those things and instead asked to work in a conference room.
But the colleague who complained took issue with that as well.
‘He said [my nipples] were distracting and unprofessional, suggested I «stop being an a*** and so sensitive to temperature» – and then admitted to requesting the building bump the the temperature back down.’
The outburst made the woman even more upset.
‘I told him he needed to grow up, and that he could go home if he was that bothered by the shape of my nipples showing through my shirt.
‘My manager called me before I left for the day and said he understood my frustration but my outburst was unprofessional. He told me I needed to apologise to my co-worker but I declined and ended the call,’ she said.
Many were torn – with some claiming that the woman was being ‘unreasonable’.
‘Can’t you just bring in a jacket and leave it at work? There’s no reason for this to be an ongoing problem,’ one wrote.
A man said: ‘Coming from someone who is hot all the time – isn’t easier to keep a sweater at the office to put on instead of making everyone else uncomfortably warm?’
Others said it was inappropriate to bring a woman’s nipples up and demand she ‘cover up’.
‘If someone doesn’t want to see hard nipples maybe they should try not looking at your chest,’ one said.
‘Throwing a tantrum over a pair of nipples as a grown man is laughable. He is the one who made it colder knowing you requested the opposite,’ another wrote.
