u/Kamuro9_Sax

I am a little tired of the exact moment of attraction being someone walking into a ballroom in a perfect dress, taking their shirt off after training, or appearing dramatically covered in blood.

Give me the opposite.

Let him look at her after she's been awake for 30 hours translating ancient documents, hair barely holding together, ink on her face, eating bread over a stack of maps, and suddenly think: oh. That's a problem.

Or let her realize the terrifying commander is attractive while he's soaked from the rain, carrying three broken saddles and arguing with a horse.

There's something much more convincing to me about attraction sneaking up during a completely unglamorous moment. Especially when the person being admired has absolutely no idea they're doing anything attractive.

Maybe it's because it feels less like the author announcing "LOOK, HOT PERSON" and more like one character's brain quietly changing its opinion.

Please give me more accidental hotness.

location: Illinois

I work at a privately owned distribution warehouse. Our position is union-represented and we're currently in a dispute with management over mandatory overtime.

Last week the union handed out small buttons that say "Respect the Contract." They're about an inch wide. A few of us started wearing them on our company polos next to the name badge.

Management told us to remove them because the dress code says employees can only wear company-approved items while on the clock. One coworker refused and received a written warning.

What confuses me is that this hasn't really been enforced for other things. People wear service anniversary pins, charity pins and sometimes small sports pins without anyone caring. Management hasn't claimed the union buttons are unsafe, offensive, or interfering with our work. We're also not customer-facing.

Our union rep says the company can't simply ban union insignia by calling it a uniform rule. Management says the dress code applies to everyone and they're entitled to enforce it consistently from now on.

Can an employer prohibit union buttons just because they aren't part of the official uniform? And can they discipline an employee for refusing to remove one?