Boss Says His Pants Show Too Much Dick So He Posts Them Online

In 2021, an office employee shared a detailed post on Reddit about a private meeting with his manager. She told him that the trousers he wore to work were too revealing. According to her, his crotch area was distracting and inappropriate for the office.

“I got called into my manager’s office because of my pants,” he wrote. “She told me my bulge was a problem.”

He explained that his clothing followed the business casual dress code. The trousers were tailored slacks from regular department stores like Macy’s and JCPenney. He had worn them for years without issue. “They were regular office trousers with a relaxed fit and no unusual tailoring,” he said.

The manager advised him to stop wearing those trousers and suggested he either buy looser ones or go up a size. “She said I should start wearing clothes that don’t show as much. That I should buy a new set of pants that are less fitted,” he wrote.

He declined. “I’m not buying a whole new wardrobe just because someone is staring at my pants too hard,” he said.

Photo posted by the employee

After the meeting, he double-checked the situation. “I actually measured myself just to make sure I wasn’t imagining things,” he wrote. “Turns out I’m very average.”

He believed the issue was not with the trousers, but with his manager’s discomfort with his body. “I wear what everyone else wears,” he said. “I just exist in it differently.”

He also pointed out that many of his female coworkers wore fitted tops and pencil skirts. “Nobody pulls them aside to say their bodies are too visible,” he wrote. “Would a woman with large breasts be told to go up a shirt size just so no one feels awkward?”

The post, made under the username u/TransparentVoices, gained traction on Reddit. It received over 29,000 upvotes and thousands of comments. Many readers said they were surprised by how specific the manager’s complaint had been.

Some users expressed concern that the manager’s request felt more like personal discomfort than a genuine dress code issue. Others noted that his refusal to comply made sense given the lack of a clear violation.

“She told me I couldn’t wear those pants anymore,” he wrote. “I told her she could file that with HR if she really believed it broke any rule.”

Newsweek later reported on the story and included a statement from a former human resources professional. The expert explained that if an employee dresses within company policy and receives personal comments about their anatomy, it may fall into inappropriate workplace conduct.

The employee had no plans to buy new pants. He said they fit the same as they always had, followed the dress code, and never caused problems before. He told his boss she could escalate it to HR if she believed it truly violated policy.

She didn’t go to HR. Instead, she doubled down. The next day, she sent him an email. “Yes, I did tell you to fix your wardrobe,” she wrote. “This is not a request.”

He replied by asking her to confirm what exactly that meant. He asked if the issue applied to all his trousers, not just a few. He also wanted to know if this came from management or if it was just a personal demand. He said that if the company expected him to replace every pair of work pants, they would need to cover the cost.

Her response was even more specific. She said the company could reimburse him for new pants, but only if she accompanied him. “This can be done,” she wrote, “but I must be with you to supervise your shopping.”

That was the moment everything shifted. In his original Reddit post, users had flooded the comments with theories. Some believed she had a personal grudge. Others were convinced she just hated him. But one suggestion had stood out even then. Someone joked that she might be attracted to him and using this as a strange excuse to assert control.

Now, with her insisting on supervising him at a clothing store, he admitted that theory didn’t feel so far off anymore.

He gathered the full email chain, saved it to a personal account, and forwarded everything to HR. Within two hours, he received a call. They asked him to report to HR immediately and said he could leave his desk unless the task was urgent.

He complied. HR told him they were taking the matter seriously and advised him to take the rest of the day off. They said they would be launching a full internal review. He returned to work the next day and found that his manager was gone.

He was told that she had been placed on administrative leave pending investigation. HR also assured him that he wouldn’t face retaliation and that the company discouraged any form of professional pushback against people who came forward with complaints.

Before going to HR, he had already spoken to two lawyers. Both agreed that what happened could qualify as harassment, but warned him the case wasn’t strong enough to go to court. There wasn’t a long pattern of abuse or enough evidence. They also cautioned him that approaching HR without documentation could backfire and lead to complications.

So he looked for evidence. He pulled up the company’s online training modules and completed courses on sexual harassment and workplace conversations. In one module, there was a scenario where a male supervisor was told to refer dress code concerns to HR instead of addressing them directly. The instructions were clear. Supervisors should not intervene on their own.

He figured the same rules would apply if the roles were reversed.

His manager had skipped all of that. She gave verbal instructions, repeated them in writing, and then offered to personally supervise his shopping trip. He sent the emails, the screenshots, and the training materials to HR and waited.

HR responded quickly. They reviewed everything and took immediate action.

In his final post, he confirmed that she had been removed from the workplace. He said she had been placed on leave before lunch. He was told the company would conduct a full investigation and that he could continue his job without concern.

He ended the update in the same tone he had started it. There was no celebration. Just a quiet, slightly amused observation.

He said he was writing the post during his post-lunch bathroom break. “I sit here now like a king on a porcelain throne,” he wrote, “telling you about my victory.”

He had kept his job. He had kept his pants. And now, after everything, he had the office to himself.