Cosplayer versus 'evolving' office dress code.

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Rivas says she filed a complaint against her boss for constantly harassing her about her hair and her headscarves, especially since there was no official employee dress code and Rivas was already making sure to be “clean and pressed.” After Rivas submitted her complaint, she says her boss responded by updating the employee handbook to create a new dress code that specifically banned “cultural head wraps” as well as things like straps, hats, sandals, cleavage, ponytails, and pigtails.

Banning “cultural head wraps” in an employee dress code sounds like a serious managerial overstep and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Rivas was pretty furious about it and filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the EEOC investigates Rivas’ complaint, she is still going to work and complying with the letter of her boss’ new dress code, which says no ponytails, no cleavage, and no “cultural head scarves.”

The boss’ new dress code did not, however, say Rivas could not show up wearing colored contact lenses, vinyl, or wigs, so Rivas cracked open her cosplay closet and started showing up in costume every damn day.

“Never piss off cosplaying Scorpios,” Rivas wrote on Facebook.