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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/mykepagan on 2025-05-21 17:28:18+00:00.
Years ago I taught skiing on the weekends at a small Pennsylvania mountain. They oaid minimum wage for group lessons, but if you were requested for a private lesson, you got paid about 8x as much. Some instructors had business cards made that they would give out at the end of a group lesson so that people would remember their name if they came back for a private lesson.
I was too cheap for business cards. Instead, I bought a surplus leather bomber cap. This worked like a charm… people would ask for “the guy with the bomber hat”. Plus it was funny and made students smile.
But the ski school director decided it was unprofessional and told me not to wear it. He said it was not “ski gear” and that I needed to wear a skiing-specific hat. So I went out to the local ski shop and bought the most godawful ski hat I could find. It was neon green tiger striped that clashed horribly with our uniforms.
The students still asked for me based on my hat, and the ski school director had no desire to push it any further for fear that I would find something even worse.