A woman on TikTok has gone viral for quitting her job after she was told to "cover her stomach" by her boss.
This is despite the fact that her job at a smoke shop has no official dress code for employees and that other co-workers wore similar outfits.
As the only plus-size woman in the shop, she believes she's been singled out.
She began by explaining that she was "under the impression" that she could wear a crop top with jeans since other colleagues dressed in similar outfits at the smoke shop in Mobile, Alabama.
“I’m in rage,” Abigayle said in the video. “I got a text message from my manager, basically saying the business owner saw what I was wearing, and he wanted to tell me to ‘cover the stomach."
“But based on the things that my co-workers were wearing, it was very obvious that we did not," she added.
"Hey the business owner talked to me yesterday about your clothes," Abigayle read out the message. "He said please dress something nicer and cover the stomach. Thank you. Just cover all your body that's what he means."
“Just cover all your body, that’s what he means," the manager responded. Feeling upset by the comments, she asked her co-workers who dressed in similar "inappropriate" clothes if they had ever been dress-coded, and they said no.
Not wanting to work at a place with double standards, she had no choice but to quit.
“I really liked the job, but I had to quit,” she said.
“They acted so empathetic about it, they acted like, ‘Oh my god, we can’t believe that happened and we’re sorry.'" She also had another talk with her manager.
Canterbury's unfortunate experience sparked a huge conversation in the comments about fat-shaming.
“I had a coworker make news stories because a restaurant fired her for her weight not meeting dress code,” one commenter wrote.
“As soon as they said, ‘well that’s all,’ I said, ‘yes I’m done here’ and walked out. Best feeling EVER.” Another shared that jeggings became a double standard at their workplace.
Many users also slammed the owner of the store, accusing him of "discrimination" or "fatphobia." The manager wasn't beloved, either, as Abigayle explained in another video that she was told by them to stop talking about being dress-coded.
At the end of the day, she's happy that she quit that job and stood up for herself.
“I have too much respect for myself to stay in a predicament or a job situation where I’m made to feel bad for being myself,” she said.
