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30 Stupid Workplace And School Rules That Backfired Beautifully, As Shared By People In This Thread
People are social creatures and we need rules to help us interact with each other, organizations, and governments. What's more, since the world is constantly changing, regulations have to be updated too.
But, as one Reddit thread shows, this is often easier said than done. Started by user Mercurydriver, it asked platform users the question: "What is one rule that was implemented at your school or work that backfired horribly?" And they gave plenty of juicy answers.
From demanding that employees ask permission before using the restroom to prohibiting students from parking their cars next to the school if they're late for class, some ideas are simply better on paper than in reality.
Continue scrolling to read the stories and don't miss the chat we had with Dr. Mike Brooks, a licensed psychologist based in Austin, about staying in the driver seat of your life — it's spread out between the texts.
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#1
Well, it wasn't a school wide policy, but I had a super [jerk] French teacher who would constantly hand out detentions for things as inconsequential as walking to the trash can to throw away a piece of paper. She absolutely could not deal with the fact that we periodically might need to actually leave our chairs for a perfectly valid reason. One day she locked herself out of the classroom and nobody would let her back in. "Sorry! We aren't allowed to get out of our seats!" She had to get the janitor, lol.
Henry Edison Jurman 3 years ago
Your likes are perfectly balanced, as all things should be
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
My 10th grade, 2nd year French teacher was a joke. She did not how to control the classroom, and screamed at us while banging on her desk with a yardstick (also known as a .9144m stick). One day, the stick broke, and a part of it flashed past my head, so I got up, gathered my things and left, to her banging the remainder of the stick and yelling for me to sit down. I went to the Dean's office, and when he saw me (I was not one of the usual occupants of the bench), he asked me who had sent me, and I told him what had happened. We had substitute teachers for about a week, and then a new French teacher. Alas, it was too late in the year to learn enough French to pass the final.
Mike Soigne 3 years ago
Sounds like the mods on reddit. There, fixed it. Mods on reddit are power-mad drama queens.
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Louloubelle 3 years ago
I love when kids get one over on adults. Just goes to show, just because you're a kid, doesn't mean you aren't smart.
If you feel overwhelmed by the boundaries that govern your actions, there are things you can do to help your predicament. "Having a sense of control is essential to our well-being," Dr. Brooks, the co-author of Tech Generation: Raising Balanced Kids in a Hyper-Connected World, told Bored Panda. "Basically, when we have what is called an internal locus of control, we believe that what we do makes a difference. We can change our lives by working to achieve desired goals."
"In contrast, when we have more of an external locus of control, we believe that forces beyond our control determine our fate. We are like leaves in the wind. Having a strong internal locus of control is associated with more positive well-being whereas having an external locus of control is associated with depression and other mental health struggles."
"From this perspective, our need for control is very much related to our needs for freedom and liberty. We long for the liberty to control our own lives. While we are resilient and do have to give up some of our liberty to be a part of society, when our freedom and control are too constrained, our mental health is likely to begin to suffer at some point," the psychologist explained.
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#2
In my dorm, if you did something that triggered the smoke/fire alarm, you had to do a safety presentation for everyone on your floor. This was intended to deter pranksters from pulling the alarm.
A guy on our floor was making grilled cheese in the kitchenette, and burned it, which legitimately triggered the fire alarm. Afterwards, he explained, assuming that since it had been a legitimate alarm, and not a prank, that he wouldn't have to do a presentation. He was, of course, wrong.
So, the next Wednesday night, the entire floor assembled, and we were treated to a thirty minute safety presentation on the dangers of grilled cheese sandwiches. It contained literally nothing about fire safety. It was all choking hazards and cholesterol.
Our RA was furious, but the student pointed out that the write-up that he'd been given just said "safety presentation".
We didn't get any more presentations after that.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I got in trouble in college once for being drunk and underage. (I have the write up saved in my scrapbook LOL) I had to go to a "session" with with the RD (Resident Director) where she sat us all down and said "Don't get drunk. And if you do get drunk, don't act like an idiot in public". Then we were allowed to leave. Very inspirational. :)
cathy hurd 3 years ago (edited)
Touche' (is this allowed or am I going to get another timeout BP?)
Dr. Brooks said there are many factors that can contribute to losing our sense of control. "Sometimes we are in situations or environments that actually do limit our options. For instance, we might be in a romantic relationship with a very controlling partner or a work environment in which our boss 'micro-manages' us. So, when our choices are limited or constrained by external forces, then we are likely to feel less in control and, as a result, less happy."
"We can also lose our sense of control when we focus on things that we can't control rather than the things we can control," he added. "So, there is a bit of a both/and here. It is true that we can't control everything in our lives. Bad things do happen to us, often through no fault of our own. However, focusing on what we can't control is a road to feeling powerless, helpless, and unhappy."
#3
My company, as part of its alcohol policy, said you should not drink for at least four hours before coming to work. When engineers got called about production problems over the weekend, they all "just had a beer" but could be there in about four or five hours.
Monday 3 years ago
That's a fair policy. An excellent way of getting out of unplanned overtime, but also a fair policy.
CanidaeVulpes 3 years ago
It is a good policy. If you're on call, you should not be drinking. If you're not on call, then I don't see a problem with having them wait.
Brian Navarra 3 years ago
If you're 'waiting to work', the law says you are required to be paid. If it is your own free time, you are free to do what you want. You can't have it both ways.
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
Had a boss that would do this. When he was forced to stay late dealing with issues, but knew it was likely he'd be called back again soon, he'd start drinking the second he got home.
Jaime Blackwater 3 years ago
One of my old employers (with no understanding of boundaries outside of work) and I both found it odd I'd always just be finishing a cocktail when he called to try and rob me of my one day off a week lol.
Richard Keel 3 years ago
In my experience, if you're being paid to be on standby, it's a requirement that you be able to work nearly immediate and that includes not drinking
Gareth Baus 3 years ago
True, but that doesn't mean the people being called were on standby.
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Jose Carlo 3 years ago
There actually is a very good reason for that specially when working at "certain" power plants!
Interestingly, when researchers from Brandeis University, the University of Rochester, and the German Institute for Economic Research looked at 6,135 people between the ages of 25 and 75, they found that having a strong sense of control over your circumstances reduces the risk of death and can offset the negative health effects of getting less education.
They looked at the data over 14 years—from 1995 to 2009. In analyzing the numbers, the researchers first controlled for demographics, then for both parental and participant levels of education, and finally control beliefs.
Turns out, older male minorities were most at risk of dying. Parental education levels did not seem to affect mortality, but the participants' own education did: each standard deviation increase in education (such as "from high school to an associate’s degree," the study helpfully explains) decreased mortality risk by 17 percent. Having a stronger sense of control over one's life reduced the risk by 13 percent.
#4
My high school was trying to prevent a senior prank since the class before us had got a little out of hand. They basically told us not to have one, that they would get anyone who did anything in a lot of trouble, yada yada
So somebody has an idea. What if we do an "anti prank". The idea had floated around the halls and everyone knew what we were going to do. For an entire week, every senior was going to bring a potentially threatening item for a senior prank, and do nothing with it.
The week starts and that Monday, nearly the entire senior class carries a banana with them to every class. This is a school of ~2600 student, 650 graduating class. So there are hundreds of bananas being carried through the halls, teachers and assistant principals freaking out. By noon, an announcement was made that all bananas needed to be eaten or thrown away or they would be confiscated. So by that afternoon, every banana was taken away from the student.
The next day got even better. Somebody has the idea that we should all bring a gallon jug of water with us to class. And to no one's surprise, again there is an announcement that they are going to start taking up the water jugs for fear of what we are going to do with them. But this time, the students got creative. People are resentful now and not wanting to give up their precious water. Students are getting creative, hiding them in backpacks, avoiding teachers in the hallways, whatever it took to keep their water jugs. But alas, most of the jugs had been confiscated.
So the students start taking to social media. Tons of tweets and mentions are going out to local news stations, TMZ, Oprah, Ellen, you name it, they got mentioned. All of these messages are going out along the lines of "School is confiscating all water, not allowing students to drink water #highschooldrought2kxx #weredying #sendhelp. You get the picture. Before the end of the day, two different news reporters were at our school. Guess we had the last laugh after all.
TL;DR: School made silly rules to not let us have a senior prank. We anti-pranked them and their rules back fired. lots of negative press over nothing malicious ever happening.
eMpTy 3 years ago
Confiscating bananas is just plain wrong. How are students supposed to take photos of things where a banana needs to be in shot to indicate the scale of an object? (Ok I will see myself out....)
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 3 years ago
I couldn't have gotten through physics class without my banana.
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MSP 3 years ago
Call me old fashioned, but isn't that just... a prank? Wouldn't an anti-prank be something... helpful and positive and add value? Not saying this didn't start out funny, but it did escalate rather dramatically.
Giuditta Jones 3 years ago
I think that was the whole point. Escalating over water bottles. Instead of having a(n innocent or not) senior prank.
Load More Replies... Colin Timp 3 years ago
My school was worked up about what happened the year before as well. The class before me burned their graduation year into the lawn with gasoline and let about 20 pigs loose in the halls. Some doofus in my year decided to put a ton of crickets in the ceiling. We weren't even aware of it until after graduation.
Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
So y'all are guilty of playing on the fears of an hyper controlling administration that basically accused y'all of the possibility of maybe doing something malicious but without any proof.. Speaks volumns about your school staff
Put Suly 3 years ago
Who (or what) benefits from a senior prank? Is it satisfaction for your stupidity? Oh, well this was about an anti-prank-senior prank
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
It's a prank. It's supputo be funny, not benefit anyone
Load More Replies..."It is likely that perceived control involves a variety of factors, ranging from motivation to beliefs or cognitions, social and behavioral histories of successes and failures, different types of relationships with others, and affective tone,” the study reads.
"Some elements of perceived control may vary with changes in external situations, but many may be more dispositional."
The researchers say that a lot of it is just personality, but people can still change their sense of control.
#5
Zero tolerance, which means if you are involved with fighting, you will be kicked out. No questions asked. They think it would means no more fighting.
Nope. It means if the bully is beating up a kid, no one would step in, for fear of involving with the fight and getting kicked out. No one would snitch because it means the bully will target you next, and now you are involved in fighting and get kicked out. It is a s**t policy.
Deborah B 3 years ago
And if you're the victim, and you report being attacked, you're "involved with fighting".
Strings 3 years ago
Actually saw that happen to a young friend of mine. Got jumped as he came in the door, did nothing to defend himself, got suspended for fighting
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
While the reasoning behind these “zero tolerance” rules is sound, the implementation is extremely flawed. They need to be more specific. It should be along the lines of “Zero Tolerance for Bullying” in order to be effective. Whoever came up with this blanket zero tolerance obviously did not think it through. In its present state, it’s basically the same as punishing everybody for the actions of one person. It’s lazy, it breeds discontent, it’s patently unfair, and it has the opposite of the desired effect.
Cory Tollman 3 years ago
It's lazy in order to avoid dealing with parents or law suits, and they really are trying to avoid any hint of an appearance that cries of "favoritism" are true. There seems to be enough parents who are shitty and will back their shitty kids no mater what that it is a real problem. Gone are the days when parents tended to believe the teachers or school authorities over whatever bs story their kid might be telling them.
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OmBoyGanesh 3 years ago (edited)
People being actively assaulted & if they attempt to legitimately defend themselves they’re expelled. This is zero tolerance policies in a nut shell. Imagine this existing in everyday society. You’re being mugged or jumped and you just have to passively take it unless you want the same penalties as the assailant. Zero policy and gender-specific dress code schools are lazy, shitty schools. At least admin-wise.
Matthew Fox 3 years ago
Zero Tolerance goes beyond that and punishes the victims even if they do nothing to defend themselves. Just because they were "involved" in the altercation.
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I had a problem with being bullied in elementary school by 2 kids that were 2 years older. Despite witnesses and repeated meetings with administration and "talking to" the other kids' parents it didn't stop. So my dad marched into the office and told the principal that he was giving the green light to fight back by any means necessary. The principal told my dad that, "He can't do that, or he'll be suspended, or possibly expelled." My dad told the principal that he hadn't done anything to punish the bullies, and if he tried to punish me for defending myself, he'd make it his life's mission to bankrupt the school and make sure he never worked in education again. 2 days later after one fairly quick scuffle I wasn't bothered again.
Cory Tollman 3 years ago
Threatening to get the police involved can be helpful too. In high school a friend of mine damaged the eye socket of a guy he punched. The kids parents were threatening to call the police until it was brought up that if they did that my friend's girlfriend would want to talk the police about the guy sexually assaulting her. Basically the guy groped her and my friend punched him the face. I think they were both suspended for a number of days.
Load More Replies... FrillyDragon 3 years ago
A bad thing to learn. Dictators are getting too common all over nowadays. Only gets worse as people don't fight it :( school systems suck
Load More Replies... FrillyDragon 3 years ago
And then they do absolutely NOTHING about other types of bullying. I had teachers in middle school excusing the bullies who verbally abused me every day, even lying to my face about them supposedly having something like tourettes. Except I knew kids with that from other places, and yelling "hooobbit" at me for reading Lord of the Rings in my freetime does not qualify as such. (That was also the only time that would ever occur, was with me). That was 20 years ago. That and the PTSD from the bullying in general was enough for me to decide my kids aren't going to public school. Homeschool (pods or individual) or private. F**k teachers like that, and f**k bullies.
Paul Richards 3 years ago
Bullying policies suck. You end up punishing the target not the bully
Tara L. 1 year ago (edited)
So if you're the victim you might as well destroy the bully because you're going to get kicked out anyway. Might as well really really hurt the bully. That's what my godson told his mom & I when he got punished for fighting. Some bully shoved him, teacher told them they were both in trouble & went to get the principal. So my godson punched the bully, got him on the ground, & stomped & kicked him for over 5 minutes until the teacher & principal came & broke it up. Good for him imo
"To regain a sense of control, it is helpful to focus on what we can control in our lives rather than what we cannot," Dr. Brooks highlighted.
"For the things we cannot control, our work is acceptance. That doesn't mean we necessarily like the things we cannot change. However, since some things are indeed beyond our control, we have to focus on what we can control, which includes our attitude about the things that we cannot control," he explained.
#6
If you violated the dress code policy, you had to wear these really big gray sweatpants or sweatshirts that said DCV in big orange letters. (Dress Code Violation). It became a thing to get caught because they were apparently really comfortable. When the admin finally caught on that people were trying to get them on purpose, they changed it so that you got in school suspension. Jokes on them for that too. Lots of kids preferred that over being in class.
Tony James 3 years ago
"Boss, the AC's on the fritz and it's hot as hell down in the basement. Can we wear shorts?" No. No shorts. Dress code is suits or khakis. "But the women can wear dresses and skirts and stuff!" Fine, you want to wear a dress, wear a dress. Next day the entire networking ops group showed up in a variety of techno-kilts - all except one guy, who wore a hot pink tutu. Let's call him Ritchie. 10am, phone call: need network ops to boardroom, stat. Off you go, Ritchie. The board of the Fortune 500 co was not expecting a 6'3" shaved-head brick-privy of a guy, wearing a hot-pink tutu with the top stuffed with rugby socks to give him a massive cleavage, to come and fix their connections issues. Next day, company-wide memo: "During the summer months gentlemen may wear solid-colour, non-patterned shorts of dress or cargo variety."
Wendy DeWitt 3 years ago
At our grade school, if girls' uniforms didn't touch the floor when they knelt down, the girls had to wear a safety patrol raincoat for the day. This was in the early '70's. Lots of safety raincoats in the hallways.
Ambry Petersen 3 years ago
They should have just sold the sweatshirts for fundraisers if they were so comfy.
neil mason 3 years ago
I got excluded for 2 weeks for......NOT coming into School!! Great Logic!! LOL great win for me
However, the psychologist said that we can't escape situations and environments in which we lack control, such as having that boss who micromanages us. "Once we have exhausted our efforts to gain more autonomy from our boss or to change the work environment, we can still control changing jobs. In this way, we are always searching for creative ways to gain a sense of control and agency while accepting the forces that affect us that are outside of our control."
"Being able to skillfully meet our need for control and balance this with accepting the things we cannot is a key to success and happiness in life," Dr. Brooks said. "As the stoic philosopher Epictetus advised, 'The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.'"
For additional inspiration, Dr. Brooks also suggests remembering a more familiar Serenity Prayer that captures this idea as well: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
#7
My senior year of high school some guy in my class got an in school suspension for wearing a headband (he had long, curly hair) so the next couple weeks almost every guy on the football team started wearing headbands in protest. Keep in mind that girls could wear headbands, just not guys. No one really understood this rule
Edit: this took place right in the middle of football season
Lisa H 3 years ago
Reminds me of my senior year (2004/5) when the school enforced a rule that girls could not wear pajama pants because the school claimed it sent the wiring message to boys and distracted the boys from their schoolwork. The next day, the majority of the girls came to school in pajama pants in protest. They all got in trouble, but the boys were allowed to wear sweat pants. Still makes me angry.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
I fought this same thing when I was in High School back in the late 90s. Was told I couldn't, but the boys were walking around in sweats and athletic pants. I kept wearing them. Then when the school admin called my parents to come talk to them, my parents showed up in pajama pants. The school admin finally let it go after that
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Didn't realize it was a schools job to enforce Gender roles and expectations. Good for the football team and anyone else who participated in sticking it to the patriarchy!!!
Anastasia Redmond 3 years ago
They are doing the opposite. Men have been wearing them for five thousand years, especially warriors.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Maybe because in 80s movies, whenever the star was attacked by a street gang, there was always one kid in a headband
Louloubelle 3 years ago
Jeez, back in the early 80's EVERYONE wore headbands. And leg warmers. Yes, even the guys.
Mike Soigne 3 years ago
Speak for yourself. I didn't participate in that fashion victimhood, and I avoided DAY-GLO colors /clothes/bangles/c**p, too.
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Ian Webling 3 years ago
How is an in-school suspension different from in school not suspended?
Jen Farren 3 years ago
In school suspension is spent sitting in one room by yourself or with other kids on suspension. So you couldn't go to classes or stupidly do you work for the day
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Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Headbands don't even have the societal bias of being gendered. Your school is f*****g stupid lol
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I think this sort of thing happens because without any evidence that associate some sort of garments as symbols. Instead of simply asking the student they come up with BS rules. "What's with the headband?" "It keeps the hair out of my eyes." "Oh. Okay."
Dragonmonkey17 3 years ago
In my school the jocks could wear headbands because when they wore them they were sweat bands. If a 80's movie obsessed girl like me wore them, (I dressed like Judd Nelson in the Breakfast club. Cringe I know) I almost get suspended because the principal thought we were in the rough gangland of Los Angeles and forgot we live in north eastern small town Oklahoma. She also severely punished girls who wore gelly bracelets (thanks Oprah) and anyone who wore open toed shoes because "the teenage males think toes are sexy"
#8
My Jr.high school adopted a policy to not allow kids to loiter in groups of 5 or more, in attempts to crack down on "gang mentality". this was freaking Jr.High. Anyway me and my group of misfits (6 of us) were always hanging out during free times, and the principal eventually stopped us and asked us to separate. I had to casually explain to him that were we not a group of 6, but 2 groups of 3 that were inter-mingling. People caught wind and that rule was basically dead.
That was one of the few times i had to explain to my father why he was called into the principals office with me.
Deborah B 3 years ago
You may only have four friends. If you have five friends, you must now unfriend one.
TeaAndWhimsy 3 years ago
Wow, Umbridge rules, did you have a caretaker with a cat and go to school in a castle...
Patricia McKay 3 years ago
A weird place I worked for briefly had a rule that we were not to gather in groups of more than 2 people. The culture was so bad there I left.
Mohammad Rahman 3 years ago
Six friends is always a bad idea... You don't want to end up like Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross! Stick to five! Like Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney!
#9
A school in my area jacked up the cost of the parking pass. People protested by not buying the pass. Instead they rode the bus. Funny thing is the county really relies on juniors and seniors driving because they don’t have enough busses for all the students. The parking pass fee dropped. People drove again. Don’t ever let them tell you driving to school is a privilege. They NEED you to drive to school.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Wait till you get to college... I paid$150 for a parking pass at UM 20 years ago. If you complained, they said the teachers have to pay it too, so why are we complaining? My dad's a professor there, so when he complained they said he glad you don't work for UF, they charge 3 times as much! To this day I do not believe any place that owns it's own parking lots has the right to charge it's customers to use them *looking at you Disney!*
AK to LV 3 years ago (edited)
My friend got free tuition because his mom work for the university. She tried to do something to her parking pass to make it look like she paid for the next semester. Both of them were banned from parking on campus. Normally, this would just mean a lot of walking but, in Alaska, our cars are equipped with oil pan heaters that are plugged in during below 0F weather.
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
Worse yet, my school didn't have a lot big enough for everyone. The attendant was allowed to charge a $2 per day 'one day' parking to those without a pass if it looked like the lot wasn't going to be full. Problem was that if you showed up too close to start time (even those with a full-time pass) the lot might be full from those single-day people. We'd be forced to the "overflow lot" and have to then walk about a mile. Then the next year they wanted to charge extra for the overflow lot. Anything for another dollar.
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
The problem many school districts have been facing for the past decade is getting enough bus drivers.
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Kel_how 3 years ago
I believe they mean school buses, which are free for students.
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#10
When I was in kindergarten, during the morning announcements one day they came on and said "and please no throwing snowballs. There is a chance you might accidentally get some rocks in them." You could see on the faces of all 20-some students the realization that "OMG we could put rocks in them!"
CalicoKitty 3 years ago
If you don't tell the children, one of them will figure it out eventually. If you do, they'll all figure it out /now/.
Christian Fuller 3 years ago
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, there'll be an eye out before lunchtime."
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Ambry Petersen 3 years ago
Until they each end up being hit by a rock snowball and realize how much they don't want to be hit with one again. Like the old metal slides, it did not take long to learn to always wear pants at the playground in summer....though in hindsight the plastic ones also get very hot and so aren't really all that better.
John G 3 years ago
Where I grew up snow meant no school. I think it happened once in my 18 years of public school.
Bryn 3 years ago
I remember my school had a rule that we couldn't throw snowballs at bus pickup/drop off spots, because it was considered "school property". I threw snowballs anyways, because the spot was at my house. What were they going to do? Get me in trouble for throwing snowballs at my house?
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Having learned this, don't put rocks in your snowballs. It's a real D!ck move.
Ralph Watkins 3 years ago
Us high schoolers used to catch the bus at the junior high. They had a no snowball policy. My one friend was going on to possibly pitch for pro-baseball. We were standing against the wall of a local eatery. He whipped a snowball at group of junior high kids. It could have been doing over 90 mph. It nailed a kid in a thick heavy winter coat that it knocked him off his feet. The principal saw it but could not do a thing. We weren't on school grounds.
Lathrop L. d S T 3 years ago
Did that to me once. One of the thousand reasons I have called every single curse I know on my former classmates'heads.
#11
I've told this story before, but my high school tried to crack down on people wearing their ties too short, as was the fashion. It got to the stage where anything except completely pristine uniforms would get you a detention -- which, coming up to exam season, was one more thing we didn't want to deal with. In protest at what was widely seen as a ridiculous rule, ties started getting longer and longer -- one foot, two feet, two and a half feet, as long as people could get them.
It culminated in one girl sewing two ties together into a five-foot beast that trailed on the floor as she walked and resulted in the Deputy Head having a screaming s**tfit one day about how disrespectful we all were to the uniform codes. After that, the teachers quietly gave up on the new hardline approach to uniforms, and everything went back to normal.
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
lmao i go to a school with uniforms and the teachers always throw a pissy fit whenever we don’t wear our cardigans inside, when they don’t pay for air conditioning in the summer
Tess 3 years ago
Do you get stuck with ugly-a*s plasticy straw hats too? My high school never slackened uniform rules from year 7 through to year 12. Summer: Awful blue and white summer dresses (not plaid, but kinda. Can't think of the name), dresses had a navy blue fabric belt(must not be loose or out of the belt loops of the dress), either ankle length, or knee high school specific socks, navy blue with a red stripe at the top. Stupid straw hat. Winter: long navy blue pleated skirt, only the knee high socks, white shirt (tucked in at all times, top button must be fastened, school tie (no slack around the neck, tail must never be visible). Year round rules: No make up, shoulder length hair must be tied up, tied up hair must have a red ribbon, black shoes (no t-bars, or anything with heels), blue cardigan on school grounds (compulsory for winter). Off school grounds blazer must be worn over cardigan, and all rules are still punishable by detention if a teacher sees you in public
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Michael Largey 3 years ago
In the mid 1960s, I went to a private high school, where ties were required. (It was all guys.) The fine for not wearing a tie was 25 cents. That doesn't sound like much, but in those days it was the price of a gallon of gas, so it's about four bucks today. The rich kids just paid their fine every day and exempted themselves from the rule. This explained more to me about class privilege than Karl Marx ever did.
Tammy Bennett 3 years ago
My high school uniform was a skirt or pants with a white blouse or polo shirt. We weren't allowed to wear thermals under our skirts but some girls got around it by wearing tights over their thermals.
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
These rules are silly, teachers know that fads come and go. Wearing your tie short is rather an innocent wild oat to sow. You’d think they’d pick better hills to die on.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
They talked about uniforms when I was in school. I wouldn't have done it. Kick me out, my parents can home school me, I didn't care. Now I'm a dad and uniforms make life so easy (as long as you can buy them at target, private schools with $30 shirts with their logo on them are just ripping people off). At least my kids didn't know freedom, so they can't be sad it's gone. But if they did complain enough, I would home school them because that's only fair.
#12
This was actually in the news a couple of months ago. We had a really hot summer last year, and the boys at my little brother's secondary school were mad that they couldn't wear shorts but the girls could wear skirts. The Junior Leadership Team bought it up at a meeting, and the headteacher jokingly went, "alright If the boys want to wear skirts,then let them." A group of boys went to school wearing skirts the next day. Then it wasn't just a group of them
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Similar rule where I used to work. Finally we started having thermometers posted in our work space/area, and when the temperature reached 75 degrees F, we were allowed to wear shorts. It would easily get up to over 80 in the shop we had to work in.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
The rest of the store had air cond. by the way. We in the fish bowl shop, did not.
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TheElderNom 3 years ago
This happened at my place of work, really stupid considering that the exakt same thing got wide news coverage the year before. Company held out on their stupid no shorts rule for a few years and some guys just kept rocking skirts and later dresses. We are now allowed to wear shorts though thet still aren't part of the official uniform and it's only allowed in summer.
#13
I went to a private school for elementary, where uniforms were strict. If you didnt wear a belt you'd go to the principles office and he would make you use a shoe string. Well when he opened the drawer there was like 6 different colors and everybody thought it was really neat so for a short period of time there was a bunch of kids coming to school with no belt so they could wear their lime green shoe string belt.
Betsy Green 3 years ago
I hated having to wear belts.at work & used a dog leash & ribbon. No one said a thing.
Lex 3 years ago
People do make legitimate mistakes. Why do you think you get to decide who is stupid, and who isn't? Quit trolling.
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#14
I'm a programmer. On a previous job, the developers and teams were measured by the number of feature requests they completed.
We figured out to subdivide everything to blow it up into the maximum number of feature requests possible. A manager might request a new report. We'd set up separate feature tickets for "create button", "make button blue", "make button respond when clicked", "implement business logic", "display results in grid", "allow sorting of grid", and so on. We'd subdivide a 1-day task into 20 one-hour tasks.
Management loved it! Our team looked twenty times as productive, despite deliberately slowing ourselves down with red tape.
Hugh Crawford 3 years ago
Except pay, never seems to be more of that, usually less.
Load More Replies... Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
Former security here. Worked an unarmed post at a marina/bar. At the time, I had my hair in a clean wolf tail hair style. I had it pulled up into a tail,, and I had a hat. Please mind, I was a sub contractor. The bar hired my company, who assigned me to the post. Anyhow, the bar manager complained to my manager that my hair wasn't professional. The next day, I showed up to work completely bald - like, skin - and no hat. Now the manager REALLY flipped her lid. The next day, I showed up with a wig on, which gave me hair down to my shoulders. I don't really care about my hair. You want to raise hell about it? I'll show you how little I care.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
I used to manage one of two offices with engineers that worked with customers. My office had 8 period, the other had about twice that number. My boss ran the other office even though technically they all reported to me, he was just there and he liked to micromanage. They started to implement systems to track productivity and my office was more productive than the other office. Not per person, 8 people did more work than 20. I read the reports for fun, but pretended to refuse to read them because I wanted to point out how silly this was. Kept treating my people like people while the other office kept being treated like robots that need better programming to be more productive. They kept losing people, I never had a single person quit. The moral of this story is that $15/hour college students will respond to quotas, and you'll get what you pay for; whereas $100,000/yr engineers will respond to respect and fair pay (and retro video game decor and monster energy drinks).
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
They closed my office to save money and we all refused to move, so they let us work from home, but wouldn't let me manage from home, so I found a new job. 3 years later there are like 3 people I still know at that company...
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My High School made students wear these neon t-shirts that read "Dress Code Violator" if their outfit didn't adhere to the school's policy. They became so popular the school began selling them one week later.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
The post, or the generic stock photo, used merely to represent, “School?”
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#16
Not sure if it was exactly a rule but my middle school once encouraged kids to not touch each other at all to reduce physical harassment cases, even friendly gestures among friends.
All that did was get the kids running around touching each either around campus for about a month and a half screaming "physicial harrassment!" As they did so. To add insult to injury they did it twice as often in front of the admin who made the presentation about it.
Christian Fuller 3 years ago
It's true. Kids (and most adults) have zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies.
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That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
Lmao the librarian keeps getting mad at me for holding my gfs hand in the hall but this one kid had someone in a headlock and she didn't notice
Hey! 3 years ago
We had a zero tolerance at work after the sexual harassment thing came in ~10 years ago. Well, the company decided to have a weight loss company come at work once a week and our company would pay 1/2 the price. We could not say anything regarding those who lost a lot of weight unless you wanted to be written-up for harassment. It's nice to encourage people when they lose weight and they are proud of it but we couldn't just do it. Shame.
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
My kids school put one of those noise stoplights in the cafeteria so kids would know how loud they were being, with the red light being the noisiest. The first day it was installed the kids do what kids would logically do, at the end of lunch they stood up and screamed, wanting to see it turn red. They had to have silent lunch for a week in punishment
Stardust she/her 3 years ago
My school did the same thing but to prevent infection (it was kind of warranted as nobody in my class has ever heard of hygeine). Nobody follows that rule and the teachers forgot about it
tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 3 years ago
OMG this is DEFINITELY something the boys at my secondary school would've done
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Never make a threat your won't back up to a child. I've learned that the hard way from my 5 kids...
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Ya, teachers in the 90s yelled at the girls that used to give me hugs 🤗 🤦♂️
#17
*Little backstory, my high school was a teeny tiny rural school, 600 kids in grades 7-12 Randomly at the beginning of second semester my senior year, the new principal (who had just moved here from an inner city school in another state) decided that we would no longer be allowed to carry backpacks/bookbags in the halls between classes for safety reasons. Makes sense in this day and age, but the students were pissed about this abrupt change in clockwork of our tiny school. Shenanigans ensued after this new rule came into effect, including every student dropping their books in the hall simultaneously at 10:50 one day. My personal favorite was the guy in my class who decided he would make something that couldn’t be called a “backpack”. First he took a bunch of belts and tied his books together so they could he carried (on his back). That was shut down after day two. That’s when it got hilarious - the next Monday he comes waltzing in wearing a product of his own design. He had made L shaped shelves from pieces of wood that could be connected to the sides of his legs, and proceeded to harness his books to these leg brace shelves. Needless to say, he was pulled from class before lunch.
k1ddkanuck 3 years ago (edited)
Not having your backpack between classes makes sense in this day and age? This has to be an American thing. In most countries, kids don't have access to weapons. Blows my mind that this would even be considered understandable. Signed, a Canadian.
AxleMunshine001 3 years ago (edited)
Americans live in a different reality to the rest of the world
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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
I’m more curious as to what they suggested as an alternative? Did everyone have lockers? Books aren’t the only things kept in backpacks. I think to put a QUICK end to this policy, All women should start carrying around pads and tampons in bulk!
Christopher Hebhardt 3 years ago
It's not just about the weapons... They had a million other stupid reasons for now backpacks... Kids could not hide drugs, everyone would be equal and not be jealous of others expensive bags, kids could not hide cellphone... It is more about control and projecting an illusion of security, than stopping gun violence. In the end, all it does is make kids late to class as they have to run back to their lockers to get books for each class.
Deborah B 3 years ago
I would recommend all of you make secret-compartment books, and use them as pencil cases, etc, so they get paranoid about you carrying textbooks in the halls. Start a petition for you all to get tablets or laptops with electronic copies of the textbooks instead.
Neelie Oliver 3 years ago
A lot of schools can't afford tablets and such. I graduated high school 12 yrs ago and we didn't have tablets or e-textbooks and they tried to make us leave our backpacks in our lockers all day.
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Kevin Ber 3 years ago
Funny how this guy thinks 600 kids in a school is teeny tiny. 300 people was my whole small town.
Misty Moon 3 years ago
Lol, my graduating class had more than 600 people. 😂 Can't imagine how it is in the village I live in now. There's only 200 people living here, lol.
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Kevin Humble 3 years ago
"Not having your backpack between classes makes sense in this day and age? " ... I am sure I have seen backpacks for sale (america obviously) with a balastics plates inside to protect you from getting shot in the back. So - ain't the administration removing a much needed protection form these kids?
Cathleen Day 3 years ago
At my younger son's high school (NSW, Australia) they did away with lockers - for "safety reasons". This meant every student having to carry their backpack to every class. It could mean 3 changes of uniform in one day f you were involved in the performing arts as well as a sport uniform ( shoes included). Stupidest rule I'd ever come across!
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
My school had lockers, but the school grew and they didn't want to pay for more, so they stopped letting us use them unless we had a medical reason. My dad wrote me a note because he has back problems. But looking back, I wish they had rolling back packs. Now my back is like his and I think of all those times I took a bag full of books home when I could have rolled it...
Wendy Frances 1 year ago
I can't get past the thought that 600 kids is a 'teeny tiny school' ...
#18
My Dad was a corpsman with the Marines doing high desert training in the Mojave. They had a big problem with unidentified snakebites, ie people would get bit but not identify the snake, so it was hard to find the right antidote. So my dad got all the Marines in a room and said "If you get bit by a snake, bring it back here so we can identify it. Not even a full week later they had to alter the wording a bit, because a marine was bit by a rattlesnake and decided to bring it back-without killing it. This man had carried this snake all the way back to base ALIVE, and the snake decided to let him know exactly how he felt about that by repeatedly biting his arm the entire time. Needless to say, that marine went home, and they made sure to hold another meeting where they told everyone to KILL the snake, then bring it back.
Edit: He kept the arm. They got him to base hospital in roughly 50 minutes and gave him anti-venom. He was out for 6 weeks. This was in 1995 at 29 palms (He calls it 29 stumps) 4th marine division, ie reservist marines out of Buffalo New York
Donkey boi 3 years ago
Because it would have been a lot harder to train them to identify different types of snake(!). I'm not from the States but I suspect there can't be much more than about 20 different snake breeds in the Mojave, and probably about a handful are likely to bite. I'm sure you could teach them to identify 5 or 6 snakes. If you can't teach them that, I'm not sure I want them being responsible for a weapon
Kay Phillips 3 years ago
Giving anti venom based on an imperfect description of a scary situation is not ideal. Now I'd say snap a picture, but this is not the worst strategy
Load More Replies... Tara L. 3 years ago
You don't need to ID the snake to get treated. All pit viper bites are treated the same in the US, the only venomous snakes in the Mojave desert are pit vipers so this story doesn't ring true.
Anne Reid 3 years ago (edited)
Also, I’m pretty sure the Marines don’t have corpsmen. They use the Navy’s.
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Raven Greer 3 years ago
He didn't know to hold it by the head??? I mean I've never held a snake before, but I've seen it and if I'm already bit and have to carry it I feel like I'd be able to hold the head and fangs away from me. How dumb was this guy?
Luisa Madrigal 3 years ago
If someone doesn't know to hold a rattlesnake by the head, I'm not sure I'd trust them with a weapon
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Give that man some crayons and tell him to draw the snake for you! Don't let him eat them.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Jesus, the rodent population must explode with you guys around...not that I'd want any of them to die either though. I'd ask why not teach them snake evasion but I mean, one of them carried back a rattlesnake biting them repeatedly...
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
I know that place in CA. Some N. African, Mid Eastern folks moved into an area near there (no palm trees occur there naturally) and planted groves of date palms, as an agricultural boon to the area. Joshua Tree Nat'l Park is near there, along with Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and the Salton Sea.
#19
There was rule they put in place my freshman year of high school, that if you arrived late i.e. after first bell, you couldn't park in the parking lot. You'd have to park at the gas station down the highway and walk to school, making you even more late.
It stopped after 20 or so people intentionally showed up late to school and made a mass exodus along the highway. On top of a lot of parents b****ing.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
our kids only get driving licenses at 18 because kids are idiots and you do not want a 16yo driving.
Phoebe Stein 3 years ago
Kids are not idiots, it's just that they can be very immature
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Kate 3 years ago
LOL at my high school, you had to be there at least half an hour early to find a spot in the student parking lot!
Anonymous 3 years ago
My high school had a back parking lot with leased spaces that helped fund FFA and the agriculture program. I always paid for my own parking space
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I like to think that if I arrived at school and was told I wasn't allowed to park I would just drive away
#20
We found out our Catholic elementary school wasn't allowed to stop any sort of religious behaviour regardless if it's a Catholic school. Lots of "Hail Satan"s and uncomfortable teachers ensued
Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
My sister went to a catholic middle school. Apparently, she kept getting sent to the office for "snide" remarks. Like in Gym class, she asked if they were being trained for another crusade. In history, she asked if burning suspected witches was still "appropriate action". Then the next day she was sent for drawing Wiccan symbols on her hands. She claimed that any punishment was a violation of her 1st amendment.
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Yes, hello. Please give me your sisters name/email. She’s my new BBF. I got into SO much trouble waaaay back when I was a “troublemaker” catholic school young lady with “ Satanic tendencies “ who wore lipstick. Hail Satan indeed!
Load More Replies... Mike Soigne 3 years ago (edited)
R'amen 🍜 #EvangelicalPastafarian -ism #ChurchOfTheFlyingSpaghettiMonster
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Who told them they weren't allowed? If this was in the US, no outside legal authority would have the power to do so, and this is certainly not a policy any local bishop would put in. I spent almost forty years in Catholic education, as student and teacher, and this sounds more like a Fox News story to me.
Terran 3 years ago
Might be in Europe. In many European countries you are not allowed to forbid religious practice.
Load More Replies... Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Hail Hades! If you read the lore, he's actually a pretty chill dude. And I still have major compassion for Satan. He just wanted equal love.
#21
They made a new rule where we had to ask permission to use the restroom during lunch.
We all coordinated and the whole cafeteria would raise their hands at once to request to go. They responded by sending us two at a time. We did this for a few days then changed our procedure to everyone just getting up at once and going to the restroom without permission.
They didn't ever officially do away with the rule, but the teachers on duty in the lunch room eventually just stopped enforcing it.
Edit: it's interesting how many people responded something like "my school had the same rule", and how many people said something like "wtf, that's the craziest rule I've heard of, is this even real?"
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
never understood the ask permission to go to the loo thing. It's bizarre. you have a body. It functions. you can't prevent its functions. basically it's a form of psychopathic torture that traditional schools implement because they're psychopathic fascists. Thank darwin my kids don't go to those nazi places.
Daenarys 3 years ago
As I tell my students, it's not about asking permission to use the bathroom, it's about an adult knowing where you are in case of an emergency. For safety reasons I need to know where my students are at all times. I've had a student have a seizure in the bathroom during lunch, if the adults supervising lunch hadn't known where he was they wouldn't have realized he'd been gone so long and sent someone to check on him. Teachers can get into trouble if something like that happens to a student and they don't know where the kid is. This is why you can't just walk out of a room without letting an adult know in school. Is something like that going to happen to every student? Most likely not, but we have to be careful just in case.
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Colin Timp 3 years ago
I can understand them wanting a student to ask and get a pass to the bathroom; but they shouldn't be telling students no.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
When I teach, it takes a great deal of de-programming on my end to enable the students to have bodily autonomy. I tell them that they can use the loo whenever they need to, but that only one person can be out at a time. In the beginning, it was like a party for them, but after a few weeks, it became typical. Fewer people got up, and we didn’t waste class time on people raising their hands to ask to go to the bathroom.
Niki A 3 years ago
It has to do with supervision laws in the US. If you leave children unsupervised, you can be fired. Where I am, teachers have to watch the lunchroom. If we are watching the lunchroom and we let kids get up as they please, there is no one to supervise the restrooms, and they often fight or hang out in the restroom. This then becomes an issue because we are supposed to supervise our classes, and therefore cannot leave the cafeteria, and we can get in trouble for not supervising the restrooms as well. Very stupid, but here in the US everything is the teacher's fault. Also, we can't go to the bathroom when we need to because someone must be in our classes supervising at all times.
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
There was one particular teacher who wouldn't let us leave the cafeteria for any reason when it was his turn on lunch duty. I was already his enemy because I am absolutely HORRENDOUS at geometry. I nearly got expelled for imitating John Cleese's Hitler impersonation (from Fawlty Towers) to walk past him out of the cafeteria one day. It was brilliant.
Ambry Petersen 3 years ago
I can understand asking to go if it's in the middle of class, but lunch time is your own free time, as well as the breaks between classes.
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago (edited)
I also think it's a crazy rule. When I was in school, the only time we had to ask permission to go to the loo, was during class. Understandable. That was in elementary school, in the first few classes, soon everybody learnt to keep it up till playtime or end of classes. Not like nowadays, when children are wearing diapers until who knows what age
#22
If you return a library book late, your parents would have to return it and explain why it's late. It worked about as well as you would think. The rule lasted a few months before they figured it wasn't worth the cost of replacing all the books.
Hey! 3 years ago
"it wasn't worth the cost of replacing all the books." does that mean that parents just decided not to return those books in order to avoid explaining why the book was late? Passive-aggressive but I like it. How is it my responsibility of returning it? I have other stuff to do, plus I was working when my children were in school.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
My kids get to be responsible for things in high school. Until then I cross those lines out or don't sign forms. I've had library books that we found a year later and I sent them back and said too bad, you can't fine me! Some schools send home laptops, I can't imagine what that must be like but it will never happen with me. If they are too young to work, a school cannot expect them to take care of things or pay fines.
Jaime Blackwater 3 years ago
Our school never bothered with late fees or penalties like that. They would just refuse to give you your physical diploma until you settled it.
Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
My school would threaten to withhold your diploma for late fees. I had 3 books out when I dropped out. They refused to accept my drop out notice until I returned the books. So I just stopped going. Got my GED, went to job corps a year later and got my diploma through them. Probably about 35% of my graduating class went this route. About 45% of the class after mine.
#23
We got a new manager for our office - she was an outside hire and was trying to prove herself quickly, and she was obsessed with efficiency.
So, her first week here she sent out this very rudely worded email about employees eating at our desks (we have a very small break area - 4 tables and we have about 300 employees here) and that we all had to stop eating at our desks, because "it was not efficient to eat and try to work at the same time".
Through a coordinated effort by some of the more sassy people at the office they all had their lunches at the same time and filled the break room with about 90 people. Elbow to elbow and they all ate standing up. Literally, the next day after that happened, she sent out a follow-up email saying that we could eat at our desks but she advised us to take a break from our work from time to time.
It was pretty funny.
Squirrelly Panda 3 years ago
Implementation was poor, but the sentiment was good. The manager wanted the employees to take a break from work during lunch.
Tammy Bennett 3 years ago
My lunch was officially 12:30p to 1:30p. I get hungry around 11:30a so I'd eat at my desk while working and take my lunch break at my normal time.
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Sandy Underhill-Marlow 3 years ago (edited)
bosses that micro-manage almost always lose in those petty rules....if it's not broken,don't fix it.
Rachel 3 years ago
My old job desided that everyone would have a thirty min unpaid lunch break, no clocking out they just took 30 min of pay. I never took a lunch break, I didn't have time since most of my tasks were extremely time sensitive, so I just ate while I worked. I was not okay with not getting paid for time worked so I would end up sitting on the clock after my shift.
Jesse Carroll 1 year ago
Similar situation: Most of the time brought the local newspaper and lunch. I would eat a my desk and read the paper. If someone called for support I would answer the phone. Someone objected so I started going to the cafeteria to read and eat. After a couple of mon responses to significant issues not getting a rapid response the matter was "dismissed."
JayWantsACat 3 years ago
My manager at the temp job I had before current perm position had the same rule about not eating at my desk and emphasized that if I wanted breakfast I had to eat it at home or on the way to the office, I never understood why he had such a hangup about it. Especially since the people who worked at the desks adjacent to mine didnt have that rule since they worked for my manager's boss. So, I couldnt eat at my desk while the people literally next to me were. It was so stupid. That place was a sinking ship and quit a couple weeks later.
#24
My high school put in a policy so that after the 3rd time you were late, you got detention. They didn't change the absent policy.
Tardiness decreased by 52(?) %. Absentees increased 70%.
Edit: The punishment for missing was nothing until social services comes in.
DonS 3 years ago
Had the same rule at my high school, when I see I'm about to be late because of bad traffic or a really bad winter storm, I'll call my parents and they'll call the school to tell them I'll be absent instead of getting a "strike" (they thought the rule was pretty stupid). They never changed the rules and the absentees number during winter was through the roof avery year I was there. They're was a day that out of 40 students for my group, only 4 showed up (awful winter storm that day)... the principal never saw a reason to change the rules.
Sunny Day 3 years ago
If the storm was that bad, why didn't they close the school?
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Liz Jackson 3 years ago
My school was 3 tardiness your absent, 9 absence you fail. We could only make up absences through Saturday school (detention) it started at 6 am lasted till 10am. Couldn't be late it wouldn't count, could talk or eat. My mom struggled to get me to school at 8 am on a weekday so Saturday at 6 yeah right. I failed a lot of classes.
DubstepBlade 3 years ago
Had the same rule at my middle school. I went to a school in El Segundo, and the policy was that 3 tardies (to any class) was a detention. Then I learned that neighboring L.A.’s policy was 15 tardies.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
In college freshman year I had a few teachers that wanted freshmen to take that seriously, so if you were late the door was locked and you couldn't go to class. No one did that at freshmen year, it was just a show to get your a*s in gear. I am the early type, so it never happened to me, but I would feel bad when I saw someone standing out there looking upset.
That nerd Zoe ️🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
THIS IS OUR SCHOOLS POLICY! I don't skip class bc my mom can see that but still
Niki A 3 years ago
We do have a policy that after 15 days we have to turn kids in for truancy through the courts. We also call after three absences, and after five with no note, they require doctor/court notes. Failure to bring in a note results in an unexcused absence. Which means you get zeroes on your work. After so many, you get suspended/ISS. You still get zeroes. Not sure what it accomplishes, as many people cannot afford to go to the doctor under any circumstance.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Part of our policy was that after ten unexcused absences in a class, you lost all credit for that class that semester.
Load More Replies... Diana Pahule 3 years ago
In Junior High they punished us for being late by staying 30 minutes after school. They threatened to hold me back in the 6th grade because I was late 15 times in one semester. I never told them I did it on purpose so the girl was bullying me on the way home wouldn't be there.
Colin Timp 3 years ago
A large part of the problem in the US is the way schools are funded. The school receives money based on the number of students times the number of days attended. So when a student isn't there, they lose money. Should that really be the reason they care? That's why broke public school districts never close for weather issues and such; while private schools always do. I've heard horror stories about administrators pressuring very sick children to come back to school; even though the doctor says they shouldn't attend.
#25
My School banned all balls over a couple of inches in diameter beacuse someone kicked a football through a window during lunch.
Most of us that walked home walked past the woods by the golf course and had a ready supply of golf balls as a result.
Golf balls were allowed under the new rules due to their size.
3 broken windows in one lunch period later they weren't.
Christian Fuller 3 years ago
Well, that was pretty (puts on sunglasses) ballsy. EEEEEEYAAAAAAHHHH!
cathy hurd 3 years ago (edited)
I'll never understand kids destroying school property. Who do they thing pays for that?
Sarah K 3 years ago
Don't downvote Cathy. I gave her an upvote to counteract. Again, a downvote is not a dislike. It is how to ban someone. Nothing she said deserves her to be banned.
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Diana Pahule 3 years ago
I don't remember anyone playing with anything but a hacky sac ball off the sports fields. I have no idea if balls were banned since I never had an urge to play with one in high school.
My O My 3 years ago
Hello fellow old panda from the ages of the hacky sac
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I told this story before but in high school they banned backpacks in classrooms. Everyone was pissed. Some girls started bringing bigger purses to put their books in, so a bunch of dudes brought their mom's purses in and were using those for school books.
Administration and teachers got upset because we found a loophole so they banned purses too. At which point a bunch of moms got upset because their daughters had to carry around tampons and stuff in their coat pockets, in addition to all of their books, notebooks, calculators, pens/pencils, and whatever else they have in those purses.
Finally the school let everyone have their backpacks back.
Edit: Knowing that other places banned backpacks makes me feel a bit better. What would make me feel a lot better is going back in time and telling Mrs. Gaines that she can eat a bag of decomposing dongs for suggesting that we get rid of our backpacks. That lady hated teaching, and she hated students - she just loved control. Already having an authority problem, I bucked up at her more than once. I remember one story where me and a bunch of other seniors started "compli-sulting" each other. We'd pay each other compliments, but in an insulting tone, start to act like we were going to fight, then hug it out. We thought it was hilarious, but Mrs. Gaines thought we were being disrespectful to her authority because we'd compli-sult each other a bunch outside of her door. Once we learned this annoyed her we started to do it more until some pink slips started coming out and people were getting sent to the office for "complimenting each other in a loud tone." What a joke of a teacher.
Deborah B 3 years ago
Why not just issue transparent plastic backpacks for everyone? It's been done, and then at least people can carry their stuff.
Destiney Haddox 3 years ago
Why not just create some stricter gun rules? We keep trying to fix the problem by addressing the symptoms and not the cause.
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Tigara Akimoto 3 years ago
The series Clueless actually did an episode on this very rule (issued each student a f***y pack (belt bag for you Brits)). Some schools issue that rule to keep classroom walkways clear. Other schools do so for weapon issues (clear plastic backpack would be viable for this reason). Still others are simply trying to make students go to their lockers between classes (without adjusting between class times, completely unviable for large schools).
Squeeki-B 3 years ago
This may come as a surprise, but not all backpack bans were instituted because of gun concerns. My school gave us extra time between classes so we could use our lockers. Problem was, my classmates were playing with their bags, throwing them at others, bringing/selling drugs at school, etc. Got pencils to carry? Use a pencil case.
Matthew Stewart 3 years ago
Growing up in the 80s I attended several Catholic schools that didn't allow backpacks. They made every student carry a shallow plastic tub that we put all our books and supplies in. When in class they slid under our chairs. When you carried them you needed to use both hands and grip the sides tightly so you couldn't have touch contact with anyone
Heather Colleen 3 years ago
It's funny. The first high school I attended didn't have lockers because they thought that would fix the "drug problem." (It was a new school & in the early '80s when it was built, drugs were considered a much bigger threat than guns. Regular school shootings weren't a thing yet.) My 2nd high school had lockers but it was basically two campuses so there wasn't enough time to go to your lockers between classes if you had to get from opposite ends of campus to the other. (My schedule was always special that way.)
Máté Jancsek 3 years ago
never ban guns... ban backpacks... No wonder this country believes they still a leading nation... man, you barely has enough credit for a 2nd word country title
Bored&InSchool 3 years ago
oh NOO! the students are COMPLIMENTING each other! how absolutely HORRIBLE!
Claire Pusey 3 years ago
I had an art teacher that didn't allow backpacks in her classroom, since she thought it was a "distraction". So she told me to put away my backpack in my locker when I first entered the room. I was gone when the bell rang, so she told me to go get a tardy slip. Bruh, I was only late because you made me!!!!
#27
"Don't do anything unless directed by your Boss, any deviation from this will result in write-up/termination." This was a very literal directive from upper management that took place after an office incident. Our work is very fluid, and our team alone contained 20 people. Needless to say productivity hit unfounded lows.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
If I worked there, I would have stopped reading after the word "Boss", since he hadn't told me to read the rest of it.
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Malicious compliance is the best for these situations. When my mom's last boss got like this, I tried telling her to take note of absolutely everything she did - "6:00, turn on computer. 6:05, log in to computer. 6:10, bring up first case file. 6:12, picked teeth. 6:15, told the dog to be quiet. 6:24, pet the cat." So on and so forth. It would have been hilarious to see how that b***h would have dealt with that.
Sentin White 3 years ago
Basically how it worked at our production company. They said because people were ''randomly picking'' which orders to work on, too few products were shipped out on Friday so they implemented that ''boss tells you what to do'' rule. Production rates dropped and the boss became overworked because everyone was constantly asking her what to do.
#28
My middle school had a "no touching rule" which meant you'd get suspended for high fiving a friend. Girls got in trouble for hugging their friends. Our teachers thought this was ridiculous and would have students high five each other in their classes for a minute everyday. So many kids got suspensions that the rule stopped being enforced and only counted if you touched a kid in a bullying situation or sexual harassment.
Pheebs 3 years ago
One of my schools had a rule that we weren’t allowed to acknowledge holidays. The core as they didn’t want students who didn’t celebrate specific holidays to be offended. I almost got suspended for cat makeup on Halloween. Thwarted that one by washing my face and switching to full goth - which at that time involved intricate patterns coming off the eye area. I bet the whole don’t shove your beliefs in others’ faces thing, but a blanket ban does more for creating misunderstandings if your not allowed to even discuss things.
Dim T 3 years ago
This makes no sense. Not allowing thw acknowledgment of holidays is what is opressive to kids who celebrate non mainstream holidays. Literally every marginalised religion is fighting to have their holidays aknowledged not just the Christian ones Who the f**k run this school? Lenin?
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Sentin White 3 years ago
Just goes to show you that schools are completely out of touch with students.
#29
New manager got rid of the sofa in the break room so people couldn't nap on their hour long lunch break. No one overslept or took the p**s but it was good to have the option on a tough day.
Stoner guy started sleeping in other places, including in-between walls and in the warehouse. That's when we started losing him and couldn't find him as he'd go into a deeper sleep and was less likely to be disturbed.
He didn't lose his job somehow, that place had a hard time hiring.
Edit: To clarify where stoner guy would go, we'd find him in-between walls and shelves. It was a DIY store that had been something else years before so there were random partition walls and oddly laid out shelving units everywhere, a real s**t show of a store lay out. He had quite a few places to hide in and nap.
Tessb90 3 years ago (edited)
If you work in a video game shop and require a place to nap, a well organised storeroom will leave you with a nice level bed on top of vertically stacked console boxes. This does require a minimum amount of inventory, as (at the time) PS4 and Xbox One console boxes are not the same height. PS4 boxes will carry a lighter load than Xbox One boxes, as they are broader with less packing material, so a 55kg weight limit would be best practice. Xbox One boxes on the other hand are half the width, use stronger cardboard for the outer carton, all the internal components packaged within cardboard supports, and condensed to have virtually no unused internal space, a single box vertically stacked will support 55kg on it's own; however, a single box would make a terrible bed. The outer delivery cartons that the consoles arrived in can also be attached to the shelving above, to create a makeshift tent/room so that you are able to slumber in peace, quiet, and darkness.
Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
Used to work for Walmart truck crew (before they switched the format. It was 4pm to 1am). Due to legal reasons involving my daughter, I needed to switch to days, which meant switching departments. This REALLY didn't go over well with management. I was written up for "insubordination", after given 3 conflicting directives from 3 different managers. I was written up for "not working", because I was assigned to help in apparel (no cameras, so I couldn't prove I was). And finally, I was fired for multiple write ups, as my 3rd was calling out for my grandpa's funeral, since I "couldn't prove he was dead" (I wasn't offered a chance to prove it). Less than a month later, I was called by a manager who was frantic to offer my job back since they "desperately needed help". My response? "Sorry, im no longer employed, so its no longer my job to care". They tried the whole "be a team player" and "we're a family" c**p. I just hung up. They tried calling back 3 times from 2 managers personal phones.
Nickers Bullock 3 years ago
I used to have a workmate who liked to hide and nap at work. The warehouse was chaotically overstocked so he could usually find a place to hide away unseen but his snoring would inevitably give him away. I had several videos of following the trail of snores to find him behind pallets of pots, under a wheelbarrow, with tarps and tools covering or other inventive places. I told him it was in case I ever needed to blackmail him but really it was just for the rest of us to laugh at. Man that guy could snore!
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I have a blanket, cushions and a sleep mask in my car, in case I need a nap
Grenevic Sharladanel Stremski 1 year ago
I remember one time nobody could find a certain employee (boss's son!) and it turned out he was taking a nap behind a row of file boxes on some industrial shelving!
Seadog 3 years ago
A guy did this one day at a tire plant in a nearby city due to downtime for something. Some people simply went home. Anyway, he elects to stay and draw pay while waiting. Goes to sleep behind some kind of hopper. Forklift comes along with another and jams it against the first one thereby crushing the guy between the wall and the hopper. In the end, 3 people were killed that week in different incidents.
Catte West 3 years ago
Cases of motor oil stored in the back room of the store. Tami and Terry restacked the cases higher in front and sides, cubby hole in the back. That's where she took her naps.
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Also I had campus police harass me for taking a nap on my lunch break on a bunch. Mf you dont see my tie and dress clothes?
Brian Stanton 3 years ago
Damn, my old job put one in a break room for that. Once I started using it even for 15 min naps, they revoked the rule smh
#30
Our school made it so you couldn't play dodgeball anymore. So what happened was is that the gym teachers came up with this new game called "Fireball." The rules are there are balls in the middle of the gym people go on two seperate teams go for and if you get hit you're out, if you catch a ball you- okay so it was basically dodgeball. Then fireball was banned. So now there's this new game called "Pinball". Which isn't involving the machines unfortunately but it's basically dodgeball/ Fireball but there's bowling pins that need to be knocked over as well. I think they just gave up after a while.
CalicoKitty 3 years ago
Considering the fact that one of the most common responses to "you can't touch each other on the arm to play tag" is something like "what if we stomped on each other's FEET instead?!" I'm not sure what they were expecting...
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I wish your school made it so you had learned punctuation. This was torturous to decipher.
WonderWoman 3 years ago
Hate, hate, hate dodgeball. There is always a group of jerks whose life mission is to hurt as many people as possible by throwing that ball as hard as possible. The try-hards and bullies always take it too far.
Sunny Day 3 years ago
So you jump in front of a ball the first round and sit on the bench reading a book the rest of the class.
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Heather Barnett 3 years ago
Make dodgeball optional. Alternate "exercise" for others, or free day.
Kari Murray 3 years ago
In Elementary school our teacher made up Germ Ball. It was dodgeball but if you were hit, you just sat down where you were, and each team had a dr with a plastic tube and could give you a "shot" to heal you and you were back in the game. If your Dr went down, y'all were screwed. It was FUN
Sentin White 3 years ago
We played ''pinball'' in elementary. 2 teams, each team got 3-5 pins on their side of the field and they can arrange them however, as long as it's fair. If you knock a pin over all the out members of your team are allowed back on the field.
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
I remember when the whole of the us tried banning dodgeball lmao that didn't go far or for long that I know of
Bah Humbug 3 years ago
I played that game!! Although they called it Queen Pin, and each side had 5 pins with respective goalies. The aim of the game was to knock all the pins on the other side down first. But if you throw a ball in the hoop on the other side of the court, you can "revive" a dead pin. Oh yeah, and I was a god at being a goalie
#31
A local pharmacy was built on the same street as my school and local pharmacies get robbed a couple times a year where I live. To make our school more secure, they started locking every door and making it punishable by detention for any instance of a student opening an outside door for someone else during school hours. Everyone had to go through the front doors to the lobby to show ID and sign in before they got into the actual school. I liked how secure the school was but when our principal was walking superintendents around to show them our new media production and medical sciences wing of the school they got locked out after stepping outside to look at an outdoor set. That spot was on the complete opposite side of the school from the front office. During class change they tried knocking on the door to get a student to open it. Everyone ignored them and followed the rules. Those old men and ladies had to walk around the school in 95 degree, 90% humidity weather sweating their suits off. Our principal did commend all the students for following the rules at the next school assembly and said he was proud to show how safe the school was. Cool dude.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
I was waiting for the plot twist was that it was the students committing the robberies...
#32
My school tried to enforce a "no standing still or sitting" policy at recess, because if we weren't moving, we were surely spreading gossip.
Edit: Realized I didn't really say how it backfired. A lot of the kids thought this rule was because there was some big scandal the teachers were trying to prevent from getting out, which only generated crazy new rumors, mostly about the teachers.
k1ddkanuck 3 years ago
What in the everloving hell is this?? No standing still or sitting? So like, you have to be in perpetual motion? Why not just install giant hamster wheels and force kids to provide power for the building? THat is some 1984 type sh!t right there.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
Now you've done it!!! Some teacher somewhere will have seen this comment and told the HM. Giant hamster wheels will be installed in schools before the month is out!
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As a parent I would sue the school for employing a psychopath as a headteacher
#33
An insane amount of time and hand wringing went into my office's dress code policy. When the final draft was ultimately released, every department head had a valid reason why *their* staff should be exempted. So the policy wound up only affecting myself and the guy that insisted on making the policy. I violate this policy on a daily basis.
#34
High school took all the stall doors off the boy's bathrooms because of graffiti or something. So I started pooping in the bathroom near the office. After a couple of times of the superintendent coming in while I was doing that all the doors were put back on.
Catman 3 years ago
Why? Who in their right mind would take off stall doors?! Oh yeah, becuase of reasons, in my middle school boys locker room their were no doors, no paper towels, and no running water in the sinks.
EpicWolfandSparrow 3 years ago
Eewwww! If you poop (or pee) how the frilly frock are you supposed to wash your hands with no water?!?! That's DISGUSTING!!
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RajunCajun 3 years ago
none of the schools I went to had stall doors. k to 5 boys room was just two toilets and a trough
Wonderful 3 years ago
Ours had stalls that were only 3 ft high and didn’t lock. Fun times changing a tampon while accidentally making long eye contact with the girl next to me whos also changing her tampon. I never realized the weird positions and weird faces you make when doing this monthly dance.
#35
My high school attempted to ban tripp pants and the like. However, due to a hilariously overlooked typo the student handbook (that got sent to students and parents) just said "Students may not wear pants." We had a good laugh and it made the local news. Unfortunately, this does show the quality of high school I went to...wasn't ready for college haha.
#36
If you had 4 tardies in a semester, including first or zero hour, you would receive a Saturday morning detention. I had accumulated 3 tardies during a semester of my sophomore year because my ride would be a few mins late. I proceeded to skip school anytime my ride (or myself) would be late and, eventually, a vice principal noticed my absences. Naturally, he asked why I was missing so many days of class. I explained to him that I wasn't going to get a detention for GOING TO SCHOOL. His only recourse was to suggest that I try to be on time more often. Felt good to walk out of his office knowing that conversation didn't go how he expected.
Heather Barnett 3 years ago
Usually an optional before school class. Class 1 starts at 8:30, class 0 (early bird for my school) starts at 7am.
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#37
They tried to ban the Bible. Within 3 days even the atheists, the Buddhists, and the Muslims were reading it. They also got a lawsuit.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
"Banning the Bible" can have a range of meanings. There are people in my country who claim that you're banning the Bible when you refuse to use it in the classroom as a science textbook.
DC 3 years ago
Yeah, but that's not what banning looks like to any reasonable person.
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Overtime is paid in free time instead of money. Three people quit so far, more people planning to. No new hires to be found. It's probably just a matter of time before this shop closes down.
Na Schi 3 years ago (edited)
Mhh, this probably majorly depends on the job as well as the country to live in. I will always take free time over money. Because time is priceless and also the amount of money after taxes that will be paid as compensation is shîtty. So yeah spending time on my own accord is the much better option. (Edit: found one spelling mistake... there might be others)
Deborah B 3 years ago
The problem is these policies usually have small print "time in lieu expires after one month, and can only be used with management consent" and if they need you to do overtime, it's too busy to authorise you to take some hours off. So you never actually get to take the time.
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Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
That is a legit option in a few contractual forms used around the world. You work overtime today, you can shave off a few hours tomorrow. Some basic limitation have to be followed, such as a minimum number of hours of rest, max number of overtime hours per day and week/month (4 in my country and no more than 40 hours of overtime per month, iirc). Not a bad deal per se, and since it has to be formalized in the contract can be opted out if both you and the company agree.
MAL 3 years ago
My job does the same thing, but after you hit 180 hours of "comp time," you start getting paid. Once you go over that 180, management yells at you for it because it costs them money. They also yell at you if you don't get everything done, which you can't do without working OT because of what they expect you to do. We've told them that it's either they pay us or not everything gets done. Management didn't like that and asked us to work for free. LOL No.
Sunny Day 3 years ago
If they ask you to leave 2 hours early on Friday to make up for staying 2 hours over on Tuesday - this is legal. If they say "don't put the 2 hours overtime on your timesheet" - illegal. If they basically made you exempt (you get the same pay no matter how many hours you work), also illegal. If you are in the US, report them to NLRB.
Seadog 3 years ago
Worked for more than 1 place that refused to pay any additional wages for working holidays and would claim you could get another day off instead. That meant if we took an extra day off that week then we had to work more on the 4 days left since we already had 2 days off. Of course everyone above store level got the holiday off.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Some companies pretend that this is "Flex-time". Flexible for only guess who?
Ines Olabarria-Smith 3 years ago
My sister works for the city and every extra hour turns into a free extra day. This way is great.
#39
I used to work for a production company that employed a lot of really skilled, award winning editors. There were producers and executives and directors but the real money makers, the people who really *made* the company were the editors, so the company was basically centered around them. The executives would always order in food for the editors, and the editors would usually eat in their offices while doing their thing. One day the executives decided to cut paid lunches to save money. The editors all thought this was a d**k move, so they'd go out for lunch and sometimes stay out for like 3 hours. There was nothing the company could do, really, because these editors were top of their game and if Warner Bros. heard that the editor they always used had left, they might leave, too. So the company couldn't do anything. They saved maybe $15 dollars per person per day, but lost like 4 hours per person per day. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Yes. My company saved a few squids by not paying for winter flu shots. They lost about 200 person days
#40
My HS school had (perhaps still has) a program called TAD - Tardiness, Attendance, Discipline. I think that's what it stood for. Anyway the idea is if a student weren't late, miss a single day, or get a detention after a semester, he or she wouldn't have to take exams. Sounds great right? Except when you figure that the most punctual and studious students among us who achieved this became terrible at taking tests. Poor SAT scores and struggling in college.
k1ddkanuck 3 years ago
Who'd have thunk- turning young people into compliant, punctual worker bees doesn't lend itself to developing other skills. Astounding.
#41
My work used to have vacation and sick leave as separate things. 2 years ago they created new "Paid Time Off" that merged sick leave and vacation, but everyone got the same amount of PTO as their old vacation time. So, tons of people just started coming to work sick so they wouldn't waste their vacation time. Now there are tons of people sick all of the time.
Matthew Fox 3 years ago
Considering most jobs in the US don't provide paid sick time, this is pretty much the standard. If you don't come to work, you don't get paid. So most people come to work anyway.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
The devil on this is definitely in the details. My wife's work used to have sick time, vacation time, and "personal time off". Last year they merged them all to just be PTO. You still accumulate the same total, but you don't have to identify what you are taking time off as, you just claim however much PTO. It really is not the business of the company if you are taking sick leave or vacation. Some might argue that there shouldn't be a limit on paid sick leave, but at some point you have to realize that a business isn't a charity so there needs to be some limit.
#42
We implemented the Buddy Bench for lonely people to sit on and make friends. It was pretty damn expensive and nicely decorated. Someone stole it.
max and the expresso 3 years ago
'Buddy benches' are good in theory but not in practice. When I was at school teachers would force me to sit with the kids there as I preferred to be alone at break times.
Hey! 3 years ago
Not in practice when someone forces you. For sure. I wouldn't like that either.
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Sylvia Potts 3 years ago
We had one. It was a bench called the friendzone which had a sign that lollipop men use and it had a stick drawing of two kids on it. Yiu usually just got ignored
#43
School I attended emailed the entire student body to not use Yik Yak because students were being bullied on it. All of the students, myself included, who hadn't heard of the app immediately downloaded it and began using it.
Catman 3 years ago
My elementry school (after I left) had a problem with Tik-Tok challenges being done in the boys restroom, it got so big that an entire paper towel despenser was ripped of the wall and shoved in a toliet.
Phoebe Stein 3 years ago
Yeah, like back in my elementary school there were like buddy systems with trustworthy kids because boys were doing graffiti and TikTok challenges in the bathroom. They also had to get security cams.
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#44
Not work or school, but around 2009/2010, my city implemented new water saving laws that said you could only water your lawns on Tuesdays and Thursdays and started enforcing fines on anyone watering their lawn not on the approved days. Well, summer turns to fall, the rainy season hits and water mains across the city suddenly started bursting. "What ever could be causing this mass failure of our water infrastructure?" Local university did a study and, sure enough, the Tuesday/Thursday watering rule had put a massive strain on the water mains/sewer lines and caused them to fail across town. The city's attempt to save water backfired with mass flooding and expensive repairs. At the advice of the university, they switched it to "odd numbers water Monday/Wednesday, even numbers water Tuesday/Thursday." It's several years later and they're still repairing the damage in places.
#45
I worked for a software company that routed all sales < $100K to "inside sales," while larger orders went to the outside sales teams that worked directly with the customers. Until one of the inside sales guys convinced the customer that they didn't need the $2 million software, and only needed a $99K upgrade.
#46
The school was so hopelessly *obsessed* with League Table standings that any kids getting A-grades were untouchable. They made the school look good, so they could treat who they liked how they liked. Bullying sky-rocketed, the schools reputation plummeted, attendance dropped, and their precious League Table results followed. They put winning points ahead of the duty of care to the children. C***s.
Markus It/He 3 years ago
I'd assume it's something to do with Ivy League universities
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My 4 years of high school were full of my school trying out new policies and procedures to use in the future. My sophomore year, my school decided to make tests count for 100% of the grade, and homework count for 0% (but it was still assigned). And as you'd expect, kids did absolutely no homework. The ones that didn't retain information well (or were bad test takers) struggled pretty hard to make the grade without homework padding it. Our failure rate was pretty high that year. Then my junior year, they brought homework grades back and made a new rule that there were no due dates, nor penalties for turning in late work for your 6 weeks (we didn't do quarters). As long as it was before the next 6 weeks started, you were good. This led to students doing no homework until the last few days of the 6 weeks, and teachers had to accept and grade them all before grades were due. This put teachers under immense stress by causing them to work insane hours and spend every hour at home grading. Which made them very irritable and more likely to just shove pointless activities and busywork at us until they could finish grading.
Hey! 3 years ago
They couldn't as they were no due dates except for "within the six weeks".
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In my classes, unexcused late homework got a zero. But here's the catch - you still had to do it anyway because you were ineligible to take the test unless all the related homework was turned in. If you still didn't get that homework in, the untaken test turned into a zero after a few days. Very effective, and other teachers adopted the policy.
#48
No short skirts rule at my high school resulted in a sharp increase of yoga pants. All the guys at my school saw this as a net gain and did a good job of not advertising our collective appreciation. For fear of ruining a good thing.
MAL 3 years ago
Why can't boys/men keep it in their pants? What so hard about not turning every girl/woman into something sexual? Y'all are nasty.
Balso Steele 3 years ago
Biology & hormones. Y'know, the driving force for animal life for the last 500 million years. Do you tell your parents they're nasty? Your grandparents? 99% of the planets' adult human, animal, and insect population?
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Calane E. Vanya 3 years ago
I don't get it. How could the joga pants be a good replacement in this case? It's not something comfortable for hot days, it's nothing similar to short skirts... Was it only something about looking "attractive"?
EpicWolfandSparrow 3 years ago (edited)
Op was a guy.....being gross towards girls🤮. I felt uncomfortable reading that (the post, not your comment)
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#49
When smartphones were starting to become popular my school had a zero tolerance for phones policy - having your phone out resulted in an immediate suspension. My phone went off in class my freshmen year and i got suspended for that....keep in mind i was that kid that jad a 4.0, never broke any rules, never even got a detention...and that was the thing that got me suspended. The school eventually removed the policy because more kids were getting suspended and im sure that made the school look bad.
My O My 3 years ago
What's this with schools (in the US?) handing out suspentions and detentions for nothings all the time?
Fox 3 years ago (edited)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XXO32QsNs0EMZTSJRAhFT this is a podcast episode on the no child left behind act and why the USA school system is f’ed
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#50
My high school has a policy where you couldn't wear hats at school unless the school's mascot logo was on it. So a bunch of people just bought a patch of the logo and paperclipped them to their hats.
#51
My college didn't allow younger years to leave the grounds and go to the shops during lunch. They just asked the older years to buy stuff for them. The college banned energy drinks. A black market sprung up, with the older years being dealers. EDIT: UK college, so sixth form. Though we had years 10-13, so ages 16-19. In the UK college is like high school.
#52
My high school's student council decided to use their funds to build a bike cage. The idea was to reduce theft. Bikes go in at the start of the day and are locked up until the end of the day. There would still be racks outside the cage for students to use who needed to leave in the middle of the day (dentist, cutting class, etc). I told the other council members that the bike cage would cause a huge increase in traffic as what was previously an open bike rack would now have one exit and entrance. Additionally it would actually increase theft as people could now cut locks in the cage without worrying about someone looking at them through the covered fence (they were planning a chainlink fence with slats in it). GUESS WHAT F*****G HAPPENED??!? Bike theft increased and traffic around the bike cage became a nightmare. I quit the student council after they made that decision.
#53
IT department changed how work is given out and time is accounted for. Had to fill out daily time sheets that accounted for every 15 min section of time with a summary of what you've worked on. Anyone that needed IT help had to go thru one person. The problem is that the one person giving out work had no clue who had what skills. The time sheets were a waste, we had to stop and report what we were working on. Classic micro management, within months the entire IT staff left except 1 guy. Don't micro manage when the job market if full of other jobs.
Steph Hobbs 3 years ago
A place I worked brought this in too, suggested by their new HR advisors. It took all of us half the day filling the blooming thing in so after a couple of weeks they stopped asking for them as we were getting nothing done!
#54
We weren't allowed to run during recess in elementary school after a girl fell and broke her arm when playing tag. The rule was you had to have one foot on the ground at all times. So we ended up having kids doing this little "shuffle run" thing by sliding their feet across the gravel and pavement, but still going at running speed. After another broken bone and a *lot* of scrapes, we could run again. In middle school we had a very strict no cellphones rule, this was during the flip phone craze. Like, if they saw what looked like a cellphone in your pants, they could ask to look at it and take it. Problem was, all the girls in my school kept their phone in their back pocket, so all the girls would make a huge fuss whenever male teachers would look at their back pockets, and some guys would do the same thing ("why are looking at the front my my jeans, Coach?"). For a little while it didn't work and teachers just took them anyway, but after a couple of parents got *loudly* involved, they stopped doing that. Also a girl gave some guy a blowjob by the candy machines during an assembly in 8th grade, so we had teacher "guards" patrolling the halls during every assembly after that. It didn't backfire but it did suck, pun intended.
#55
I worked at a high school in LES NYC a few years ago. Was a large school 3000 students. As a teacher you realize fights happen. We all know they do and best thing to do is make sure those involved are punished and leaves it at that. This was our principals first year in the building. She wasn’t a new principal as in brand new, but she was new to our school. Our school wasn’t horrible but it was declining. A fight happens first period on the basement floor. Security is called, those involved are sent to the deans. Whatever it happens no big deal right? Principal comes on announcements 2nd period. First she acknowledges there was a fight, which most already knew about. It’s a high school after all. Then she says “no student will be allowed to leave to use the bathroom the rest of the day! Teachers do not allow students to leave to use the bathroom!” Well, this wasn’t received well. Students decide to flood the halls, yelling and shouting. This happens on all floors (six total). Students refusing to go to class and just shouting, yelling, running in the halls. I opened my class for the good kids and got in as many as I could. Security couldn’t do anything. This went on for 2-3 periods do this was prime lunch periods. Most of these kids said f**k it and just left. Around 6th period an assembly was held. Those students who remained were put in the auditorium where they were lectured by administration. The kids who did nothing wrong mind you. Eventually word gets out to the NY Post that there was a “riot.” It wasn’t but a reporter asking kids you know what’s going to happen. She turned out to be an awful principal and after more incidents and bad press we ran her out within a span of 2 years.
George Comas 3 years ago
2 years to late. Unfortunately. Feel bad for the kids who had to go to school there for those two years
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
How do you get to be a principal without understanding that punishing all for the act of a few is really, truly stupid?
#56
My high school banned us from carrying bookbags (but girls could carry GIANT purses). I suppose they were afraid of bombings or whatever. So this meant that we had to carry our books, etc. everywhere, which was annoying. Well, one of my friends became fed up, and put his stuff in a box, and carried that. It was technically within the guidelines so it slid for a while. Well, the box began to break, so he takes a roll of duct tape and completely covers this box. This went on for several weeks and eventually the duct tape box begins to give. So he gets another box. Except he used that box to carry his old box in - and the new box eventually became taped as well. Eventually individual teachers banned his box from their room, so he would leave it on top of the lockers (because it didn't fit inside). The principal ended up seeing it whilst giving a tour to prospective students. Boxes were subsequently banned. Apparently duct taped boxes look like bombs to would-be students and parents. This is the same guy who wore a skirt to school one day. Skirts are allowed under the dress code while shorts are banned.
#57
At one job, you could schedule vacation and give it back if your plans changed. One guy would take 2 weeks off, wait until the schedule was made for that month, then give it back. Since the schedule assumed he wasn’t going to be there, he would make up his own shifts, since he was “extra.” This would lead to him “working 11-7” (showing up at 2, taking lunch, working from 4-6 and leaving early). He would do this 3-4 times per year.
#58
At my college my dorm used to have this thing called Malt Mondays. Someone would go around knocking on doors at around 8 or 9pm asking if you wanted to order a 40oz. Then they would go on a run to the liquor store and buy them for people that ordered them. We would then all hang out outside drinking 40s and listening to music until security came and told us to take it is inside. It was a fun tradition we had, but the dean hated it. He decided to fund his own Malt Mondays, but instead of malt liquor he wanted to draw people in with free chocolate malts. What ended up happening is people who did the regular Malt Mondays and wanted a chocolate malt would just go to that one first, get a free treat and then leave to go and drink 40s.
#59
not my school but next to mine - started locking the back door so people wouldn't go out and smoke during breaks between classes. the day they implemented this, 6 people jumped out of the window on the ground floor by 2nd period, stepping into the restroom was like walking into a cloud, there was an emergency session of the student council and within a few days everyone owned a vape.
#60
'Friendship Station' for people to find someone to play with in primary school. Turned out as you'd expect, a place to bully people on their own. Removed quickly. Edit: Well this story blew up
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I wouldn't have expected that. Every school I have worked that implemented this found it quite successful.
Scarlett 3 years ago
Yes, but those were probably schools were the adults were actually adults and cracked down on this kind of behavior, unlike my old elementary (well it actually went K-12 but I was only there until sixth grade) school
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My kid’s school has this and it’s quite the attraction. He’s made so many friends and taken so many interests in other cultures by consistently befriending new kids, particularly those with limited English and/or recently having immigrated. His close friends from earlier grades do the same and what was once a clique of 10-12 boys is now a very fluid yet friendly group of 30+. Peer pressure or social dynamics has swayed from exclusive and somewhat closed off to very inclusive & diversified because of this. They also have a study table and conversation table near the playground so on recess kids can opt to quietly read, relax and contemplate or they can take a seat and join in an open conversation. Bullying has become practically nonexistent and cooperation has skyrocketed.
#61
My senior year of high school we got moved into a new school building across from a grocery store. The builders put walls up over the plumbing for water fountains by accident so there was a huge increase in reusable water bottles, and the school put up a vending machine entirely full of water. Now I suppose it’s time to mention that this was in Washington state, where you can sell liquor in grocery stores along with anything else. SO some freshman got the bright idea to start stealing vodka from the store access the street, fill disposable water bottles with it, and sell it to other students. This caused a huge problem with a large population of drunk underclassmen wandering the halls of the school and getting into trouble. Finally the staff got together for a meeting about what to do. Someone suggested banning water bottles. So now students had NO access to water during school hours, and everyone was enraged. There were articles written about it and parents complaining. People all over town were talking about how we had a ban on water. They eventually lifted the ban, and the vodka problem resumed. TLDR: my school had kids selling booze in water bottles and banned water.
Calane E. Vanya 3 years ago
Maybe some people actually reading things don't like spoilers.
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I worked for a place that did RMA repairs on PCs. Most of our clients were businesses like hospitals and factories. Anyway as I was touring the workshop during my orientation the guy taking me around took me to the QA department. Once all builds or repairs are made they're sent tot he QA department for a final inspection before going out to the customer. The guy jokingly said "we used to pay the QA guys bonuses for every mistake they found on a build". I started laughing. The only problem was it wasn't a joke. They actually paid bonuses to the QA people who found mistakes on builds. For anyone not familiar with the internal workings of a PC it could take less than 3 seconds to completely render a computer inoperable. Hell, you could loosen a connection just by inspecting it. Luckily that policy ended before I was hired. I mean can you imagine giving someone a bonus for finding screw ups when it would take almost no effort to make a screw up and then claim you found it?
DC 3 years ago
... all these things, FFS, just treat workers as adult, reasonable people, and most of them will act like that. Treat them like children, with stupid rewards and punishments, and they will act like children. If a mistake I make up on the spot makes me earn aother few dollars in mere seconds, joke's on you, Boss. After all, I'm there to exchange my time and knowledge and ideas for money, not because I love to be away from home...
Seadog 3 years ago
Reminds me of a bonus we got for about a year. Quarterly we were scored on 10 categories and we got $XX per category we were below a threshold (decided by the owner). First, it's 2 completely different department which interreact with each other, so for either some things were completely of their control. A couple were simply unachievable, no way to get below the limit given our volume and the fact that if the customer decided he wasn't coming back until (month) then nothing we can do about it. Still we consistently nailed 7 of the 10 which made for a decent bonus. Following year owner decided he was giving away too much money and ended it and morale fell like a rock.
Michael Rowe 3 years ago
I think the QA dept I was in did it the right way. If I found a discrepancy I had to do a ton of paperwork... or I could let the workcenter supervisor fix it on the spot and act like I was giving them the hookup.
#63
My Highschool told my senior class: "No senior pranks or non of you walk" HA. Result: We didn't throw a prank. Instead, we threw biggest rager of the year on school property with the permission of the county sheriff as long as we "Took our bottles with us when we finished." The sheriff retired the next week. He was the real one. Aftermath: The administration was pissed as hell but couldn't pin it on the senior class becauze sheriff Rick "couldn't remember what kids were there"
George Comas 3 years ago
This is what sheriffs are for, arrest the as#hats, let people be people.
#64
My high school had a really bad problem with students showing up to class 5 minutes late everyday, so they tried three different solutions. First they stopped letting us use lockers. They quickly found out that just meant that nobody brought their books to class. Next they decided to ban use of the restrooms between class periods. Teachers started complaining about everyone asking for a bathroom pass as soon as class started so that was abandoned after a week or so. Lastly one week they made a ton of announcements Monday-Wednesday that all students were to be on time for class. Then on Thursday they suspended any student who was late for "insubordination". Turns out that included half the football team. This occured right before the biggest game of the year (in a town of 4,000 people this game attracts ~16,000). So yeah they gave that up as well.
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
my school solved this problem by not allowing passing periods 🫠🫠 like at all
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
and before anyone asks, i have no idea how they expect me to get all the way across the school, go to my locker, and get to class within 0 minutes
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Wonderful 3 years ago (edited)
My senior high decided to get rid of the bell completely. We had 5 minutes between each class and no bell for the end or start. So basically if you’re late to the next class you can just say teacher from the before class let you out late.🤷♀️ It was a Weird. My freshman and sophomore highschool was only 1 floor and it was huge. They decided to only let us have 4 minutes between each class and once a week they would make all the teachers lock their doors and anyone not in class were suspended. But they wouldn’t tell you which day. It took longer than 4 minutes to get from one side to the other. Plus there we’re over 1500 students so it was chaotic. I’m 40 years old and still have nightmares about trying to get to class on time and there being wall to wall people in my way. Fun times
#65
You now need 40 hours of community service to graduate. It's recommended that all freshman do 10 hours a year, while the seniors start as soon as possible to get the 40 hours out of the way. The rule was gone the day before graduation because they would have had less than a 10% graduation rate that year, and it would have made the school look terrible. They did this to try to increase their reputation of being a good school. All the other schools in the area are trash though, so I really don't know why.
B Jones 3 years ago
One of those looks good on paper type deals. As if school hours and homework aren't enough you want to take even more of my time. My work tries to encourage us to volunteer but it can be annoying. It makes them look good and work gets attention but the people actually doing the volunteer work don't get anything out of it except a warm feeling and lost time to relax after work. If they really wanted to do it, fo with a method like King Arthur Flour and give time off work to volunteer
Great Pyrenees 3 years ago
I have to get 36 hours a year in middle school and I haven't started yet
#66
"No more smoking at the front gate during recess and lunch". Then the smokers started leaving at recess and didn't come back the rest of the day.
Hex Gurls 3 years ago
i only had recess in elementary school, are these ppl smoking in elementary school 😰
tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 3 years ago (edited)
B*tch what. Is only having break/recess in primary/elementary school normal in the states? Because it's DEFINITELY not in the UK
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#67
I can sign my self out by changing my friends name to "mom" and have him say yes to me asking if I can leave early... Edit: All I have to do is show my principle the text from my mom
Jeff Schindel 3 years ago
In my high school, once you were 18 (generally about halfway through grade 12) you could sign your own sick notes/absence chits. But they also had a rather generous "unexcused absence" policy, so we didn't abuse the sick notes (much).
#68
They started a "no gum" rule that made a lot of junior high kids start a black market for gum.
Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
So they learned about prohibition, supply and demand driven prices, supply chains,... amazing lesson.
KENOBI 3 years ago
This is about to start in my school a black market of 10 dollar packs of skittles
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Our school has this day where you can wear pajamas to school but have to pay a dollar to do it. Everyone started wearing pajamas to class anyways saying it's what they normally wear and didn't pay. The school got rid of PJ day. Edit: Typo
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
What a stupid hill for the kids to die on! Now they all miss out. I assume the gold coin was for charity (it always was where I went to school) so now they have no donations too.
Bienlunée 3 years ago
Doubtful that it was for charity and not the school. Also, it literally IS what middle and high schoolers wear already. I taught HS 12 years and MS for 13.
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Not school, but work. My work just recently tried to implement a new attendance policy that didn't last 24hrs. They changed it so that after two unexcused absences in a year you were fired, an unexcused absence is any absence or tardiness (I think you were allowed 4 tardies...) when you didn't give your boss more than 24hrs notice.
DC 3 years ago
So, if on the way to work, something happens that causes me to be late, as I don't tend to go to work 24 hr early, I guess my car breaking down would cause me to call, and get written up. I'm actually glad I have a time account. Whenever I start, I start, whenever I finish, I finish, if it don't add up to 40 hr/week, I lose time off of my account, if it exceeds, account grows a bit. When do I start? Anywhere between 5:30 and 11:30 has already happened this year. Why so late? Had an appointment at home that I could make on short notice, no reports due that day, so I just come in later, instead of losing an entire PTO day. In cases that make me severely late, I call beforehand to inform about it, not to allow the boss to premake my write up. He don't do that at all, school-like punishing systems are seen as unnecessary here.
#71
My old job had a Draconian attendance policy in which if you were at a second late, you got a 1/2 point demerit. If you were an hour late, you got that same 1/2 point demerit (demerits accrued: 3=verbal warning , 4=written, either 5 or 6 was termination). In addition to making for some anxiety-filled employees that made dumb decisions to speed through snow storms, it also meant if you got stuck in a traffic jam, you might as well just take your time, stop for gas, get breakfast, etc. Same place also had a similar policy that assured the plague spread through the whole place. Say you came to work at 7. By 9 am you've got a fever and full-blown flu symptoms. If you clock out then, you get a whole-point demerit. But if you sit there coughing and shivering and infecting your coworkers for another 2 hours (til your shift was half over), you only got a half-point demerit.
Matthew Fox 3 years ago
This sounds like a normal point system. A lot of places in the US use similar systems and they're all just as ridiculous.
Seadog 3 years ago
Place I worked for had a point system for delivery drivers. If someone called the "How's my driving" number, regardless of why, demerits. I had people tell me they wanted to call and compliment our drivers and I had to tell them why they really shouldn't do that. Every one would tell the manager and the driver personally and take our advice and not call.
#72
My school tried to prevent Senior Ditch Day by threatening to take away Senior Breakfast. My graduating class was probably one of the worst during our years there- being named “The Druggie Class” and also having the most truents from skipping class. So we ditched on Senior Ditch Day and also ditched on our supposed Senior Breakfast to go eat at a local cafe. Can’t threaten a class that already doesn’t care about school!
Michael Largey 3 years ago
As a teacher (mostly of seniors), I have to let you in on a little secret. The students who like ditching school are generally the ones whose presence we don't miss. Not one little bit.
#73
To get us all to quiet down my advance level math class teacher told us all to "shut your mouths, breath through your noses." Followed by the most disgusting 15 seconds of allergy season forceful stuffy group nose breathing.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
The nuns that taught me could silence an entire room by flexing a single eyebrow. (Not that they had to very often.)
#74
I worked at a company that blocked EVERY SINGLE website except for the one we used for work. They then hired a new cleaning lady who couldn't speak English. We tried to look up a Spanish to English dictionary, but it was all blocked. This was pre-smartphone as well, so basically she just hung out all day since nobody knew what to have her do or even where the supplies were kept.
#75
Worked at a branch of a credit union. We had to recognize our coworkers whenever they did something good. Manager made us do this with a stuffed animal whale as a way to say "whale done!". I know! Ugh! Like we were kids. Well, we decided to act like children since we were already being treated as such. So....... 2 weeks later our manager found the whale in the backroom....hanging from an extension cord.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
A whale of a story! Me, I would have gotten all the employees to call themselves as "Ishmael" from then on.
#76
At a former job (software development), there was a foosball table. People would play reasonably often, but just 1 game to take a break. One day, management came down to the software engineering floor and saw people playing foosball in the middle of the afternoon. They declared "no foosball until 4:30 PM". That ended up making it so that everybody know when there would be other people wanting to play foosball, so it was much easier to find somebody willing to play and significantly increased the amount of foosball played at work.
#77
Trying to put our class of 22 in Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl.... with only 4 girls.
#78
When I graduated from high school, they had just completed the installation of a new football field (the little rubber pieces, not sure what it's called). They sent out a notice saying that girls were not allowed to wear heels in order to protect the new field. (We'll ignore the fact that they were setting 500 metal folding chairs on the new field.) Most of the class graduated barefoot, wearing the ugliest dirtiest shoes they could find, or in cleats. Basically anything to make a point about how absurd the rule was. If I recall, there were a lot of embarrassed parents upset with how the pictures of their recent graduates came out. The rule was abolished after that.
Telepathetic 3 years ago
They're called "Cleats"--Referred to in 2nd to last paragraph 2nd to last sentence
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The first Wawa in my county was recently built across the street from my high school. Kids would go there in the morning to get coffee, and bring it to their classes. The school already had a “no food or drink in class” rule, so when the founder of my school saw Wawa cups popping up he announced a ban on kids walking to Wawa in the morning. He would sit behind a tree in his golf cart waiting for someone to walk off campus to go over there. Pretty soon everyone was skipping class to walk to Wawa and face a suspension of some sort.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
It's a convenience store in the US (mid-Atlantic states mostly).
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#80
my school had a really strict cell phone policy. if a teacher caught you with a cell phone they would turn it into the office and you'd have to pay $25 to get it back. Supposedly the $25 went into scholarships for students. Anyway, once I was "caught" with my iPod. One headphone in, iPod in my skirt pocket, as I walked from class. This teacher tried to take it and said it fell under the cell phone policy and I had to pay $25 to get it back. Fat chance. When i asked her to make a call using my iPod (in 2008, idk what iPods can do today) she shut up. I was expelled a few months later for unrelated reasons. EDIT: for everyone personally affected by this I just talked to my sister who graduated from the same school and said by the time she got there they charged you $25 for the first time your phone was taken and each time after that charged $25 more. So the second offense was $50, the third was $75 and so on.
Matthew Fox 3 years ago
This isn't legal (at least in the US.) They can try to confiscate it but they can't hold property for ransom. Call from a friend's phone after school hours and report it stolen.
KittyMommy 3 years ago
Or tell the parents. I'd be pissed and having a long, loud talk with the administration. I work long hours and text messages were necessary between myself and my daughter after school
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we tried having 2 classes a day for 3 hours each, one before lunch, one after lunch. you can imagine how that went. lasted 3 days
Ruby Serene 3 years ago
Some schools did stuff like that during covid. The one I heard was three classes per day for double the time, the middle class had a lunch break in the classrooms. The lunch times also got staggered so school lunches could be carted around. They'd switch which three classes were attended by week. According to the one who told me about it, that was really bad for focus (especially ADD/ADHD), but the school stuck with it.
Seadog 3 years ago
Our school systems dropped the 7 period day and went to the block system (so glad that was long after I was gone). My youngest going into his junior year realized all he needed to graduate was 2 junior classes and 2 senior. SO he informed them he was taking the junior classes in the first semester and the senior ones second semester. They told him he couldn't do it. He basically said "watch me" and did it, thereby graduating 1 year early. The next year they banned all early graduations. If they still had the 7 period day, he wouldn't have been able to do it.
Wonderful 3 years ago
We had 4 classes a day in freshman and sophomore high school. A day and B day. To be honest. I liked it a lot. English every other day, math every other day. One semester I had my 4 favorite and elective classes on one day and all my hated classes on the other. Strange how I would get sick only on the b days that semester lol
#82
Boarding school. They served junk food in the cafeteria all the time. Chicken nuggets, hot chocolate, fries, all the time. they had a station for coffee. And they decided to get rid of it because caffeine is bad. Energy drinks were banned, all forms of caffeine were banned. Hot chocolate and ice cream and fries and burgers weren't as bad as caffeine apparently The result? A bunch of pissed off, uncaffeinated teenagers. If they serve coffee in prison, I think a caffeine strike would be more effective than a hunger strike, for this very reason.
#83
They made us wear bright orange vests instead of carrying a hall pass to leave the classroom. Junior high kids thought it'd be hilarious to put the vests in the toilets and leave them there, or bring them back to class soaking wet. So yeah, the vests didn't last long.
#84
Get air quality monitoring for any project involving asbestos material. The problem is that we have a lot of projects which involve only a few holes drilled to mount a piece of equipment and there's already a simple and cheap method which we know negates the risk of asbestos getting released. Forcing us to do air monitoring effective doubled the cost of those projects. It didn't take them long for that policy to get reversed.
#85
Not so much "backfired" as "never worked to begin with." School was trying to cut down tardies, and made a 10/10 rule to filter out people just going to the bathroom. You couldn't leave class during the first or last ten minutes. Except I was on the color guard, last period, and most of us had to change into activewear in that time frame (asap, if you're in after the director you're late. Plus we had to move the chairs out of the way in the band hall before we could start, so we had to hustle). One of the AP's constantly caught girls going to the bathrooms 20 ft from the band hall doors to change, and got mad because we were breaking the 10/10 rule. She complained multiple times, and once actually followed some girls back into the band hall to lecture our director about the rules. He sat through her lecture with the most *stank* face ever (mocking her, because she has constant rbf to rival the cbf over in r/justnomil) and then said something along the lines of Nick Fury's "f**k the council" line. The school gave up and got us rubber wristbands to act as a special pass so we could do our thing in peace. Edit: peace not piece
Great Pyrenees 3 years ago
That rules at my school, and I don't get why that's supposed to limit tardiness
#86
Freshman year of high school we had access to vending machines for drinks and snacks. Senior and Junior classes beat those machines up terribly to the point they were cutting the power cords with bolt cutters and continually breaking/scratching/defacing the graphics, or spraypainting the vending machines with black so you couldn't see inside. Cut to next year and the machines have been revoked for only senior use. They were enclosed in lockable outside areas and while you couldn't get into them outside of the senior lunch period you could climb over the wall and get into them and then climb onto them to get back out. We had upwards of 50 students get stuck in there in an attempt to get snacks and a drink between classes and the rule was revoked pretty fast. They eventually got rid of the machines and opened a snack bar at the school but it was pretty funny walking passed there during passing period and seeing a kid stuck unable to climb back out
#87
The school had assigned parking spaces and if you didn't get your tag for your car (and which space was yours) at the beginning of the year during registration, it was a nightmare to get. If I didn't get to school 45 minutes before classes started, my parking spot was always taken. I think overall between grade 11 and 12, I got to park in my designated space maybe...9 times. Complaints were made and notices were sent in the school paper, but all they ever did was give a slap on the wrist as it continued.
#88
At my elementary school you had the choice of going either outside or to the gym for recess. The gym was right across the lunch room (They were really the same room split by a retractable wall) so to prevent kids from going there to line up at the door between the lunch room and gym they made it so you had to be participating in what the gym teacher put up for recess; anyone not participating got kicked out of the gym. The problem was that they never sent out an email to the gym teacher regarding that rule, so to no one's suprise almost everyone who went to the gym lined up at the door and the line wrapped around the entire gym. They soon closed the gym during recess.
#89
They tried to restrict students leaving campus during lunch periods at my high school. There were supervisors out every day trying to stop the onslaught of students who didn't give a damn, not wanting to eat the slop they called food in the cafeteria. It was absolutely hilarious.
#90
I was stationed aboard the USS Harry S. Truman from '02 - '05. At one point during a deployment the Capitan found a candy wrapper in a P-way. What's the obvious solution to finding trash? Geedunk (snacks and sodas from vending machines) were only to be consumed on the mess deck, anyone caught eating candy anywhere else on the ship would be put on report. Now, it's not like we organized a boycott, but the only reason to buy something from the vending machines would be to eat it elsewhere. If you were going to eat on the mess deck, might as well hit a chow line. 3 days of zero sales from the machines and the supply officer talked some sense into the Capitan.
#91
I went to a small private school with a strict dress code through middle and high school. Enforcing the dress code meant that they had a lot of violations to hand out. My 10th grade year, we got uniforms to try to fix the problems which were short skirts, wearing sweatshirts, shirts not long enough and low rise pants. However, the policy they chose was that you could buy them from the catalogs they gave or match similar items from regular stores. Everyone went to American Eagle and similar stores and it did not fix the problem. Unfortunately, I don’t think they cared and kept the uniforms.
Michael Rowe 3 years ago
I went to a small private school with a strict dress code for 1.5 years. During that time I got a lot of demerits because we couldn't afford the right brand of pants so I just wore my dad's old pants that looked exactly the same. If money was tight, why was I going to private school, right? Years later I asked and was told dad was worried about the kids I was hanging with in public school since he'd caught me listening to Linkin Park. I wish I'd known. Since it was a private school with no busses, I had to get a hardship license (drivers license that allows a 15 yo to drive to school/home only). I listened to Hybrid Theory every single day on my drive to school.
#92
My high school had just moved to a brand new complex, and were trying to do a "fresh start" in every aspect, including discipline. They attempted to rule that nobody could leave the building until the end of the school day, even going so far as to disable the sensors on the automatic sliding front doors during break times. After the vast majority of students didn't bother even coming in for the first 2 weeks, they quickly removed the rule.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
The disabled doors to the outside would not have made it past the first fire inspection.
#93
No running during recess. It was made because some kid in the 2nd grade ran and tripped. So for whatever reason, they restricted running for all grades K - 5th. Everyone should know that when you ask a 5 - 10 year old to not do something, that's the next thing they're going to do. They started running in the halls, the cafeteria, the classrooms, and you bet your a*s they ran outside. After a week, the teachers stopped enforcing it and everyone stopped caring. Edit: Can't believe you people believed such an obvious lie lmao
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Erik Ivan 3 years ago
Almost 20 years ago, I worked in the economic department in a factory (Sweden). Our CEO was from Scotland. Thing with Swedish workplaces is that we have something called fika. A 5 to 10 minutes gathering in the breakroom a couple of times a day (outside lunch) where we take a coffee and just talk to each other. When the CEO was paticulary stressed out he used to storm into our lunch room and raging about us sitting there. The most he ever achieved was someone saying "take a cup, sit down and relax for a bit". Thing is, these fika is often very good for the company. Because everyone talk work and use the time to update all the colleagues about what s going on in their department. That makes it easier to have concensus and get everyone to actually feel that they are working towards the same goal
Rider 3 years ago (edited)
Spaghetti straps were big when I was in HS. The school couldn't/wouldn't? put them on the prohibited list. They did however make a rule for not showing bra straps. I wore one, they were going to have me change into my PE shirt. I offered to remove my bra instead. They decided, my outfit was acceptable after all.
Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
My HS girlfriend had a flat chest. She just removed her bra right there in the middle of the classroom to prove the point. She couldn't put it in her backpack, as those were required to be in our lockers. So she just sat there, at her desk, with her bra right on it, in front of all the guys.
Load More Replies... A falz 3 years ago
In the early 70s I moved to a new school district for junior high to small country town, I tried to sign up for wood shop. I was told no girl allowed in wood shop. My mom was livid to put it mildly. She threatened a lawsuit-discrimination. The school didn't think that the would be any interest from girls for wood shop or boys in home ec. So they made an announcement the next day that all girl interest in wood shop and all boys interested in home ec to come to the principal's office. They werent prepared. It filled the principle's office, outer office into the hallway. Both girls and boys. There were so many that when the next semester started they had to split them for 6 weeks and then switched but the classes were told I'd be in wood shop all semester.
Seadog 3 years ago (edited)
My wife tried to join some kind of shooting group in high school (Nebraska). Teacher wouldn't let her join in spite of proving she knew how to shoot well. She was under 5 feet tall shooting HER OWN 12 gauge. I was surprised when she said her DI father didn't put that idiot teacher in his place. But it was okay for her to take welding, auto mechanics and electronics Now she wants a Barrett 50 cal. But at $12G I don't see that happening.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Lest you think stupid rules are a recent innovation, when my father was in college they had a rule that if freshmen wanted to be off campus after 10:00 PM they had to have a note from a parent. Now this was about 1948, so lots of the freshmen were soldiers getting out of the military after serving in WWII or just after. My dad had dropped out of H.S. and did 3 years in the Merchant Marine then 3 years in the army in Japan before getting out and starting college. When the school wanted a note from a parent he referred them to his mother, a short, feisty, redhead, who promptly wrote back to them: "He is over 21, has been twice around the world and has been in peril of his life several times. If he wants to stay out past 10 I think he can handle it." -- Go Grandma!
#iwriteitall 3 years ago
My high school decided to enforce a new rule that didn't allow students to remove there blazers in the hight of summer in a science lab so bunson burners were blazing blazing and it was extremely hot and next thing I no I'm no longer on my stall I'm on the floor I had fainted from the heat after a trip to the doctors confirming it was heat stroke and some stern words from my mother the rule was abolished.
Jennifer Lynn 1 year ago
My High School got tired of chairs everywhere in the cafeteria, and safety issues or crowding or whatever. So they Bought Brand New Tables with uncomfortable round stools attached. Didn't take long for the students to use them like frisbees; what a waste of money. Oh, and in Middle School, they tried switching to bagged milk instead of milk cartons with lunch, several milk-fountains later we were back to cartons
LSR 3 years ago
On later three years in primary school, Costa Rica, you had the obligation to march on independence day. Always hated it. Not sure what I did on 6th grade, but as "punishment" I was "degraded" to be the assistant to the marchers, with my white vest with a huge red cross on it. My job was to carry a canteen and provide water to classmates. When I began asking moms in the houses along the parade route if they could help me refilling my canteen, they always agreed and told me "oh your effort is sooo important, thank you for helping your classmates with water. WOULD YOU LIKE THIS COOKIE/SANDWICH/HAMBURGUER/DRINK/PIECE OF CAKE/PIECE OF PIE? etc. You need your strength to keep hydrating them" "Yes ma'am, thank you!" So while everyone was out there marching, I was suddenly not filling completely my canteen so I could ask for more...assistance, get fed, drunk & stuffed. But I never neglected my duties, pissed off the principal for having this mentality of "being red cross is your punishment"
Erik Ivan 3 years ago
Almost 20 years ago, I worked in the economic department in a factory (Sweden). Our CEO was from Scotland. Thing with Swedish workplaces is that we have something called fika. A 5 to 10 minutes gathering in the breakroom a couple of times a day (outside lunch) where we take a coffee and just talk to each other. When the CEO was paticulary stressed out he used to storm into our lunch room and raging about us sitting there. The most he ever achieved was someone saying "take a cup, sit down and relax for a bit". Thing is, these fika is often very good for the company. Because everyone talk work and use the time to update all the colleagues about what s going on in their department. That makes it easier to have concensus and get everyone to actually feel that they are working towards the same goal
Rider 3 years ago (edited)
Spaghetti straps were big when I was in HS. The school couldn't/wouldn't? put them on the prohibited list. They did however make a rule for not showing bra straps. I wore one, they were going to have me change into my PE shirt. I offered to remove my bra instead. They decided, my outfit was acceptable after all.
Nathan Wolfe 3 years ago
My HS girlfriend had a flat chest. She just removed her bra right there in the middle of the classroom to prove the point. She couldn't put it in her backpack, as those were required to be in our lockers. So she just sat there, at her desk, with her bra right on it, in front of all the guys.
Load More Replies... A falz 3 years ago
In the early 70s I moved to a new school district for junior high to small country town, I tried to sign up for wood shop. I was told no girl allowed in wood shop. My mom was livid to put it mildly. She threatened a lawsuit-discrimination. The school didn't think that the would be any interest from girls for wood shop or boys in home ec. So they made an announcement the next day that all girl interest in wood shop and all boys interested in home ec to come to the principal's office. They werent prepared. It filled the principle's office, outer office into the hallway. Both girls and boys. There were so many that when the next semester started they had to split them for 6 weeks and then switched but the classes were told I'd be in wood shop all semester.
Seadog 3 years ago (edited)
My wife tried to join some kind of shooting group in high school (Nebraska). Teacher wouldn't let her join in spite of proving she knew how to shoot well. She was under 5 feet tall shooting HER OWN 12 gauge. I was surprised when she said her DI father didn't put that idiot teacher in his place. But it was okay for her to take welding, auto mechanics and electronics Now she wants a Barrett 50 cal. But at $12G I don't see that happening.
Load More Replies... Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Lest you think stupid rules are a recent innovation, when my father was in college they had a rule that if freshmen wanted to be off campus after 10:00 PM they had to have a note from a parent. Now this was about 1948, so lots of the freshmen were soldiers getting out of the military after serving in WWII or just after. My dad had dropped out of H.S. and did 3 years in the Merchant Marine then 3 years in the army in Japan before getting out and starting college. When the school wanted a note from a parent he referred them to his mother, a short, feisty, redhead, who promptly wrote back to them: "He is over 21, has been twice around the world and has been in peril of his life several times. If he wants to stay out past 10 I think he can handle it." -- Go Grandma!
#iwriteitall 3 years ago
My high school decided to enforce a new rule that didn't allow students to remove there blazers in the hight of summer in a science lab so bunson burners were blazing blazing and it was extremely hot and next thing I no I'm no longer on my stall I'm on the floor I had fainted from the heat after a trip to the doctors confirming it was heat stroke and some stern words from my mother the rule was abolished.
Jennifer Lynn 1 year ago
My High School got tired of chairs everywhere in the cafeteria, and safety issues or crowding or whatever. So they Bought Brand New Tables with uncomfortable round stools attached. Didn't take long for the students to use them like frisbees; what a waste of money. Oh, and in Middle School, they tried switching to bagged milk instead of milk cartons with lunch, several milk-fountains later we were back to cartons
LSR 3 years ago
On later three years in primary school, Costa Rica, you had the obligation to march on independence day. Always hated it. Not sure what I did on 6th grade, but as "punishment" I was "degraded" to be the assistant to the marchers, with my white vest with a huge red cross on it. My job was to carry a canteen and provide water to classmates. When I began asking moms in the houses along the parade route if they could help me refilling my canteen, they always agreed and told me "oh your effort is sooo important, thank you for helping your classmates with water. WOULD YOU LIKE THIS COOKIE/SANDWICH/HAMBURGUER/DRINK/PIECE OF CAKE/PIECE OF PIE? etc. You need your strength to keep hydrating them" "Yes ma'am, thank you!" So while everyone was out there marching, I was suddenly not filling completely my canteen so I could ask for more...assistance, get fed, drunk & stuffed. But I never neglected my duties, pissed off the principal for having this mentality of "being red cross is your punishment"
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