“I Left Shortly After”: 30 People Discuss The Dumbest Rules They’ve Ever Had To Follow At Work

Honestly , the disrespect. Its called a double standard

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I hope news of why you quit reached someone higher on the corporate ladder to at least put a dent in her standing.

Do as i say, not as I do 🥸

They reported this person for eating late even though they were getting work done? What a whinge bag! Of all the things to complain about! Ridiculous.

The lunch bell comes before all else. It is our overlord

The bell doesn't dismiss you, I do!

Funny how companies trust employees to handle thrir money and sensitive data but don't trust them when the employee needs a day off due to cold. Am I the only one who thinks that's stupid?

Not to mention the wasted time for the doctor.

In UK you need a doctor's note only if you are absent for more than 5 days.

My current company views all absences the same because they say it's illegal to ask for a doctor's note. The funny thing is for me, every job that offers insurance doesn't ask for one. But the jobs that don't offer insurance does ask for a note.

I had to do this while at tsa. Had a bad head cold. Went to the doctor but the nurse practiser was the one who saw me. She had never seen me before and told me it was just allergies. Yeah no. I know my body when I have allergies and I know when I have a bad head cold nothing a like. At first she wouldn't give me a note be c cause she kept claiming it was allergies. Hey I don't run fevers. Mu normal temp on any given day is 96. I finally was given a note. But because of this and another horrible experience with another nurse practiser I will never see a nurse practiser no matter what.

Illegal (I think). My IT job had rotating on call but we did get compensated. I forget now - it wasn't full working pay but they didn't screw us since they knew it prevented us from doing some things since we had to be ready to assist customers if they called in after hours. Also, the company charged more for after hours service so they had extra money to comp us.

Been there with my current company, didn't take long for them to get the memo: NOPE!!!

That's stealing.

I'd want to read that contract. I've been under similar on call contracts before when working tech support. In those cases, the "on call" period meant that I had to keep my phone on hand, and be able to get to work within 30 minutes or so to do needed maintenance. I wasn't paid for being 'on call', but I was paid for whatever hours or time I worked when performing my duties if I was called into the office.

Just say no. If you're going to quit anyway, tell them you don't work for free and see what happens.

My manager will do this! I still have all the cash on the desk, it won’t hurt them to wait five minutes.

Yea no. When I worked at KFC/taco bell we opened at 10, this was before either sold breakfast. I was an opener so I'd get there at 8 to clean and prep food. Almost every single day some idiot would be knocking on the door before 10, pressing their greasy face against the window to see if anyone was inside. I'd ignore them until 10 and they'd always complain how long they'd been waiting. The store hours were right on the door. Who the F wants KFC or Taco Bell at 9:30 in the morning anyway.

Opening time was just a "suggestion"??? Could the customer demand to drink your coffee, also???

I agree but it is one of my pet peeves when it is opened even a minute late if you open at ten that means ten even not whenever you feel like

This would p**s me off to no end, we have 1800 people in one of our 27 buildings. We would need an army of people like me just to adjust peoples fart filled chairs. Not to mention, who is measuring the chairs all day? How on earth could a company enforce this?

One of my first, entry-level jobs was for a Fortune 50 company & every type of chair in the building was a Herman Miller. Our desk chairs the typical Aeron model you always see in films. Part of getting set up as a new employee was having an ergonomic specialist set up & adjust your keyboard stand & chair. Every chair had a label on the back with the employees name. It was a huge no-no to use anyone’s desk chair but your own. Also, you had to have the specialist adjust it if you need a change, even if it was a temporary change. They’d do this within minutes of asking, so it wasn’t big deal we weren’t allowed to adjust our own equipment. Truthfully, people would adjust them on their own all the time, but it was technically not allowed. I’m thinking it was a workers comp deduction by proactively preventing repetitive motion injuries or bad posture.

Every employee has a right to a healthy work environment: if a chair doesn't fit your shape and you're not allowed to adjust it, you can report it to Labour Inspection.

Playing the devils advocate here, maybe too many adjusted chairs were getting broken by the average person.

My last job, one day one of the head honchos came to visit the office. I was sitting near a window with the blinds down, as light made a glare across my computer screen. This guy went to all the windows in the huge, open space office, and made all the blinds in the same position, muttering to all of us he prefers a uniform look, despite not being able to see what I'm doing on the screen.

Patient: I'd like to drink out of a water bottle please . Doctor: Ummmm, can't you do that anyway Patient : not according to my boss I can't Doctor Here you go I guess...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't florida now have an actual law banning mandatory water breaks for workers that work out in the hot florida sun?

At my father's job, they were told that his bottle of diet coke wasn't allowed at meetings, only water bottles are acceptable because it can be closed (which, so can a soda bottle). When he told me about that, I told my dad "So ask your boss if you can have soda poured into a water bottle". He laughed and told me he'd love to actually try that, but his boss doesn't have the sense of humor for that

We were never allowed to eat or drink on the floor when I worked retail. I never thought anything of it. I'd worked restaurants before that, same thing. You drink on break.

Illegal, no exceptions.

If only someone had thought to invent little A-style folding Caution signs, or bright coloured pylons or something to flag the area.