30 Employees Share The Absurd Things They Were Banned From Doing That Made Their Blood Boil

It's a terrible story but awesome what he did after that!

Everyone should just start peeing on the office / warehouse floor.

...a place that pays you less than minimum wage, relying on customers to fill the gap....wants to tell you, during a lull with no customers, so you're clearly making less than minimum wage....you can't sit? s**t? scratch your naked a*s?....pay me or STFU...( Note tip jar)

F**k no, managing schedule and covering shift is the manager's job.

Well this is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

*cries in Ehlers-danlos syndrome*

...must be affiliated with baseball...

If depression were a picture

If you learned more punctuation other than strings of exclamation points at the end of each rambling paragraph, your run-on bullshìt would be much easier to parse.

...a bow movement timer? how stern...

...charge a nickel....eat like mad bastards...

Of course it's legal. That away they can say "no one wants to work anymore"

Denying hydration sounds like a violation of OSHA

*you're *let's - come on Jenny, it's not that hard. If you're going to be a bi**h, at least learn to spell correctly. It's kind of hard to take you seriously otherwise.

I'm sure Rydges would love non-guests using their facilities

Just watch me.

UK you need to take a 30 mins break after 6 hours - that's a legal minimum

I can tell the manager worked really hard on this one. They probably spent hours in their office typing this into Word and experimenting with various fonts. That's why they make the big bucks.

"Hello...OSHA? I believe I have a HIPPA violation"

If this is in the US, so many violations in one "sentence."

Who is timing this, and what happens if you exceed the 3 minutes? This level of pettiness is insane to me.

..if they die...they die.

YOU'RE why I need more than 1 week off. How's that for an explanation?

An employer not letting an employee wear a button that says "I can't afford to shop here" does not seem unreasonable.

This all seems pretty reasonable to me. Most time systems are designed around a certain amount of time, be it 7 minutes or whatever where the system rounds your time. People are expected to clock in sometime up to X number of minutes before their shift starts, and within X number of minutes from when a shift ends. Expectations are that those punch ins will happen before the shift starts, and the punch outs will be after the shift ends. This is pretty standard stuff.

It's not unusual to have a rule prohibiting the taking of "extra" or "mistakes." The concern becomes that staff will cause there to be extra or mistakes to take home. Feel like a burger with extra mayonnaise? Oops, I put extra mayo on that no mayo burger. It will just get thrown out anyway.

Sounds like Brad & Jeff were starting to suspect what "chinga tu madre" might mean.

Ah yes, I've always wanted to discuss medical issues with a "menger"

And the problem here is?

I worked in a UK supermarket and this is pretty standard we were allowed a refillable bottle that had to have a spots cap, and had to be kept in a specified place.

That's b******t. You EARN your time off, it is owed to you. Start telling them WHEN you'll be gone, using the time you've a RIGHT to use.

Isn't it amazing that a person can make it to manager, but still not be able to spell?

I could easily see some staff members who would constantly be using the phone if you tried a less-restrictive policy.

...fair, actually.

We have that at work. It is for national security purposes only to prevent data spills. I very much doubt this is such a workplace.

Welcome to Lowes

"We're going to make you do management's job of finding replacements, but you better do our job for us the way we like it done!"

Fine..Tim...then provide sharps containers

The very next line is 5 days a week, 35-42 hours/week. That's a perfectly normal full time job. You are given the schedule weeks in advance, this is the exact same as the vast majority of service positions. It was just written by an idiot.

Oh...if I have to clock out,I'm off the property

In principle this is a _good_ thing, as long as the base pay is commensurate with this policy.

Without knowing the type of business, it is difficult to judge the policy.

This doesn't seem that unreasonable. It also seems, based on the other text, that HR is willing to work with you. And nothing really happens to you unless you are absent 7 times in 6 months. Doesn't seem odd for an employer to expect that an employee to be calling in sick less than once a month.

Repeat my previous comment.

There can be employees that would so abuse a less-restrictive policy; they ruin it for all.

"Thoughts?" Well, your boss has never had one, to begin with.

I spend a lot of time for work in Serbia. It's not like America (besides Aldi). The cashiers ARE allowed to sit here.

Oh well, they *was* informed, so that right there makes everything OK!

On a regular basis BP readers tell us that employees shouldn't be paid by tips, but through wages. We don't know the wage here, but isn't this what the average reader here wants?

So, rude employees make a mad dash for fruit to home, leaving none for the others. The company tries to establish a policy to allow better sharing. What am I missing? It seems OK.