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Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories
Rules at a workplace are there for a reason and most often the reason is to make sure the employees are safe. While this is true for the most part, sometimes certain rules sound ridiculous and might seem unnecessary, but it could be that they were introduced after a very specific event that the company doesn’t want to happen again.
Those events are quite ridiculous and in some cases the companies might have overreacted or could have solved the problem in another way, but they are nonetheless entertaining. Reddit users shared the rules they have to follow at their jobs that were imposed on them after an employee misbehaved when Googunk asked, “What stupid rule did your work have to make because one idiot ruined it for everyone?”
Do you have any similar stories? Maybe you were the one that inspired a new rule at your workplace? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to upvote the rules in this list that you feel are the most absurd.
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#1
No skirts, shorts or skorts, at all.
I used to work in a bar and the dress code was simple, just wear black. Didn't matter what is was, as long as it was plain black. In the summer the girls used to wear skirts or shorts so that they're not uncomfortable while working and everyone was fine with it.
A new guy joined in July of 2021, and it was very hot so people had skirts on. He kept on taking pictures under the girls skirts and of their thighs. He was caught many times but instead of him being fired, they just banned skirts
Thanks a lot Martin
Mary Lou 3 years ago
It´s like: Victim blaming? Hold my beer! Why just blame them if we can punish them outright?
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Fiona Parky 3 years ago
In the UK this is, thankfully, now illegal. Up skirting is a crime. So Martin wouldn’t just be a sticky sock, he’d be a sticky sock with a criminal conviction.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Just seen someone else has already said this. What on earth is going on with management? Horrendous. They should be publicly shamed.
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Jordan Westall 3 years ago
That's f****n ridiculous!!! Someone coulda pressed charges or something
Jess M 3 years ago
WTF So a$$ backwards deciding to blame the victims by banning skirts, shorts & not firing the a$$hole who sexually harassed women in the work place. Can't believe this kind of $hit is still going on in 2021. Makes me wonder if he is related to someone who owns the place or someone else of importance.
Seabeast 3 years ago (edited)
No, he possesses an XY chromosome combination and "boys will be boys", doncha know?
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#2
A video game company I worked for provided free snacks and sodas. One Friday HR had just done a shopping run and was bringing in a truck load of junk food. One employee was caught sneaking a case of soda out of the parking lot. He wasn't fired or disciplined, it was just made public why the perk was ended. He quit shortly afterward and attempted to sue for a hostile work environment. That went nowhere.
Lem Johnson 3 years ago
The thing is, he should have been disciplined properly and formally. Turning all his colleagues against him and allowing "mob justice" is not good management - and it IS creating a hostile work environment, and in a lot of places is classed as workplace bullying. Did the guy deserve it? Yeah, probably. Does that make it the right thing to do? No.
Tim 3 years ago
It seems like a simple thing to do. However... you have to have a policy that this person has violated. If nothing in the rules stated that he couldn't take whatever he wanted from the free snack area, then you can't write him up for a violation.
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Milady Blue 3 years ago
Hostile work environment? He's lucky he wasn't beaten to a pulp for ending that particular workplace perk all by his lonesome.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
After the incident at NOA where a co-worker attempted to grab Mrs. Claus's chest during the yearly Christmas Party, the company considered banning alcohol altogether from celebrations. Luckily, word of his immediate termination soon spread and the following year party invite warned that inappropriate behavior would be reprimanded including and up to termination. There was not a repeat incident.
Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
Eh, one of the companies I worked for also provided free snacks, sodas, and coffee. The one problem that I know of was, one new hire decided to walk off with a box of ice cream bars. He was notified that the snacks were for work only, not for taking home. He got smart-mouthed about it. "What's it to you?" ...dude, that WAS the CEO of the company that you were talking to, you are so fired, and please keep the ice cream as your termination pay.
Claudette Shaw 3 years ago
I worked at a company where we had a beer fridge and an alcohol cupboard. No one abused it until. An employee was caught late one Friday by a VP taking two large bottles of Baileys out of the cupboard. She laughed it off said she didn't have time to go and buy any and it was her turn for her softball team's weekend tournament . There had already been some other concerns. She was given severance and let go.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
He was stealing office supplies, and didn't get reprimanded? Instead, everybody else got punished? Am I the only one who thinks that management is kind of worse than the guy caught stealing?
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
We have a three - four employees who steal key chains, caps, joss sticks, T shirts, ceiling fan kept for repair.... petty thefts but still steal. Boss doesn't reprimand them.
#3
Well, I went to the Dr office the other day. At the bathroom there was a sign. It said "Due to misuse of hand soap, you will have to request soap from front desk". I'm weirded the f**k out. What the hell are they doing with the soap?! At the doctor's office??
I was just too afraid to ask.
Aria Whitaker 3 years ago
We had this issue at our hospital one summer...we had the type of dispensers that had a small tab on the side that you pushed in, and you could open the compartment and see the plastic bag of soap connected to the pump thingy. We would have patients open the dispensers and steal the bags of soap. Our custodial staff were having to put in new bags a few times a week...when before one bag could last a week at the very least. They had to install new dispensers that had a little key that had to be inserted in order to open. Happened with the toilet paper as well. SMH. May be the case here, too.
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BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
My brain is breaking. Is the soap in a container? Are you supposed to use one hand to hold the soap while using the bathroom? If you notice the sign AFTER using the bathroom, should you just all the handles with gross hands (at a doctor's office?!) to go get the soap to wash your hands?! Did they provide hand sanitizer at least?
Carol Emory 3 years ago
When the pandemic hit, local stores made it policy that you had to ask the customer service counter for hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes for carts. Why...because people were stealing the entire bucket of wipes from in front of the stores followed by giant gallon size pumps of hand sanitizer.
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Also the high alcohol content of liquid sanitiser has been a lure for the hard core alcoholics in some hospitals. Scary to say the least. And usually makes them pretty unwell.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
Two "Beverages" I recall from my time training at a VA hospital in Chicago, early 1970's. The first was that the patients would often pocket alcohol swabs. Yes, it's toxic (isopropanol is NOT ethanol) but with enough, they could get a buz. Another, which I think was local to Chicago was "squeeze." You can put Sterno (a cooking gel that comes in cans, consisting of some sort of wax plus mostly ethanol) - Put it in a sock, and twist (squeeze) the liquid into a glass or other suitable container. Check out "Sterno" on wikipedia. Mixture of ethanol and methanol; the latter is quite toxic, though the ethanol, paradoxically, makes it "safer."
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LJ Robinson 3 years ago
So, you have to open the door to the bathroom with unwashed hands, go to the front desk, where you will probably touch something, get the soap, go back to the bathroom, open the door with unwashed hands, BEFORE you can wash your hands? In a medical office. Sounds like a repeat business hustle...
Lizzie Lola 3 years ago
I'm absolutely grossed out! WTF?! They have people walking to the reception without washing their hands ON PURPOSE?!😱😱
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I mean people could have been stealing it, or maybe it was just kids playing with it or using a lot, as kids like to do and it dripping all over the basins...
#4
We can’t use the wheelbarrow to carry all the equipment down, now we have to make multiple trips up and down a big hill with heavy equipment.
-F**k you Wyatt
Background: Wyatt decided to use the wheelbarrow as a ride down the hill and lost control. Almost slamming into a kid (the mom luckily pulled the kid out of the way in time) and now no more wheelbarrow. Oh and we all hate Wyatt and he swears it wasn’t his fault and it was everybody else’s fault. But he still works there cause we are short staffed thanks to covid.
And wait it gets better: I was the one who was supervising that shift, I was already at the bottom of the hill cause I was helping training some new people. So I didn’t see what Wyatt was doing, well he rode the wheelbarrow down and crashed and guess who got in trouble? Me. Cause apparently I have to train people while also watching out for idiots riding in wheelbarrows (why the f**k would I think anyones stupid enough to do that?!) well I got in trouble and almost demoted. And then the next day Wyatt tells my I should have been “doing my job” to stop him from riding in the wheelbarrow. Then he asked me out as his girlfriend (we never even went on a date, he just straight up asked me) and was shocked when I said no. He then said “oh you’re lesbian” and ya I am but even if I wasn’t I’m not going to date someone who almost got me demoted?!
aj B 3 years ago
Considering you were short staffed probably should have responded with "I quit" and then renegotiated being rehired with a higher salary and a damn good apology. After all if they can't afford to lose someone with less sense then my 13 year old self, they definitely couldn't afford to lose someone training people.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
F**k you Wyatt, but also f**k the managers who refused to punish or fire him for being unsafe, and chose to punish the rest of the staff
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Incompetence, insubordination and sexual harassment. That's quite a case you have against Wyatt (and your company).
Rosie Buckingham 3 years ago
How does one ride a wheelbarrow? It has to be driven/ pushed because it either has one wheel, or possibly 3, but balance wise, even a 3 wheel doesn't just fly down a hill. It would have been a wagon. Sorry to be pedantic, but this is made-up. But still, p**s off Wyatt.
Mozzarella 3 years ago
“It’s your fault that Wyatt is an overgrown 5 year old who has no self control!” In what world would that make sense, and to punish someone for someone else’s idiot-ness
#5
No hands in your pockets.
We were rewaxing the floor and I slipped on a cord, and couldn't catch myself because my hands were in my pockets smashed my knee on the tile floor. The whole school district got that rule. (~40 schools)
Nowyermad 3 years ago
I wax poetic with my hands in my pockets. Can a floor be much different?
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Unaffected 3 years ago
Interesting, many years ago we've been thought this by our parents and even school
#6
We used to have casual Friday and people could wear jeans. One day a girl came in wearing sweatpants that had “Juicy” printed across the butt.
The CEO happened to be visiting our location that day and he saw her. Casual Friday was immediately abolished and it took years for them to forget Juicy Girl and reinstate it. But in the intervening years, they would have fundraisers where you could buy tickets for days that you could wear jeans.
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Fashion Tip #1 - Never have anything written on your a s s.
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Anna Banana 3 years ago (edited)
I don't get casual Fridays. If it's the kind of workplace where it's okay to wear jeans on a Friday, then why not on any other day? And if the place is so formal that dressing down on a Monday would be inappropriate then surely dressing down on Fridays would be equally inaproppriate? To me this seems like an exception which just highlights how arbitrary the original rule is in the first place.
Memere 3 years ago
I never could understand it either, especially in an office where you literally NEVER have clients coming in. As long as the casual clothing is clean, and covers the body properly, why can't employees be comfortable? Last place I worked, they "sold" jeans days for fundraisers, which was great, but it felt forced & wasn't really enjoyable.
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Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I was excited when, during the pandemic, I was able to wear crocs while working. I worked at a bank, so we'd been closed to everything but scheduled appointments and drive thru. Those crocs made a world of difference standing on my feet all day. But that's about as casual as I went.
Memere 3 years ago
You should check into Skechers - they have office appropriate shoes with insoles made of yoga mat material. Very comfy, and lots of cute styles!
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Caroline Starr 3 years ago
Juicy Couture, a favourite of Madonna at the time, and now modelled by her daughter.
yellowphantom 3 years ago
I worked at at a separate satellite office of a big firm and we never saw the public, so we dressed casually. Occasionally, we would have to go to the main office and meet with the execs and were required to dress business formal. One nitwit girl showed up with a skintight see-through white tee with glitter letters that said "I'm Easy", along with her 3 inch neon finger claws, and they made us dress up at our office everyday from then on.
#7
I was serving in the Army when a soldier made a video on TikTok of himself dancing and playing with a gun and the video went viral. They took the mobiles after that from everyone and I stayed for couple of weeks not even able to reach my family
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
it could be the location services were turned on or there is hidden data in the file listing the gps location and if they were on a mission that required keeping their location a secret for safety then it makes sense. They did have to asks soldiers using running apps not to use them on bases in hostile ares.
MimSorensson 3 years ago (edited)
What is the DEAL with fùcking TikTok? It makes people lose their goddamned MINDS, people have DIED because of it. Young people. Quite a few of them by now. I’m starting to wonder if TikTok really needs to exist, especially considering that one of the big reasons for its existence is to illicitly collect as much data as at all possible. Does the world really, REALLY need TikTok…? I just don’t know. The world LIKES TikTok, but does it really need it? The world likes booze, drugs, fast food and lunatic consumerism too, if you see what I mean… But maybe I only see it that way because such a high percentage of the stupid, dangerous undertakings related to social media that lead to problems (or tragedy) I see have been TikTok related.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
It doesn't need to exist. Vine was better
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It only takes one a***ole for the rest of us to not be able to have nice things.
Niamh Nomen 3 years ago
Well, you can call b******t all you want but this happens all the time. I used to be married to an AF pilot and they had a big kerfuffle at the base because people were wearing Fit Bit type things and that was basically broadcasting exactly how the inside of classified installations were laid out and exactly who had access. It was very bad for opsec (operational security). It took them a while to update regs to take care of that.
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JMC5003 3 years ago
If I understand the post correctly, OP isn't saying mobiles were forever banned from the military, but everyone lost the right for a couple of weeks. My late husband was in the US Navy - he talked about how if one person screwed up, everyone paid. If I'm correct in my interpretation of OP's post, I definitely believe it happened.
Memere 3 years ago
I can see having mobiles banned if they were out on a training exercise, or even on a mission. And yes, that is the way all branches of the military operate. The reasoning behind that is "all for one, one for all" - it creates a cohesive unit that will work together & always have each other's backs.
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aimee-mastro 3 years ago
You'd think they'd take away the dude's gun... but I guess it's safer to take away everyone's phone
#8
Only one personal item in your office.
This was a financial institution so customers came into our offices. This was put in place because of one lady who had her office packed with trinkets including a handful of dolls.
Yes, creepy dolls. Come and get your auto loan also don't worry we have some dolls here to witness your transaction.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I would've been very sad if my old job had done that. What I did was very high stress and having my little trinkets were soothing. The big boss asked about my "decorations" once and I said if it didn't have a little piece of happiness to get me through the day I'd go insane and quit. He just said thank you for not quitting
kcanded 3 years ago
How about 'thank you for not quitting and here's a pay raise to help things get even better."
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
A public facing office is not the same as office space away from the public.
Izzy_ 3 years ago
Your workplace is like you first home. I started to put a mini oil diffuser just to create a calming environment. Makes a word of a difference
Suzi Q 3 years ago
I did that too, everyone loved the smell. I was the person in the office that everyone came to for tampons, gum, Tylenol and bandaids. After I retired, my coworker took over and I gave her my stash.
Load More Replies... Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I currently work as a Librarian, and I made sure to post a bunch of memes on the exit door from our back room so we all had something to laugh at during the day.
AspieGirl88 3 years ago
Thing is, though, they DO call it your “personal work space”. I can understand if someone goes way overboard, but why punish everyone for someone else’s mistake? 🤷♀️
Pjerrot 3 years ago
Think about how many hours The Employer sits by that desk EVERY SINGLE HOUR OF THE WORKING WEEK??!! And often more!! Most People are more at work than Home !!! So making that rule is crule!! Off Course U’r Office/Space should’nt have 100 Beanies etc. But U should be allowed to make it personel.
Nikole 3 years ago
I am so annoyed by people who use their desk as a display environment for their multitude of tchotchkes. Like, are you ten years old??
Kim Kermes 3 years ago
What makes you think they're displaying them for others to see? They probably have them to for themselves.
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I was hoping for employee's discount at a japanese grocery store. However, someone from the past has abused the employee discount in order to give low prices to their friends. Management found out, and they effectively just took the employment discount away.
Thanks a lot a*****e. You effectively deprived me the one thing I was hoping for in that stressful and boring job.
Mad McQueen 3 years ago
Can't even get a discount at Home Depot when working there. Maybe just 10% off for you and spouse if you're there but nothing.
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
it's the same way at Lowe's. MAYBE 10%, and 15% off their almost expired snack food.
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Jessi Zultanky 3 years ago
Not relevant but I love the little Hello Kitty and Pikachu packaging! :)
rumade 3 years ago
When I worked at Primark (Irish cheap clothing store that's very popular in the UK), they only ran the employee discount at certain times of the year. There would be like 3 weeks before Christmas when you could get employee discount, and it wasn't very much either, only 10% or so
Wandering Hammer 3 years ago
I never released it should be "employee's" instead of just "employee"
#10
Place i used to work gave out turkeys for thanksgiving, an employee accidently dropped his on his foot and tried to file a suit against them for some crazy amount of money. No more turkeys
Billy Maguire 3 years ago
We USED to get a canned ham at Christmas, then we embraced diversity, nowadays we each get a $100 gift card. GREAT COMPANY!
#11
1. All social media and streaming sites are now blocked on work computers, because someone spent all day on social media and watching movies while at work.
2. The Sick Room and Quiet Room are now locked because a certain slacker keeps hiding in it. They've been "hiding" in the glass meeting pods since.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I'm guessing it was the same person... Who should probably be fired...
Michael Largey 3 years ago
And the people who should have fired him should have been fired.
Load More Replies... Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
How does this person still have a job when clearly they are not productive?
Nimues Child 3 years ago
I was wondering the same thing. What is HR doing?
Load More Replies... Suzi Q 3 years ago
Before I retired from chronic illness, my bosses set up a quiet room so I nap on my breaks. It was a lifesaver (they set it up after finding out I was sleeping in my truck. On breaks and lunchtime. They were so good to me.) I would be ticked off if someone ruined that. However, nobody else got to use it, (it was an ADA accommodation.)
Bad Alchemy 3 years ago
"All social media and streaming sites are now blocked on work computers, because someone spent all day on social media and watching movies while at work." I don't hate this. Every time we have had a malware attack on our networks, it's because of idiot staff on social media and livestream services opening infected files.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had quiet rooms at one of my jobs until security kept catching people in there having sex during their lunch hour.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
I worked where there was a locked sick room. Apparently some people were using it for "Afternoon Delight".
#12
Worked as a cashier and supposedly a superior or whatever came to look at the store one day and said us cashiers/floor employees having water bottles up front is not good. So we weren’t allowed to have water bottles out on the floor anymore; so if we wanted water, we’d have to go the back…. Us cashiers talk to many customers a day and we’re going to get thirsty of course, we all thought it was a stupid rule.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Yeah when I was a cashier they tried this. I told them sorry but my meds give me dry mouth so I need water. This prompted others to claim they had needs too. Frustrated, they relented but they couldn't be left out in the open; order register when not drinking and must be resealable
Lem Johnson 3 years ago
This sort of s**t is so weird to me. My staff are allowed snacks, drinks, whatever. As long as they're not stuffing their faces directly in front of a customer or eating a whole roast chicken or something I don't care. This is boring, hard, stressful work - a snack and a drink can keep you going. And I've never once had a customer complain because a staff member dared to sip some water or eat a cookie.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
Honestly, I can understand not eating when handling people's food, because your fingers go in your mouth when you eat sometimes. Especially after covid, that rule makes sense to me. But not allowing water (or coffee or tea) is ridiculous.
Load More Replies... Nimues Child 3 years ago
It bothers me when employers value "look" over employees' health and wellbeing.
ChariotLee 3 years ago
Same at my job. Used to be perfectly fine to have water-just water-under the counter. Of course, this was abused and coffees, sodas, and milkshakes were added to the mix. The district manager witnessed one of the last sticky spills and therefore banned ALL drinks. Water included. Also the air conditioner has been broken for the past three years. Summer is going to be fun.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
They could have just made the rule that it had to be a resealable container.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My sister used to work at a chocolate factory and the rule was they could have a water bottle at their work station if it was a pop top or whatever so you didn't touch the mouthpiece with your gloved hands. Then got a new manager and were not allowed to keep a water bottle in the warehouse at all, only in the breakroom. This meant you couldn't go get water when they needed it because it was at least 5 mins they would be off the floor, so had to schedule it for their breaks. In a warehouse that is hot even in winter.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I worked at Safeway, and we also had to ask to go to the bathroom (and sometimes would get a "no"), we were forced to stand for our entire shift as a cashier, and we got in trouble for talking to each other when we didn't have customers. It's ridiculous.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I also got in c**p when I had tea at my till, because I was forced to come in while I had bronchitis. I told them that if I didn't at least get to have tea while I was very ill, I would be going home.
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No eating in front of the customers on our break.
I worked fast food at the time and it wasn't uncommon for my coworkers and I to sit in our lobby, close to the registers so we could jump back into action if needed. One day, I was sitting at one of those tables, having my lunch break when a customer came in. He gave me a dirty look and when he went up to order, he told my manager that he didn't like seeing his employees being lazy and eating where the customers could see. My manager was very calm and polite while dealing with him and basically said, "Dude, wtf my employees aren't animals."
Come my next shift, my manager told us that corporate got a complaint about us eating in front of the customers and we were no longer allowed to take our lunch breaks in our lobby. We either had to sit in our crammed office or eat in our cars.
AJ 3 years ago
Yup, I worked as a baker at a famous (in Canada) coffee chain (TH). It was a small store and I was the only one working in the back, had to be there at 4:00am but the store didn't officially open until 6. Every morning when I got there I made a pot of coffee for myself (free for employees). One day someone came in demanding I sell him a coffee. I politely explained the store doesn't open until 6 but he saw the coffee in the pot and called corporate. From then on we weren't allowed to start the coffee until 6 am, despite the line-up we had by that point and all those people had to wait for the coffee to brew before we could serve them. All because of one elderly man who decided to throw a tantrum worthy of a three year old.
Brenda 3 years ago
As a teenager, I worked fast food. Had a table in the back for breaks. It took up too much room so they took it out. I got upset when told I had to eat outside. It was almost 100 degrees and no where to sit. 20 minutes later almost passed out from the heat. Parents had a fit! Corporate changed policy immediately
Faith Horler-Clarke 3 years ago
That’s cool, don’t expect me to set up during my break then. Oh no, you need helping serving? Shame, there’s still 30 minutes of my break left so you’ll have to wait
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
I would have taken my work uniform top off and sat there in my bra to eat. LOL
Mozzarella 3 years ago
Son of a b***h, these are the people who serve you, the people who help you have food, and they have to be polite af, and all you can do is complain that they are lazy? Do better
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
Honestly, this one kind of makes sense to me. For one thing, your break is YOUR BREAK. If you're eating and then jumping back to work, then eating some more, that isn't a break. Take your time for yourself. Second, it helps you to not get harassed by customers. It would be nice if that wasn't the case, but seriously, enjoy your time off the floor. You're not paid enough to work for free during your breaks.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
The real problem here is the lack of a suitable break room
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No sneakers/
One manger was obsessed with this girl who was 30 years younger than him (50-20) and her commute was two hours long. She sometimes forgot to change them out and he must have got sick of her turning him down than he mandated a no sneaker clause.
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
So, the creep couldn't get his way and took it out on her, and everyone else. Nice.
Tom Hanlin 3 years ago
Oh, come on. I'd be coming in wearing sandals. Or perhaps there isn't a rule against high heels! ...I'm male and it might be a little difficult to find them in my size, and they look unbelievably hard on your feet and ankles, so there's always roller skates. Inline or four down?
Load More Replies... Kelli 3 years ago
Ugh. Years ago I worked at this office, in Ohio. NE Ohio gets hit pretty hard in the winter, especially. I would wear my boots, and change them to my pumps when I got in the office. One time I forgot to grab my heels. I got a 20 minute lecture in front of several customers about it by a female manager that hated me. I got applause when I said very loudly, do you honestly think this is the look I was going for? We had a good foot of snow.
Best behave.... 3 years ago (edited)
No sneakers. And cancel Christmas....
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#15
Safety briefing at a job site explicitly stated that hardhats were not to be used as weapons.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Embrace your inner Pachycephalosaurus. LET THE HEADBUTTING COMMENCE!
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Blarrg 3 years ago
Reminds me of the Alzado rule. (NFL players are specifically prohibited from taking off another player's helmet and hitting them over the head with it.)
Seabeast 3 years ago
It's a pretty awkward sort of weapon. The steel-toed boots are more effective.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Yeah, but they take more time to take off
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#16
Everyone has to speak English, because one lady thought people were talking s**t about her in Spanish (they were!).
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
This is surprisingly often a rule by default in some worksites. Usually suspicions ring true.
Judes 3 years ago
How do you know it's "usually" true? Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? I know of a work place where someone was freaking out about the Chinese people talking about her, but in fact they were discussing the stock market.
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David Higginbotham 3 years ago
It is legal for safety reasons. We have that rule where I work so if someone yells "Watch out , that thing you are about to touch will kill you!" they don't hear a response like "lo siento no hablo inglés. ¡Oh, no, me estoy muriendo, si tan solo hablara inglés y pudiera entender la advertencia que me acaban de gritar!
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JayWantsACat 3 years ago
Yeah, cuz no one can talk s**t about you in English. When I worked retail, we came up with code words and phrases to talk s**t about the customers who were assholes. Maybe not being an a*****e will alleviate your paranoia about people correctly talking s**t about you?
Nadine 3 years ago
When I go to Wal-Mart near me, the employees are always speaking Spanish. I really don't care. They are usually really nice when doing my returns.
the_anonyMrs_Mir 3 years ago
Same here! What bothers me though is waiting in line for 20 minutes, finally getting to the register and trying to ask the cashier a question and they respond “no habla ingles”. Like wtf? How do you hire someone who speaks no English in a predominantly English speaking place in America?
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Cotton Candy 3 years ago
I seriously hate that complaint. Especially when a coworker says it out loud and tries to get me involved. English is not my first language. I also do this.
Ross Warren 3 years ago
I know that people at work were talking about me in Spanish today because I walked in wearing my motorcycle helmet with horns (like in my profile picture) and they kept saying "El Diablo" but I didn't make a big deal about it.
Rebecca Joan 3 years ago
As the USA doesn’t have an official language, demanding English be spoken exclusively is silly, and I only speak English. I also DGAF if someone talks about me in English, Spanish, or whatever language. Other people’s opinion of me are none of my business. Their life must be pretty sad if little ol’ me is a topic of conversation. I will say that I do wish there was a universal language to conduct business transactions in, I’ve been engaged with more than 1 game of charades with someone who doesn’t speak English, and I don’t speak their language, so bring a translator, human or Google, but don’t start with random hand gestures because you can’t go into a major retailer and know how to say what you need from me. 🤷🏻♀️
#17
No popcorn.
I work at a financial company and not once, but twice, someone burned microwave popcorn during end of day processing and caused the building evac.
Every once in a while a new person is cooking some up and I just imagine the talking to they're about to get.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
This rule is at a lot of offices including the place I work at. We're not allowed to bring anything with a "smell".
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Yeah my old office had "no fish in the microwave"
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Mozzarella 3 years ago
How can people not know how to cook popcorn? Like I’m not shaming people if they are tired or can’t cook, but it confuses me very much
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I fully support this rule! The smell of burned popcorn lingers forever.
#18
We used to get a free beer after our shifts at a pizza restaurant I worked at, until the manager’s little brother got in a car accident after work (he ran a red light or something). That was fun while it lasted
Kat O. 3 years ago
I will never understand why everyone gets punished for 1 person's stupidity. Almost all of these could have been solved if they had only punished the offender and not everyone else.
Aran Lindvail 3 years ago
Drinking and then driving home is clearly a dumb thing to do. The beer wasn't a good idea in the first place.
Micah 3 years ago
If it's one beer, then on average it'd be safe to drive in less than an hour after consuming it.
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Chris Hayden 3 years ago
Depending where you are, there are possible criminal charges for a person or business. Where I live we have what is called "third party liability" laws that state if I serve you alcohol and you go out, have an accident, and are over the legal limit, I am just as liable for the damages just like the driver. It is to curb overselling to a single person or serving to a person who is already drunk.
Memere 3 years ago
Exactly. I worked in a bar back when this became the law in the state I lived in & we really cracked down on cutting people off.
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Carlotta Müller 3 years ago
If everyone has to drive home than drinking is not the clever thing to do. How are you allowed to drive with alcohol in your blood?
Micah 3 years ago
If it's one beer, then on average it'd be safe to drive in less than an hour after consuming it.
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“You are welcome to wear comfortable clothing during the overnight shift. However you must wear pants at all time. No pajamas or *underwear*”
It predates all of us. The guess is someone did an overnight, took off their pants to relax and someone went in crisis.
#20
Used to work as a server in an assisted living facility. After a server flipped out during breakfast one day, there was a sign put up in the kitchen that said "DO NOT THREATEN RESIDENTS"
That f****r still works there
Seabeast 3 years ago
There is always a shortage of workers in LTC facilities because they pay poorly and overwork the staff they do have. So that's why they'd keep someone on.
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Notnow 3 years ago
If there is could I please have this job. I'll pay you to work there, please, please, please!
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#21
Not allowed to fly paper planes in the office. I work in finance and yes it was my fault. My aim is terrible and my plane "crashed" into a manager from another department who had no sense of humor. F**k that guy.
Béatrice Gallet 3 years ago
You were unprofessional and blame another person on your act, A.H. !
Jessi Zultanky 3 years ago
I can't feel bad for you, you did something stupid and they had to make a rule so you wouldn't bother the employees who are actually doing their job. Honestly nobody else is upset at this ban, they're just glad you're not going to annoy them with your childish antics.
Pjerrot 3 years ago
Oh My God!!! I simply Can believe I’m Reading this!! This is USA,Right… Just know it would go like that here in Denmark… People would take the Boss as a completly Nutter!!! I’m chocked to find out how the Boss’ are Controlling & making rules up over There!! Really!!!
Himiko Toga 3 years ago (edited)
Dude in some states I over here you can get fired for nothing. AND ITS LEGAL. (I’m pretty sure anyways. I haven’t had a job yet so…)
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#22
Don't put stickers on people's backs.
Background:
I work in a warehouse that stores and ships products out to retail stores. We print labels out for the packages and pallets etc and some of us made a game out of "tagging" people with stickers without them noticing. I got really good at it. I did this trick where I'd put the top two corners together making a sort of cone shape so I could just let it rest on my finger then sort of throw my hand up at an angle so it flies off my finger and gently lands on their back without me having to apply any pressure to make it stick and risk them catching me. Even some of the supervisors got in on it.
One day someone decided to try it on one of the cooperates from one of the stores and was instantly caught, ruining the fun for everyone.
Carlotta Müller 3 years ago
This was stupid from the beginng. The making of the stickers costs money you all were wasting. ANd I would not wanted to work there.
#23
We had to get gps systems for the company cars because one guy took his company car on vacation. He also paid for gas with the company card so now we are required to write the current mileage at the top of the receipt so they can check miles driven vs. Gas bought. Its no big deal, just like what a loser.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 years ago
Worked with a gal who's husband drove a company van. When he had to get gas, she would go with him in her car. He would gas up the company van, he'd move the van, she'd move up her car, and fill up her tank without returning the nozzle, so it would all be on one receipt. They never got caught.
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
Some are never caught. Let's hope Karma catches up.
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Not far from a certain Republican Representative of the trumping persuasion who is being investigated for claiming more milage in expenses than is needed for a circumnavigating the globe. Hint on her identity: she had to take the GED 3 times before being given a diploma and her husband exposed himself to underage girls at a bowling alley.
Memere 3 years ago
This really hits for me! I was fleet admin for 11 years, oversaw everything for 250+ company cars assigned to sales reps in 47 U.S. states & 7 provinces in Canada. There were some doozies in that 11 years, lol. One guy started filling the tank 2 & 3 times a day, but his store call logs didn't match up to the supposed miles driven. We did some digging & it turned out that his wife was divorcing him & he had moved in with his unmarried cousin. They were using the company gas card to hit the casinos in the area, driving from one to the next to the next. Yeah, he got fired immediately. Had a couple of others try to pull sneaky sh!t like that - they apparently didn't know that I could pull up every gas purchase, & every service/repair done on the car, all the way back to the delivery of the car to them!
Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
At the library, we have a van that we use to run books, loans, and other stuff from branch to branch. We have a special key that fits into the gas pump in the designated court house area to fill up the van, where we also have to take note of how many miles we drove. There's a locking mechanism that keeps the gas pump from being used by anyone other than city employees.
Potty pagan panda 3 years ago
I had a company car once, I was allowed to use it for travel during holidays but then I live in Australia
#24
all the plates and cutlery were thrown away in the staff restaurant because washing up was left dirty in the sink,its bring you own cutlery and plate in if you want to eat there now.
Bec 3 years ago
Ugh. I worked in a billing center and decided to bring in real cutlery after I received a new set at Xmas. Just a week later I went into the kitchen and open the drawer to get a spoon for my yogurt and there was almost no silverware left. I asked, what happened. Oh people just throw it away because they don't want to wash it. WTF people.
Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
Our office staff - same story. Some men just don't wash after their have had their coffee, tea or food.
Lily8 3 years ago
I worked in an office where a few of the kitchenettes had dishwashers. They were the ones by the big meetings rooms so after a meeting, could wash the 30-40 coffee cups. There was a woman who would eat her cereal in the morning, then go to one of these kitchens to put her bowl and spoon in the dishwasher and start it, with nothing else in it. Every singe day.
#25
We used to be able to pop in an ear bud at work with the offset being that we couldn't spend more than a few seconds here or there to switch podcasts or something. Naturally, some people took a mile and spent minutes on their phones. Since everyone was afraid of confronting these people, phones and earbuds were banned in work spaces altogether.
madbakes 3 years ago
What kind of manager or supervisor is afraid of talking to their employees about an issue??
TheWickedOne 3 years ago
Lots of them, we call them people who should not be a manager.
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There was a malicious compliance story here recently about a deaf person being denied use of their hearing aid because a supervisor considered it an earbud, even after it was explained to her.
Kayla Albert 3 years ago
Did this once! Had wireless earbuds that don't interfere with me working that sit directly in the ear and are very tiny! Someone seen it and decided to wear big a*s Beats to work the next day I was so pissed!!
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
Well, it's not like giant headphones interfere with work any more than tiny wireless earbuds. They both do the same thing.
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Daycare Attendant Sun 3 years ago
I kept my phone on me at all times when working retail because I have an autistic sister who has to have supervision. I had to be able to answer a call from her immediately, and not whenever customer service decided they wanted to pick up the phone. There's actual reasons to keep your phone on you aside from playing around.
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#26
One person complained that he wasn't 'trained properly.'
We all now have to do this massively long training workbook during our shift, along with morning weekly quizzes we have to do with training questions. Everyone. I'm pretty sure no other company does this. It's been weeks and i'm still not finished with it.
Paula Divello 3 years ago
I have had this happen to me as a manager I just re-trained the complainant and had her sign off on the training syllabus each time and put it in her file.
Zack Podany 3 years ago
I worked with one company that did this. During my month of actual dedicated training.
Jeremy Van Portfliet 3 years ago
Maybe not, they did a huge upgrade at the gas station I just transferred to and I am not trained many of the new machines.
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#27
HR Partner's husband got into a fight with someone at coat check. As punishment, HR decided to ban hard alcohol at all events for YEARS.
Thus began my hatred of HR.
Seabeast 3 years ago
I had a short term contract position at an engineering company that operated out of an old house. The first time I went upstairs to the break room to put my lunch in the fridge, I found it chock full of hard liquor bottles. I guess when they entertained clients, they *really* entertained them.
Azure Adams 3 years ago
Banning alcohol from work events is a good idea. Almost all liability and lawsuits are a result of people getting irresponsible and worse while at work, yes a work party is still work if your boss is there YOU ARE STILL AT WORK!!!! The op is clearly a young kid who has not had to deal with liability in his role or accountability
#28
Dress code
One guy once wore a Tupac middle finger hoodie into a meeting with the most important client ever for my firm and now we have the strictest dress code. Tie, dress shoes, tuxedo/suit and no grey or blue suits only black.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago (edited)
Trump's wife wore a hoodie that said "I don't care" to visit with the migrant children her husband had pulled from their families to punish them for wanting asylum. And she didn't get in trouble at all...
Alex Taylor 3 years ago
In fairness, she's been pretty well vilified all over the internet for it. No OFFICIAL sanction, of course, just the well-deserved disgust of the world. And the photos of her will never go away, so it's a well-justified life sentence.
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RK Barbo 3 years ago
If I walked into a firm and they were wearing tuxedos, I would leave. Black tie is NOT appropriate business wear. Do the women have to wear ball gowns or cocktail dresses?
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
Why would you wear a pretty offensive hoodie, or any hoodie, to a meeting with your most important client ever?
Michael Largey 3 years ago
If you find yourself married to Donald Trump, how much more trouble can you be in?
Lazy Panda 3 years ago
I'm crossing my fingers for "prison for all involved"!
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Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
I worked for EDS for a while. EDS stood for "Everyone Dressed the Same". Yeesh...
Azure Adams 3 years ago
A hoodie like that is unprofessional and likely offended the client that gave the company a lot of business WHICH IS WHAT GIVES YOU A PAYCHECK AND JOB!!!
#29
It was in third grade when pokemon was hot again some idiots traded cards and then there parents want to have the card back so they became illegal for everyone
BasedWang12.2 3 years ago
I was in second/third grade for the first round of Pokemon craze in USA. We had ours banned too.. f*****s
I_am_Allan 3 years ago
Pogs, clackers, BopIt!, Tamagotchi, Furniss, Beany Babies etc were banned at most elementary schools in the 90s.
Angella Naasko 3 years ago
They are hot again, and This just happened at my kids school for the exact same reason!
yellowphantom 3 years ago
Zero tolerance in schools is often out of control. A kindergarten kid in a town I lived in got suspended because he brought a tiny one inch long.gun-shaped toy that came out of a 25 cent gum machine.
Zack Podany 3 years ago
Pokémon got pulled from Targets because of fights breaking out over them by customers.
Tess Bradley 3 years ago
The kids at my school used to hide at the back of the oval under the trees to do their shady looking trades. Always with at least one, or two posted as lookouts for teachers.
#30
i work at a warehouse. someone cut their finger bad enough that now we have to use a plastic knife and scrapper. i feel like im back in elementary school lol
Tired_Panda 3 years ago
We didn't even have knives in elementary school. We had tiny sporks(spoon+fork)
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
They did this at a supermarket I had worked at long ago. But since management was barely ever around we all just went and bought our own blades to use at work
TheElderNom 3 years ago
Plastic can be really sharp. I managed to cut off a piece of my toe on a bucket.
#31
That only full timers could take out the trash for food handling departments.
One worker in the bakery had taken a cart of expired pies to the compactor to toss and simply popped open the plastic container to dig in while at the trash area. Needless to say they put up a camera in that blind spot and fired him. His reasoning was that he had another three days till payday and couldn’t buy lunch. Saddest thing though, if his excuse was true, if he’d only just asked, anyone would have spotted him the money. He was a very good and friendly employee.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago (edited)
What would it be to the company if the pies were going into the trash, anyways? One coffee/donut chain I worked at collected all the donuts and muffins left over and gave them to a lady who donated them to a shelter. We had to do it under radar, but the manager approved so we weren't breaking rules at our location. It just isn't kosher with Tim Hortons owners.
Dani Tuo 3 years ago
Liability. If he had gotten sick, he could have sued and won. Expired stuff has a lot of food safety regs surrounding it. You'll note that is very different from leftover not expired product such that you mention. Shelters and food pantries won't take expired food. Without special licenses, which I have only known a handful of places to have, expired food must be legally disposed of.
Load More Replies... Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Happened at the grocery store I worked at too as a teen. But what made it the real issue was some people would put good, not expired food, in the compactor cart and would eat it while tossing the old stuff. They were stealing and got caught and ruined it for everyone else. There was sooo much food wasted that could've been donated
jade s 3 years ago
I feel bad for this guy. To be fired for being broke and hungry is appalling. Surely just have a chat with him and say not to eat the expired stock for health reasons. If it's being compacted there's no financial loss. Also spotting him the money isn't much of a help. If he pays you back next month then he's short on money again. I would have just bought him lunch in.
#32
No hot food at the desk. A local rule, because someone was snacking on curry at 11am...
Alexej Dvorak 3 years ago
I once worked as a supervisor at an office and also had to instate this rule. The layout was one big room where customers would enter and be at a counter near the door with a wide view towards employee's desks. The company had a rather liberal worktime policy where they let you take your break whenever you want as long as you took it for the required time. So naturally, people started taking their mandated break right before closing time, but still were hungry during lunch time, so they heated their food in the break room and just ate at their desk while handling customer's paperwork in their plain sight. Not a good impression.
#33
Had one person download a free student version of software that they used instead of the one the company paid for. Almost cost the company a decent amount of money. Now everything is locked down on everyone's computer to the point that I can't delete desktop icons without having an admin.
Edit: The software was a free version from a different company, so basically downloaded a competitor's free software to use for our companies profit.
A few of you have raised great points on security from viruses which is valid. I just wish some things weren't locked down, which makes it annoying to contact IT frequently.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
Are these company computers or personal ones? I know the ones at my job cannot be messed around with and are constantly monitored. My personal pc, now that I'm wfh is not monitored other than whatever I'm doing on the actual company app.
Ali H M Salehuddin 3 years ago
This is to be expected if you work in an industry where corporate espionage is not uncommon. Even a low level employee who has access to a pc will have his pc locked this way.
#34
Can’t keep personal items at our desks. People lost a lot of personal items over the Covid work from home period. Only when we returned to the office, it was at that time did things start going missing. There’s either one or a few thieves among us. So to cut it down, they say only keep the stuff at your desk that you’re willing to lose.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
It's often for the better. That way you don't have nosy coworkers you don't want to interact with poking around or judging your decor and sentimental items. I had one lady ask why I didn't put a picture of my daughter up at my desk so I could "remind myself what I'm working for." I just didn't feel like it and we didn't have assigned desks, so I would have to put up and take down the photo every shift and anything else would be stolen. Someone even just took a magazine I had just bought off my desk. We have cubbies and people will take things out of other people's cubbies, too. Too many thieves.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 3 years ago
We aren't allowed anything personal at our desk as it's considered to be "unprofessional". Meanwhile, all the spreadsheets used, walls in the offices and labs, etc... are a bleak gray color. Personally, I think they just didn't like it if someone put something on their desk or work space that had a bit of bright color in it.
#35
Netflix is blocked at work. One secretary used to watch Netflix at her desk and nap when there were no calls.
I don't need to watch Netflix at work, but I usually use fast.com to check internet speeds. Every time I check the internet speed, which isn't that often, I forget and then curse that secretary.
She was fired pretty much immediately but her memory lives on.
#36
No home food, someone brought smelly eggs.
Beth Bartel 3 years ago
What are folks supposed to do, buy lunch every day? tHat'S noT ExpeNSivE aT aLl
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
Ended up having to do that anyways. Too many things went missing too often.
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Don't be crazy, we pay their salaries, it's their job to budget properly to afford going out to lunch every day. I wish I was kidding, but this is the mentality I've seen.
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
We used to be able to bring our own electronic devices as long as it didn't interfere with work, since we tend to have a lot of low work periods. That is until someone downloaded a nasty virus onto one of the work computers. We can still bring light reading and activity materials but no electronics.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Was their name Alex and did that virus almost ruin the company and some of their clients? I hate Alex and all the extra bull I had to go through trying to do my work because his dumb a*s just had to use his work computer for personal c**p
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Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
The team I worked in got relocated to another city 100km away by higher management. Out team manager said, OK, just make sure we are all there on the two days each week we have meetings and for the rest, you can flex work on our old location. Really nice of him. Then he hired a new guy. Right after his trial period was over, new guy started complaining about having to travel to the new location 2 days a week (which he accepted when he took the job). Team manager said, well, we all have to do this, you too. Then new guy took his complaint to higher management. Result: entire team now has to travel to the new location 5 days a week.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Some of these rules are sensible, and others are dumb. Overall, treating people like elementary school kids is demeaning and condescending.
Haley Futch 3 years ago
This is a problem with the corporate world. Instead of punishing the person who does something stupid or harmful, we implement "rules" that make everyone else suffer.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I was told when I was doing tutoring in the learning lab of a community college that I was not allowed to bring in treats for the staff because the students would expect to be fed. I said I didn't really care who ate it as long as they were fed since some of them don't get a chance to get away from campus to eat what with back to back classes. She said then they shouldn't be going to college. WTF? This included her tutors....?!?
Shay Tracy 3 years ago
I worked at a TV station and we had a no pj pants policy for the same damn reason. I also had an exceeeeessively comfortable couch in my office and told all my friends they were welcome to crash on it if they were stuck working overnight for whatever breaking news reason. Was going well until somebody slept through their next live On Air deadline. I was chewed the hell out the next day and was ordered to keep my office locked from then on out because it was a TV Station and Not A Damn Hotel. So irritating.
TheWickedOne 3 years ago
My work has banned people from drawing d***s on stuff.. huge problem around here.
Gemma jones 3 years ago
We can’t wear vest tops as Muslims complained to Hr. Because apparently we weren’t dressing appropriately. It’s a call centre.
Nikole 3 years ago (edited)
I feel this so hard. At one of my old jobs we were initially able to self-report our hours (including overtime). One moron of a co-worker thought the boss was shorting him. The upshot is that the boss ended owing him like $7.00 and we all had to log into and out of an attendance program every day from then on. The guy quit soon after because everyone hated him. Also his name was Denis (with one "N")... I'm still pissed.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
We used to be able to bring our own electronic devices as long as it didn't interfere with work, since we tend to have a lot of low work periods. That is until someone downloaded a nasty virus onto one of the work computers. We can still bring light reading and activity materials but no electronics.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Was their name Alex and did that virus almost ruin the company and some of their clients? I hate Alex and all the extra bull I had to go through trying to do my work because his dumb a*s just had to use his work computer for personal c**p
Load More Replies... Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
The team I worked in got relocated to another city 100km away by higher management. Out team manager said, OK, just make sure we are all there on the two days each week we have meetings and for the rest, you can flex work on our old location. Really nice of him. Then he hired a new guy. Right after his trial period was over, new guy started complaining about having to travel to the new location 2 days a week (which he accepted when he took the job). Team manager said, well, we all have to do this, you too. Then new guy took his complaint to higher management. Result: entire team now has to travel to the new location 5 days a week.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Some of these rules are sensible, and others are dumb. Overall, treating people like elementary school kids is demeaning and condescending.
Haley Futch 3 years ago
This is a problem with the corporate world. Instead of punishing the person who does something stupid or harmful, we implement "rules" that make everyone else suffer.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I was told when I was doing tutoring in the learning lab of a community college that I was not allowed to bring in treats for the staff because the students would expect to be fed. I said I didn't really care who ate it as long as they were fed since some of them don't get a chance to get away from campus to eat what with back to back classes. She said then they shouldn't be going to college. WTF? This included her tutors....?!?
Shay Tracy 3 years ago
I worked at a TV station and we had a no pj pants policy for the same damn reason. I also had an exceeeeessively comfortable couch in my office and told all my friends they were welcome to crash on it if they were stuck working overnight for whatever breaking news reason. Was going well until somebody slept through their next live On Air deadline. I was chewed the hell out the next day and was ordered to keep my office locked from then on out because it was a TV Station and Not A Damn Hotel. So irritating.
TheWickedOne 3 years ago
My work has banned people from drawing d***s on stuff.. huge problem around here.
Gemma jones 3 years ago
We can’t wear vest tops as Muslims complained to Hr. Because apparently we weren’t dressing appropriately. It’s a call centre.
Nikole 3 years ago (edited)
I feel this so hard. At one of my old jobs we were initially able to self-report our hours (including overtime). One moron of a co-worker thought the boss was shorting him. The upshot is that the boss ended owing him like $7.00 and we all had to log into and out of an attendance program every day from then on. The guy quit soon after because everyone hated him. Also his name was Denis (with one "N")... I'm still pissed.
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