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Someone Asked, “What Rule Was Changed Because Of One Stupid Person?”, 40 Delivered
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It only takes one clueless dude or dudette to do something so silly others have to pay for it. You probably remember it from the early school days when the teacher would give the whole class extra homework if that one little daredevil was disturbing the class. No wonder they’d be the least liked person in the entire school, and that’s something you don’t just get rid of easily.
Such cases of group punishment, whether by establishing a new rule or by giving a task, are unsurprisingly a very relatable experience. So we looked at a couple of Reddit threads where people shared their frustration with that one person who made things go downhill for a bunch of people, so scroll down through the stories below. Also, make sure to share your own similar experiences in the comment section below!
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#1
My high school choir allowed the seniors (in choir) to vote on a song to perform at graduation. We would spend a day sorting nominated songs to narrow down to a couple which would have a brief defense of the song and why it should be chosen put before the group and then we'd all vote. Simple democratic process. It was usually some moderately popular pop song, no big deal. My senior year, several of us are huge Freddie Mercury / Queen fans so we grouped together to nominate Bohemian Rhapsody, which won the vote by a huge (over 95% margin). We were happy, the choir was happy, the director and administration were happy. Life was good.
Then... The next week... One senior girl approached the director in tears about how "this song about DRUGS is going to ruin MY graduation!" (she didn't understand the line "so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye." She literally thought it was about getting stoned...)
Anyway, the director tells is all what happened, we laugh at how ridiculous it is, until she says that because of this, we will have to change the song.
Wut...
No f*****g way, we selected it democratically and it was voted for by a massive margin. So we were forced to go before the choir AGAIN, opposite little miss still crying dumbass, and argue for the song again and she gets to argue her case as well. Her only words to the class were how "if this song is picked I REFUSE to participate in graduation, because I don't believe in drugs!"
There was no vote this time. The director decided we would not sing the song. And substituted it with an African freedom song, which we neither picked nor voted on at any stage. We threatened to not sing at graduation if that was the case and she just told is to "not cause any additional drama.". The administration tried to offer is a compromise by playing the song as we exited at the end, which we begrudgingly accepted.
Graduation comes, little Miss Priss stands in the top row with a s**t eating grin on her face, and proudly sings the African freedom song, while a bunch of us stand and refuse to open our mouths but it's moot at that point.
And as one final f**k you to us, it seemed, we get to the end of the ceremony and instead of Bohemian Rhapsody playing, they put on Bittersweet Symphony... I heard that the next year they had a "banned songs" list that we're not allowed for the senior vote. It was full of random rap and pop songs (like someone googled a top 40 list) and right there at the top was Bohemian Rhapsody.
I don't know what that girl's problem really was, but she somehow bested a 400 person graduating class and effectively banned a modern masterpiece purely because she was too stupid to understand the lyrics... This was 15 years ago and I'm still bitter...
Andy 3 years ago
This is why our world is going bad ... dumb and ideological persons shout out loud and no one has the balls to stand against them
Jason Marin 3 years ago
Should find out where she lives and have Bohemian Rhapsody playing 24/7 outside of her house.
Robert Beveridge 3 years ago
Oh, I don't think that was stupidity at all. That was vindictiveness. She was the teacher's pet (the teacher wouldn't have caved that quickly otherwise) and there's history we haven't heard in this description. Proper revenge would have involved finding a way to keep her from participating in graduation regardless...
Azure Adams 3 years ago
You all did not destroy her after graduation?! That's what public shaming is for. Bring it up at reunions and make her a pariah.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Why didn't you say the same as her? We are americans, the most free country in the world, and if we cannot sing what we have decided democratically, we won't go into stage to sing shite!
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I feel like the teacher was pretty dumb about this too. Instead of dealing with one idiot not singing a song because of a misunderstood lyric, they made it so that a ton of people didn't sing some lame song because they were pissed.
Bored Panda reached out to professor Jeffrey Thomas, student engagement leader and lecturer in behavior management at University Of Tasmania to find out more about group punishment, which punishes a group of people for the actions of one or more unidentified culprits. Thomas explained that we see this frequently in the school system where a teacher may require all students to stay in at lunchtime because one student did not follow a class rule.
Sometimes the punishment can be applied to a whole school community, Thomas told us. “For example, not being allowed to go on an excursion because rubbish was left in the yard. It is a technique that has been around ever since schools have existed and is based on the understanding of behaviorism –the idea that you can modify a person’s behavior through the introduction of external factors,” he explained.
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#2
Every July 4th, there's a great parade in Willimantic, CT - the Boom Box Parade. It's unique and totally inclusive; literally anyone can join, from political groups to the local food co-op, to the karate dojo kids and the Victorian house association, some dude on a skateboard, 4-H clubs, stilt walkers, local businesses, local weirdos, etc. Oh, and did I mention, there's no band, so you have to bring your boom box and tune to the local station - they broadcast the parade music and it fills the air. Very loony, very fun.
Anyway, the street is lined with folks in lawn chairs watching and cheering for people on floats. It USED to be that people on floats would bring super soakers and blast the crowd (in addition to throwing candy and beads), and the best of all was the Hosmer Mountain Soda Company - they had a water cannon in the back of their delivery truck, and they'd fill it with a couple of gallons of water and BLAST this huge squirt of water into the watching throngs. It was great, because of course it's usually around 90 degrees on July 4th in CT, so everyone enjoyed it and screamed and laughed and had a great time.
Or so we thought - a few years ago some lady got mad because their hair got wet, so now there's a rule against any kind of squirt guns or water balloons. Also no "throwing" candy (they can gently place it into a kid's hand). Thanks, you miserable old bag.
V Martinez 3 years ago
I hate when 1 person ruins it for the masses. Just ban the 1 lone idiot and let the rest of live happy, fun-filled, crazy parade lives!
Lisa H 3 years ago
Seriously, wtf even is democracy, if ONE person weilds the power??? That b***h should have known better than to stand in range.
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Miserable people want other people to join them. Such people are never content and just move on to their next source of misery.
Sylvia Schmitz 3 years ago
During the rose monday parades in Cologne all the people get pelted by hard candy, get a buch of flowers in the face or a box of choclates hits them on the head. Only thing to get mad abput is if you don't catch the damned things to add to your hoarde.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I loved those Rose Monday parades when I was a child. Probably would still love them but no longer live in Germany.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
If you know there will be water cannons and super soakers, and you don’t want to get your hair wet, then go to the parade with an umbrella or a f*****g HAT on!
TheElderNom 3 years ago
I've never heard of this before but I'm a bit confused about how water guns and boom boxes combined is a good idea. Or any water and electricity, really.
JMC5003 3 years ago
They aren't plugged in, so their source of electricity is batteries. Not dangerous to mix with water. Might mess up the boom box, but isn't going to electrocute anyone.
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Again, refuse to perform. It will only take 1 year of not performing for them to allow it again. What is the price you are willing to pay? 1 year of not performing Vs a whole life of boredom during the parade?
#3
When I was in middle school, I used to play MTG or Yugioh with friends during lunch. Some jackass decided it would be fun to grab my cards while I was in the middle of a game, run to the bathroom, and toss them in the toilet. I brought the issue up to the principal. He responded by banning all trading cards.
Wow, way to punish the victim.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
If someone takes my Chandra's Fury card, they'll feel the burn of MY FURY.
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
I'm female. I was bullied in school. At one point, one of my textbooks was stolen, and of course the (mostly male) bullies "had no idea" what happened to it. When my textbook showed up in the boys' toilet, urinated/defecated on, the administration tried to make my parents pay for a replacement. "Really? It's our *daughter's* fault that her textbook was stolen and vandalized in the *boys* restroom?! We don't think so!" Very grudgingly, the administration reluctantly decided that my parents didn't have to pay for a replacement.
Miss Marmite 3 years ago
same sort of thing happened at my school. some snowflake was upset because they made a bad deal, next thing you know: no more cards 🫤
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
And you didn’t flush HIS head in the toilet? I mean, let the punishment fit the crime.
THEBOI4000 3 years ago
Was the bully ok after you beat the living c**p out of him. You did at least have have a talk with him. Right?
In terms of punishment, the professor argues, the external factors are designed to be so unpleasant that the person will not carry out the same behavior in the future. “At an individual level, common classroom punishments could include detentions, cleaning, or missing out on activities that other students enjoy.”
On the other hand, strategies of group punishment are morally and educationally questionable. However, “it is possible to gain short term compliance through the threat of punishment,” Thomas said and added that “in group punishment, the culprit’s actions result in them – and everyone else in the group – being punished.” According to the professor, in this way, students realize that they are the reason for their peers’ punishment and that idea of the associated social harm aims to be the unpleasant external factor that will modify their future behavior.
#4
My office used to provide coffee for employees, until one woman complained that this "wasn't fair" to employees who didn't drink coffee. She drank Diet Coke, yes even at 8:00 AM, and she said that if they were going to provide coffee they should also provide Diet Coke. They don't provide coffee anymore.
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago (edited)
Boo. I worked at an investment firm that provided drinks (alcohol) on Fridays. I couldn't drink due to meds but sat with them anyway. They started buying cokes for me :) Very nice of them. I didn't mind buying my own: I was free to leave early instead of partaking with the others, but it was like an office bonding thing 🤷♀️
Michelle Beadle 3 years ago
I drink Diet Coke at a place that provides coffee but not Diet Coke. Ya know what I do? Bring my own. See how simple this (should be) for everyone. Guess there is always one who has to ruin for everyone else. Smh
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Well I only drink screwdrivers 24/7, are they going to provide? The people complying with these stupid complaints are even more stupid. Would you like any special tea, honey? No? Then get the f**k out of here, sweety...
Steve LeMessurier 3 years ago
Worked with a guy, had the same complaint, he didn't drink coffee...it's in fair (we also had various tea bags as well)..... My boss took him aside, told him "drink it or don't....that's what we got"....
TheElderNom 3 years ago
Yeah, there's a huge price difference between any soda and coffee/tea. We have a few morons like this at my work too, thankfully they just get ignored. Though I think getting rid of free coffee in Sweden would cause a riot so it's really sensible.
Bubs623 3 years ago
That is the classic 'if I don't get what I want, then nobody can have anything!' Idiots
Fancy that 3 years ago
It is someyhing I just can't understand. So glad I identify as a hermit pronoun it.
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Ashley Lynne 3 years ago
I don't drink coffee either and my old job Had free coffee. It simply wouldn't have ever occurred to me to actually think I deserved something for free too - ugh who thinks that way.
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
I used to drink Diet Coke from 8am, too. Don't knock it too you've tried it
Cyd Charisse 3 years ago
Yeah, as an all-day-Coke-drinker, that line annoyed me too. But no, I would have happily let other have coffee -- I hate people who spoil a good thing for others!!
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#5
A company I worked for had free feminine products in the bathrooms. They stopped stocking them because someone would take every single pad and tampon. An email was sent warning that the products wouldnt be stocked if the theft continued. And some f****r still stole them.
Sleepy_Child 3 years ago
I really like your username! Also, you have free products? At my middle school they only have a small amount and it's kinda hard to get them
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Cat Palmer 3 years ago
Back at the beginning of the pandemic my employer went to considerable time and expense to buy loads of hand sanitiser, at a time when it was not easy to get hold of. And yes, some selfish beggar went round the office and took the lot. I just don't understand some people.
Deborah B 3 years ago
Or else period poverty is a real thing, affecting multiple people, all of whom take a reasonable amount of supplies, and the need is underestimated, so the supplies run out.
zims 3 years ago
True, I wouldn't trust my company admins to guesstimate how many pads I go through in a day.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Same thing with our first aid supplies, which we had to replace and keep unlocked
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
We need more context to really understand if this was malicious or if it stemmed from need mixed with poverty. Feminine products are not cheap, and in some places there’s an additional “pink tax” on them. Not everyone has enough money to accommodate their monthly need, and unless it’s Diva Cups in the vending machine, the products cannot be cleaned and reused. If it was a cheapskate taking them, then they can go f**k themselves. If it was someone not making enough money to buy an adequate supply, then maybe the company needs to adjust its pay scale.
Rhyme Like A Lime 3 years ago
There's no way that every single pad was needed at once in every bathroom all at once. This was someone being a little s**t
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Trisha Howson 3 years ago
That awful.......and that sucks I think all work places should have those for free. I also don't think we should have to buy them
a_smol_berry 3 years ago
They stopped giving out pads in the bathroom because people were flushing them.
#6
TD Bank used to have a free “Penny Arcade” for customers, that would count all of your change, and give you a slip to get cash from the teller. It was so convenient. And fun for the kids, as they made a guessing game out of it.
Some guy said he was shorted a few pennies, and filed a lawsuit against the bank. And poof, all the penny arcades in all of the banks got closed down.
Even if they missed a few pennies here and there, it’s still way cheaper than the ones in the supermarket that charge for use.
So long story short, f**k that guy.
TheDivineMsM 3 years ago
So he sued, which costs hundreds of dollars, over missing like 3 cents, 5 cents.... what a douche.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I thought a penny arcade was the sort of place you get on a pier at the seaside. Sort of old game machines.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
It is explained in the text - a device that counts and keeps your small change and gives you a receipt for the cashier...
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Troy Parr 3 years ago
I wonder if people like that guy go through life spoiling things for others time and time again? What would happen if people remembered them and gave out warnings? In this case not only did the customers lose the machines. The manufacturers lost the business and maybe their workers lost jobs? And to think that guy might just have been wrong (or lying) to start with.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
It's like the kid at the back of the class who acts up just to get attention...
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Kevin Hickey 3 years ago
Part of the problem is that companies cave in to these people without putting up a fight.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
D******d was probably either lying, or was the one who miscounted. They should’ve put an age limit on it, if it was actually meant for kids. Otherwise, banks will either have a coin counter on site, or will put your change in a bag to be sent to a branch that does, then deposit the amount in your account once the amount is confirmed.
Stephen Lyford 3 years ago
Except that the machines were undercounting for thousands of customers. Sure, maybe individual people were only losing a very very small amount, but multiply that by the # of users, you get the idea. Just count your change at home, wrap it, take it to the bank. Don't ever use CoinStar machines, they take like 7% or something as a fee.
Bec 3 years ago
You almost have to though, most banks won't count it for free anymore
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However, the education system is not the only place where group punishment is used. In a workplace, group (or collective) punishment may look like less flexibility, more accountability or additional restrictions placed on when and how employees can work, Thomas argues.
“The aim, like in schools, is to rely on individual members of the team to pressure the less productive members into being more diligent and therefore more profitable. The problem is that this approach is unlikely to work in the long term for the underperformer, and is probably going to damage the performance of the other team members,” the professor explained.
The way that punishments produce compliance is by making the person afraid of being caught doing the wrong thing. “This leads to either modifying future behavior through shame and guilt – or being better at not being caught!”
#7
I worked for a company that micromanaged the s**t out of its employees. About 8 of us were in a large section together, with individual work stations where we did our jobs, but could see, interact and talk with everyone else. It was a mind numbing job, so socialization is the only way the clock went by faster. If someone was too far away, you’d usually just walk over and talk with them and head back to your work station. As long as we weren’t disruptive, management didn’t care.
Well one lady gets hired that couldn’t understand the concept of an “indoor voice” so she would shout at coworkers from across the room. She also liked to take 20-25 minute breaks instead of 15, thinking nobody noticed. Eventually, management got tired of it and changed the rules. We were no longer allowed to leave our work station, even if the place was empty of customers and we now had to have a timer with us when we went to breaks. If the time read longer than 15 minutes, we would be written up. If we left our work station or spoke too loudly, we’d get written up.
A lot of us ended up quitting shortly afterwards.
Debra McGeorge 3 years ago
That's the perfect example of how to mis-manage a company. Their loss.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Punishing everybody for the actions of one person is never a good idea. You do not keep employees long if you treat them like naughty children and not the adults they are.
Ashley Lynne 3 years ago
There's always that one person that ruins it always.. as long as workers are doing their jobs effectively micromanaging is the way to lose good employees
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Why do these companies always choose the bullying methods instead of the "punish the idiot" method?
#8
I worked at a graphic design and website company, and we had an in-house photography studio too. Nobody there was over 40, and the atmosphere was really relaxed. Almost every member of the team had visible tattoos and we wore jeans/whatever to work every day.
Then an educational software company looking to diversify bought us and put in a corporate dress code stating that we all had to have collared shirts, no visible tattoos, dress shoes, and if I was wearing a skirt it had to be longer than knee length.
We just ignored the rule until the IT guy from corporate stopped in unannounced and snitched on us.
F**k you Mike.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Sounds like he was already eating his bosses dirt anyway - well licking his arsehole anyway ...
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Danniee Gyrl 3 years ago
I am going to use this line on my entitled DNA sharers... thank you for this....:D
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Being under 40 doesn’t mean you’re the only ones who have tattoos or like to be comfortable at work. My husband is 59, and has had two tattoos on each arm since his teens. I’m 61, and always wished every day was Casual Friday. Hell, I work from home and spend about half my work days in my pajamas—-and I am so happy to be able to do that! So please don’t use age as a qualifier for comfort or body art. Oh, and Mike can go f**k himself, the dirty snitch.
Tom 3 years ago
Was about to say - why is being over 40 even relevant in the context. As a 53 year old, I have no issue with visible tattoos and jeans and would encourage a work place environment that places productivity over how you look or dress.
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Debbie Friis-Pettitt 3 years ago
Thank you for the much needed morning laugh!!!
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Zelda Blue 3 years ago
I've never believed in a dress code, to me its not what you wear but how you wear it. You could put Honey Boo Boo's mama in Versache and she is still going to be Honey Boo Boo's redneck mama, but if you put Princess Diana in a gunny sack she would still have come across as a lady.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
This is why I love working in the film industry...we wear whatever we want (within reason) I was never able to function with dress codes, lol
#9
I work for a company in Massachusetts. We have gps's in our vans now because someone called and asked for a quote to put in a security system in their commerical building. One of our people asked them how they found us (we like to find what ways reach people the best for advertising) and they said they saw one of our company vans........on the strip in Vegas.
Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago
I don't think they had permission to take the van across the country.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Punishing the employee who used the van for a long personal trip would’ve been enough. If the suits’ trust of employees drops because of it, then keep track of mileage when the vans are at the office if you must, but tracking every rotation of the tires is really OTT.
Will Cross 3 years ago
Exactly how was something ruined here because of 1 person? I'm not meaning in anyway to be rude. This just doesn't make any sense regarding something being ruined by 1 person.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
One person took the company van to Vegas ! Someone saw that van in Vegas and now all vans will have gps so no van will be seen in Vegas ! So if you want to go pick up your kid from school in van even or sit in van and cry for few minutes before your next client they will know !
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Robin Roper 3 years ago
For many years, I worked for state government and frequently drove state owned vehicles when I traveled. Many trips required overnight stays and of course, dinners at restaurants. Petty people were forever reporting state vehicles for speeding, even just a few miles per hour over posted speed, I got reported several times for having a state vehicle at a mall - because the restaurant I ate at was in a mall. One time, I decided to buy a few pieces of fruit to snack on the next day so went to a grocery store not far from the hotel where I was staying - yep, got reported for the state car being at a grocery store. Guess they would rather I report the per diem lunch rather than the $.50 apple.
Memere 3 years ago
I was the fleet administrator for 11 years at my last job, and in all those years we only had one sales rep do something like this. I ran monthly reports on fuel purchases & caught the rep traveling waaay out of their territory on a regular basis. Turned out they had a gambling addiction & were stupid enough to use the company fuel card to buy gas for the casino trips! The company didn't put GPS trackers in the cars though, they just decided to get rid of company owned cars & the sales reps had to buy their own cars going forward.
However, the result of group punishment may be exactly the opposite. “In a group punishment situation, the unidentified culprit is doing his or her best to not be caught by not taking responsibility for the behavior – which demonstrates that the initial threat of punishment was ineffective at modifying future behavior – and that culprit has no regard for the class or team.”
According to Thomas, the only mechanism left for being an effective strategy is that the group imposes its own punishment on the culprit. “In a school, this might look like social exclusion or even violence (no one likes their lunchtime taken away!) and can lead to a ‘toxic’ work environment,” he added.
#10
One dumb s***head year seven decided to burn their mouth on the coffee they bought at school. Their mother decided to try and sue the school and now we don’t have hot drinks anymore. Hate that kid
Vae 3 years ago (edited)
I admire this answer... pumpkin spice waterboarding?
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
Poor little Johnnie must go through life with no pain and therefore no lessons learnt. That mother did not help their child.
Robert T 3 years ago
They'd need a continent. I'm refraining from saying they already have one! ;-)
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Just don’t tell anyone you have a hot drink, be a drink ninja in a thermos.
#11
In my office, we used to have free candy bars (the small / bite size) at the exec admin's desk. Someone demanded a certain candy bar or complained that there was too much of one kind of candy, not sure which was the issue. The EA got really annoyed at their brattiness and got rid of the free candy. No more afternoon snackies.
NannyChachi 3 years ago
When I was working as a paper nurse at a clinic I kept a big jar of candy on my desk. Never had any complaints, but sure got alot of smiles.
Grace Walsh 3 years ago
We. Need. More. People. Who put candy on their work tables
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Pheebs 3 years ago
Worked for a shop where myself and another employee would stock a candy bowl, at our own cost. We got rid of it after a couple of old bags emptied the bowl in to their purses because “[they] make sure to always get something for free” when going places. They were the last straw, honestly. We got fed up with people whining about the selection, size of chocolates, etc.
notnow 3 years ago
I had taken a pretty Easter Bunny bowl to work and filled it with cheap candy. Was going to keep it filled for us til Easter until I saw a coworker grab a handful and put it in her pocket. Took it home that day.
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#12
One of my coworkers was snooping around and opening people's pay stub letters. He managed to keep his job (union...) but now all paystubs are sent through email.
But that's not the kicker. This same guy complained that the part time staff where getting paid to much. As a result, the full time staff didn't get a wage increase, but they cut the rate for part time staff. This resulted in a $10 per hour difference gap now. He was no better off, he just made life worse for all the part time staff.
Over time, they have closed the gap a little, but wow.
Joe Blowe 3 years ago
Full time staff get benefits, part time staff do not. That could have been part of the reason for the difference in pay.
Ashley Lynne 3 years ago
I don't understand why two hourly employees shouldn't make the same amount even if one worked 40 and the other 20 hours
Fancy that 3 years ago
Full time gets benefits like sick leave, PTO, health insurance, PT does not so pay is higher.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
This must’ve been back when companies used to fire anybody who discussed pay rates with other employees. More people know that’s illegal now, so it’s not enforceable, and the company could find itself in an expensive lawsuit.
In addition to being unlikely to change the culprit’s behavior, group punishment is likely to create worse behaviour in the rest of the group, the professor argues. “Being punished for something you did not do causes resentment towards the authority (teacher or manager), which in turn will lead to less productive behavior in the workplace or classroom. We know that students who have a good relationship with their teachers are much more likely to exhibit positive classroom behavior, and group punishment is a perfect way to destroy that relationship,” he commented and added that “similarly, a workplace wants to create a culture where the team is intrinsically motivated to be the best.”
#13
Well, at my work we’re on the verge of losing the privilege of being able to listen to our own music/podcasts/audiobooks because one guy thought it would be okay to loudly listen to a podcast about pornstars and the making of porn.
JK Rowling 3 years ago
For some reason, the only people that ever listen to things out loud are the ones that listen to obnoxious rap or weird podcasts like this. You never hear lo-fi or classic music in public because the types of people to listen to those things are the ones that respectfully wear headphones and sit in the corner.
Simo 3 years ago
I've noticed the same... Then I remembered I used to listen to Beethoven's symphonies pretty loudly in my teens 🤔 (5th, 7th, and 9th were my favourites), I'm the exception proving the rule I suppose 😅
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Robert T 3 years ago
In the office, I used to listen to music quietly on noise cancelling headphones. In a busy office the noise from other people talking, on the phone, or just the clack clack of keyboards was really distracting. If you need to speak to me, tap me on the shoulder. I literally couldn't work in an office without some way of drowning out the background noise.
Pheebs 3 years ago (edited)
Lol. One place I worked tried to dictate what we could listen to because one guy was stupid picky about his music. What was stupid is the rest of us wore headphones/buds and made sure our music wasn’t so loud it could be heard by others. The complainer wore cheap headphones that blasted music for the rest of the room to hear. Also, that guy got fired when it was discovered he was illegally downloading movies to his work computer (better internet than at home) and watching them during work hours. Let’s not also discuss the number of complaints about him due to the borderline pornographic pictures he kept switching his computer background to. He complained about everything while being a real winner himself.
Kalevra 3 years ago
Because you can watch Freddy Mercury on smart phones.
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Robert Beveridge 3 years ago
Long live the Rialto Report! ...but in the privacy of your own home please
#14
I work in healthcare. On Fridays we used to be able to dress casual instead of our usual color assigned scrubs (colors are based on title ex: CNAs purple, housekeeping blue, etc). One day a CNA showed up in a cleavage baring belly shirt, mini skirt, knee high boots and heavy make up. I don't know what the hell she was thinking, but ever since we're only allowed to wear different colored scrubs on Fridays. Even more annoying because she hasn't worked there in years but the rule stuck.
Wolfe 3 years ago
during the height of covid, my dad's job decided to allow only one person in the break room a time. sounds great on paper, but when you have, say 8 people, with a half hour lunch break, that's a 4 hour lunch window. one person has lunch at 10, and is starving by 7, while another starves til 1:30. Luckily, my dad set them straight
Lazy Panda 3 years ago
Are you sure you don't work at a paper company? Tell us the truth, it was Meredith, wasn't it?
LW 3 years ago
Never understood casual Fridays in a healthcare setting. Scrubs are much more comfortable than jeans, etc and why would you want to risk getting a patient's body fluids on your casual clothes anyway? To each his own, but it's always been nonsensical to me.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I was just going to ask that. Scrubs always looked so comfortable to me, but I've never actually worn any to know. I've even considered buying a pair to wear as work clothes around the house
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People can’t bring their dogs into work because one person brought in their puppy who had an accident and she wouldn’t clean up after it because the cleaner should do it. Awful
Jenn C 3 years ago
Your dog, your responsibility. Does she not clean up his poop on walks too, because it's not on her property?
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
That person should not have a dog. A dog is the owner's responsibility completely. We live to serve. Off to give my two cheeky pooches their lunch.
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
Nope, sorry. Your dog, you clean up the mess. It doesn't become someone else's problem just because you're at work. That dingbat should've been let go, and I feel sorry for her dog.
Jan Bowyer 3 years ago
Bringing your pet to work is such a wonderful privilege. I hate that she gives dog parents a bad name. Poor puppy ):
zims 3 years ago
A guy at work brings in his dog weekly, which was great. Then he started bringing in his puppy too, which was less great. Everyone fawns over it (including me) because it's a really cute puppy, but it competes with the dog for attention, instigates fights (I know it's playfighting but the snarling and dragging each other by the collars bugs me,) and pees in the break room. The owner tries his best to take them outside frequently and clean up after accidents, but it's way less fun having the puppy there than just the dog.
Fancy that 3 years ago
It's Brittany. Early to mid 20's? Long dark hair? A bit chubby but thinks it's ok to wear low rise pants displaying her muffin-top? That girl?
Sakeena 3 years ago
No, it’s the blonde, entitled girl who believes that she’s above others because of her genetics.
Load More Replies...For these reasons, group punishment is not the most ideal way to deal with problematic behavior. Thomas argues that instead, the best way to do so, whether it be in the school or in the workplace, is to address the underlying cause of the behavior.
He explained: “A teacher or manager can only do this if they understand the reasons why the individual is acting the way they do. Is the student acting out because they have no friends? Is the employee not productive because they are unsure of the task? When these underlying causes are known, then a solution can be implemented that is likely to benefit the whole group.”
#16
Local swimming lessons my daughter goes to requires any child 4 or younger to wear a swimming diaper. It used to be a “heavily encouraged” kind of rule. Now it’s reusable swim diaper over disposable diaper, mandatory.
This is because of one mother. They asked her to put a diaper on her 3.5 year old, she swore she was potty trained and made a big fuss about it. Kid pooped within like 5 minutes of getting in the pool. So pool was shut down. Next lesson same thing, a couple of us parents even offered to give her diapers for her child. Nope she refused, saying her kid will never poop in the pool again. 10 minutes later pool was shut down.
After that they made it mandatory and got very strict about it. My daughter was a month away from turning 4 but they said she has to wear a diaper. My kid was pissed about it but I understood.
Night Owl 3 years ago (edited)
and what a crappy situation for everyone involved
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Will Tiernan 3 years ago
Swim diapers don't go over a regular diaper, they are used instead of a regular one and only catch solids. If you put a kid in a normal diaper in a pool (with a swim diaper over it) the regular diaper would absorb its capacity of swimming pool water and then be (a) heavy and a danger to the child due to the weight and (b) utterly useless at absorbing anything else.
Emily 3 years ago
She meant that you have to put a reusable (cloth) swim diaper over a disposable swim diaper. They make those. It’s a common rule actually.
Load More Replies... Kusotare 3 years ago
I get why this happens. I teach kids seasonally in a setting that most of them are unaccustomed, and being in a new and distracting environment can make children who are perfectly potty trained at home backslide and start crapping their pants. Little Jimmy and Susie are fine at home, but when dunked into cool water, they lose their $hit. Literally.
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
It's a very basic instinct in little ones, especially if the water is at all warm.
Load More Replies... Memere 3 years ago
Oh, I would definitely do that, but it's not just a matter of fishing the lumpy bits out of the pool. They have to close the pool to everyone for a minimum number of hours & go through a complete sanitizing of the pool. Most places will shut down the pool for at least 24 hours due to the possibility of cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite.
Load More Replies... Joy Hunter 3 years ago
Last two posts both have the same problem.: Any employee or customer who expects someone else to clean up after them, either literally (the employee) or figuratively (the customer) is out. There is absolutely no excuse for an employee who expects the underpaid, overworked, probably minority cleaning person to literally clear up her (puppy's) poop. It's her puppy; that means it's her mess.
THEBOI4000 3 years ago
They should have just said "listen lady you can put a diaper on your kid or get your Karen self out of our pool before we call the cops"
Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago
I've never met a kid who wasn't fully potty trained past age 2. Weird.
Logan Duffy 3 years ago
ay i see what ya did there Pumpkin Spice...you are trained well in the art of pun making
#17
My fourth grade teacher allowed us to chew gum in class. He said that if he found evidence of misuse, like sticking it under desktop, he would ban chewing gum. One kid stuck it on a window sill and ruined it for all of us.
Rob 3 years ago
Except we all know its never just one kid right. People are lazy and leave a mess every where. Go to any beautiful nature area in the world and you are gonna find trash because some people just decided it was too much effort too hold it. Same with gum, in the end too many people are just gonna be lazy and stick it somewhere.
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Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
I never got why people would stick gum under stuff... I mean, firstly, why not just swallow it if you can't put it in a bin? And secondly, that's YOUR desk that has gum under it now - you'll definitely be one of the people putting your hand in it at some point, as soon as you forget you put it there! That's like not washing your hands at home when you've got diarrhea - you are one of the people touching the contaminated places! Why risk it when there's easy alternatives?!
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
This picture reminds me of the old high school in my hometown. We used to say it was held together by gum and termites holding hands. I miss it, the building, not my hometown. LOL
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
It's not exactly mass punishment, is it? It's giving a privilege based on an honour system - if the system is misused, the privilege is gone. Mass punishment would be to have everyone scrub the desks clean because one person stuck gum there.
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Gluten_free 3 years ago
We had to take this super serious state testing for a week in school. If anyone got caught with an unauthorized device, the entire class had to restart their tests. It was the very last 20 minutes of the testing session and some punk got caught with his iphone out. Most of the kids were finished already, they were just waiting on a couple people. Thanks a lot
#18
This happened earlier this week. I work in a kindergarten and a standard practice, for years. was to reward kids with stickers. Well, earlier this week one little angel decided that a sticker is edible and ate it. The sticker, living up to it's name, got stuck and lodged in the throat.... Hospital, angry parents and no more stickers
Max M 3 years ago
Sounds strange. It worked for years. Her kid is on the brat and brainless scale. And that changes a rule?
Memere 3 years ago
I understand the issue with a child almost choking to death, and the liability that creates. Instead of banning stickers, it would be easy to make small sticker books for each student & the teacher put the sticker in the book. Don't give the sticker directly to the child. Plus, at the end of the term or school year, each kid has a memento.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Not as extreme, but I have known parents in the past objecting to kids having stickers on their clothes or skin, so we had to get the kids to put their sticker on a piece of paper when they got a reward.
Jillian 3 years ago
That's stupid. I imagine the child doesn't know how to act in a school setting due to Covid upending pre-k for a couple years. There are kindergarteners and first graders who have never been in school before so they don't know how to behave in a school setting. Also, we need to stop appeasing parents so much. They should take responsibility for their kids' behaviors.
Hermien Greeff 3 years ago
We use to get golden stars, or a crown on our forehead. I had a long fringe, was the best moment to get home and lift the fringe up to show my mom.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
My 2yo tries to eat stickers. I would not complain to the daycare about it, even if it landed them in the hospital. At kindergarten age... There might be an intellectual disability that needs evaluated
Moreover, Thomas added that addressing problematic or unproductive behavior is part of a teacher or manager’s job. “They need to be equipped with the knowledge and strategies that will produce long-term gains rather than short-term compliance.”
“Group punishment may look like it is working when it is applied – students and employees will appear to be doing the right thing for a while – but without addressing the underlying cause of the problem, leaders who impose this strategy should expect an increase in undesirable behavior in the future,” the professor concluded.
#19
Any time work had a company-wide meeting, they'd buy large cases of soda and have a lot left over. They'd put them in the various fridges around the office and you were free to take one or two a day if you wanted it. Some a*****e loaded up a dufflebag with full cans one Friday as he left, and the next week or so later the sodas were all locked in the supply closet. Now they buy much smaller cases so that there's almost no left overs.
Happy Blue Panda 3 years ago
All it takes is that one a*****e. This is why it's some times difficult for an employer to want to provide free items because there is always someone like this.
Leodavinci 3 years ago
True... but the only proper way to deal with these sort of things is to punish the guilty, not everybody. It's just lazy and incompetent on the part of employers.
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Pheebs 3 years ago
One place I worked had issues keeping air freshener, Lysol, hand soap, and toilet paper in stock. This was well before the pandemic, mind you. They had to start locking all that up, and finally would even keep air freshener or Lysol in the bathrooms anymore. They also moved to those locked down soap dispensers and toilet paper holder so people would stop taking those too. Which sucked because that meant we got the super cheap single ply tp.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
This is another case (excuse the pun) of bad / inept management who should have stipulated that if anyone was found to be abusing the ethic of fair distribution of whatever was left over, they would be reprimanded appropriately - if it happened more than once it would be escalated etc .....
Mad McQueen 3 years ago
Boss would buy us sports drinks and keep in coolers in break room for us on ice for super hot days. Few guys would load up their backpacks an empty out the coolers to be greedy a holes. So no more iced drinks cuz of them. They knew who it was but never punished them.
#20
Worked for large company. When we hired contract workers, we let them go to company BBQs and picnics.
Then when we didn't renew one's contract, they claimed "we treated them like employees" and sued us for unemployment benefits.
No more BBQs and picnics for contract workers.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago (edited)
State a clause: even when invited to corporate bbq, you are still a contract worker.
RyanRyanRyan 3 years ago
Unfortunately US laws are sometimes (always?) crazy and make no sense. I've run into similar things and been through unemployment insurance audits after contractors claimed to be employees due to benefits that were shared with them. Maybe the best solution is to get rid of individual contractors entirely and equalize benefits and protections regardless of how someone is labeled.
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John Yaskowich 3 years ago
At my work the contractors were invited to lunches etc but it was explicitly stated that these were non-billable hours and in no way a benefit. There was also something about no Employer-Employee relationship
Thundercuss 3 years ago
While it does suck that the bbq's got cancelled, I can't blame the contractors. Contract/Temp work is a corporate tool for exploiting workers. The company gets the same work out of them as they do out of the regular employees but treats them as second class people not worthy of benefits.
Linnea 3 years ago
Yep, you are exactly right. The company was probably deliberately misclassifying the contract workers to get away with not giving them benefits. This is one of the most common forms of wage theft. The contract worker in question was entitled by law to complain, and in fact I applaud him/her for standing up for their rights. The fact that the company responded by banning the contract workers from company picnics & BBQs is 1) not his/her fault, and 2) not his/her problem.
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
Wait,,, hold up here... What a great way to do Melon balls and Prosciutto!
Matthew DeWitt 3 years ago
When I was a contractor the contracting company I worked for had to pay unemployment.
#21
We are not allowed to wear trash bags as rain coats since someone forgot to cut arm holes and couldn't catch themselves when they fell down.
Robert T 3 years ago
That may have been better, as corpses don't complain.
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Leon Praveen Lang 3 years ago
Is it that bad not wearing trash bags as jackets?! I'm not sure how it is in the country the person who wrote this lives but there are places in Germany (where I live), where you get rain jackets for free...for example I got one in a tank museum
#22
We used to play our own music at the store. Well, someone plays explicit music with customers on the floor. No more music at work.
Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
I work in a childrens hospital. I listen exclusively to Disney music. I know it's 100% safe, the kids get a kick and my coworkers think its great.
Al B. Wright 3 years ago
I hope I don't get down voted, as it's just a difference of opinion, but I couldn't think of anything worse than constant Disney music!
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Robert Beveridge 3 years ago
Back in the very early 90s I managed a branch of a chain bookstore. I would sometimes play audio books over the sound system, and those were sometimes, um, adult in places (we were all pretty big Robert Ludlum fans). Never once had a customer complain, not even those with kids... And we sold the most audio books of any store in the area!
Al B. Wright 3 years ago
I have a friend who uses Spotify random play lists at work, but the only problem is sometimes is comes up with something explicit!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My brother had a playlist set up for his store, nothing explicit on it, but someone complained, so it was back to 'Gold' (as in golden oldies) or 'Smooth' (like Michael Bublé) on the radio!
#23
Worked for a pub that didn't have a specific rule about not drinking (alcohol) on shift, but it was well known that you didn't do it. After an event, when we cleaning down, the boss would buy us a drink and we would drink it whilst finishing up.
Then one day one of the younger staff members (above legal drinking age, but still young enough to be stupid), decided to drink on shift, get hammered, and f**k up at his job. Boss tries to discipline him, but the fact there was no rule about not drinking on shift meant co worker got away with it. Cue new rule being added to say drinking on shift was forbidden, and there goes our 'reward' drinks from our boss. And due to the staff member betraying his trust, the boss became a lot more stand-offish and the whole atmosphere of the place changed.
Ross Warren 3 years ago
They should be in trouble for messing up the job. Alcohol is no excuse.
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
I have a correction to make on this, stupidity has no age limit, also he should be the only one banned
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
I used to work for a large UK based hotel chain as a manager and in one place (a 3* historic hotel in a nice market town), we had 7 beers and 2 ciders on draught which we used to clean the pipes through every Sunday morning from about 7am, usually me and my deputy. We'd pull the cleaning fluid through, go for breakfast, then come back and flush the pipes with water, afterwards, in the interests of quality control, we'd have a half pint each - 3.5 pts beer, 1 pt Cider, EACH, before 11 am - after that, Sundays used to fly by in a gentle fluffy haze .... Happy days.
AK to LV 3 years ago
I worked at a locally owned restaurant where one year we had our first ever Christmas party thrown by the owner. There was free beer from the tap but not the expensive stuff. Some people got sloppy drunk. The owner was so disgusted/disappointed that there was never another Xmas party.
#24
I worked as an English teacher in South Korea for a few years. It used to be that if school was off, you didn't have to go in. It made sense. What happened was a vocal person decided it was not fair that certain people didn't have to go in because their school's calendar was different. They started complaining about it and the result was that everyone has a set number of vacation days and you have to schedule your days off. That person was not very popular and ended up leaving before long. They ruined it for future teachers though.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
Yup. Even just a one person vocal minority can ruin it for everyone.
Luna Lovegood for Justice 3 years ago
Please don't do this. Write a comment relating to the story or downvote the rude comment. This just brings attention to the comment.
Load More Replies... BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This is actually better than the current state of vacation days in South Korea for teaching English
#25
This happened before I joined the company but dress rules were very relaxed, including shorts (which if I could I would wear shorts ALL THE TIME, even in blizzard conditions).
So one idiot comes in on Friday with his bike and his racing bike gear including those nylon biker shorts which show off his junk and a*s. He was surprised when he was sent home to change and the rules got a lot stiffer after that. So now we don't even get regular shorts for casual fridays (They allowed it one month during the summer when sales were amazing).
Nightshade1972 3 years ago (edited)
My family moved from Chicago to Houston when I was 12. In Chicago, if you wanted to wear shorts to school during the warmer months, nobody cared. In Houston, gasp! You can only wear shorts during gym class! The rest of the time, no matter how hot/humid it is, you must wear long pants! That rule didn't change until the student council president broke his leg so high up that the cast went all the way up to his thigh. The school tried to insist he wear sweatpants over the cast, instead of shorts. His parents had to threaten to sue before they backed down and finally got rid of the "no shorts" rule for everyone, not just him.
Pheebs 3 years ago (edited)
Good lord. I couldn’t imagine not being able to wear shorts in Florida during school. The classrooms were cold af, but we had to sit outside between classes and lunch. I’d have passed out daily. It was bad enough we weren’t allowed to have drinks in class - especially as they were 2 hour classes.
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Memere 3 years ago
My husband is a cyclist & yeah, bike shorts are absolutely not appropriate office wear. When we first moved close enough to his office that he could ride his bicycle, he tried it for a week. He had to pack a change of clothes & a towel, get there extra early to wash up in the men's room, & dress in office wear with zero privacy. Yeah, that plan lasted one day.
#26
We used to have little wine and food mixers in the office every month.
Then f*****g Jessica had to bring vodka. Next thing you knows she’s running around the office with no shoes trying to play tag, flirting with bosses, calling a female co-worked a b***h, eventually passing out in her cubicle and we had to call her husband to collect her.
No more wine and appetizers :-(
Nimues Child 3 years ago
That's how my office worked. That person disciplined (and eventually out) and responsible growups get to have wine + appetizers.
Load More Replies... Pheebs 3 years ago
We use to have a wine and snacks holiday party where people were expected to keep wine intake to 1-2 properly sized glasses (like 4-6oz a glass). Then one of the managers got a bit sloshed without realizing it, and got a DUI on the way home (someone would have stopped them driving had they known). They didn’t get rid of the wine for the party, but it’s now heavily monitored. Honestly, I’ve never really liked the whole have a glass of alcohol and then go drive bit. Not everyone responds the same, and you’re still expecting adults to know their own limits and not be idiots.
Ki Li 3 years ago
Yes. With drinking, adults are expected to know your limits. If you're going to drink more than a glass or 2 or you don't know your limits or can't handle your self then call a cab or have a DD.
Load More Replies... Joy Hunter 3 years ago
What is wrong with all these companies that they penalize innocent, responsible employees instead of firing the ones causing the problems? I don't get it.
#27
A restaurant I worked at changed a policy just weeks after I started.
Old rule: Employees may drink up to 2 alcoholic beverages after their shift, provided they change out of work clothes.
New Rule: No employee of 'Hoover Street Cafe' may drink ANY alcohol at ANY location. Period. EVER. Or you're fired.
What happened? A soon-to-be ex-GM came in after serving hours, made a sh*t-ton of drinks for her, her husband, and her friends and then comped the tab.
Yep, that'll do it.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago (edited)
The problem with some of these is the lack of sindicates to protect the employees. Here, some of these would have not been able to get rid of so easily, as they are "gained rights", and the sindicates representatives and layers would have fought and won. I am talking about my country, obviously. In Europe.
Logan Duffy 3 years ago
what in the hell! even on the nights before a day off?like,you don't have to go to work tomorrow,and then you get fired because you treated yourself to a drink?that seems like bullshirt to me,and i'm not even old enough to drink yet!
Al B. Wright 3 years ago
I read it like that at first too, but I think it's actually a chain of bars/restaurants. So it wouldn't mean you have to be completely sober at all times wherever you are, I think it's more like no employee can be served alcohol at any of the "locations" in that chain. That way there's no possibility of a whole tab being comped by any employee in future.
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Matthew Jameson 3 years ago
The TGI Fridays I worked at in NY had a similar situation. The managers were always buying the line cooks drinks after a tough shift, but some a*****e started forging their names on the comps & would have like 10 free drinks a night, until they caught on. I apologized profusely, but the back of the house still hated me.
Jason Marin 3 years ago (edited)
So they're not even allowed to drink alcohol at their own house? That's not only stupid but grounds for a lawsuit in wrongful termination.
Ki Li 3 years ago
They can't drink alcohol at that bar and any of its other locations. Like, say you work at location A. You can't drink there but you also can't go to the next town and drink in location B.
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THEBOI4000 3 years ago
Wait so if you work there you can't drink ever? How could a company enforce such rules? Is it even legal to do that?
Cactus 1549 3 years ago
Does that new rule mean that I can’t buy a six pack on my day off and enjoy it in my own home?
#28
Phones were removed from break rooms in the building because one guy decided to use them to call his family overseas.
Zero tolerance on being late for work because several people decided that because there was a 15 minute buffer before being considered late then they actually didn't have to be there until 15 minutes after the hour, and some of them couldn't even handle that...
Nightshade1972 3 years ago
I'm reminded of a guy who, for years, managed to make it to work on time every day (M-F 8-5). Suddenly, he starts showing up 15 minutes late every day--but he still leaves promptly at 5. Turned out he'd moved to a new apartment, that was 15 minutes further away than his old place was. Absolutely could not understand the concept of needing to get up 15 minutes earlier now that he's in the new place. His employers even tried changing his schedule so that he could do 8:15-5:15 every day, and he *still* showed up late. When they let him go for chronic tardiness, he whined. Oh well...
Pheebs 3 years ago
Yeah… I used to be one of those serial late people, but only for morning start times. Two different jobs finally just gave up yelling at me as I was at least consistent in being no more then 5-10 minutes late, and I made up for it by being a really hard worker. The first job was retail, and they knew I was going to school full time (15-17 credit hours/semester) while working full time. I was barely getting 1-2 hours of sleep a night because my degree involved a LOT of extra work outside the classroom. Plus I would work 14 hour days on weekends when we were short handed. My current job has worked best. Boss just tells us we need to at work between 7-9am, and give him a heads up if we’re running behind.
#29
We had a cube farm at work. Many people had things like cup warmers and coffee pots in their cubes. I myself had a coffee grinder and coffee maker. I'd fresh grind the beans and set the timer on my coffee maker, and have fresh coffee waiting for me when I arrived in the morning.
Then one guy left a crock pot on when he went home. It smoked out the whole building. Fire department was called, building was evacuated, etc.
Suddenly we were not allowed to have anything other than normal office stuff plugged in.
Kamie Jones 3 years ago (edited)
Lol, this happened at my old employer but a girl brought a hair straightener and was doing her hair while on the clock at her desk 🤣
Pheebs 3 years ago
Lol. Had a coworker who did this all the time. Makeup too. She never gave herself enough to time to get ready in the morning - mostly because she never showed up at a consistent time - and then wasted almost the whole first hour of her day at working finishing “getting ready” for work.
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JB 3 years ago
Wondering where (country) this is or if it was a long time ago. Personal electrical items at the desk have been banned every place I’ve worked for the last 24-25 years because they’re a potential fire hazard. Company-owned equipment is supposed to meet minimum standards and be checked once a year or so for wear and tear to the plug and power cables. Note: I said “supposed to.”
Robert T 3 years ago
I've worked in places where they allow personal items, such as phone chargers, but they have to be tested for electrical safety. Anything that gets hot likes coffee machines or crockpots is a fire hazard.
Load More Replies... Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
A hospital I used to work at had forbidden people from making microwave popcorn because it kept being burnt and setting off smoke alarms.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
What about temporising the plugs, so they turn off when leaving work and turn on half an hour before shift?
BlackestDawn 3 years ago
Might work for most people but I don't think it would work for OP and similar since those are very likely to loose their settings when loosing power.
Load More Replies... Cat Palmer 3 years ago
A similar rule was brought in at a previous workplace of mine after someone decided to make their fan heater 'festive' by draping tinsel over it and leaving it switched on all weekend. No more heaters allowed after the fire brigade had finished...
THEBOI4000 3 years ago
What kind of idiot puts a crock pot in there cubical? Was he cooking for the whe office or something lol
#30
I used to work at a therapy farm for people with mental health issues/learning difficulties. Never had any problem until we had an open day for the general public when, after a panicked rush to the hospital, we had to put up huge signs telling people not to put their whole hands into the pigs mouth when feeding them.
(These were BIG pigs with enormous tusks, most of our clients were wary even going near them not sure what that lady was thinking. She was lucky she kept all her fingers!)
Keller Worthen 3 years ago
She kept all her fingers... just not the hand they were attached to.
Wolfe 3 years ago
She kept the hand. It's just not attached to the end of her are any longer
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Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
I'd love to go to a therapy farm and pet all the farm cats! For some reason, cats love me. I know how to make them feel comfy (just vibe in silence)
#31
Used to work in car sales that sold all kinds of second hand cars. If you needed to take a car to another branch in a different town you used to be able to take the car home that night and have it ready at your house in the morning to head straight there without going into work and swapping over. One guy at another branch faked a move request on a high end Range Rover so he could use it that night on a date which would have been fine really but he got drunk and wrote it off on the high street by rolling it over.. goes without saying no one was ever allowed to take cars home again after that
PurpleUnicorn 3 years ago
Damaged the car so badly it would cost too much to repair, so the insurance company wrote it off - ie car has to be scrapped
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#32
Some dumbass burned up a bag of microwave popcorn and set off the fire alarm in the state psych hospital, on 3rd shift (around 2-3 am). The entire building had to be evacuated, which involved about 15-20 staff and 150 psych patients being herded out in the middle of the night. After that, there was a ban on microwave popcorn. Edit: Also, the city fire department showed up. They weren't happy.
Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
I have to wonder if this was in Atascadero...lol... Another hospital in that area also had a popcorn ban.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Is there really a place called Atascadero? That is translated as blockage in Spanish!
Load More Replies... Deborah B 3 years ago
My staircase in Uni halls of residence almost got a popcorn ban after three midnight fire alarms in a week. Fortunately several people knew who was responsible, and kidnapped their microwave for a week. The offender was informed that if they ever set off the fire alarm again, their microwave would be destroyed.
AK to LV 3 years ago
I have no problem with this type of problem solving!😂
Load More Replies... THEBOI4000 3 years ago
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
My office relocated to a 30 story building and we were told that "microwaving popcorn" was a fireable offense. This was a place that wouldn't discipline you if they found you drunk on the job. We believed them about the popcorn though.
#33
At my undergrad university TAs are no longer allowed to answer questions about the problems during exams if medical students are taking the exam. Apparently somebody complained that answering questions during the exam gives some students an unfair advantage. I have to add, though, that the questions that are answered by TAs during an exam are usually about unclarities/ambiguities/missing information in the exam problems. They will not give the students hints on how to solve the problem.
Tim 3 years ago
I had a strong dislike for all the premed people while I was in school. Grade grubbing was bad enough among the general population, but they took it to a whole new level. Apparently, if you don't ace all your classes, they just throw your med school application in the garbage.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Competition for placement in med school, or nursing school, is fierce, the number of places available is severely limited, and the schools receive so many applications they can really only take the top applicants anyway.
Load More Replies... Bec 3 years ago
You can ask me but I may not give you an answer is a better policy. My brother got his bachelor from a prestigious private college and much later did night classes to get a master's from a public colleges's branch location. He was stunned when a student who must have had accomodations was taking his test in another room but proceeded to burst into the room where everyone else was testing to ask questions every five minutes. He thought this was extremely unprofessional and would never have flew at the private college
#34
Our company had to buy all office staff steel toecap shoes as one woman in the office decided to wear flip flops to work and dropped a full box of paper on her foot. Everyone else already wore sensible shoes and carried one ream at a time because it was safer.
Amy Taylor 3 years ago
They did that in the film industry. I'm in CA and summers are brutal here so I would wear sandals to work when we were outside on location. In retrospect, it probably wasn't smart because there's too much heavy equipment being moved around, so you can't wear open toed shoes of any kind now.
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago (edited)
In production, I get it. But for the office crew?
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RK Barbo 3 years ago
I think the burning question is, what kind of moron thinks it's acceptable to wear flip-flops to work, no matter how casual?
AK to LV 3 years ago
😂 I guess that's the point of this list. All the particular morons that we work/-ed with😂
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Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago (edited)
They did this in the movie theaters in government installations here... steel toed boots for the projectionists because some a*****e decided to drop a film reel on his toe purposely to break it then claim 8 weeks of paid accident leave. We used to wear any comfortable shoes we wanted until this. We also used to be able to wear jeans and a nice shirt... same a*****e... got grease on his jeans and demands the park (USNPS) replace or pay to have them cleaned. They replaced them alright... they made us wear uniforms even though we weren't visible to the public. Yes, those green and gray long sleeve, long pants with steel toed boots uniforms. In dead of summer too! Even after he was long gone. Thanks a lot Rudy!
#35
One year in high school they instituted a "no dunking" rule.
It was because some guy dunked and decided to hang on the rim like he was Shaq, and that might have been okay, but dude did chin ups on it and wriggled around as he swung like he was being tasered.
A rain of 'glass' or fibreglass or whatever the hell the backboard was made of came down as the guy screamed louder.
So of course, game was over, and the bused us back to our school and we were all pissed at the guy.
Then next day in praise, they tell us our league - high school basketball for a large region - decided just 'f**k this' and immediately there was a rule that dunks weren't allowed, were a technical and immediately disqualification and suspension.
Thanks Ben!
Michael Largey 3 years ago
During the 1960s dunking was banned at all levels of basketball. It was labeled "offensive goaltending". The thought was that it gave tall players too big of an advantage. The fact that many of these taller players, like Kareem Abdul Jabaar (then called Lew Alcindor) were black was probably not a coincidence.
#36
This one guy in my school got into 4 wrecks in the parking lot. They implemented a 5 mph speed limit. Everyone was angry and the guy got into a another wreck 2 weeks later anyway.
René Sauer 3 years ago
Wow, is this op really mad that they have to drive slowly in an area where there is no separation between cars and pedestrians? Cry me a river you big baby
Memere 3 years ago
Speed bumps would be good, but it sounds like that still wouldn't have stopped this guy!
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
I worked in a school where the staff parking - gated away from children, but still school property - had a 5mph speed limit. I don't see why it's a big issue. However someone complained that somebody 'might' speed and a child 'might' be in the parking area. So speed bumps were put in. Again, no big issue - better safe than sorry. However, these were not normal speed bumps - they were like mini brick walls. This resulted in many people parking on the road around the school as lots of cars couldn't get over them. Thus making children walking to school way way more dangerous.
Load More Replies... Ivy la Sangrienta 3 years ago
It's wild, schools don't have student parking lots in my country. Everyone either walks, bikes or takes public transport.
#37
We were given work from home access so we can login and work, in case of emergencies. However, management didn't bat an eye if one day a week we logged in from home instead of coming to the office.
One idiot, when working from Home, was clearly stating "I'll work on it when i'm back in the office." during email and IMs. They immediately stopped all work at home requests and all work had to be done in the office.
It was clear that nobody was really "working" from home, but work was reasonable enough where as long as we showed face and addressed issues as they came up, we were fine. They didnt expect somebody to be that stupid....
Random Panda 3 years ago
I mean if people weren't actually working when at home, I get why it was banned. I've had several jobs that let you work from home a few days a week and we were in fact expected to work.
Memere 3 years ago
My husband works from home every other week, but then he's the former VP of the IT department at his company, semi-retired now. And most companies do have the capability of tracking employees working from home from them being logged on to the system.
Load More Replies... Pheebs 3 years ago
Had one guy ruin this for a company. The president of the company was already a micro-managing PITA, and didn’t really trust WFH days, but we had this one guy who moved out of state that had convinced the President and dept managers he was doing all kinds of work, blah, blah, blah. Turns out he wasn’t even doing much before he went WFH, and he was milking things after. No more WFH allowed, but a couple of managers made occasional allowances for highly trusted workers. They just didn’t tell the President. The pandemic really about made that President’s brain explode as most everyone had to go remote.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
I have been working from home for 20 years. If I didn't work (like now) I wouldn’t eat. I do take breaks to read BP though.
#38
We weren’t allowed to play dodgeball at school anymore because some kid was domed in the head and bitched to his parents. They suspended the game, so being supportive young kids, we threw those hard leathered basketballs at him the next day.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
Not the kid's fault. It's the parents' and the school's. Throw balls at them!
zims 3 years ago
Definitely the kid's fault, what happens in PE stays in PE
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Terry Tobias 3 years ago
I hated playing dodgeball in school! My anxiety level goes through the roof just thinking about it.
Pheebs 3 years ago (edited)
We had a kid get a concussion after getting hit in the head with a soft, foam dodgeball. All that happened is we were asked to aim lower. Years before that, at another school, I got unlucky enough to get two hard rubber dodgeballs to the head during a game - at the same time. All that happened was the teacher blamed me for not having 360 peripheral vision, and getting used as example for the rest of the class on how “not” to play. No concussion for me, thankfully, and I learned how to dodge and catch quite well. 🙄
Logan Duffy 3 years ago
well the kid bitched to his parents,what did it do?make things worse.lemme guess,they banned baseball,football,baseball,or any game with balls because of one little shite of a hellspawn
Al B. Wright 3 years ago (edited)
Exactly what I was going to say, he just made himself a target! Also, a friendly tip, you can edit your comments so you don't have to leave another with a *.
Load More Replies... Joy Hunter 3 years ago
Getting hit in the head with a ball can cause serious injury. I once got a tetherball smack on my forehead and was out several days with a concussion. Dodgeball is a pretty disgusting, as well as dangerous, game.
Luna Lovegood for Justice 3 years ago (edited)
Actually, in my experience it is the kid who threw the ball. When I was at summer camp (11yo) there was this one guy who would throw way harder than he needed too. Hits someone in the head and boom! No dodgeball. Next summer, I am at the same camp and the counselor decides we can play dodgeball one more time. At first, it looks like everyone is playing fair. Then, the same guy from last year decides to throw it super hard at a small girl. This time, not only is dodgeball banned we were all "grounded" where we had to put our heads down for like, an hour. During that time, I was screaming at the guy in my head and I am pretty sure others were too.
Sonnovab Kegeles 3 years ago
Not the kids or the parents fault, dodge ball is simply school encouraged bullying. Should not be allowed period. Of course I'm the guy no one liked (gay) so I got heavily bombarded every time.
#39
At a store i used to work at there is a no employees under 18 can use a ladder without supervision due to a ladder jousting tournament i hosted while working there involving all 6 under 18 employees
Desiree McKinnon 3 years ago
I'm picturing a bookstore... with those floor-to-ceilling ladders... guys up on the ladders... lances in hand... guys on the floor... running... pushing the ladders...
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#40
We're doing 12 hour nightshifts in China, and normally we would sneak off to our empty office and take a 40 minute nap. It was great and left us refreshed until our moron coworker kept falling asleep in the control room loudly snoring. Now we have received some very stern warnings about sleeping on the job.
John Lun 3 years ago
They get breaks. This was an extra 40 to catch up on sleep.
Load More Replies... Troy Parr 3 years ago
Before I was diagnosed as having severe obstructive sleep apnea I would fall asleep often and my loud snoring was obstructed breathing. Over the years, many people objected to my snoring, when in fact it was me struggling to breathe through a closing throat. It was completely outside of my control. So I would be struggling to breathe, never managing to sleep properly, always tired and trying to sleep and yet I was supposed to consider other people's complaints? No. Just no.
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
People are so damned nasty about invisible disabilities. Sleep apnea can be fatal. Good to know you got a diagnosis, I'm sure your life is so much better now! And to the person who downvoted you, I hope you never lose a loved one to sleep apnea - it's heartbreaking, because it's curable, death from sleep apnea is preventable. I lost the love of my life to it.
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Marie Dahme 3 years ago
I read somewhere that in Japan, that if you napped a little bit at your desk it’s encouraged as it’s seen as a sign that you’re really busting your butt making it seem as if you’re overworked. Can anyone clarify if they have heard sometime like this before???
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#41
About twenty years ago, anyone wanting to make a Banana Split at Brauhm's Ice Cream and Dairy would have a paring knife for the task. Then one day some bored dipsh*t was tapping one such paring knife against his leg point first. A concerned onlooker pointed out the danger. "It won't even go through the apron," the mouth breather countered, putting just a little more force behind his next tap to prove his point. Four stitches later, Brauhm's replaced their pairing knifes with rounded tip steak knives, and though they offered no explanation, I've always assumed it was because some moron couldn't comprehend that having a dull edge didn't preclude a knife from having a sharp point. Source - I was the idiot who stabbed himself in the leg at work. In my defense, they had three people on grill and I had nothing better to do.
Grace Walsh 3 years ago
It’s fine, you aren’t an idiot. You where bored and weren’t paying much attention on how hard you where tapping. I don’t blame you. I would have done the same thing 🤗
#42
My school used to do cool outside activities like, bowling, surfing, ice skating, gymnastics etc. Some dipsh*t from another school, was at the pool for swimming lessons/ swimming contests (one of the best activities in summer if you don’t wanna surf) he ran into the pool area when he wasn’t supposed to and jumped into a pool still filling up, cracked his head and became a paraplegic and his parents tried to sue the school activities, because apparently they wasn’t a sign where he jumped and multiple verbal warning wasn’t good enough. (Parents lost the case) So all activities from all participating schools were cancelled and never re-started again. I got to have 3 cool activities days before it was cancelled because of that guy.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
So a kid got paraplegic at a very young age, and you are worried because he ruined your summer... That is s bit selfish, selfcenterd, egotistic thought. You are not a nice human being.
Logan Duffy 3 years ago
that guy seems like he'd be a real shithead at anything else too.like he would be the person to ban cookware from stores like walmart and target because they were quote on quote"dangerous weapons
Stup1dcrap 3 years ago
OK, first, the term is "quote, unquote", not "on quote". More importantly, when you use actual quote marks (") you are literally using the term quote, unquote. So you've just said "quote unquote quote dangerous weapons unquote" . So there's that. Second, a guy who ended up a paraplegic for a mistake he made as a kid REALLY doesn't need to be called a shithead. Have a little empathy bruh.
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We had a microwave in the school cafeteria that only seniors could use that caught on fire. One day some sleep deprived student tried to heat his burrito still wrapped in the foil and in a paper bag in the microwave. The bag caught fire, damaged the microwave, and caused a huge ruckus. Everyone lost the privilege of having a microwave let alone using one and everyone was upset. I would chalk it up to stupidity but everyone was operating on fumes that I don't think anyone was fully awake during school hours.
#44
At my local hospital we have this thing called "Ticket To Ride" or Transport Ticket. It pretty much means that the staff isn't allowed to take patients anywhere within the hospital unless the nurse/caregiver fills out and signs a form. Simple right? We didn't always have that in place. When I started working there it was all done through verbal communication and that worked fine. Until about 4 years ago... someone brought a patient back from their appointment and for whatever reason didn't let the nurse know that the patient was in their room. The patient was on an O2 tank. By the time the staff realized the patient was back the tank was on empty and from what I heard the patient almost died. Soon after a similar incident happened except the brakes on the recliner weren't set and the patient ended up falling on the floor because of it. Since then the hospital made up the "Ticket To Ride" system. It's a pain in the a*s only because you use to just do what you gotta do with the patients and leave, but now some nurses are no where to be found because they don't want to sign the ticket. I'm serious. They don't want to sign the ticket so they hide or do other things that require 10-20 minutes to do. It's a different story when they are busy with another patient for a moment, but come on now... it literally takes 13 seconds to fill out these damn things. So, thanks to those of you who couldn't do your jobs properly. You ruined it for everyone else.
#45
I worked in a place once that cut bathroom breaks because one girl kept taking them, she was allowed because she was pregnant, but she was staying up there 15 minutes at a time on her phone because she hated work. ​ ​ Also worked in an open office where there were multiple different sports companies on the same level and we would have like rice krispie squares and oreos on fridays mostly but that stopped when someone from the rowing company complained of there being unhealthy food.
SCP-3998 3 years ago
I dont care what the reason is, you LEGALLY cannot cut bathroom breaks or cut access to washrooms from ANYONE. Some people have IBS, Crohns, and other health issues that require sometimes frequent bathroom breaks. Trying to cut access to washrooms is just opening yourself up for a lawsuit.
Amy Mo 3 years ago
Agreed. I have an employee who takes at least three 15-minute bathroom breaks per her six-hour shift. She sits in the stall, watching videos on her phone and I can’t do anything about it. She was terminated from her last job for the same reason. Some people should have it denied.
Load More Replies... Logan Duffy 3 years ago
the sports one is what i mean by this is:b***h-a*s shithead,it's a friday,let them eat oreos
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
Seriously - if someone doesn't want Oreos, they don't have to eat them. And no one is stopping them or anyone else from bringing in their own healthy snacks.
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I work at Starbucks.
As many of you know, we use acronyms for *everything.* That short hand you see on the side of the cups? It's how we marked things.
Until some dips*** who didn't know what an acronym was, instead of asking, added the wrong ingredient to a drink. The customer, of course, got violently sick due to an allergy.
Now we have to write out the names of everything instead of using acronyms (except when marking cups).
Not that anyone actually *does* write it out, but we're *supposed* to.
Memere 3 years ago
You would think so, but there's always that one person who can go thru training & still not get it. Those people were the reason I made "cheat sheets".
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Back when I was younger our neighborhood pool had to ban diving sticks because a kid threw one in and then jumped on it, causing it to go inside him. Thanks a lot, kid.
Jenn C 3 years ago
A brightly colored stick or ring that you throw into the pool and dive after to retrieve. It is weighted at one end so it sinks to the bottom, but the other end floats, making it stick up so you can grab it easily.
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#48
Years ago, this a*****e co-worker of mine who had been a union carpenter in Vegas during a building boom out there decided that he was being somehow shorted on his on-call hours when he could avoid an after-hours service call. he thought he should be paid for the phone time. so he gets Federal wage and hour workbooks and goes in an lectures the big boss on how she does not know what she is doing. well, all this did was totally screw the rest of us and we had had to spend hours a week filling out paperwork to account for every minute we were on the clock. the last time i saw him, i reminded him of what an a*****e he is. i should have stuck it out with that company, he got canned about a month after i resigned.
#49
At Facebook there is a restaurant on the campus for staff and visitors that serves booze. They used to serve booze during all business hours until one person got too hammered and went back to work. Now they only serve alcohol after 5.
#50
One of the kids in our school tried to [take his own life] in the bathroom, so all bathroom doors are locked and someone has to walk you to the bathroom. Ruined it for a lot of people.
Kamie Jones 3 years ago (edited)
This is all horrible. Like the whole thing. I have limited words ...Flabbergasted "ruined it for a lot of people." ?? But the kid tried to take his life.....cmon
Al B. Wright 3 years ago
I agree that it's a cynical way to look at what is a terrible situation. They shouldn't be blaming the kid. But to effectively ban everyone else from using the toilet unchapperoned is also an inappropriate response. It's way over the top. These things need to be talked about to be avoided, infantilizing people or treating a school like a prison helps noone.
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Seule Forever 3 years ago (edited)
I hope this kid got help, 'cause restricting bathroom access is not what I call "help"
Bee she/her 3 years ago
It makes it a pain in the a*s. My school made green slips and you had four passes per period. If you loose it, not bathroom. They say it’s okay because you can go between classes. That’s four minutes. All because a few students were skipping. I mean, ONLY DO IT FOR THE FEW FOR F***S SAKE. THIS IS MIDDLE SCHOOL, 40% OF US HAVE A MONTLY PERIOD AHHH
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#51
A senior in my high school got the school district's rules and guidelines updated to ban handheld video game devices specifically.
He got in a massive argument with a teacher when that teacher took his Game Boy Color from him. She manhandled it, almost broke it, and he cussed her out and got suspended.
When he went to the principal's office to retrieve his GBC, the student insisted there was no rule forbidding the presence of video games on campus. The principal cited a rule about music devices, pagers, and cellphones ("noise making devices") and said it also applied to video games. The student asked to see a her copy of the book of rules and guidelines, saying his copy didn't include the rule about video games. When the principal was unable to even produce a copy of the rulebook, the student openly mocked her.
Video games were officially banned by the beginning of the next year, after he graduated.
That student was me.
Delilah Carlisle 3 years ago
Bragging about mocking people tells me all I need to know about you. And that I am glad I don’t know you.
Troux 3 years ago
Judging a stranger for one thing they did as a teenager isn't very admirable, either. The OP later mentions that they look down on themselves for being a brat with a misplaced superiority complex. We all have a chance to grow, and this person made use of it.
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Carole Reid 3 years ago
You probably will go through your life not giving a S--t. On everything.
What do you think ?
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
Worked in an office for 5 years and a new employee spilled her drink on her keyboard 3 different times. After that no one was allowed drinks at their desks Get a sippy cup Veronica, you suck !
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I think I was about nine years old when I dropped the "It isn't fair!" mindset. I'm always amazed when I come across an adult who still thinks this way. What a miserable way to live.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
How come it takes only one @s$hole to ruin everything for everybody? One person tries to get on a plane with a bomb in his shoe, and ever since then EVERYBODY boarding a plane at a US airport has to take off his/her shoes.
Zelda Blue 3 years ago
I worked at a large bank and one co-worker who we nicknamed "Anita-tention" her favorite thing to say "that's not fair" and we would have to change whatever we were doing. One of our other co-worker's dog died. My friend and I were going to get her a stepping stone for her garden in memory of her dog. Of course Anita-tention yelled that's not fair, no one got me anything when my dog died. I'd had enough and told her (rather loudly) it was because no one liked her. Needless to say I had to have a chat with HR. I hated Anita with a passion.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
Open floor plan office. 100 people, all with their own cubicles but all the cubicle walls are 40 inches so no privacy. Desks chosen by seniority. High seniority person chooses window desk. Then requires all the blinds to be completely closed all day, in case the sunlight gives her a migraine. So no one can get daylight or look outside. There were plenty of desks far from windows but she had seniority and the mgmt were afraid of a complaint for not accommodating her disability. She did this d**k move 3 different times when our offices were moved to a new building or a different floor. She was the A.
Lara Verne 3 years ago (edited)
We had soft, lightweigh and comfortable shoes at work. There was new employee, and he started very loudly complain about how our shoes are not safe enough, what if pallet jack roll over his leg (there was not any pallet jacks at our segment), blah blah blah. The leader assured him that our shoes are safe. This idiot still wasn't satisfied and went to complain to our leader's superior. As a result, we had to wear, heavy, uncomfortable shoes that bruised our feet. F**k you, Karel.
Troux 3 years ago
Worked in an office with a 5-peso coffee machine. It seemed like such an insignificant amount of money, why can't the company just offer it for free? Well they used to, until they noticed a few people would grab 5 cups to take home at the end of their shift. 5 pesos is significant enough to stop the abuse, i guess.
Mistiekim 3 years ago
Work in healthcare and we are no longer allowed to have our cell phones with us in the department. If your family member needs to talk to you they have to call using a work line. This is because someone on another shift was listening to a podcast and made a semi-serious mistake on a patient result. I don’t like people.
Memere 3 years ago
Not sorry for you at all. Read your own comment: "semi-serious mistake on a patient result". If you are working directly with patients &/or their charts, you should never be listening to a podcast, texting, or even talking to someone on your personal cell phone. Never. You're holding people's lives in your hands & that needs to be the #1 focus while you're on the clock.
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Batman 3 years ago
It wasn't because of stupidity, but I know someone who was the reason for a lot of rules at the college he went to. Every semester he would go through the rule book and find all the rules that were added because of him. It wasn't that he was doing anything wrong, the people in charge just hadn't thought of things and he changed that.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
Worked in an office for 5 years and a new employee spilled her drink on her keyboard 3 different times. After that no one was allowed drinks at their desks Get a sippy cup Veronica, you suck !
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I think I was about nine years old when I dropped the "It isn't fair!" mindset. I'm always amazed when I come across an adult who still thinks this way. What a miserable way to live.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
How come it takes only one @s$hole to ruin everything for everybody? One person tries to get on a plane with a bomb in his shoe, and ever since then EVERYBODY boarding a plane at a US airport has to take off his/her shoes.
Zelda Blue 3 years ago
I worked at a large bank and one co-worker who we nicknamed "Anita-tention" her favorite thing to say "that's not fair" and we would have to change whatever we were doing. One of our other co-worker's dog died. My friend and I were going to get her a stepping stone for her garden in memory of her dog. Of course Anita-tention yelled that's not fair, no one got me anything when my dog died. I'd had enough and told her (rather loudly) it was because no one liked her. Needless to say I had to have a chat with HR. I hated Anita with a passion.
marianne eliza 3 years ago
Open floor plan office. 100 people, all with their own cubicles but all the cubicle walls are 40 inches so no privacy. Desks chosen by seniority. High seniority person chooses window desk. Then requires all the blinds to be completely closed all day, in case the sunlight gives her a migraine. So no one can get daylight or look outside. There were plenty of desks far from windows but she had seniority and the mgmt were afraid of a complaint for not accommodating her disability. She did this d**k move 3 different times when our offices were moved to a new building or a different floor. She was the A.
Lara Verne 3 years ago (edited)
We had soft, lightweigh and comfortable shoes at work. There was new employee, and he started very loudly complain about how our shoes are not safe enough, what if pallet jack roll over his leg (there was not any pallet jacks at our segment), blah blah blah. The leader assured him that our shoes are safe. This idiot still wasn't satisfied and went to complain to our leader's superior. As a result, we had to wear, heavy, uncomfortable shoes that bruised our feet. F**k you, Karel.
Troux 3 years ago
Worked in an office with a 5-peso coffee machine. It seemed like such an insignificant amount of money, why can't the company just offer it for free? Well they used to, until they noticed a few people would grab 5 cups to take home at the end of their shift. 5 pesos is significant enough to stop the abuse, i guess.
Mistiekim 3 years ago
Work in healthcare and we are no longer allowed to have our cell phones with us in the department. If your family member needs to talk to you they have to call using a work line. This is because someone on another shift was listening to a podcast and made a semi-serious mistake on a patient result. I don’t like people.
Memere 3 years ago
Not sorry for you at all. Read your own comment: "semi-serious mistake on a patient result". If you are working directly with patients &/or their charts, you should never be listening to a podcast, texting, or even talking to someone on your personal cell phone. Never. You're holding people's lives in your hands & that needs to be the #1 focus while you're on the clock.
Load More Replies... Batman 3 years ago
It wasn't because of stupidity, but I know someone who was the reason for a lot of rules at the college he went to. Every semester he would go through the rule book and find all the rules that were added because of him. It wasn't that he was doing anything wrong, the people in charge just hadn't thought of things and he changed that.
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