30 Times Someone Tried To Enforce A Stupid Rule And It Backfired

My hubby can only eat lunch when he has the chance and many times he has had to go without eating at all. You can't just stop to eat lunch and leave the concrete, otherwise the job would get ruined.

Yeah, any company would fire people that chose to drive back to the shop for their lunch rather than get lunch somewhere local. Gimme a break.

HEY ... they followed the rules. SAD that it cost that much, but, HEY ... they followed the rules. This is TOTALLY on the boss.

What? How could this be?? Private industry f*****g up??? Say it ain't so.

If I'm going to get suspended then they're going to get hospitalized.

How'd the bully go? I mean, did he keep it up as well as everyone learning that putting up with that BS..is actually BS?

Fyi... zero tolerance is a superficial made up word that has been removed from many work places by smart HR. If not; then the company cares not if they are ensued in lengthy legalities. "Zero tolerance " has no grounds per established relations in a work force establishment were most people spend more time and engage more regularly with co-workers then their actual family. So saying; " ok Biscuit, you messed up but...... come in monday." " sorry croissant, you're fired" . Zero tolerance doesn't have any standing. Thanks for listening. I have never posted anything before.

Obviously, this was an extreme reaction, but that still proves this wasn't a good method

I worked for a multi-billion dollar corporation. We got a new director that changed our dept status of salaried, professional staff, to hourly, unprofessional staff. My staff of 11 highly capable people was outraged. I too was changed to hourly. We worked on average 70 hours per week. I told them to be patient and see how it played out. When we received our first pay statement under this new policy, I heard, OMG!, Holy Sh*t! and other powerful exclamations. Our pay had more than doubled. It lasted 15 weeks and then reverted back to professional, salaried status. The new Director was walked out of the building. I was sad.

Could this have been IBM? Everyone, including salaried people, had to clock in and out for a brief period, then the clocks disappeared.

Where I worked in Brazil, we used to have RFID badges for the time clocks, but these were mainly for NDA/access control. The exact timing has some leeway and we weren’t all that worried. Besides, OT was not enforced either.

In my ex-company they just resetted your overtime to 50h at the end of the month or 16h at the end of the year. CEO's wife was s high-roller lawyer in working law, so what can you do

One place I worked they had the classic time clock that "ka-chunk" printed the time. They replaced it with a digital one. It didn't take some people long to figure out if you punch at 7 after 8, it counted it as 8 but if you punched at 8 after it counted as 8:15. Same applied when leaving. So, some people would really push it and clock in at 7 after, out for lunch at 7 til, back in at 7 after and then again at 7 til to go home essentially picking up a free half hour per day including the slightly longer lunch hour. Even though HR knew it was happening, because it was such a small number of people abusing the system, they just let it slide as it wasn't worth the time to look at all the time cards and manually calculate the actual time.

Those weren't basketball shorts, they were capris made out of athletic material.

We weren't allowed to wear shorts in my high school in the late '80s, but the track uniforms were made up of the most ridiculously short shorts you could imagine. And females could wear short skirts. Made no sense. Now I'm 50, and when I drop my kid off at high school, I'm astonished at what I see people wearing. It's literally "your parents let you leave the house like that?" May sound judgmental (I really don't care what people wear), but it makes me feel like an old man....

I'm too busy staring at my paper to care about shorts

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They had basketball shorts in the '80s?

I started needing a bra at around 9. One time after changing for PE, the teacher got mad because he could see my bra under the thin PE top. I went back at took of my bra and left it with my clothes. That meant on top of my desk in the class room. I wasn't being sassy I was a little kid. Teacher went crazy and yelled at me in front of the class for ages. We were all too young for any of the kids to have noticed. Put me off PE for a long time, made a lot of girls in the class too body conscious and a few boys becoming more curious about girl bodies in an unhealthy way. I was an adult before I realized - WTH is a grown man doing noticing a little girls changing body!

It’s literally a piece of CLOTHING. People should learn how to act about women/girls

you go girl

Another day, another rapey cisgender heterosexual male is policing (read: leering at) a girl's body, looking at a child with sexual thoughts.

Why would HR even have a say in that? HR should be a department facilitating to the needs of the employees and somehow they are always looking for having a say in s**t they have nothing to do with. And that's besides how bonkers this is. You have nothing to say about where people do their work, that's up to their own teams and managers. Go stamp some pay rolls or something.

And managers are never held accountable, they never get laid off or fired.

More than one job I've had some VP call me and try to tell me how to do my job. And every time I politely let them know they don't know my area or my customers and the way I do things and the customers I serve make us money, even if it falls a little outside their guidelines (customers should be within a certain distance of the store). They quickly understand I know my job better than they do and leave me alone to do it.

Had the same for a 2nights/week deal, with a friend staying over for 16months. However, his contracting company could do math (i.e., he never had to book a hotel) and great times were had.

This is the kind of ridiculous expense that drives up the cost of EVERYTHING.

Place I worked (1990) would pay for dinner for the few who worked after hours and lunch and dinner on days that are normally off (weekends and holidays) (my department was on that was required to work nights and weekends at the first of the month, no exceptions). after several years they suddenly put a cap on how much we could spend. We're in a small town, it's not like we're eating at Outback, we order pizza or grab sandwiches. Nevertheless, the daily cap meant we couldn't even do that without digging into our own pocket. Pretty much came down to, if we're buying our own food then we'll go home and be with our families and we'll be back whenever we get back from where ever we decide to go eat (which was almost a guarantee of at least a 90 minute drive time alone). Just the idea that instead of feed us and we work while we eat vs no work done for hours was all it took to drive the point home. Their food limit was devised because the officers of the company were eating high on the hog.

An online friend who I had never met in real life was assigned a job for the summer of 2019 (maybe 2018?) This job happened to put him 30 minutes away from where I live. We hung all the time. He had a hotel room and rental car the company paid for, including gas. He was just grateful to have friends nearby while stuck away from home for 3 months

Are all people who rule schools mentally ill dictators?

A few years ago my wife and I bought a new car. At the time, the dealership was outfitting all new cars with a bright pink license plate frame, in an effort to support breast cancer awareness, or something, and also making a donation - which was great. My wife, who was actively undergoing chemo and radiation for breast cancer at the time, took one look at it and said "No, take that off. I have breast cancer, but I think It looks ridiculous." The look on the salespersons face was pretty priceless.

Idiots!

It was the Boob Gang ... maybe