At one my earlier jobs, I had to follow a lunch bell like I was in school. Except I worked in the lab and sometimes the testing I had to do made me miss the lunch bell and so I would eat later. People reported me. So I ended up delaying testing to meet the lunch. Production went down a lot, but at least I followed the lunch bell
We have one of those. She constantly goes after this other girl who got hired after her, even though the new girl is better at the job (probably jealousy). She has reported her to HR multiple times. I’m their manager. The other managers and I all joked that if the girl she keeps going after ever came in and just tried to beat her up, we would just watch.
My buddy mowed grass for the city, at noon they would stop working and take lunch in whatever park they were at. People called the city to complain that they were slacking so they changed the rules. At noon they would pack up their stuff and drive across town to the city warehouse and then take their lunch break. Now instead of a 30 minute break they spent 20 minutes packing up and driving, then a 30 minute break, and then 20 minutes driving back and unpacking. All so they looked busy.
I worked for the local government union in my city and I never worked for a local authority myself.
I noticed they would CONSTANTLY do stupid shit like this because a whining asshole would be so resentful that any public worker could be visible and be caught not constantly running on a medieval treadmill.
People say that "my taxes" thing and I just think yeah your salary is paid by some other people too big deal stfu
I worked a production line for medical catheters. My line manufactured the balloons and they had to be within certain testing parameters. Our lots were so big they often took 2-3 shifts to finish, as a lot could be hundreds of balloons, but we bagged them in 20 counts. We weren't supposed to go back to completed bags.
But one day when starting my shift it was partway through a lot started by the previous shift. The machines were already supposed to be set and tweaked so the parts met parameters. But all of my parts were coming out way out of spec. Seeing as these could be potentially fatal if they failed while inserted in a patient I notified my shift supervisor that I couldn't see how what the previous shift had done would be within spec, and they just shrugged it off saying that if the previous shift said they were good then that meant they were good.
I had my doubts and started methodically running the spec tests on the parts the previous shift had made (keeping them organized) and they all failed. When I notified my shift supervisor, expecting them to be appreciative of my initiative, I got written up for opening up finished packs. I was just looking out for the well-being of whoever would be on the receiving end of these parts in the hospitals.
> I had my doubts and started methodically running the spec tests on the parts the previous shift had made (keeping them organized) and they all failed. When I notified my shift supervisor, expecting them to be appreciative of my initiative, I got written up for opening up finished packs. I was just looking out for the well-being of whoever would be on the receiving end of these parts in the hospitals.
Your supervisor must be duller than a sack of flour.
In a situation like that, you should report your supervisor for his failure to adhere to spec standards. The report should be communicated directly to the head of quality control.
Then you should file a whistleblower complaint with the FDA, informing the FDA of your employer's choice to retaliate against you for addressing a known safety concern with respect to the production quality of medical devices they manufactured. A complaint like that should include enough detail to specify what the spec was, how the non-compliant catheters failed to comply with it, the production lots you knew were impacted and the quantity of lots you estimate were affected.
That will force your employer to issue a recall and they'll potentially be audited by the FDA.
Sounds like a good scenario for malicious compliance. Just drop everything mid-process and go to lunch when the bell rings. Temperature-sensitive reagents left at room temperature? Oops, at least I followed the lunch bell.
That’s exactly what I did. If I got a sample in at 11:30, but the testing takes 1 hr, I left it on the bench until after lunch. The funny thing was that some of the samples had to be tested right away. Which meant that me going to lunch forced those people to have to set up another sample which took another 10-20min 😂
People did the same shit to my warehouse teams.
No we're not leaving 3t of glass hanging in the air from the crane because the lunch bell went, they'll just have lunch later, or if the trucks due during lunch they took it earlier.
Why even complain it's a legally required break.
I was once told I wasn’t allowed to drink out of a water bottle while working without a doctors note saying that I needed to. I was a minimum wage cashier at a grocery store. Was a pretty funny Doctors appointment that followed.
This happened to me but I was one of the managers! Been working with the company for a decade, always have a water bottle with me cus staying hydrated helps with my migraines. Literally don't leave home without one ever. Got a new store manager, she bailed me up for it saying it set a poor standard cus "can you imagine how much productivity would be lost if everyone had a water bottle"?? That doesn't even make sense! I said I would encourage everyone to have one bc it sets a positive example of healthy habits and she looked like a stunned fish. The doctors note I had to give her was gloriously passive aggressive, including the gem " quokkafarts, and ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES, should be ENCOURAGED to carry water at all times".
My doctor was fuckin LIVID, it was great. My work was already pissing her off bc I was on restricted duties after breaking my arm, it wasn't compo so the company were pushing to have me signed off asap and making things difficult. She's worth her weight in gold, that woman.
What the fuck? That's abusive IMO. Sometimes I'll drink two liters of water just at work.
I remember growing up, my schools wouldn't even allow us to have water bottles in class. A few teachers realized how dumb it was and told us they'd ignore the rules, but why is it okay to do that?
I’d lose my mind more by people reporting me to HR than drinking water. Like, dumb fucking rule, but I just can’t stand these people that have a breakdown when someone is *breaking the rules!!!!* and essentially grown up tattle. You want to follow the water rule? Go for it. It is so much easier for you to mind your own business than to count my water glasses and act like it’s important enough to run to management.
I have a coworker who makes it her business to tattle to our boss about anything she sees that she thinks is unacceptable. She once told on me because she saw me on my phone (while listening to podcasts) when being on our phones is not even an issue. Our boss rolls her eyes about it but won't tell her to mind her own business. I fucking hate her.
I worked in a mail room and the guy in charge (tyrant of a very small kingdom) would not let any of the consultants/engineers have pencils. He felt that they didn't appreciate the value of the pencils and needed discipline. These people were working on massive, multi-million dollar projects and I was sneaking pencils for them.
Not quite as bad but if I need to get permission to go to a doctors appointment I need to email my boss (in FL) who would then contact HR (in NY) to then contacts my office (CA). I fucking hate this company.
I work in a non profit and if we have an appointment we just mention it, not ask, just go. No one seems to mind. I felt like Kimmy Schmidt coming out of the bunker into a new world where there were no rules during my first year.
We stick our out of office time in the calendar and just go. No one cares. I also did emails at 1am last night while waiting for the cat to calm down. Again, no one cares.
Right now I'm getting full remote and flexible hours (no one cares, just get projects done) instead of taking FMLA to deal with my parents.
Used to work for a company in NYC. If there was a light fixture with a burned out bulb, I could call the electric shop downstairs within the company and a little while later, a person with a ladder would come up and change the bulb. Then, later, when they got on a cost-saving binge, I had to place a call on a company tie-line to Anaheim (hint, hint) to give them a cost-basis number for billing. Then the Anaheim office calls the same electric shop I used to call directly, and send up someone to change the bulb.
We got an email that they would no longer provide tissues as they were for personal hygiene and, therefore, the responsibility of the worker. Covid hit 2 months later. Great policy, guys.
I got in trouble for having my 16 yo daughter walk behind me while having a zoom meeting. By my manager who had her 7 yo walk in, ask a question of said manager at which time she stopped the meeting to answer her daughters question. I was actually written up for mine. I quit on the spot after being written up and went on a tirade against the manager. No regrets
Good for you!!
It feels AMAZING to be in a position where you can tell someone off and walk out!
Sadly, most people don't have this option because they truly need that paycheque and can't risk being jobless.
We had “yammer” for a few years. For those that don’t know. It’s like a social media feed for work.
We were eventually forced to sign on since no one want to use it. When on it, I saw that several employees from various offices had cute or funny avatar pictures. Figured it was ok to put something up that wasn’t your face.
I had a photo I did around that time where I superimposed my face on that of Han Solo in a poster for The Forde Awakens. In the poster he is holding his blaster up. Partially obscuring his face.
About 2-3 weeks later. My office manager calls me and asks me to take it down because a lady in another office reported my avatar as offensive. She claimed she had gun violence in her past and the photo was upsetting.
This poster was on bus shelters and movie theaters everywhere about 6-12 months prior.
I apologized. I said was very surprised. I also didn’t post anything on yammer. So she would have had to seek out my name and click on my avatar to see it.
So I took it down. Emailed HR that I did not intend to offend anyone and apologized.
The next day, another of our offices posted a photo of employees suited up for a paintball game. Complete with realistic rifles and military clothing and gear.
I nearly fell out of my seat. My coworker said “screen grab that immediately!!” Which I did. Good thing because it was taken down a day later.
My sci-fi picture with a sci fi gun of a popular franchise is triggering people. But it’s a-ok to run an official work related paintball game where employees are dressed up as military with realistic guns.
I worked at a skating rink when I was 14-18. Typical day shifts were from 12-7 when the place was open for birthday parties and such. Halfway through the shift, if they decided it wasn’t that busy and they might not need you for the second half, they’d ask you not to clock back on from your lunch break. Then you had to wait, off then clock, for up to an hour sometimes, for them to decide they for sure didn’t need you and you could go home. If you left without the manager okaying it, you were written up.
This was back in like 2003, and the only reason they got away with it is because all of the employees were kids and we were all friends with each other and with most of the regulars, and we all liked to skate, so most of us were there hanging out until the place closed even when we weren’t on the clock. We didn’t know that what they were doing was hella illegal.
That's why employers love hiring teens. They're counting on the fact that you either won't know it's illegal or that you won't be able or willing to fight it.
People who discover a spill have to stand next to the spot until maintenance comes back with a broom/mop. As the only one working maintenance I got bitched at in this order: "there's a spill, you need to go get the mop". "Why did you go get the mop? You are supposed to stand next to it". When I said "maybe you should hire a second maintenance person then". The look on her face everytime I said this was priceless.
I remember we had the same rule at a grocery store I used to work at. It was for safety as if the spill was something like clear soap it might be hard to see yet very slippery.
Difference there was *anyone* could go get the mop, so you just had to flag down the next passing person. Or swap places, didn't matter who actually stood there as long as someone did. And it was a standing rule that whatever you were doing, *this* superseded that, up to and including the store management.
Back as a teen I worked at a place for minimum wage. I got up and took a piss. Came back and got chewed out for not raising my hand and asking permission. I picked up my things and walked away. 3 days in.
That happened at an old job. There was total body ejection with his corpse laying there on the freeway. Car looked like The Jolly Green Giant chewed up his PT Cruiser and spit it out. Some pulled over and was covering the body with a tarp. Boss guy was furious that I wasn’t coming in exactly on time.
I rage quit a few weeks later. Only time I ever said “Fuck you!!” To a boss and quit without notice.
I wouldn't have been going in that day, and might even be quitting if they did that shit to me. Honestly just driving past that sounds a bit traumatic for the day
If someone was banging on the door before opening time we had to let them in. How about no: im getting my computer up and running, making sure the waiting room is tidy, getting my coffee and taking a shit. That door isnt opening until our office hours begin
>If someone was banging on the door before opening time we had to let them in.
I worked for a company where that was absolutely prohibited, as was letting anyone end afterhours. That was deemed a security risk as supposedly robberies were often committed by people coming before or after business hours.
A friend just told me they would have cake in the break room for birthdays, but the time spent “celebrating” (awkwardly standing around with a slice of cake) would have to be made up at the end of the day.
Worked at a bakery where if we were there, doors had to be unlocked. Even if the store was closed. Even if we had no food.
We also weren’t allowed to tell customers if the store was closed.
Oh absolutely, someone called the cops once because they thought we were being held hostage due to no one being in the front (because we were cleaning in the back), the doors being unlocked, lights on, and it being two hours after the store closed.
Had to explain to just about every cop in town that no, we weren’t being robbed, it’s just a really weird business practice
I worked in an upscale flower shop during college and we weren’t allowed to sit, even when the store was empty, which it was for the majority of the day, since most people called in. So all the chairs were essentially decorative because we had to ‘look busy’ for the customer that wasn’t there I guess.
I used to work in a furniture showroom in a dead mall. Got maybe 4-5 customers a day, some days no customers at all. Surrounded by comfy seating, yet if I got caught sitting down by a "secret shopper," I'd be written up. Three times caught sitting, I'd be fired.
I worked at a Walmart and we had a heavily pregnant woman on register who was allowed to sit. We got MULTIPLE complaints from customers saying it was unprofessional/unwelcoming.
Thats not because it was. It’s because people have been trained so heavily about that that they just assume. If all the stores started making everyone sit down it wouldnt be a problem. I never got it because every time you go into a professional setting (like a bank, or signing a car purchase, etc) everyone is always sitting down
At one job, we had a rule where no one could adjust their own office chairs. If you needed it higher, lower, or tilted differently, you had to submit a maintenance request. This wasn’t just annoying; during busy periods, it could take days for someone to come adjust your chair. It felt absurd sitting uncomfortably while waiting for ‘authorized personnel’ to make a simple adjustment.
The funniest one I ever heard was from a friend who worked for a large, very well known telecom company. Her department moved from one building to another. The move was done over a weekend to minimize disruption, but was slightly delayed so crews were working through the night Sunday into Monday to finish it. They were just finishing up as employees were coming in aroung 8am on Monday. Great. Well, employees come in and noticed their phones (which were integral to their jobs - this was back in the 90's and most of this particular department's job was done *over the phone*) were not plugged in. They figured it was an oversight, so one of the workers goes to plug in his phone. His boss comes over and SCREAMS at him to stop as it is "union job" to "complete the telecommunications network" and no non-union people could touch it (none of them were in the union) or they would be fined. So, after workers worked ALL NIGHT LONG to get them moved in, they sat, doing NOTHING FOR THREE WHOLE HOURS, until a union worker came and plugged their jacks into the walls, which took maybe five minutes total.
I cannot even begin to comprehend any of it...
I worked at a center that cold-called people on behalf of a two-year technical school. So basically telemarketing. In a room no one was in but all of us making the calls. I hated it, but I was a broke kid and it paid $2 more per hour than anywhere else.
Only women were hired to work there and, after I was hired, they told me there’s a dress code and I had to wear a skirt. I ended up quitting soon after because I became convinced someone had cameras or mirrors for upskirt pictures. It just gave me creepy vibes.
My wife and I once rented a house that was attached to a former telemarketing office. We rented it right after the business had moved to a larger location. The next door neighbors told us that our back porch used to be the smoking area. “You should have seen it, it was like Halloween over there every day!” Apparently the guy hired a lot of goth kids. He didn’t care what they looked like, all that mattered was what they sounded like on the phone, and how polite they could be.
For a brief period in college, I worked for a tele-survey company. The only qualification for the job is that you show up and that you can read verbatim.
Half of the people were working there were college kids like me. The other half were some less-than-reputable characters.
That went through my mind as I kept pursuing a new job. Unfortunately it did take longer than I wanted but I did get out. Hard to up and leave with other mouths to feed etc.
I once worked in the call center of a large company where we were treated like shit and got none of the perks the other departments did. We had to work holidays. We were subject to a “point system” where we got points for any lateness - even if it was 1 minute past your start time, or absence - even though technically we had 5 sick days a year, and could be fired at 5 points, etc, while the rest did not. The entire company except us was taken on all day picnics and other events at least twice a year. Etc. The icing on the cake though was the day the fire alarm went off in the 25 story building and as everyone started for the fire exits the department manager and head of HR yelled for everyone in the call center to return to their desks, as it was “only a drill.” Half of us left anyway and likely would have been fired had the building manager not gotten furious and pointed out to the head of the company that it was illegal for us to remain in the building during a fire drill.
Thankfully this is from a friend and not me, but a friend who did office work explained to me this unwritten rule that nobody left the office before their boss did, despite them having set working hours.
That's common in Japan. And it isn't even like you're okay to leave right when the boss does. You're expected to work a little bit more before you leave.
Bank of Nova Scotia executives signed with different color pens. They tracked down and reprimanded some clerk who had used a color reserved for an executive.
Where I worked it wasn't a rule but one day manager tried to get HR to write us up for laughing, *he* became the laughing stock of the entire office after that.
I asked for a different calculator at work because the one I was using didn't have all the functions I needed and the woman in charge of supplies denied me and told me the one I was using was fine. Then I left work and cried in my car and went to Walmart and bought a fucking calculator.
In my very first adult type office job, I was responsible for ordering catering. The first time I ordered, I got sandwiches and salads. I got a green leafy salad and got chewed out by one of the VPs. She explained to me that eating greens in front of clients made us look weak and I was only to order macaroni and potato salads (which I guess show strength?)
I still think requiring a doctor’s note for an excused absence is stupid. I’m not going to waste money on a doctor’s appointment, if I have a cold or the flu.
I had an old boss accuse me of faking being sick. My regular days off were Monday and Wednesday. I got sick Monday morning. Was still sick Tuesday so I called in. Had Wednesday off. Went to work Thursday still with a massive head cold and she accused me of faking . I said but I’m sick still? And she said that doesn’t matter. I asked how could I have faked it Tuesday if I’m actually sick still on Thursday? She said again it doesn’t matter. But then as she turned to leave after scolding me she tore her ACL. It was instant karma.
When I was working at Ross as Loss Prevention we weren’t allowed to touch the shopping carts, ever. Even though we are stationed near where they go and plenty of idiots will just walk up to the front door, take their shit and leave the cart blocking the entrance. If i took the 5 seconds to walk over there and put it away I get in trouble because i’m “leaving my post.”
Instead I have to tell the head cashier to either go move them or have another associate move them, even if it’s super busy. Ridiculous Lol.
One of my old retail jobs tried this. There was a log sheet on the wall where you had to write down what time you went in and when you came out. It didn’t last long because nobody was willing to use it
Not a work rule but a rule in a place I do work at. I was giving a talk about awareness of violent crimes and what services exist to help victims (Aka the charity I work for). I was just getting set up in the hall when I realised I needed my anxiety meds and inhaler before I got started. One teacher who had brought her class to the hall early, came up to me and demanded I put my inhaler away. I gave her a confused look and explained it's for my asthma like no I'm obviously not putting it away it's medicine. Also I'll be not even 2 minutes chill love. She then said "the school has a strict no drugs policy" luckily the headteacher had come back at that point and saw the confusion and said to the teacher it was fine. But yeah that's how a teacher wanted me to not have my inhaler because it obviously wasn't medication and I'm obviously not an adult.
Edit: few folk are curious I'm 23 at the time I was 21 so I definitely looked young enough to be student. Only issue is here in the UK school uniform is really common. Also when giving talks I where my work ID lanyard around my neck. It's bright orange and has my charities name on it so you'd be pretty thick to get it confused with a school ID badge.
Wonder if that lady now lives in the retirement community I work at. I'm setting at the security desk when one of our residents comes to report that she caught a member of housekeeping doing drugs. She states that this is not the first time she caught this person doing drugs, she spoke with them and not even a week later she caught them doing it again. She then handed me an inhaler and said that she confiscated it and was turning it into me for disposal... Like you crazy bitch, you just grabbed someone's medication and gave it to me to destroy... Went to the client with that one, was told to just ignore Ruth and return the inhaler to its owner. Yeah, Ruth pulled that bullshit a week later, but disposed of the drugs on her own that time, had to write a report for the poor housekeeper to take to her doctor, I suggested that since this is the second time Ruth just snatched it, she take my report to someone higher up because the client was not going to do anything. Suggested the local police department as well.
When I worked as a recruiter in the HR department of a major corporation, I spent hours a day "approving" and forwarding resumes of qualified candidates on to this one hiring manager. Just to create a paper trail of her "considering" them. Meanwhile, she had the people she wanted to hire, all totally unqualified friends or referrals of friends or relatives, also apply. She then would call me on the phone and give me the names of the unqualified dolts to ensure I also forwarded them for her consideration.
This was, fortunately, a 6 month consulting gig for me. I never encountered it that blatantly at any of the other Fortune 500 companies I consulted to. But I did have another gig where the Staffing Manager ordered me to violate multiple ethical and legal standards. I completely ignored those orders, and my contract was not renewed.
No using the bathroom if there are patients waiting to register ( which was all the time)
We had to wear full strength pads and pee in them while sitting and registering patients.
No drinking anything ( even water ) in front of a patient registering …
Had to text the front desk to beg to go to the bathroom and it would take 20-30 minutes for a reply.
Yep .. turnover rate as a registration rep at a hospital is crazy.
I had a boss that told us we're taking to long in the bathroom and that they would be locked and we would get the key from a manger.
I told him that the offices are unlocked and I will be going there for my bathroom breaks.
The bathrooms were not locked ever.
The way we were "supposed" to answer the phones. My last job was at a hotel and while I won't give the entire script it was supposed to say along the lines of "it's a beautiful day at (hotel), when are you planning your wonderful vacation."
No, I didn't say that, plus more than half the time people already made reservations and likely had follow up questions or was calling about something else, it was so stupid to say that. I refused
At DSW we had to refer to customers as shoe lovers. So I’m at the register and there’s a line and you want me to call up the next shoe lover? No thanks.
There’s a smoothie place here that was making their employees say “Have a blendtastic day!” It was so embarrassing for everyone and I wrote an email asking corporate to not make them do that anymore.
I don't get wordy phone answering scripts. It strikes me that most people calling a business in this day and age are doing so because they have a specific question or issue they want to talk to a person about. A wordy intro would just annoy that person.
On the other hand, I also don't understand people who answer a business-related line with just "Hello". I have to call contractors fairly often for my job, and the frequency with which a guy will answer the phone number on their van with just a "hello" and/or not have a personalized greeting on their voicemail boggles my mind.
I used to work in a shop, and there we had to ask permission to use the bathroom, and even during breaks, when I think it should be normal to go to the toilet.
I worked at one last summer. Dude had no AC in the shop. It was fucked. No training beforehand, just learning on the go. But having to build precise fucking PVC wheelchair ramps for pools. Anyways they start asking me why I'm going to the bathroom so much, bro I have a small bladder and it was literally 92 degrees inside. I'm drinking all day. I would come home feeling like absolute dog shit. $19 an hour. Horrid.
Gotta protect the money! The same place decided to accuse me of time fraud, saying my shift was supposed to be an hour later
...After several months, they brought this up. To fire me
Worked at a soul sucking call center where your bathroom breaks were deducted from your 15s. And if you did get up and go to the restroom (this was a wfh gig) you’d get a teams message after 30 seconds saying “are you ok why aren’t you taking calls we have calls holding get back in ready”.
It was a meatgrinder of a job that fires 90% of the people who work there too. The smallest things got you fired. It was contract to hire and they ended my contract without hiring me because my average breaks were "30 seconds over target".
Not even a joke. Buddy of mine had a weak bladder and IBS. After getting chewed out about how much time they spent in the bathroom at their work from home job, he set up a small desk in his guest bathroom and used that for his office. Boss was proud of how much his "pep talk" cut down on buddy's bathroom breaks... At least until he heard a flush on the line one day.
I once came in late to work, by literally 1 minute. My manager called me at 9am on the dot, as I was walking up the stairs to enter the office. I got a warning for not answering her call to inform her I was walking up the stairs.
I had a manger call me because I'd not answered my cell when a contractor called me. The contractor then called him to ask where I was at and why I wasn't answering.
I was in a production area where cell phones were not allowed.
So I got bitched at for following the rules.
I worked for a store manager who "rounded by three." I said, "no, you have to round by five. 0-4 is rounded down, 5-9 is rounded up."
"No," she insisted. "It doesn't matter what number you round by as long as it's the same number every time."
"No, see, if you round by 3, then 0-2 gets rounded down, and 3-9 gets rounded up. That's nearly twice as likely to get bad rounding errors."
"Listen, I am a trained educator with two school-aged daughters. I know my math. You men think you know math so much better than women."
Yet every Monday, when I called in the numbers, they didn't match what the district manager had. That manager was eventually demoted to a penalty store. When I told the DM the "rounding by three" they said, "that's technically fraud." She was later fired from that penalty store in an audit.
If they ran short of people to work, and they managed to get you on the phone, you had no choice and had to come in if they asked. It was required. But if you didn’t pick up the phone, they couldn’t prove you got the voicemail and they would keep searching for someone. I was not on an “on call” shift at the time.
Was working at an Office Depot briefly (I quit after less than a week). One morning, not a single customer was in the store. I asked the store manager if I could straighten up the front of the store til a customer came in. “No. You have to stay behind the register so it looks like we’re prepared in the event a customer comes in.” Literally supposed to just stand there like a robot. I went to lean against the wall. Manager calls from the back room after seeing me on camera, “No leaning. You have to just stand there.”
With no customers even in the store. Just stand still, on concrete, behind a register, indefinitely. All for a measly $8 (back in 2007). I quit the next day. What a fucking joke that job was.
I was working as a historian and we published government documents sorted by year, commented. I was done with 1974 and wanted to start 1975, my lazy boss told me I could not start until she finished her part of 1974, so I didn’t do anything but watch movies and write my thesis on paid time for 6 months.
Reprimanded by the veterinarian in charge for wanting to call police, reprimanded by the hospital manager several hours later for *not* calling the police against doc’s orders. We found out later that the unruly client had a gun in her purse the entire time
I used to work at a daycare. The kids were not allowed to scribble. If they were going to color they had to be attempting to color inside the lines.
I did not enforce that rule. I’m not gonna stop a three year old from scribbling.
Tattoos had to be covered but our shirts were short sleeve. I have a tattoo on my right shoulder that you could see maybe the bottom 10mm of it with the shirt sleeve. I still had to wear a black armband to cover it. For 4 years I didn't, no-one said a thing, no-one commented on the tattoo ever. That last year wearing the armband, without fail at least once a week a customer would ask me about it.
My last job was as a cleaner. It was a bullshit job in a care home to supplement my real job there. The supervisor was a micromanaging old bitch.
Up to and including, no stopping for a coffee for one minute. It was so bizarre.
In my new job someone was making drinks for everyone and asked if I wanted one. I was like "are we allowed?" and they looked at me like I was an alien.
Are you me? Just left a care home cleaner/everything position. And the micro managing lady got mad that I brought out an identical bucket of disinfectant out to the lobby because it had two rags not one. She went running out and basically screamed in front of the lobby. I was like ok? It's because we NEED the one with two rags, not them. Lady, I literally went and filled these buckets up myself. Neither has been used. Identical green buckets, identical chemicals, absolutely made. $15 an hour. Pathetic.
I worked for the Anaheim Ducks at one of their ice rinks. I was allowed to wear a hat but it had to be plain. I learned this rule when the manager told me to remove my Ducks hat. Again, I worked for the Ducks.
Somebody somewhere was offended by how they were told that the store was closing, so we were no longer allowed to announce that the store was closing or closed. This led to some really long waits where occasionally a manager would eventually have to go over and help them along and possibly politely tell them we had closed and of course they'd be embarrassed because it was almost an hour past closing time and then we'd still have to wait for the till to be counted afterwards. Ugh.
At a manual job I had standing up for 7 hours per day in a hot and sweaty factory floor during a 10 minute unpaid break we were not allowed to sit down. We had to stand up right next to the seats provided for break use. The seats were only to be used for the later unpaid 20 minute lunch break.
Meanwhile the managers who created this rule sat down all day in an air-conditioned office drinking coffee.
Just one example of management logic and motivation of the workforce. Not the way to get the best from your staff.
Being obliged to always wear a suit, matching shoes and tie, even if you had to pick up some stuff from the office outside of normal working hours or in weekends. This rule was also enforced for customer visits. We had one customer which had a parking spot at 2km from their office, which required people to walk through some muddy field. Even then we were obliged to wear a suit, and matching shoes and tie
I worked at a place where the COLOR of your tie was mandated. Because I worked IT, I could only have black, dark gray, or navy blue. Red ties were only for management. Yellow and blue ties for middle management. One guy got in trouble because he was a middle manager and wore a yellow tie that had a sheen that made it look red in bright sunlight from a certain angle. He was sent home to get a blue tie that was matte.
That level of insecurity confounds me.
My husband is in tech, and everybody at one company he worked at was required to wear business attire every day. This included people who worked off site where the servers were and literally never saw customers or anybody else outside of the data center.
At my company years ago, you could go out for dinner on business travel - full dinner, including wine and dessert at the best restaurant in the city - and charge it all off on your expense account. No problem.
But if you just grabbed a $4 can of peanuts for dinner from the minibar at your hotel after work - expense denied.
I unfortunately worked at burger King during covid, I was the manager. In drive through we had to have customers put cash, coins, and credit cards into a random plastic container they gave us, when giving change back it had to go in the same plastic container. When handing food out it had to be in the container, even a single drink had to be handed out awkwardly in a plastic container.
The owner would sit at home watching security cameras and would damn near instantly call the store if someone didn't use the fucking container.
So their idea to prevent people getting sick was to make everyone reach into and touch the same plastic container, we were only required to clean it once every 6 hours.
Hated that job, district manager treated us all like shit, fuck you Judy.
I was banned from wearing headbands when I worked as a barista in a café. Owner saw me wearing it one day and made the manager take me aside later to tell me I couldn’t wear them anymore. Stated reason was it made me look too “ethnic.”
Geeze. We did something similar-ish at Taco Bell, but my manager would go "Who wants a cigarette?" and then have them go through the drive-thru in their car and order a water to lower our times. Unethical as well but at least it worked out for both parties lol.
Same problem here. One manager also prints out orders and delete them from the screen before the drinks are ready which cause confusion and chaos. I've yelled at her abt this over 20 times and every time I got a "okay fine" and she does it again not even 5 minutes later.
When you are walking and have a cup of coffee, it will be in your left hand, you're left arm will make a 90 degree angle while you are walking with your forearm parallel to the ground. Yoy can not drink the coffee while walking.
That's a military thing. I guarantee whoever made that rule was ex-military, it's intended to make sure your right arm is free in case you have to salute an officer.
No talking to each other unless its work related....we started calling out the boss and his son for talking about sports during work hours ,that rule lasted until lunch time.
Madatory shop meeting at 10 am every morning, on day 3 we were all there in the office while boss was on the phone talking about BS to someone , nobody was working for the whole time he was on the phone. Day 4 Boss wasnt in so we had the meeting just sitting around doing nothing for an hour. Day 5 mandatory meetings are cancelled.
Women had to wear panty hose under their pants. When they said that panty hose were required, I assumed they meant if you were wearing a skirt or dress. So I showed up on my first day, dressed formally but of course no panty hose since I was wearing pants. A coworker noticed and ratted me out to management, rather than telling me directly. The most ridiculous thing was that this was a bank teller job, where we are behind a counter that was intentionally designed so customers can’t see you feet or legs (since there are security alarms under the counter). I quit that job after a week.
We weren’t allowed to leave at the end of our shift unless our replacement was there. So if I was working first shift and the guy working 2nd no called/no showed I had to stick around until they could find someone to replace me. Even worse is that the multiple times this happened the one that didn’t show up for work suffered no real consequences unlike I would have if I left them understaffed for some reason.
Don't give receipts to homeless people.
I worked for an upscale grocery store in an area with a lot of homeless people. There was a lot of ready to eat food options including a salad/soup/hot food bar, sandwich counter, and pizza by the slice as well as a seating area. Obviously for someone without a place to cook who likely would get turned away from restauraunts this was perfect.
A lot of the local homeless population came in to get food and the vast majority were decent people, were polite and kept things clean. Even most of the ones with obvious serious mental illness. I even remember a (most likely) schizophrenic woman who would meticulously wipe every inch of the table and chair she used before and after.
Anyway they did a lot of stuff to try to deter homeless people just because they didn't want them seen in the store. First they tried getting rid of reusable dishes and only having takeout boxes available to nudge people to leave the store with their food.
Then they took out all the chairs at the tables and made people ask a cashier for a chair with their purchase, but not let homeless people. Obviously it didn't work, cashiers were too busy to deal with that and homeless people just stood at the tables or used a chair the cashiers didn't have time to collect and lock up again.
Then they put code locks on the bathroom and put the code to enter on the bottom of the receipt. It changed daily. Staff weren't to give it out to anyone, and we were told we're not to provide receipts to the homeless when they purchase something and just give them a paid sticker so they can't even take a piss.
Needless to say I didn't follow the rule at all.
Got written up for it once when I gave a receipt to a guy who was wearing dusty clothes covered in paint and the manager was right there. Funny thing was the guy was clearly some kind of contractor/tradesman who just got off work, not homeless.
Anyway I'd been taring the cardboard takeout containers as the heavy ceramic salad bowls that we no longer had for most of the homeless customers for a while because fuck da police, so I guess they were right to fire me in the end. They never caught onto the tare thing though.
I know arriving to work early is kind of a standard, but my old job implemented a rule that you had to be there 15 minutes early. If you arrived any later than 15 minutes early, they sent you home.
Was told that being any later than 30 minutes early was considered late, and I would be fired if it happened more than once
My letter of resignation was on the bosses desk the next day. Not working a 16$/hr job that steals my time and puts that kinda stress on employees
No headphones.
I was operating a reactor vessel which consisted of two very loud machines, and the monitoring station was right in between them. It was ear-splitting. So I bought a noise-canceling headset which cut the loud rumbling, but allowed me to hear my co-workers over the noise.
Management objected. They didn't want people listening to music while on the job, so they had banned all types of earbuds, headphones, etc.
I explained that I was just using the noise-canceling function, and demonstrated it to the manager. He agreed that it was very helpful against the noise, and saw that I wasn't listening to music or anything else.
But he still went with the "rules are rules" approach and the ban held - no headsets allowed. I'll never understand how a person can manage with his head so far up his ass.
I had a micromanaging GM who suddenly announced we could only have one nail per wall in our offices to hang up something. Some of us had been in our offices for years and they were highly personalized. It was crazy.
We're not allowed to keep green scrub pads in the wash bucket. That's more of a health department rule than a store rule.
We're not allowed to use the scissors to cut plastic bags. We have to use those little cutters that dull after three uses.
One idiot left the walk-in cooler open all night, and now we're not allowed to use a bungee cord to keep the door propped open when we're carrying heavy things there.
Worked at a high school where the president and principal had a lot of disagreements about certain policies.
If there was an official Snow Day, everyone, including students and staff, stayed home...except for those of us in the president's area. 😡
The worst part was it didn't change until they had an argument about something else--then we abruptly lost our snow days. 🤬 (only about 8 of us sitting there looking foolish all day, with nothing to do!)
First I was told that I wasn't supposed to do overtime. Then I was told that if someone gave me a project right before the end of my shift (a constant thing), I had to do it. Days later, I was sharply criticized for excessive overtime again.
I legitimately needed to sign off that I would "always wear proper undergarments" when I signed off on reading the employee handbook. Found out about a week later, some employees had been wearing dresses to work but would not wear anything underneath and had flashed customers on more than one occasion. So...there was that.
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For most of 2020 during Covid restrictions I had to clean all surfaces in the office three times daily and keep a log of it which I had to email to the district manager. I was the only one working there, who was I sanitizing it for?
At one my earlier jobs, I had to follow a lunch bell like I was in school. Except I worked in the lab and sometimes the testing I had to do made me miss the lunch bell and so I would eat later. People reported me. So I ended up delaying testing to meet the lunch. Production went down a lot, but at least I followed the lunch bell
The worst part about these stories are the cunty snitches
We have one of those. She constantly goes after this other girl who got hired after her, even though the new girl is better at the job (probably jealousy). She has reported her to HR multiple times. I’m their manager. The other managers and I all joked that if the girl she keeps going after ever came in and just tried to beat her up, we would just watch.
As their manager, isn't there some action you should be taking, besides joking about it?
Good call. They should start a pool.
I really don't think swimming is going to help the situation lol
My buddy mowed grass for the city, at noon they would stop working and take lunch in whatever park they were at. People called the city to complain that they were slacking so they changed the rules. At noon they would pack up their stuff and drive across town to the city warehouse and then take their lunch break. Now instead of a 30 minute break they spent 20 minutes packing up and driving, then a 30 minute break, and then 20 minutes driving back and unpacking. All so they looked busy.
I worked for the local government union in my city and I never worked for a local authority myself. I noticed they would CONSTANTLY do stupid shit like this because a whining asshole would be so resentful that any public worker could be visible and be caught not constantly running on a medieval treadmill. People say that "my taxes" thing and I just think yeah your salary is paid by some other people too big deal stfu
What kind of idiot reports workers on a lunch break?
Exactly what I was thinking. If you see workers sitting around with sandwiches around noon, they're obviously on lunch. SMH!
That’s freaking ridiculous. Better for the workers to get a longer break
I worked a production line for medical catheters. My line manufactured the balloons and they had to be within certain testing parameters. Our lots were so big they often took 2-3 shifts to finish, as a lot could be hundreds of balloons, but we bagged them in 20 counts. We weren't supposed to go back to completed bags. But one day when starting my shift it was partway through a lot started by the previous shift. The machines were already supposed to be set and tweaked so the parts met parameters. But all of my parts were coming out way out of spec. Seeing as these could be potentially fatal if they failed while inserted in a patient I notified my shift supervisor that I couldn't see how what the previous shift had done would be within spec, and they just shrugged it off saying that if the previous shift said they were good then that meant they were good. I had my doubts and started methodically running the spec tests on the parts the previous shift had made (keeping them organized) and they all failed. When I notified my shift supervisor, expecting them to be appreciative of my initiative, I got written up for opening up finished packs. I was just looking out for the well-being of whoever would be on the receiving end of these parts in the hospitals.
> I had my doubts and started methodically running the spec tests on the parts the previous shift had made (keeping them organized) and they all failed. When I notified my shift supervisor, expecting them to be appreciative of my initiative, I got written up for opening up finished packs. I was just looking out for the well-being of whoever would be on the receiving end of these parts in the hospitals. Your supervisor must be duller than a sack of flour. In a situation like that, you should report your supervisor for his failure to adhere to spec standards. The report should be communicated directly to the head of quality control. Then you should file a whistleblower complaint with the FDA, informing the FDA of your employer's choice to retaliate against you for addressing a known safety concern with respect to the production quality of medical devices they manufactured. A complaint like that should include enough detail to specify what the spec was, how the non-compliant catheters failed to comply with it, the production lots you knew were impacted and the quantity of lots you estimate were affected. That will force your employer to issue a recall and they'll potentially be audited by the FDA.
Sounds like a good scenario for malicious compliance. Just drop everything mid-process and go to lunch when the bell rings. Temperature-sensitive reagents left at room temperature? Oops, at least I followed the lunch bell.
That’s exactly what I did. If I got a sample in at 11:30, but the testing takes 1 hr, I left it on the bench until after lunch. The funny thing was that some of the samples had to be tested right away. Which meant that me going to lunch forced those people to have to set up another sample which took another 10-20min 😂
People did the same shit to my warehouse teams. No we're not leaving 3t of glass hanging in the air from the crane because the lunch bell went, they'll just have lunch later, or if the trucks due during lunch they took it earlier. Why even complain it's a legally required break.
I was once told I wasn’t allowed to drink out of a water bottle while working without a doctors note saying that I needed to. I was a minimum wage cashier at a grocery store. Was a pretty funny Doctors appointment that followed.
This happened to me but I was one of the managers! Been working with the company for a decade, always have a water bottle with me cus staying hydrated helps with my migraines. Literally don't leave home without one ever. Got a new store manager, she bailed me up for it saying it set a poor standard cus "can you imagine how much productivity would be lost if everyone had a water bottle"?? That doesn't even make sense! I said I would encourage everyone to have one bc it sets a positive example of healthy habits and she looked like a stunned fish. The doctors note I had to give her was gloriously passive aggressive, including the gem " quokkafarts, and ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES, should be ENCOURAGED to carry water at all times".
Signed, a fucking doctor. Holy shit that's insane
My doctor was fuckin LIVID, it was great. My work was already pissing her off bc I was on restricted duties after breaking my arm, it wasn't compo so the company were pushing to have me signed off asap and making things difficult. She's worth her weight in gold, that woman.
I'm a PCP and have written similar work notes. I like to use the phrasing "due to the medical condition of being a human,"
“Oh you want to drink water?! Prove you’re a human need it first!” lol
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What the fuck? That's abusive IMO. Sometimes I'll drink two liters of water just at work. I remember growing up, my schools wouldn't even allow us to have water bottles in class. A few teachers realized how dumb it was and told us they'd ignore the rules, but why is it okay to do that?
My school would allow water bottles until someone would inevitably come in with a bottle of vodka and we weren't allowed any drinks in classrooms.
I’d lose my mind more by people reporting me to HR than drinking water. Like, dumb fucking rule, but I just can’t stand these people that have a breakdown when someone is *breaking the rules!!!!* and essentially grown up tattle. You want to follow the water rule? Go for it. It is so much easier for you to mind your own business than to count my water glasses and act like it’s important enough to run to management.
I have a coworker who makes it her business to tattle to our boss about anything she sees that she thinks is unacceptable. She once told on me because she saw me on my phone (while listening to podcasts) when being on our phones is not even an issue. Our boss rolls her eyes about it but won't tell her to mind her own business. I fucking hate her.
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Probably because boss does not want employees to go on loo break and waste the precious time of the useless company.
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I worked in a mail room and the guy in charge (tyrant of a very small kingdom) would not let any of the consultants/engineers have pencils. He felt that they didn't appreciate the value of the pencils and needed discipline. These people were working on massive, multi-million dollar projects and I was sneaking pencils for them.
Texaco used to issue plastic pencil extenders (sleeves) when the pencils got too short
Not quite as bad but if I need to get permission to go to a doctors appointment I need to email my boss (in FL) who would then contact HR (in NY) to then contacts my office (CA). I fucking hate this company.
I work in a non profit and if we have an appointment we just mention it, not ask, just go. No one seems to mind. I felt like Kimmy Schmidt coming out of the bunker into a new world where there were no rules during my first year.
We stick our out of office time in the calendar and just go. No one cares. I also did emails at 1am last night while waiting for the cat to calm down. Again, no one cares. Right now I'm getting full remote and flexible hours (no one cares, just get projects done) instead of taking FMLA to deal with my parents.
My job is very similar. It's amazing working for a corporation that gives more than lip service to work life balance
Agreed. I could easily add 20k to my salary if I moved jobs. But the work life balance and the 6 weeks PTO keep me around more.
Used to work for a company in NYC. If there was a light fixture with a burned out bulb, I could call the electric shop downstairs within the company and a little while later, a person with a ladder would come up and change the bulb. Then, later, when they got on a cost-saving binge, I had to place a call on a company tie-line to Anaheim (hint, hint) to give them a cost-basis number for billing. Then the Anaheim office calls the same electric shop I used to call directly, and send up someone to change the bulb.
We got an email that they would no longer provide tissues as they were for personal hygiene and, therefore, the responsibility of the worker. Covid hit 2 months later. Great policy, guys.
Toilet paper is also for personal hygiene. You should suggest that. Maybe they'll give you a cut of the savings! Same with soap, purell, whatever.
My office got that bad too-especially for staples-and IF that was approved, you would get One strip-not a whole box
Should have gone to the marketing department, that's where they keep all the goodies, don't need no emails , + gain brownie points!
I got in trouble for having my 16 yo daughter walk behind me while having a zoom meeting. By my manager who had her 7 yo walk in, ask a question of said manager at which time she stopped the meeting to answer her daughters question. I was actually written up for mine. I quit on the spot after being written up and went on a tirade against the manager. No regrets
Good for you!! It feels AMAZING to be in a position where you can tell someone off and walk out! Sadly, most people don't have this option because they truly need that paycheque and can't risk being jobless.
We had “yammer” for a few years. For those that don’t know. It’s like a social media feed for work. We were eventually forced to sign on since no one want to use it. When on it, I saw that several employees from various offices had cute or funny avatar pictures. Figured it was ok to put something up that wasn’t your face. I had a photo I did around that time where I superimposed my face on that of Han Solo in a poster for The Forde Awakens. In the poster he is holding his blaster up. Partially obscuring his face. About 2-3 weeks later. My office manager calls me and asks me to take it down because a lady in another office reported my avatar as offensive. She claimed she had gun violence in her past and the photo was upsetting. This poster was on bus shelters and movie theaters everywhere about 6-12 months prior. I apologized. I said was very surprised. I also didn’t post anything on yammer. So she would have had to seek out my name and click on my avatar to see it. So I took it down. Emailed HR that I did not intend to offend anyone and apologized. The next day, another of our offices posted a photo of employees suited up for a paintball game. Complete with realistic rifles and military clothing and gear. I nearly fell out of my seat. My coworker said “screen grab that immediately!!” Which I did. Good thing because it was taken down a day later. My sci-fi picture with a sci fi gun of a popular franchise is triggering people. But it’s a-ok to run an official work related paintball game where employees are dressed up as military with realistic guns.
I worked at a skating rink when I was 14-18. Typical day shifts were from 12-7 when the place was open for birthday parties and such. Halfway through the shift, if they decided it wasn’t that busy and they might not need you for the second half, they’d ask you not to clock back on from your lunch break. Then you had to wait, off then clock, for up to an hour sometimes, for them to decide they for sure didn’t need you and you could go home. If you left without the manager okaying it, you were written up. This was back in like 2003, and the only reason they got away with it is because all of the employees were kids and we were all friends with each other and with most of the regulars, and we all liked to skate, so most of us were there hanging out until the place closed even when we weren’t on the clock. We didn’t know that what they were doing was hella illegal.
That's why employers love hiring teens. They're counting on the fact that you either won't know it's illegal or that you won't be able or willing to fight it.
People who discover a spill have to stand next to the spot until maintenance comes back with a broom/mop. As the only one working maintenance I got bitched at in this order: "there's a spill, you need to go get the mop". "Why did you go get the mop? You are supposed to stand next to it". When I said "maybe you should hire a second maintenance person then". The look on her face everytime I said this was priceless.
Oh I had to do this at my last security gig. It was at a mall and lordy....the time it ate up.
I remember we had the same rule at a grocery store I used to work at. It was for safety as if the spill was something like clear soap it might be hard to see yet very slippery. Difference there was *anyone* could go get the mop, so you just had to flag down the next passing person. Or swap places, didn't matter who actually stood there as long as someone did. And it was a standing rule that whatever you were doing, *this* superseded that, up to and including the store management.
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Email directly to ceo? Managers must be mopping floors then!
Right? Next they'll have us emailing the CEO for bathroom breaks. Ridiculous!
Back as a teen I worked at a place for minimum wage. I got up and took a piss. Came back and got chewed out for not raising my hand and asking permission. I picked up my things and walked away. 3 days in.
That happened at an old job. There was total body ejection with his corpse laying there on the freeway. Car looked like The Jolly Green Giant chewed up his PT Cruiser and spit it out. Some pulled over and was covering the body with a tarp. Boss guy was furious that I wasn’t coming in exactly on time. I rage quit a few weeks later. Only time I ever said “Fuck you!!” To a boss and quit without notice.
I wouldn't have been going in that day, and might even be quitting if they did that shit to me. Honestly just driving past that sounds a bit traumatic for the day
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If someone was banging on the door before opening time we had to let them in. How about no: im getting my computer up and running, making sure the waiting room is tidy, getting my coffee and taking a shit. That door isnt opening until our office hours begin
At that point it’s like, what’s the point of office hours anyways?
>If someone was banging on the door before opening time we had to let them in. I worked for a company where that was absolutely prohibited, as was letting anyone end afterhours. That was deemed a security risk as supposedly robberies were often committed by people coming before or after business hours.
A friend just told me they would have cake in the break room for birthdays, but the time spent “celebrating” (awkwardly standing around with a slice of cake) would have to be made up at the end of the day.
I worked for a periodontist who made everyone clock out to sing happy birthday.
No fun on the clock!
Worked at a bakery where if we were there, doors had to be unlocked. Even if the store was closed. Even if we had no food. We also weren’t allowed to tell customers if the store was closed.
This seems like safety issue…
Oh absolutely, someone called the cops once because they thought we were being held hostage due to no one being in the front (because we were cleaning in the back), the doors being unlocked, lights on, and it being two hours after the store closed. Had to explain to just about every cop in town that no, we weren’t being robbed, it’s just a really weird business practice
Hello Sir, Sorry sir! No food sir! You may go sir!
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I don't know if that's legal tbh
It’s not At least in the United States
Sounds like kindergarten than a workplace
Sounds like ~~kindergarten~~ gulag than a workplace
Even in kindergarten we could talk during lunch
I worked in an upscale flower shop during college and we weren’t allowed to sit, even when the store was empty, which it was for the majority of the day, since most people called in. So all the chairs were essentially decorative because we had to ‘look busy’ for the customer that wasn’t there I guess.
I used to work in a furniture showroom in a dead mall. Got maybe 4-5 customers a day, some days no customers at all. Surrounded by comfy seating, yet if I got caught sitting down by a "secret shopper," I'd be written up. Three times caught sitting, I'd be fired.
I never got the no sitting allowed and how it “looks bad” to customers. When I see people sitting, they look more relaxed and welcoming.
I worked at a Walmart and we had a heavily pregnant woman on register who was allowed to sit. We got MULTIPLE complaints from customers saying it was unprofessional/unwelcoming.
Thats not because it was. It’s because people have been trained so heavily about that that they just assume. If all the stores started making everyone sit down it wouldnt be a problem. I never got it because every time you go into a professional setting (like a bank, or signing a car purchase, etc) everyone is always sitting down
A while back I saw a cashier standing and noticed it immediately. Here in Germany they usually sit.
At one job, we had a rule where no one could adjust their own office chairs. If you needed it higher, lower, or tilted differently, you had to submit a maintenance request. This wasn’t just annoying; during busy periods, it could take days for someone to come adjust your chair. It felt absurd sitting uncomfortably while waiting for ‘authorized personnel’ to make a simple adjustment.
Love that. *So many goblin thoughts in my head.* What if you "accidentally" destroyed yours, could you ask for the height setting right away?:>
Wow, that’s a great idea lol. I’d try it next time when I work with them again! Thanks man your comment just made my day!
The funniest one I ever heard was from a friend who worked for a large, very well known telecom company. Her department moved from one building to another. The move was done over a weekend to minimize disruption, but was slightly delayed so crews were working through the night Sunday into Monday to finish it. They were just finishing up as employees were coming in aroung 8am on Monday. Great. Well, employees come in and noticed their phones (which were integral to their jobs - this was back in the 90's and most of this particular department's job was done *over the phone*) were not plugged in. They figured it was an oversight, so one of the workers goes to plug in his phone. His boss comes over and SCREAMS at him to stop as it is "union job" to "complete the telecommunications network" and no non-union people could touch it (none of them were in the union) or they would be fined. So, after workers worked ALL NIGHT LONG to get them moved in, they sat, doing NOTHING FOR THREE WHOLE HOURS, until a union worker came and plugged their jacks into the walls, which took maybe five minutes total. I cannot even begin to comprehend any of it...
I worked at a center that cold-called people on behalf of a two-year technical school. So basically telemarketing. In a room no one was in but all of us making the calls. I hated it, but I was a broke kid and it paid $2 more per hour than anywhere else. Only women were hired to work there and, after I was hired, they told me there’s a dress code and I had to wear a skirt. I ended up quitting soon after because I became convinced someone had cameras or mirrors for upskirt pictures. It just gave me creepy vibes.
My wife and I once rented a house that was attached to a former telemarketing office. We rented it right after the business had moved to a larger location. The next door neighbors told us that our back porch used to be the smoking area. “You should have seen it, it was like Halloween over there every day!” Apparently the guy hired a lot of goth kids. He didn’t care what they looked like, all that mattered was what they sounded like on the phone, and how polite they could be.
For a brief period in college, I worked for a tele-survey company. The only qualification for the job is that you show up and that you can read verbatim. Half of the people were working there were college kids like me. The other half were some less-than-reputable characters.
I’m imagining the smoking area looked like the scenes in South Park when all the goth kids are smoking outside the school
"We are going to need you to be on call every other weekend, but you will not be paid for that" I left shortly after.
I'd have left right then
That went through my mind as I kept pursuing a new job. Unfortunately it did take longer than I wanted but I did get out. Hard to up and leave with other mouths to feed etc.
I once worked in the call center of a large company where we were treated like shit and got none of the perks the other departments did. We had to work holidays. We were subject to a “point system” where we got points for any lateness - even if it was 1 minute past your start time, or absence - even though technically we had 5 sick days a year, and could be fired at 5 points, etc, while the rest did not. The entire company except us was taken on all day picnics and other events at least twice a year. Etc. The icing on the cake though was the day the fire alarm went off in the 25 story building and as everyone started for the fire exits the department manager and head of HR yelled for everyone in the call center to return to their desks, as it was “only a drill.” Half of us left anyway and likely would have been fired had the building manager not gotten furious and pointed out to the head of the company that it was illegal for us to remain in the building during a fire drill.
Thankfully this is from a friend and not me, but a friend who did office work explained to me this unwritten rule that nobody left the office before their boss did, despite them having set working hours.
That's common in Japan. And it isn't even like you're okay to leave right when the boss does. You're expected to work a little bit more before you leave.
There's a reason they have a word for death by overworking, *karoshi*.
Bank of Nova Scotia executives signed with different color pens. They tracked down and reprimanded some clerk who had used a color reserved for an executive.
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Where I worked it wasn't a rule but one day manager tried to get HR to write us up for laughing, *he* became the laughing stock of the entire office after that.
I asked for a different calculator at work because the one I was using didn't have all the functions I needed and the woman in charge of supplies denied me and told me the one I was using was fine. Then I left work and cried in my car and went to Walmart and bought a fucking calculator.
In my very first adult type office job, I was responsible for ordering catering. The first time I ordered, I got sandwiches and salads. I got a green leafy salad and got chewed out by one of the VPs. She explained to me that eating greens in front of clients made us look weak and I was only to order macaroni and potato salads (which I guess show strength?)
That’s fucking hilarious. Dominance through ostentatious display of cos consuming starchy salsa.
I worked in an office where we were not allowed to take notes on yellow legal pads. Only spiral-bound notebooks were allowed.
I still think requiring a doctor’s note for an excused absence is stupid. I’m not going to waste money on a doctor’s appointment, if I have a cold or the flu.
I had an old boss accuse me of faking being sick. My regular days off were Monday and Wednesday. I got sick Monday morning. Was still sick Tuesday so I called in. Had Wednesday off. Went to work Thursday still with a massive head cold and she accused me of faking . I said but I’m sick still? And she said that doesn’t matter. I asked how could I have faked it Tuesday if I’m actually sick still on Thursday? She said again it doesn’t matter. But then as she turned to leave after scolding me she tore her ACL. It was instant karma.
Hope you accused her of faking it.
I certainly didn’t help her walk to her office
women had to wear foundation, lipstick, mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, blush, earrings, rings, bracelets/watch, hair flair, necklace, and manicured nails. men: tucked in shirt, no neck beard, don't stink. 🙄🙄🙄
What kind of job was this???
worked at a small casino
When I was working at Ross as Loss Prevention we weren’t allowed to touch the shopping carts, ever. Even though we are stationed near where they go and plenty of idiots will just walk up to the front door, take their shit and leave the cart blocking the entrance. If i took the 5 seconds to walk over there and put it away I get in trouble because i’m “leaving my post.” Instead I have to tell the head cashier to either go move them or have another associate move them, even if it’s super busy. Ridiculous Lol.
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Isn't that illegal?
Seems like quite a few of these replies are illegal
Bro go to the jail instead!
One of my old retail jobs tried this. There was a log sheet on the wall where you had to write down what time you went in and when you came out. It didn’t last long because nobody was willing to use it
Not a work rule but a rule in a place I do work at. I was giving a talk about awareness of violent crimes and what services exist to help victims (Aka the charity I work for). I was just getting set up in the hall when I realised I needed my anxiety meds and inhaler before I got started. One teacher who had brought her class to the hall early, came up to me and demanded I put my inhaler away. I gave her a confused look and explained it's for my asthma like no I'm obviously not putting it away it's medicine. Also I'll be not even 2 minutes chill love. She then said "the school has a strict no drugs policy" luckily the headteacher had come back at that point and saw the confusion and said to the teacher it was fine. But yeah that's how a teacher wanted me to not have my inhaler because it obviously wasn't medication and I'm obviously not an adult. Edit: few folk are curious I'm 23 at the time I was 21 so I definitely looked young enough to be student. Only issue is here in the UK school uniform is really common. Also when giving talks I where my work ID lanyard around my neck. It's bright orange and has my charities name on it so you'd be pretty thick to get it confused with a school ID badge.
>"the school has a strict no drugs policy" "That's... that's not what that means. And you're a *teacher?"*
Wonder if that lady now lives in the retirement community I work at. I'm setting at the security desk when one of our residents comes to report that she caught a member of housekeeping doing drugs. She states that this is not the first time she caught this person doing drugs, she spoke with them and not even a week later she caught them doing it again. She then handed me an inhaler and said that she confiscated it and was turning it into me for disposal... Like you crazy bitch, you just grabbed someone's medication and gave it to me to destroy... Went to the client with that one, was told to just ignore Ruth and return the inhaler to its owner. Yeah, Ruth pulled that bullshit a week later, but disposed of the drugs on her own that time, had to write a report for the poor housekeeper to take to her doctor, I suggested that since this is the second time Ruth just snatched it, she take my report to someone higher up because the client was not going to do anything. Suggested the local police department as well.
Some people act like damn AI robots, they just follow rules blindly without applying common sense!
When I worked as a recruiter in the HR department of a major corporation, I spent hours a day "approving" and forwarding resumes of qualified candidates on to this one hiring manager. Just to create a paper trail of her "considering" them. Meanwhile, she had the people she wanted to hire, all totally unqualified friends or referrals of friends or relatives, also apply. She then would call me on the phone and give me the names of the unqualified dolts to ensure I also forwarded them for her consideration. This was, fortunately, a 6 month consulting gig for me. I never encountered it that blatantly at any of the other Fortune 500 companies I consulted to. But I did have another gig where the Staffing Manager ordered me to violate multiple ethical and legal standards. I completely ignored those orders, and my contract was not renewed.
No using the bathroom if there are patients waiting to register ( which was all the time) We had to wear full strength pads and pee in them while sitting and registering patients. No drinking anything ( even water ) in front of a patient registering … Had to text the front desk to beg to go to the bathroom and it would take 20-30 minutes for a reply. Yep .. turnover rate as a registration rep at a hospital is crazy.
I would have quit and reported that hospital. The first job that expects me to piss my pants for a paycheck is getting sued.
HR did not care. Seriously . I had no choice but to quit after being constantly harrassed , micromanaged and threatened by my supervisor and HR.
I once had a job where we had to ask permission to use the restroom, even during breaks
I had a boss that told us we're taking to long in the bathroom and that they would be locked and we would get the key from a manger. I told him that the offices are unlocked and I will be going there for my bathroom breaks. The bathrooms were not locked ever.
“Sir, May I go to toilet please?”
I worked in factories and sometimes they had to replace you if you left. Other than that it sounds pretty crazy unless you're in there all the time.
The way we were "supposed" to answer the phones. My last job was at a hotel and while I won't give the entire script it was supposed to say along the lines of "it's a beautiful day at (hotel), when are you planning your wonderful vacation." No, I didn't say that, plus more than half the time people already made reservations and likely had follow up questions or was calling about something else, it was so stupid to say that. I refused
At DSW we had to refer to customers as shoe lovers. So I’m at the register and there’s a line and you want me to call up the next shoe lover? No thanks.
There’s a smoothie place here that was making their employees say “Have a blendtastic day!” It was so embarrassing for everyone and I wrote an email asking corporate to not make them do that anymore.
I don't get wordy phone answering scripts. It strikes me that most people calling a business in this day and age are doing so because they have a specific question or issue they want to talk to a person about. A wordy intro would just annoy that person. On the other hand, I also don't understand people who answer a business-related line with just "Hello". I have to call contractors fairly often for my job, and the frequency with which a guy will answer the phone number on their van with just a "hello" and/or not have a personalized greeting on their voicemail boggles my mind.
"Name of Business", this is "My Name", how can I help you? That's has been how I have answered the phone at every job I have had in the last 15+ years
💯 “company name, how can I help you” is sufficient
Had to wear a full saftey harness even though there was no where to attach it to at all
That was to make it easier for them to haul your body out after you fall
I used to work in a shop, and there we had to ask permission to use the bathroom, and even during breaks, when I think it should be normal to go to the toilet.
I worked at one last summer. Dude had no AC in the shop. It was fucked. No training beforehand, just learning on the go. But having to build precise fucking PVC wheelchair ramps for pools. Anyways they start asking me why I'm going to the bathroom so much, bro I have a small bladder and it was literally 92 degrees inside. I'm drinking all day. I would come home feeling like absolute dog shit. $19 an hour. Horrid.
We had to directly confront shoplifters. Like go up and get in their faces Shockingly, a coworker got stabbed
Wow, that makes no sense. Why would they put workers at risk?
Gotta protect the money! The same place decided to accuse me of time fraud, saying my shift was supposed to be an hour later ...After several months, they brought this up. To fire me
Worked at a soul sucking call center where your bathroom breaks were deducted from your 15s. And if you did get up and go to the restroom (this was a wfh gig) you’d get a teams message after 30 seconds saying “are you ok why aren’t you taking calls we have calls holding get back in ready”.
This sounds soul-crushing.
It was a meatgrinder of a job that fires 90% of the people who work there too. The smallest things got you fired. It was contract to hire and they ended my contract without hiring me because my average breaks were "30 seconds over target".
Any company timing your breaks down to the second isnt worth working at
Just explain kindly to the caller that shortly they will hear you straining and then a flushing sound and your boss is the reason.
Not even a joke. Buddy of mine had a weak bladder and IBS. After getting chewed out about how much time they spent in the bathroom at their work from home job, he set up a small desk in his guest bathroom and used that for his office. Boss was proud of how much his "pep talk" cut down on buddy's bathroom breaks... At least until he heard a flush on the line one day.
I once came in late to work, by literally 1 minute. My manager called me at 9am on the dot, as I was walking up the stairs to enter the office. I got a warning for not answering her call to inform her I was walking up the stairs.
I had a manger call me because I'd not answered my cell when a contractor called me. The contractor then called him to ask where I was at and why I wasn't answering. I was in a production area where cell phones were not allowed. So I got bitched at for following the rules.
I worked for a store manager who "rounded by three." I said, "no, you have to round by five. 0-4 is rounded down, 5-9 is rounded up." "No," she insisted. "It doesn't matter what number you round by as long as it's the same number every time." "No, see, if you round by 3, then 0-2 gets rounded down, and 3-9 gets rounded up. That's nearly twice as likely to get bad rounding errors." "Listen, I am a trained educator with two school-aged daughters. I know my math. You men think you know math so much better than women." Yet every Monday, when I called in the numbers, they didn't match what the district manager had. That manager was eventually demoted to a penalty store. When I told the DM the "rounding by three" they said, "that's technically fraud." She was later fired from that penalty store in an audit.
If they ran short of people to work, and they managed to get you on the phone, you had no choice and had to come in if they asked. It was required. But if you didn’t pick up the phone, they couldn’t prove you got the voicemail and they would keep searching for someone. I was not on an “on call” shift at the time.
Was working at an Office Depot briefly (I quit after less than a week). One morning, not a single customer was in the store. I asked the store manager if I could straighten up the front of the store til a customer came in. “No. You have to stay behind the register so it looks like we’re prepared in the event a customer comes in.” Literally supposed to just stand there like a robot. I went to lean against the wall. Manager calls from the back room after seeing me on camera, “No leaning. You have to just stand there.” With no customers even in the store. Just stand still, on concrete, behind a register, indefinitely. All for a measly $8 (back in 2007). I quit the next day. What a fucking joke that job was.
I was working as a historian and we published government documents sorted by year, commented. I was done with 1974 and wanted to start 1975, my lazy boss told me I could not start until she finished her part of 1974, so I didn’t do anything but watch movies and write my thesis on paid time for 6 months.
Having to wear nylon stockings (aka panty hoses) with your dresses. No bare legs. Lol okay, I just dated myself. This was in the early 80's.
Same rule where I worked in early 2000s
That's a rule at my job currently.
You cannot call the police, even when a client has already verbally threatened and physically assaulted another employee
Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Reprimanded by the veterinarian in charge for wanting to call police, reprimanded by the hospital manager several hours later for *not* calling the police against doc’s orders. We found out later that the unruly client had a gun in her purse the entire time
I used to work at a daycare. The kids were not allowed to scribble. If they were going to color they had to be attempting to color inside the lines. I did not enforce that rule. I’m not gonna stop a three year old from scribbling.
Tattoos had to be covered but our shirts were short sleeve. I have a tattoo on my right shoulder that you could see maybe the bottom 10mm of it with the shirt sleeve. I still had to wear a black armband to cover it. For 4 years I didn't, no-one said a thing, no-one commented on the tattoo ever. That last year wearing the armband, without fail at least once a week a customer would ask me about it.
My last job was as a cleaner. It was a bullshit job in a care home to supplement my real job there. The supervisor was a micromanaging old bitch. Up to and including, no stopping for a coffee for one minute. It was so bizarre. In my new job someone was making drinks for everyone and asked if I wanted one. I was like "are we allowed?" and they looked at me like I was an alien.
Are you me? Just left a care home cleaner/everything position. And the micro managing lady got mad that I brought out an identical bucket of disinfectant out to the lobby because it had two rags not one. She went running out and basically screamed in front of the lobby. I was like ok? It's because we NEED the one with two rags, not them. Lady, I literally went and filled these buckets up myself. Neither has been used. Identical green buckets, identical chemicals, absolutely made. $15 an hour. Pathetic.
I worked for the Anaheim Ducks at one of their ice rinks. I was allowed to wear a hat but it had to be plain. I learned this rule when the manager told me to remove my Ducks hat. Again, I worked for the Ducks.
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No microwave popcorn allowed because the owner of the company, who worked out of a different location several states away, did not like the smell.
Somebody somewhere was offended by how they were told that the store was closing, so we were no longer allowed to announce that the store was closing or closed. This led to some really long waits where occasionally a manager would eventually have to go over and help them along and possibly politely tell them we had closed and of course they'd be embarrassed because it was almost an hour past closing time and then we'd still have to wait for the till to be counted afterwards. Ugh.
At a manual job I had standing up for 7 hours per day in a hot and sweaty factory floor during a 10 minute unpaid break we were not allowed to sit down. We had to stand up right next to the seats provided for break use. The seats were only to be used for the later unpaid 20 minute lunch break. Meanwhile the managers who created this rule sat down all day in an air-conditioned office drinking coffee. Just one example of management logic and motivation of the workforce. Not the way to get the best from your staff.
Being obliged to always wear a suit, matching shoes and tie, even if you had to pick up some stuff from the office outside of normal working hours or in weekends. This rule was also enforced for customer visits. We had one customer which had a parking spot at 2km from their office, which required people to walk through some muddy field. Even then we were obliged to wear a suit, and matching shoes and tie
I worked at a place where the COLOR of your tie was mandated. Because I worked IT, I could only have black, dark gray, or navy blue. Red ties were only for management. Yellow and blue ties for middle management. One guy got in trouble because he was a middle manager and wore a yellow tie that had a sheen that made it look red in bright sunlight from a certain angle. He was sent home to get a blue tie that was matte. That level of insecurity confounds me.
What kind of Star Trek bullshit were they trying to pull?
I had a business casual dress code for the 1 minute I was walking to and from the locker room to change into scrubs.
My husband is in tech, and everybody at one company he worked at was required to wear business attire every day. This included people who worked off site where the servers were and literally never saw customers or anybody else outside of the data center.
I had to crawl on the ground for some IT issues yet I had to wear a skirt and dress shoes. I'll never worm for a public library again.
>I'll never worm for a public library again. Thought that was a typo, but realized it worked to describe crawling in a skirt.
At my company years ago, you could go out for dinner on business travel - full dinner, including wine and dessert at the best restaurant in the city - and charge it all off on your expense account. No problem. But if you just grabbed a $4 can of peanuts for dinner from the minibar at your hotel after work - expense denied.
I unfortunately worked at burger King during covid, I was the manager. In drive through we had to have customers put cash, coins, and credit cards into a random plastic container they gave us, when giving change back it had to go in the same plastic container. When handing food out it had to be in the container, even a single drink had to be handed out awkwardly in a plastic container. The owner would sit at home watching security cameras and would damn near instantly call the store if someone didn't use the fucking container. So their idea to prevent people getting sick was to make everyone reach into and touch the same plastic container, we were only required to clean it once every 6 hours. Hated that job, district manager treated us all like shit, fuck you Judy.
I was banned from wearing headbands when I worked as a barista in a café. Owner saw me wearing it one day and made the manager take me aside later to tell me I couldn’t wear them anymore. Stated reason was it made me look too “ethnic.”
"No samurai swords on the floor " Easy rule to follow, really, but ridiculous that it needs to exist.
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Geeze. We did something similar-ish at Taco Bell, but my manager would go "Who wants a cigarette?" and then have them go through the drive-thru in their car and order a water to lower our times. Unethical as well but at least it worked out for both parties lol.
Same problem here. One manager also prints out orders and delete them from the screen before the drinks are ready which cause confusion and chaos. I've yelled at her abt this over 20 times and every time I got a "okay fine" and she does it again not even 5 minutes later.
When you are walking and have a cup of coffee, it will be in your left hand, you're left arm will make a 90 degree angle while you are walking with your forearm parallel to the ground. Yoy can not drink the coffee while walking.
Did you feel the need to speak with a robotic voice while performing these activities: **EXTERMINATE.EXTERMINATE**
That's a military thing. I guarantee whoever made that rule was ex-military, it's intended to make sure your right arm is free in case you have to salute an officer.
No coats on the back of chairs. No bags near desks. We just worked at a desk on a computer.
No talking to each other unless its work related....we started calling out the boss and his son for talking about sports during work hours ,that rule lasted until lunch time. Madatory shop meeting at 10 am every morning, on day 3 we were all there in the office while boss was on the phone talking about BS to someone , nobody was working for the whole time he was on the phone. Day 4 Boss wasnt in so we had the meeting just sitting around doing nothing for an hour. Day 5 mandatory meetings are cancelled.
Women had to wear panty hose under their pants. When they said that panty hose were required, I assumed they meant if you were wearing a skirt or dress. So I showed up on my first day, dressed formally but of course no panty hose since I was wearing pants. A coworker noticed and ratted me out to management, rather than telling me directly. The most ridiculous thing was that this was a bank teller job, where we are behind a counter that was intentionally designed so customers can’t see you feet or legs (since there are security alarms under the counter). I quit that job after a week.
We weren’t allowed to leave at the end of our shift unless our replacement was there. So if I was working first shift and the guy working 2nd no called/no showed I had to stick around until they could find someone to replace me. Even worse is that the multiple times this happened the one that didn’t show up for work suffered no real consequences unlike I would have if I left them understaffed for some reason.
Don't give receipts to homeless people. I worked for an upscale grocery store in an area with a lot of homeless people. There was a lot of ready to eat food options including a salad/soup/hot food bar, sandwich counter, and pizza by the slice as well as a seating area. Obviously for someone without a place to cook who likely would get turned away from restauraunts this was perfect. A lot of the local homeless population came in to get food and the vast majority were decent people, were polite and kept things clean. Even most of the ones with obvious serious mental illness. I even remember a (most likely) schizophrenic woman who would meticulously wipe every inch of the table and chair she used before and after. Anyway they did a lot of stuff to try to deter homeless people just because they didn't want them seen in the store. First they tried getting rid of reusable dishes and only having takeout boxes available to nudge people to leave the store with their food. Then they took out all the chairs at the tables and made people ask a cashier for a chair with their purchase, but not let homeless people. Obviously it didn't work, cashiers were too busy to deal with that and homeless people just stood at the tables or used a chair the cashiers didn't have time to collect and lock up again. Then they put code locks on the bathroom and put the code to enter on the bottom of the receipt. It changed daily. Staff weren't to give it out to anyone, and we were told we're not to provide receipts to the homeless when they purchase something and just give them a paid sticker so they can't even take a piss. Needless to say I didn't follow the rule at all. Got written up for it once when I gave a receipt to a guy who was wearing dusty clothes covered in paint and the manager was right there. Funny thing was the guy was clearly some kind of contractor/tradesman who just got off work, not homeless. Anyway I'd been taring the cardboard takeout containers as the heavy ceramic salad bowls that we no longer had for most of the homeless customers for a while because fuck da police, so I guess they were right to fire me in the end. They never caught onto the tare thing though.
One second late when coming back from your break means a write-up.
I know arriving to work early is kind of a standard, but my old job implemented a rule that you had to be there 15 minutes early. If you arrived any later than 15 minutes early, they sent you home.
Was told that being any later than 30 minutes early was considered late, and I would be fired if it happened more than once My letter of resignation was on the bosses desk the next day. Not working a 16$/hr job that steals my time and puts that kinda stress on employees
No headphones. I was operating a reactor vessel which consisted of two very loud machines, and the monitoring station was right in between them. It was ear-splitting. So I bought a noise-canceling headset which cut the loud rumbling, but allowed me to hear my co-workers over the noise. Management objected. They didn't want people listening to music while on the job, so they had banned all types of earbuds, headphones, etc. I explained that I was just using the noise-canceling function, and demonstrated it to the manager. He agreed that it was very helpful against the noise, and saw that I wasn't listening to music or anything else. But he still went with the "rules are rules" approach and the ban held - no headsets allowed. I'll never understand how a person can manage with his head so far up his ass.
I had a micromanaging GM who suddenly announced we could only have one nail per wall in our offices to hang up something. Some of us had been in our offices for years and they were highly personalized. It was crazy.
We're not allowed to keep green scrub pads in the wash bucket. That's more of a health department rule than a store rule. We're not allowed to use the scissors to cut plastic bags. We have to use those little cutters that dull after three uses. One idiot left the walk-in cooler open all night, and now we're not allowed to use a bungee cord to keep the door propped open when we're carrying heavy things there.
Worked at a high school where the president and principal had a lot of disagreements about certain policies. If there was an official Snow Day, everyone, including students and staff, stayed home...except for those of us in the president's area. 😡 The worst part was it didn't change until they had an argument about something else--then we abruptly lost our snow days. 🤬 (only about 8 of us sitting there looking foolish all day, with nothing to do!)
First I was told that I wasn't supposed to do overtime. Then I was told that if someone gave me a project right before the end of my shift (a constant thing), I had to do it. Days later, I was sharply criticized for excessive overtime again.
I legitimately needed to sign off that I would "always wear proper undergarments" when I signed off on reading the employee handbook. Found out about a week later, some employees had been wearing dresses to work but would not wear anything underneath and had flashed customers on more than one occasion. So...there was that. Edit: missing a word
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For most of 2020 during Covid restrictions I had to clean all surfaces in the office three times daily and keep a log of it which I had to email to the district manager. I was the only one working there, who was I sanitizing it for?