35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up

Has your office or university made you do something that just seemed completely nonsensical? Perhaps its dress code unintentionally turned you into a movie character? Or maybe there was a time management technique that decreased your productivity rather than improving it? If so, you're not alone.

Started by Reddit user Swiaa, there's an online thread that asked people, "What is the dumbest rule your workplace or school has actually enforced?" and it has gone viral, amassing over 13,000 comments. The discussion is a reminder that regulations, while often necessary for maintaining structure and order, can also lead to unintended consequences if not carefully considered.

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My junior year in high school a teacher collapsed in class and went into full cardiac arrest. The student who called 911 was suspended because school policy stated an admin had to make that decision.

They were full of s**t. It took them half an hour to approve a 911 call for a student in my class the same year who cracked his skull open during a seizure.

FleaHunter , Rawpixel Report

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Back in High School we couldn't do homework during detention. *Great thinking*... preventing "at-risk" kids from doing schoolwork during the only time they'd realistically do it.

I_candobetter , gpointstudio Report

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One girl got called into the principal's office because her skirt was too short, even though she was wearing leggings underneath. The principal made her take the skirt off and just go in the leggings, which was even more revealing since she was wearing a thong.

NyuuTwo , Les_am Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up I had over 20 detentions in school for running in the sandbox when I was in 1st grade... 1st grade. At the end of the year they wouldn't let me go on the school field trip. So my parents took me at the same time, my principle suspended me for the last day of school for being there even with my parents. That's OK because my grandma took me shopping.

kstarkey_7 , Markus Spiske Report

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My school had a no running but no slow walking rule.

Running? Detention

Walking? Detention

WHAT THE F**K AM I SUPPOSED TO DO, LEVITATE?

whoatethekidsthen , rubypeanut Report

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20 minutes of bathroom breaks per week. That's 4 minutes a day! I actually got written up for exceeding 20 minutes per week. In the meeting I said to my younger supervisor "You know I'm an old man don't you? For me, going to the bathroom takes time." She said she didn't want to talk about it.

anon , AZ-BLT Report

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At my driving school, the instructor said that if you were being chased, on the highway, by someone who was shooting at you, you shouldn't go over the speed limit.

One girl said: ''so you should just let yourself get shot?'' and the instructor said yes.

anon , Pixabay Report

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When I was in year 10 there was a rule that meant we had to wear our blazers at all time unless you were in a classroom and had the teacher's permission.

There was a few really hot weeks that year, and we were all forced to wear our black blazers (and have our shirts tucked in with top button done up and tie pushed to the top) outside in 30ish°C heat with little wind.

It took us weeks of complaining and a few people fainting from the heat for our principal to realised she was being unreasonable and putting our health at risk.

Glad she got fired (for something else though).

thegrammarunicorn , alinabuphoto Report

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You couldn't fulfill your internship requirement with a job you already have, even if it's directly in the field of study. This was graduate school. So a bunch of adults in the middle of their careers weren't able to count their highly relevant jobs towards the internship and had to go waste a bunch of time doing typical low level intern bullc**p at other companies.

ferrarisnowday , seventyfourimages Report

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Doctor Strange 1 year ago

Because the school had a deal with companies to provide slave lab... I mean 'unpaid interns'

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Spocks's Mom 1 year ago

Insightful. Did you at one point provide s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ l̶a̶b̶o̶r̶ an internship?

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hardrad2009 1 year ago

Had same problem

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Lauren S 1 year ago

Yup! This was true in my grad school too!

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Brenda 1 year ago

Dumb

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the landlocked mermaid 1 year ago

My college does this for undergrad! We don't get paid either and I miss out on a week's worth of wadges. I said it was stupid but now I have to take the internship again or else they will not let me graduate

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Bryn 1 year ago

I'm going to school to get my special education license. Part of it requires that I work in a special education classroom in more than one building. If I didn't work at two different schools, I would have needed to find time somewhere in the day to go to a completely different school to get that time. It's ludicrous.

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Carol Emory 1 year ago

Some of these schools could run into issues with that because many companies have Non-Compete clauses in employment contracts. I have it in my company. I cannot work for a firm with the same field of business in the same areas that my company operates in.

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Seadog 1 year ago

My wife is actually facing this very thing. She owns her own business and they actually expect her to close down for a year to go intern with a competitor doing what she's already doing.

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Cpt. Robert Christian 1 year ago

"See: the Imbecilic Dictatorial Autocratic people who are usually placed in charge"

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JayWantsACat 1 year ago

Yeah, this is such a kickback scam.

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Rilmar 1 year ago

My university does the same thing. It's ridiculous.

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up My elementary school instituted a rule that you couldn't call your parents or go home from school for being "sick" unless you barfed or had a fever. I went to the nurses office for a stomach ache (a frequent activity for me in those years) and when the nurse said I couldn't call home I puked on her. Got to go home and they eventually changed the rule.

Also really effed up- they used to put peanut butter in the pizza to up its nutritional values. They never told anyone. It came to the obvious conclusion when a kid with a nut allergy had pizza for lunch.

horizonview , Kelly Sikkema Report

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#11

There was once a student who decided to charge his phone. One of the teachers had a s**tfit and told him if he did not unplug it, he'd be suspended and charged for the electricity. He thought it was a joke of sorts and laughed it off. So he got suspended and was made to go in front of a committee. He laughed after handing them a dime and walking out, knowing it had cost the school district thousands of times that much to file the paperwork, and deal with it.

anon , Rawpixel Report

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#12

The "daylight rule". There had to be daylight between boys and girls at all times, in a solid line. Got told off a few times for "sitting too close", "walking alone together" and hugging boys, because apparently, if you hug boys hello or goodbye, sex will happen.

anon , hwilson8 Report

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#13

35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up When I was in 7th grade, they created a no hugging rule. After the principle gave this speech, about 150 kids stood up, and created a mass group hug outside the office. The administrators were pulling people out at random and sending them to detention.

LemonOnMyEye , valeriygoncharukphoto Report

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#14

At my high school, you couldn't loiter. That means you could not be on campus more than 30 minutes prior to the beginning of classes or 30 minutes after the end of classes. You also could not go off campus once you'd gotten there, or you would be automatically expelled (happened to someone I knew).

I rode the bus to school, and one day it came early and hauled a*s, getting me to campus 45 minutes before classes started. As I was not allowed to leave campus, I went inside and started doing homework in the hallway (library and cafeteria weren't open yet). The vice principal found me in the hallway and took me to his office. He then called my mom and had me suspended for a day for loitering on campus. My grandparents had to come pick me up and the VP escorted me off campus 5 minutes before classes started.

red_raconteur , rubypeanut Report

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Right after I graduated, a new principal took over my high school and decided girls couldn't carry purses anymore. I told my little sister she should keep a tampon behind each ear like a pencil. I told her If all the girls do that they'll drop that rule.

It turned out not to be necessary. Enough parents complained and the rule was abolished in its first week.

I think the rule had something to do with hidden weapons. Our school was in a rural town and had absolutely no history of gangs or violence.

percygreen , LesiaValentain Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up My workplace enforces a dress code. I work in a f*****g call center. I'm pretty sure a t-shirt won't hinder me from doing tech support.

curly123 , GeorgeRudy Report

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#17

35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up No cell phone shaped objects in your pockets at work. At first I thought it was a typo, then they started to write people up for wallets, packs of gum, and other rectangular shapes in our pockets.

Loopdedoop , Jonas Leupe Report

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#18

From a previous place of employment: You cannot talk to your coworker over the wall of your cube (wall was waist high), you must walk over and sit down next to them to talk. Also, no personalized screen savers and no black hosiery for women because it's too provocative.

Vanity06 , Mint_Images Report

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#19

35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up If a cell phone goes off, every one in the class, must stand up immediately with their hands on their heads until an officer arrives to search them. Failure to comply will result in incarceration.

duckl , Soulful Pizza Report

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#20

When I was in 5th grade the school installed a traffic light in the cafeteria, and when the light was red, all the kids had to be completely silent. I have no idea why we had to be silent during most of our lunch but we did. It was stupid as f**k.

ShadowBrony , Pixabay Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up My school made water bottles against the rules. You had to have a doctor's note to be able to have a water bottle in class or in the hallway. This is the first instance where I started to doubt the country that I live in.

technicolordreams , charlesdeluvio Report

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#22

35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up I went to a Charter school where we had "Moral Focus" assemblies every morning. It was stupid and pointless. The school also banned Halloween and changed it to a "Harvest Festival", where each class was assigned a vegetable to dress up as. My class dressed as eggplant. It was awful.

cheechsfeist , Lelia_Milaya Report

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#23

No high fives allowed in middle school. Giving a high five meant a detention.

mossrulz1 , YuriArcursPeopleimages Report

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#24

I went to a Catholic high school that didn't have a required uniform, but rather a strict dress code. Dress pants of any color provided they didn't have patch pockets were acceptable, for example, as were most solid-colored shirts as long as they had collars and sleeves. However, the way the dress code was worded in the student handbook left a little loophole: "If the student wears shoes, they must be one of the following styles..."

*If.*

Someone noticed this my sophomore year and simply stopped wearing shoes to class. Soon the trend spread. The teachers couldn't justifiably give detention because the students weren't technically breaking the dress code. An amendment to the dress code was mailed to the home of every student, requiring them to sign and turn it in or else face suspension. It wasn't a stupid rule (I personally never followed the trend, going shoe-less in the bathroom would have grossed me out) but it was stupid that it escalated so much.

TL;DR - students had to promise to wear shoes.

duckspunk , ADDICTIVE_STOCK Report

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110points

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up No talking between coworkers ***EVER***. Imagine that in a retail that hires 95% teens. Good luck with that. Unless they're looking at us, we always talk a bit. Could you imagine being with people 5+ hours a day for months and never speak?

AGRRRAA , Christina Hawkins Report

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#26

There is an area outside of the cafeteria with tables for students to eat at. However.. Nobody is allowed to go outside to eat. It's very strange.

anon , vinokurovyury Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up I got a detention once for exiting through the wrong doors. The doors were not an emergency exit or anything. Just doors that were closer to my bus.

norrin-radd , artedemojo Report

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#28

Only allowed to use the restrooms after class -at the end of the day-

anon , wirestock Report

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No Gameboys because some kid cried because someone beat him in a Pokemon battle; so they banned Gameboys, and they banned Pokemon. Pokemon was banned for being "too violent".

1998 was awesome.

eddieswiss , Spencer Report

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#30

35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up No shorts.

In the summer.

In Florida.

autoposting_system , fauxels Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up when i was in 8th grade the principle decided that all bad things happen when students were in a group larger than 5. If more than 5 students were standing around a teacher would come and break it up.

handsthefram , Nestea06 Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up We're not allowed to have baked goods on campus.

anon , castorlystock Report

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#33

Opening a door for anyone is punishable

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up If we didn't wear a coat to school from November to February, we got not one, but two detentions. Even if it was warm enough not to wear one.

buddy58745 , Dominika Roseclay Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up A year after I got out of my middle school, they banned plain white tee shirts.

yellowdevel , langalvezjen Report

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#36

I work at an italian restaurant and if anyone says anything positive about Olive Garden, they get sent home on the spot.

anon , RossHelen Report

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35 People Share The Dumbest And Most Infuriating Rules Their School Or Workplace Made Up Apparently my old middle school enacted a complete ban on all writing instruments that are not pencils, apparently attempting to curb bathroom graffiti.

rangemaster , lgrainger5 Report

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This isn't too dumb, but I remember when I was a kid alot of people in my class played Yu-gi-oh. The cards got banned for no reason, and I always found that was strange. I mean don't teachers want kids to spend some of their free time doing something that required thought, there was a lot of math involved which was especially difficult when I was that young and I feel like my good mental math skills have been partly attributed to playing card games like that.

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Isa Reyes 1 year ago

I already typed dozens of rules my hs had....but I will type the worst one....Random 'wrist checks' that are done in front of EVERYBODY on students that have been suspected of being depressed or anxious...even a normal kid who is just sad gets checked for self harm....I was checked in front of the ENTIRE Cafeteria after they grabbed me, dropped my tray, and ripped the sleeves of my clothes.....they did this to a friend who ended up killing herself as a result. I miss you Zoe

34points

sneksneksnek 1 year ago

That is the worst! I'm so sorry for your loss

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Ah d*** their hegemony and arrogant, heartless lives 🤬 Truly sorry for the loss of your friend and for the indignities you suffered. It hurt to read and I can only imagine the horror of living it.

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Isa Reyes 1 year ago

Btw the wrist checks were a part of the 'suicide watch' program involving dragging you out of normal classes for private learning, staring at you all day, and just overall invasion of our space

5points

Impasta (she/they) 1 year ago

Oh! I'm so sorry!

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

I physically flinched at this. If they did this I would move schools. That's messed up.

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Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

What happened if they... "found" anything?

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Isa Reyes 1 year ago

Just gonna list some of the ones from my high school years alone: no phones period, no backpacks unless they were clear, must always wear your id on your shirt and it must be facing forward, no hair past the ears on guys, no lobe piercing on guys, no tank tops, no tight shirts, no leggings, no ripped jeans, no carrying books outside of bag, no water bottles that were not clear (they would be sniffed by staff to make sure they are not vodka), walked through a metal detector daily, every 2 weeks lockers and classrooms (including backpacks) got searched by drug dogs, bag searches before entering school, no parking without paying for a parking pass, no parked on the west side of school where most classes are, no visiting counselor without a weeks notice, no eyeliner, no bold lipstick, no hugging, no hand-holding, no sharing lunches or lunch money, staff sat outside the bathroom and timed how long you were in there (only 1 student allowed in at a time), no clear phone cases, no pop sockets, no posting about the school on social media unless promoting, no walking on left side of hallway, do not look at the cops (who monitored our every move), no skirts, no shorts on girls, guys must wear belts, no naturally curly hair like on many of our black classmates as it was distracting, no reading ahead, no working on he during lunch or before school in the commons, etc.....I am going to make another comment for this last thing because it led to a suicide and still was continued

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

I'm at loss for words. What state was this in?

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

I couldn't even read them all. I stopped at no ripped jeans. What's ridiculous micro managing list.

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Junebugjump! 1 year ago

This sounds like an internment camp or detention center, not a school.

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

I got my comic book (which I made) confiscated. I was showing them to my classmate during snack break and my teacher took it away from me and I didn’t get it back for 1 week as they kept misplacing it. They later on twisted the story and told my parents that I was distracting everyone in the middle of the class with my comics which was not the case. The Vice principle told me that if I needed to show my comics, I would have to give it to the teacher who will show the other students. I never followed that rule as I didn’t feel it necessary

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Salsa Ambiguity 1 year ago

Off topic but it's really cool that you made your own comics!

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Zia Barrett 1 year ago (edited)

Our school's uniform code was as strict as you'd expect from a private boarding school, not a public grammar school. Everything except shoes and socks had to be in the school colours from the school shop, inclusive of underwear. You couldn't just buy them somewhere else and pretend because the school brand shirts, hair ties, bras, and knickers all had a specific pattern of striping in the three school colours. Break the rules? In school suspension, automatic detention, get sent home. It was very strictly enforced. Also the bras were only 32-38 band and A-C cup, they did not fit me in the slightest.

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

How can those fools mandate bra sizes??

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Alexandra Davis 1 year ago

Worked in a school as a teacher where they wanted my make boss (I'm female) to escort me everywhere in the building including going to the toilet if it meant using the stairs (which from my room and office always required stairs as they were off half way down a flight of stairs) because I was on crutches. I told them this was discrimination and a breech of the disabilities act but they didn't listen, sure did listen when I used my union to sue them for bullying and disability discrimination! Got a payout of half my annual salary, terminated my contract and got a good reference. Boss then lost his job too, months before his amount of years working there would mean he got a bigger pension. Karma well and truly won that day!

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B.Nelson 1 year ago

My brother was given detention for standing on dead grass. VP claimed it was dead because students stood on it.

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Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

I had a teacher trying to reprimand me for walking on the grass claiming people walking on the grass were the reason for the bald spots beneath the trees and near the bushes. We had a huge bunny population on campus and they were the culprits responsible for those spots! And he was the biology teacher and should have known better! But he hadn't seen the principal walking directly behind him and he interrupted the teachers rant to remind him that it was allowed to walk on the grass and to stop harrassing the students. It also was an adult school and it felt so good to be able to stand up against any sort of BS. We only had that bio-teacher that was unreasonable though. The rest was well aware that their students could sue them if they tried such c**p and the principal took care to keep that one teacher in check. If he tried to give you bad grades in retaliation the principal had the other bio teacher read over the assignment and cross check. I got several grades amended because of that.

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Brian Hawley 1 year ago

We had a stupid rule at work and I made it. I was posted to Saudi Arabia to set up a photo-processing lab. We had a problem with cleaners unplugging processing equipment and ruining the film. I put a big notice next to the machine saying it should NEVER be disconnected. Next week I went in and a panicked employee told me the machine was sparking and on fire. Had they turned it off? Of course not.

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Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago

Jimmy Johns in the USA it's a sandwich fast food store. No visible tattoos on your hand, or your neck and face. You sign an affidavit saying you won't work at another sandwich store for a year after you leave. The store music is approved by corp, so no rap, r&b nor hip hop. The atmosphere was great and made the best friends I ever made at a workplace, but corp and the ceo were and still are extremely pieces of s**t.

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WoodenLion 1 year ago (edited)

the owner travels to kill big game - elephant, lion etc. i suggest to never, ever go to jimmyjohns

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Kristy Nelson 1 year ago

These are all so absurd! I mean good grief!

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

At my Junior High dances (we had Halloween, spring and end of school year ones), they would always be on a Thursday night, starting at about 7pm and ending at 11pm. We weren't required to be picked up but my mom wouldn't go to bed until I was home and didn't want me out late cos she had to get up super early for work and make sure I got up for school, plus she wanted to make sure I got home safe. We weren't allowed to leave until 11pm. My mom came to pick me up at 10:30 and the staff stood in front of the door telling me I wasn't allowed to leave the building. I could sit in the band room where we put our coats and wait until 11. My mom came and got super pissed off with them and laid into them. Isn't that holding kids hostage?

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

A stupid rule at my last job was the dress code. It was always openly directed towards the women about not wearing anything mid-thigh and above, and you couldn't show your shoulders. SHOULDERS! This was a job where we has 0 face to face interaction with the public and very rarely be seen by the clients. It was still a very casual dress code where most people came to work in whatever style they wanted, including sweatpants and a baggy T-shirt or ripped jeans and looking like they just came from a road trip on their Harley. If you wore a shirt with thick shoulder straps and floating sleeves that was fine for some. But I got asked to cover up for wearing a tank top with my cardigan half off my arms cos I was getting hot. Some one complained. Another co-worker thought it was ridiculous.

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

I want to 3 different schools between 1984 and 1998. We have never had any rules to begin with,. Maybe because it's Germany. I don't know but lots of these stories are either utterly ridiculous or appalling

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fair_weather_rose 1 year ago

Not that extreme, but the no hats policy. I'd be okay with it if someone could give me a logical explanation as to why, but so far all anyone can tell me is "it's distracting." Like, I'm sorry, but I think the class is much more distracted by the insanely loud rap music coming from Marco's headphones that can be heard clearly across the room than they are by my fedora. Luckily, most of my teachers don't care, but random teachers I don't know do yell at me in the hallways occasionally.

4points

Death’s Entropy 1 year ago

Cheating. Crib sheets attached/written on the inside brim.

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EmBree 1 year ago

We had to have a note from our parents saying that we were allowed to smoke. It's kind of wild when looking back. There was a whole bunch of 10-15-year-olds smoking at school. Today it's illegal for kids to smoke.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

And this ladies and gentlemen and other persons not binary classifiable, is why we have fascists.

2points

JP Doyle 1 year ago

My middle school had the enlightened policy of expelling the child who was being bullied, because they obviously were instigating the confrontation...

2points

Matthew Smith 1 year ago

Shame there are no British examples.

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Got hacked lol 1 year ago

I don't understand what the problem is with clothes.

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Zane Lumagrowl 1 year ago (edited)

List of things banned at my elementary school: Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Live Strong bracelets. The word "sucks" and the phrase "shut up" or any variants. Soulja Boy, specifically the song "Crank That". Doing homework on the bus. Cootie catchers, "press the button" games, Mash, and other paper fortune teller games. Roleplaying as Warrior Cats characters on the playground. Kicking any ball that isn't a football or soccer ball. Nail polish. Hair accessories with cartoon characters on them. Any glue that wasn't white. Any socks that weren't white, including socks with the Nike swoosh on the ankle. Most of these things would net you at LEAST a demerit, if not a detention. EDITED TO ADD: I forgot, no locker decorations, no "distracting" folders or notebooks, and one teacher would only take homework if it was done in black pen, no blue pen or pencil.

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Isa Reyes 1 year ago

I wanna say thank you for anybody giving support on either of my comments. Sorry I don't respond fast, notifs for Bored Panda don't work for me💀

1point

JayWantsACat 1 year ago

So, this isn't a big deal or anything & it's not really a dumb rule, per se, since we have personal, lockable storage drawers at our desk spaces. But my current company (that bought my former company) doesnt want anything out in the open at our open-concept desks just in case clients are visiting. They want a clean, kempt look. Which means no personal items, obviously, but also no pens, notebooks, staplers, etc, visible. To me, it just looks like nobody works in my area. I still hang sweaters off the back of my chair because come on. I also have my cat tape dispenser out hidden behind my phone because it makes me happy. Frankly, having my old company bought by my current one is essentially the best scenario & they've treated us very well & are very employee conscious. Coming from my old company with private cubes the we;d decorated with personal effects its just an adjustment. But one I don't quite understand since we have open concept desks anyways.

1point

Jenny Galbraith 1 year ago

It's all about controlling other people.

0points

Diego 1 year ago

My old workplace, before they laid me off, had stupid rules in place because of a trash can of a manager. She didn't want anyone to talk about their lives or have friends in the workplace because we all knew she didn't earn her position she brown nosed her way there and doesn't even have a degree, whereas the majority of the people under her have masters. So we obviously didn't like this .... person. The day before my last day I sent out an email with my wage, my bonus, my employees wages, and a list of every meeting, every one on one, every text, every phone call she didn't attend to. She got demoted.

0points

AG 1 year ago

A lot of these are dumb but some of them probably have their origins based on something happening or someone ruining it for everyone.

0points

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Isa Reyes 1 year ago

34points

sneksneksnek 1 year ago

That is the worst! I'm so sorry for your loss

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Ah d*** their hegemony and arrogant, heartless lives 🤬 Truly sorry for the loss of your friend and for the indignities you suffered. It hurt to read and I can only imagine the horror of living it.

9points

Isa Reyes 1 year ago

Btw the wrist checks were a part of the 'suicide watch' program involving dragging you out of normal classes for private learning, staring at you all day, and just overall invasion of our space

5points

Impasta (she/they) 1 year ago

Oh! I'm so sorry!

5points

BeepBeepBoopBoop 1 year ago

I physically flinched at this. If they did this I would move schools. That's messed up.

4points

Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

What happened if they... "found" anything?

1point

Isa Reyes 1 year ago

18points

Old Roadie 1 year ago

I'm at loss for words. What state was this in?

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

I couldn't even read them all. I stopped at no ripped jeans. What's ridiculous micro managing list.

3points

Junebugjump! 1 year ago

This sounds like an internment camp or detention center, not a school.

1point

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

15points

Salsa Ambiguity 1 year ago

Off topic but it's really cool that you made your own comics!

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Zia Barrett 1 year ago (edited)

10points

Old Roadie 1 year ago

How can those fools mandate bra sizes??

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Alexandra Davis 1 year ago

7points

B.Nelson 1 year ago

My brother was given detention for standing on dead grass. VP claimed it was dead because students stood on it.

6points

Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

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Brian Hawley 1 year ago

6points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago

5points

WoodenLion 1 year ago (edited)

the owner travels to kill big game - elephant, lion etc. i suggest to never, ever go to jimmyjohns

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Kristy Nelson 1 year ago

These are all so absurd! I mean good grief!

5points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

5points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

4points

fair_weather_rose 1 year ago

4points

Death’s Entropy 1 year ago

Cheating. Crib sheets attached/written on the inside brim.

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EmBree 1 year ago

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

And this ladies and gentlemen and other persons not binary classifiable, is why we have fascists.

2points

JP Doyle 1 year ago

My middle school had the enlightened policy of expelling the child who was being bullied, because they obviously were instigating the confrontation...

2points

Matthew Smith 1 year ago

Shame there are no British examples.

2points

Got hacked lol 1 year ago

I don't understand what the problem is with clothes.

2points

Zane Lumagrowl 1 year ago (edited)

1point

Isa Reyes 1 year ago

I wanna say thank you for anybody giving support on either of my comments. Sorry I don't respond fast, notifs for Bored Panda don't work for me💀

1point

JayWantsACat 1 year ago

1point

Jenny Galbraith 1 year ago

It's all about controlling other people.

0points

Diego 1 year ago

0points

AG 1 year ago

A lot of these are dumb but some of them probably have their origins based on something happening or someone ruining it for everyone.

0points

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