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Every aspect of our participation in society is governed by rules, and good for every one of us. Unless you call yourself an anarchist, you most probably agree that they are the basis of law, order, or security, and that we all benefit from them, whether we like them or not.
But some rules, whether rushed or unthoughtful, may cause more harm than good. And if you want proof, let’s take a look at this thread from the Ask Reddit subreddit. “What's a rule that was implemented somewhere, that massively backfired?” asked someone, sparking a heated thread with 52k upvotes and 21k comments.
From a city putting up decibel meters to deter loud vehicles and realizing reckless drivers were competing for the highest decibel count to implementing a strict no-alcohol policy and giving your staff an emergency way out if there’s a staff shortage, some rules have surely brought some regrets to whoever implemented them.
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#1
My company has a strict no-alcohol policy. You can't begin work within 10 hours of having had a drink.
So whenever there's a staff shortage and they need me to come in right away, guess who just cracked open a cold one?
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
Yeah, until the dickhead manager says to come in anyways 😒 This happened to my husband on multiple occasions. He even told them he shouldn't be driving in his condition and they didn't care, just said that he shouldn't have been drinking...on his day off 😡 Maybe if it was an incredibly high paying job, sure, but for $13/hr to cook some damn burritos? GTFOH. And companies keep wondering why "no one wants to work anymore" 🙄 Maybe hire some reasonable people and have more realistic expectations! They seem to think some shitty job is enough leverage to deny you holidays, time with your family, and a few hours to relax and unwind. So glad to see people finally saying "we're not gonna take this crap anymore" ✊
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
Can people stop posting comments longer than the grand canyon because I don't want to read these
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Ally MacMann 3 years ago
If I'd have done that at one of my previous jobs, I might have a serious drinking problem.
Potato 3 years ago
Nah, just take a single sip every few hours. They didn't say how much!
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 3 years ago
standard procedure when I was in the Army & living in the barracks was, after hours and on weekends, if someone knocks on your door answer with a half full beer bottle in your hand....For extra effect have a few empties conspicuously displayed in your room.....Best "get out of extra work detail" mechanism ever invented.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
10 hours? Even pilots have a lower policy. It'd be helpful to know what kind of work it is, but, how would they know if you had a drink 4-6 hours ago unless you were really hung over? Maybe they had a problem with people coming in at 7am still hung over or calling in sick because of a hangover? I remember in my 20's when I would get drunk partying till 2, then get to work hung over. I worked anyway but I wasn't at my best. I'd say, drink but don't get super drunk on a work night.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
Love it! With some planning, you can work your hours and ONLY your hours
Jose Carlo 3 years ago
For some companies there is a reason for this rule. That's why when ALWAYS ask if you had a drink already before they even ask if you can come to work. Medicinal marijuana is still not allowed in these companies. you face immediate. termination.
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#2
One summer in Sweden, bus drivers in some counties started wearing shorts due to the heatwave. After being denied to continue doing so by management, they started wearing skirts instead. Dress code policy had banned shorts, but not skirts.
Titas Burinskas 3 years ago
You can also do this in any formal environment which forbids you to wear shorts.
Lucas 3 years ago
Aye but I just want to point out that kilts are hardly lightweight summer wear... you might get an additional breeze but sitting in one all day on a hot bus... nae fun.
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Maciej Zajaczkowski 3 years ago
Horrible policies prioritising looks and formality over health and practicality
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
There was a school boy who did this to protest that he wasn't allowed to wear shorts.
#3
In French Indochina, there was a major problem with rodents eating supplies and bringing disease. Given the plentiful supply of cheap unemployed workers, the colonial authorities thought they could be used to kill the rats and bring their numbers down. The French had a somewhat racially prejudiced view of the work ethic of the locals, so decided to pay them per rat killed rather than per hour worked. Each was compensated for every dead rat they handed over.
A year or so later, the colonial authorities discovered the peasants had set up rat-breeding farms in the jungle.
GoddessOfChaos 3 years ago
As someone who has had dozens of cats throughout my life, I can confidently say, yes.
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Honu 3 years ago (edited)
Another notable historical instance of this lent its name to the problem of perverse incentive: The Cobra Effect. In Delhi, under the Raj, the bounty on cobras led to enterprising people actually breeding cobras. Of course, when the colonial government discovered this and ended the bounty on cobras, the cobra farmers just turned them loose, so they ended up with an artificially high number of cobras on the streets.
MarmotArchivist 3 years ago
Exactly, this kind of policy always backfires.
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Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
I read about this elsewhere. Specifically, the French were offering money for rat tails, with the tails serving as proof that the rats had been killed. In reality, the Vietnamese were simply cutting off the tails but keeping the rats alive to breed them. When the babies were born, their tails would be cut, too, once they reached a certain length. It was a good way to generate income, and it took a while for the French to catch on.
Trevor Nicholson 3 years ago
The funnier part is the British also did this with cobras in India and the same thing happened there.
Lucas 3 years ago
They must have read Terry Pratchett's excellent The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!
Alejandra Lima 3 years ago
My mom worked in a public hospital until she retired a couple of years ago. The hospital had a big garden outside, where lots of cats where always fed. The cats sometimes entered the hospital but only in common areas like halls, or reception rooms, in fact many of them were fixed by the personnel who worked there and vaccinated. I think they were even healthier than the staff to be honest. One day, there comes a new director who thought it was not appropriate for the hospital image to have cats around, so ordered to get rid of them. Most of them were located on public parks, some were adopted by neighbours and a lot of them were sent to the fields outside the city. The fact is, just less than a week after that, the whole hospital filled with rats. Lots of rats who were not fixed, or clean, or friendly. Total chaos. The new director has to ask neighbours to return the cats and were spread around lots of pamphlets begging to bring every cat around to the hospital gardens. Cats 1- Rats 0.
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
A similar situation occurred in India when authorities placed bounties on cobras.
Policies and punishment can have a direct effect on people’s urge to break them, researchers found. Rice Business professor Marlon Mooijman and colleagues Wilco W. van Dijk and Eric van Dijk of Leiden University along with Naomi Ellemers of Utrecht University studied 883 people to understand the links between deterrence, threats and rule following.
So they conducted a series of games in which participants reported or hid taxable income depending on whether they were threatened with fines, fined with an explanation, or fined with no explanation.
#4
My work has an infraction system. If you're a minute late that's half a point, if you're up to four hours late that's half a point. So if you're going to be a minute late you might as well be four hours late because it's the same penalty.
Darren M 3 years ago
My old job was similar. More than 3 minutes late you loose 15 minutes pay. So if you rock up 4 minutes late what are you going to do? Pour yourself a coffee, kick back with your feet on the desk (just to prove a point) for the next 11 minutes until you start getting paid again. Management hated it, but if I'm not getting paid, I'm not working!
Lucas 3 years ago
Those kinds of rules are ridiculous! Flexi time for the win!
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Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
What bullcr@p rule....at my job nobody gives a dang for 15 early or late. So on average verybody is always 5 to 10 early....
Daniel Lemmens 3 years ago
So you get paid for four hours less work. Then you get fired. That is more then fair.
#5
The previous school I worked at decided that all shirts needed to have the school name or emblem (which was a fancy letter 'E') on them to be dress code appropriate. That's all the handbook said. No clarification on how the name or emblem was designed or the color or if it had to be permanently affixed to the clothing. The students hated the policy and, being in high school, looked for any loophole possible. They found one due to the lack of clarity of the handbook policy. The kids would make paper 'E's and pin them to their shirts. Thus, they could wear whatever they wanted and by pinning the 'E' to the shirt, were still dress code compliant. I thought it was pretty genius. The administration did not.
Beth S 3 years ago
How dare the kids use their brains and be nonconformable. I feel that cleverness like this should be celebrated.
BasedWang12 3 years ago
Haha I used to mess with the dress code all the time in grade school. Couldnt have a "printed graphic T shirt" K gotcha, got some white tees and would sharpie design them during classes. A few times made drawings on post-it notes and covered my tshirt in them. Passed around the post-its and made it a collaborative effort and wore all my classmates art. When a teacher would tell me to take em off I had another class full of art all ready to go for the next round.
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
Uniforms at school should not be used as advertisements for said school. Uniforms should be used to create an egalitarian environment for all students wherein no one can be bullied for not wearing expensive clothing/stuff from a particular store/whatever the newest fashion fad happens to be.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I would have put the E on next to a Star of David pinned to it. Maybe that will get the point across that it was a bad idea from the beginning.
Olivia Sorenson 3 years ago (edited)
i wouldve done that. or tell them i drew the emblem on in invisible ink
#6
I used to wait tables in college. It was a very popular hangout for business professionals, movers, shakers, etc. The restaurant/bar was always very busy and the "in" place to be. After work, the staff would frequently drink in the bar. We paid full price for drinks and any food we ate. We shared tables, danced, and socialized with the patrons and everyone was happy.
Except for the owners.
The owners decided we were cluttering up the place and "reserved" a special table for us. Upstairs behind the dirty laundry pickup station. So we all decided we really didn't need to spend our money there if we weren't wanted so we moved to another bar for our after-hours fun. And we took all those movers and shakers with us.
The restaurant went out of business about six months later.
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
🤦🏻♀️ So damned stupid. You'd think that having employees who decide to become CUSTOMERS after hours would be an absolute boon to your business! I mean really, who wants to hang out at their place of employment and spend money there after working a full shift?! Did these owners think that they were somehow taking up room from other customers? Or did they just fail to realize that their staff BECAME their valued customers?! What this says to me is that a) no matter how much you try, employers will never see you as anything more than someone to be bossed around for a pittance and b) that they just really love wielding that power over their employees, even when it hurts them in their wallets. A GOOD businessperson would've recognized that loyalty and encouraged it.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
So, you're getting back some of the money you're paying your staff, and that's a bad thing?
Random Anon 3 years ago (edited)
This is idiotic. I used to work at a bar too, as a waiter/backup musician in case one of them got too hammered. And, the drinks are always "staff price" for us, like half of what customer pay. Why? 'Cuz it makes the place lively. Hence the drunk musician part. And it worked very well since the place is filled on most days.
Spencer McClure 3 years ago
The best way to both grow and lose business is word of mouth. That's why obtaining good Google Reviews are now an actual metric of success for a lot of companies, especially companies focused on Sales and customer retention.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Excellent! I worked at a job where all 10 of us got together for coffee first thing in the morning and got the day laid out. At that time, more than half of us smoked so there was significant cigarette smoke, even with open windows. We got a new boss who changed the rules to no smoking in the Admin building. So we all went to the garage to smoke, drink coffee and get the day laid out. The new boss never wanted to be part of this even though he should have been the one laying out the work.
As you may have suspected, with adults as with children, the researchers found, threats and punishments often backfire. This can be explained by the fact that they signal distrust by the authorities of the very people they're supposed to control. Therefore, the immediate response to such distrust is an urge to rebel.
The researchers concluded that the more perceived distrust people feel, the less likely they are to follow the rules. Moreover, the researchers discovered, justifications and threats of punishment leave a bad taste, overall. Instead, they suggested that people respond way better to rules that have zero justification.
#7
I worked at Macy’s one Christmas and found out the reason why you can never find anyone at the registers is that they don’t allow employees to stand at the register because it’s “intimidating.” I can’t tell you how many times I gave up trying to purchase something there because I couldn’t find anyone to ring me up.
Blackstone 3 years ago (edited)
I'll never shop at a department store if i can help it because of how badly they treat employees. Crap like forcing employees to convince a certain number of little old ladies to risk their meager financial security to enroll in a store credit card with ridiculous interest. And if the employee doesn't get enough credit applications, they have to go to "credit school" as punishment on a Saturday morning. Employees being required (or they'll be written up) to follow around customers and talk to them, even when it's clear the customer would prefer to be left alone. Or like how elderly employees who've had hip surgery are still required to wear heels to work. All around the whole preditory business model is based on exploiting the elderly. None of my money for the corporate's pockets, thanks.
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Honu 3 years ago
It's been ages since I shopped in a Macy's, but the main reason I stopped is that it was always so frustrating trying to find someone to ring you up. My family shopped at Macy's my whole childhood. They were my go-to store as a young adult. Enough times wandering around for 10, 20 minutes trying to find someone to take my money lost me as a customer.
Megan Pippenger 3 years ago
They didn’t have that as a rule when I worked there, but the managers very much wanted you to always look busy, even if there was nothing to do. During Christmas there was always something to do, and I was usually at the register checking people out, but I worked a lot of weekday evenings when it was slow. I couldn’t just chill at the register on my phone (which customers couldn’t see) because I “might not notice a customer!” Fitting room was clear; racks were immaculately straightened and organized, but I still need to look busy and available even though it’s 8pm on a Monday night and NO ONE is around. It was so quiet I couldn’t miss a customer even if I was playing solitare on my phone.
Sawdust 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, never did understand the check out process at department stores. (Even when you finally do find a cashier, it takes way too long for them to type a bunch of stuff (who knows what) into the register/computer. I never understood why they couldn't check out like at a supermarket.)
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
That would certainly be an improvement, particularly if they’d open an express lane at Christmas time. I always seem to end up behind someone who’s picked 15 items off the clearance rack and wants to argue about every one of them.
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I gotta be honest, back when I was a kid with crippling self esteem issues, no money/family wealth, and a deep desire to fit in, finding a department store like this was a jackpot. Dillard's hardly ever had anyone at the counter and entire floors would be ghost towns. I would stop at the Gap, ask for one of their big bags, and then just load it up at Dillard's with the clothes I wanted. Never got caught doing it, either (though my friend and I did eventually get pinched at Burdines). I'm old enough now to cringe at these memories but at the time, I just wanted so badly to not be thought of as the "poor, dirty kid".
Blackstone 3 years ago
I'm generally against stealing. That said, I get little warm fuzzies imagining that there's a teensy slim chance that maybe it was my local Dillards that you stole from 😉. I really don't like Dillard's.
Load More Replies... Trevor Nicholson 3 years ago
Yeah, I know some other stores are like that, but usually small ones. At least one, I heard it was because they felt it was a security risk to be always behind the till, because then you're easier to rob. IDK.
bill marsano 3 years ago
Crazy ideas proliferate among management consultants. Back in the 1980s Citibank told employees not to greet people with 'good morning' because it was 'unprofessional.' About the same time the company that runs JFK airport wanted to do something to show that it valued its customers. The usual nonsense ("Thank you for choosing JFK") wasn't enough, and on that score at least they were right. After all, 99% of customers don't choose their airport--the airline they're flying has done the choosing already. Anyway, management pressed on and hired--of course--consultants to solve the problem. After much brain-straining and accompanying large fees, the consultants said that JFK employees should bid travelers good-bye by saying "Have an airport nice day." Even management realized the essential and appalling stupidity of that, so the proposal was dropped, But of course the fees were paid.
#8
The middle school wanted to create a "trash-free environment" so they removed the trash cans from the parking lots, halls, and cafeteria. Then just told the kids to "toss your trash when you get home or in a classroom"
The amount of litter skyrocketed overnight, after a week or so they brought back the cans.
Daenarys 3 years ago
If this was an American school these decisions aren't made by the teachers or even the administration. They are made by the School Board which is made up of parents and other members of the community who often have no previous experience in schools other than they attended one as a kid.
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Jess-a-men 3 years ago
...What? WHAT?! With everything else on this list so far, I can at least kinda understand the thought process behind it, but who the f**k came up with this?
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Who even sits around thinking up these nonsensical ideas? And they get paid for it?!
Cath poop 3 years ago
Right? this is one of those bottle of wine deep ideas.
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Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea?! Did they think the trash cans were such an eyesore? Most public places have rubbish bins outside for a reason. If you want a place to be "trash free" then the solution is MORE accessible and visible bins in which they can dispose of stuff, not removing them entirely 🤦🏻♀️
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Who came up with that idea? Forget you came up with that idea, there are other people who thought it was a good idea and went ahead with it!!!!!?????? My god... to think these people are in charge of teaching children.
#9
Zero Tolerance Policy for no violence at school. Punishing the victims for getting bullied... yea, THAT was a smart idea...
Mer☕️🧭☕️ 3 years ago
Schools love punishing the victim especially if they DARE to stand up to the bully. It's like schools actually believe that victims should just take it. Schools are weird.
Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
That's how society works, right? Go to any rape trial and tell me who is REALLY on trial.
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Trizia Norris 3 years ago
I was expelled for standing up to my bullies after 2.5 years of hell, nothing happened to any of the bullies.
Spencer McClure 3 years ago
I was actually a victim of this. Had a bully who I had trouble with througout Middle School and early High School. Literally the only thing I did was turn one of his insults around on him (Him: "That's gay." Me: "You should know") and he shoved me into a wall. The teacher took us both to the principle and I got detention for using a deragatory statement while the bully got in-school suspension for the fight. He also never had to pay for the earbuds he broke.
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
Just like me where I saw a bully who was bullying another kid (he clearly didn't like it) and told everyone to start being mean to the kid. I tried to do the mean thing to him and he punched me super hard. When I told the teacher he said they were "just playing a game" (he clearly wasn't) and that he "didn't even hit me that hard". Guess who had to go to the office
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XRaine 3 years ago
bit someone who was twisting my wrist far back. almost expelled, no consequences for them. (mind you, I'm actually very good friends with that person now- they told me that they told the school that I bit them in self defense. the school didn't even listen to the person REPORTING it. the "mediator" was worse than the opposite side
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
had a school like that, when I actually deeply questioned someone{ i would get in good with teachers} they said the "zero-tolerance policy" was meant to help you when you got older and had to deal with the "real" law
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
so... long story short... I bite a teacher and kicked a policeman
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
This is just so the school doesn't have to actually deal with the bullying problem.
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
Blaming (and punishing) the victim is one of the foundations of American culture. Poverty is a moral failing of the individual, not the economic injustice perpetrated by everyone else. Drug addicts are criminals, not sick. Training the young to swallow the unacceptable is crucial.
#10
My city has issues with loud bikes/vehicles. So as a deterrent, the city put up decibel meters that displayed how loud your engine is(similar to those signs that read your speed and display it to you) but instead of deterring anyone, people would pull up to these signs and rev the heck out of their engines to see who could get the highest decibel count. The city took the counters down within a week.
Felkey Felkey 3 years ago
Those people are indeed obnoxious and I agree with the principle of trying to reduce noise from people who are clearly overcompensating for something... However, this is just daring them to be louder.
bartje 3 years ago
In Rotterdam they made it equal to speed camera's. Too much dB and you get a fine.
Hamster 3 years ago
That's the only way this makes sense. Hit a certain number, get your photo taken
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Wonderful 3 years ago
Some guy in my neighborhood has a loud annoying truck with a boat horn on it. He loves to drive around and honk that horn at like 2 am on a Monday and then rev his engine up and down the street. For some reason his tires keep getting slashed and keyed. Someone even covered his truck in raw chicken and a other time powder cool-aid made into a thick paste and splattered all over (the truck is white) . It's been a blast seeing him throw a fit on the next door app and then everyone coming up with new things to do to his truck. Wet Toilet paper, shake n bake, slime, He just doesn't get it. Every time his truck is hit it's after he does his show at 4 am or something. Now when a new pic is posted either by him or someone else it just brings the evil giggles. Damn boat horns
Chich 3 years ago
Never understood the loud bike thing. I mean if you can't find your d**k, having a quiet environment would help you concentrate while you look.
Potato 3 years ago
They need help looking, so they have to get everyone else's attention.
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 3 years ago
Something similar happened in France with the alcohol tests: twenty years or so, it became mandatory to have one in your car and the early ones just gave you the level of alcohol in your breath. People were trying to outdo each other. Then they changed: now tests just tell you if your level is above or below the legal limit.
Sawdust 3 years ago
Wow, no idea this was a law in France. It looks like you must have a safety vest and road triangle, too!
Load More Replies... Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
I thought they would put up a detector so when a car drives by it would make a really loud sound into the sensor
#11
Washington State made it mandatory for schools to drop their room temperatures to save on electricity. The result: teachers brought their own heaters into their offices and the use of electricity increased.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
I remember that. How fun was it for kids to try to learn while having bulky coats on trying to squeeze their butts into the student desks. Meanwhile, I can guarantee that rule did not apply to the admin....
Scarlett 3 years ago
I am so thankful that when the heater in the fifth-eighth grace wing broke they just moved us into the heated church basement next door.
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Axolotl King 3 years ago
Oh yeah, as a Washington state student, our teachers have no control over the thermostats, so my Algebra teacher puts a cold wet paper towel over the temperature sensor thingy so it'll warm the room up
Noel Bovae 3 years ago
Remember this if you ever start to believe that our gov't cares AT ALL about its citizens, especially its most vulnerable citizens.
Random Anon 3 years ago
The US is weird truly. How on earth does a country with the biggest economy and a democracy no less, allow this kind of shenanigans to happen?
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Kinda like restricting the food a student could eat at lunch. Who can learn when their tummies are growling or their toes are freezing.
#12
When a daycare started charging a small fine for parents who picked up their children late. Instead of resulting in more on-time arrivals, the new policy actually caused more late pick-ups. This is because the parents were originally worried that a late pick-up would be a significant burden on the daycare employees, but because the fine was so small (only a few dollars), they decided that it must not be a big inconvenience for the daycare.
Honu 3 years ago (edited)
Yes. They no longer have to feel guilty for a transgression. They merely pay a convenience fee. I'm assuming this is the same story I read. IIRC the daycare was in Israel. The workers actually were rather put out at being kept late and did find the behavior disrespectful of their time. They assumed the fee would discourage the behavior. It turns out the late parents no longer felt the social pressure which made them feel bad for inconveniencing people. There was a price attached, so it became a matter of payment, not politeness.
Tiggy Darling 3 years ago
Daycare staff like me have personal lives, have families, and need rest after 11 hour days. Some parents just don't care. Mine charges £1 per minute in late fees. Abuse that and you'll eventually be asked to leave. And if your place shuts at 6:30 and you want to have a long chat about your child, don't turn up at 6:30 and expect to talk for 10 minutes.
NsG 3 years ago
£1 per minute is not an insignificant amount. If it were a flat £10 fine, you're gonna be there a while because parents will still take the p*ss. It also doesn't mention that they have an "abuse it and lose it policy", which I suggest would be more effective. As pointed out elsewhere, a few dollars is a convenience fee.
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Jerry T 3 years ago
My kids' daycare did the same thing. Imposed a $1 per minute penalty and late pickups skyrocketed. The following year they changed it to $10 per minute fine and added that if you are over 15 minutes they will call the sheriff. Now, 30 minutes to closing time and that place is empty. Days that we have snowstorms are now one of the most stressful days of my year.
Trevor Nicholson 3 years ago
Daycare is expensive AF so yeah they're like, what's a few extra dollars?
Richard Willis 3 years ago
25 years ago I was Chair of a (UK) after school club. If parents were late picking up their child(ren) they had to pay the overtime salaries of the minimum 2 workers required to stay late.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
That doesn't make sense. Parents would want to pick up their kids and be home as soon as possible, not diddle-daddle and have to pay more daily on top of daycare fees.
#13
One of the high-rise blocks I have to maintain has a sign saying "Anything left here will be removed due to it being a fire risk". People just dump the s**t there they don't want like fridges and sofas and by law, we have to take it
Mazer 3 years ago
Too expensive to take your things to the dump. Just leave them on the street, the local authorities MUDT now incur the dump costs. Charge less for doing things the proper way, save the local government and the tax payers lots of money
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
You got it. I remember collecting soda cans from the roads with the grandparents when I was a kid. We would literally comb over miles of roads just to collect them so we could turn it into the scrap yard for some mad money. Wasn't much but it was enough of an incentive to keep all of us disposing of our trash and recycling the proper way. A lot of places now want you to pay them for taking it so it's not much of a shocker when I see people tossing recyclables into the trash. Giving people an incentive, even if it's small, is usually enough to gain widespread participation. Conversely, charging people for something when there are other freer (but perhaps more ethically questionable) alternatives will usually result in most people going for the latter even if they wouldn't normally do so.
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Red 3 years ago
My apartment complex has the same rule, but dumber. People kept dumping broken furniture, appliances, electronics or whatever on the recycling dumpsters, but the recycling garbage collectors wouldn't pick up. So the administration has a rule stating that people can't dump this type of stuff anymore. Nobody cares and still throw away their unwanted stuff by the recycling dumpster (sometimes good stuff, just last weekend my neighbor got a stainless steel trash bin), the collectors still won't take it, so the maintenance has to call a truck to take all the unwanted stuff to the dump.
Isabel Care 3 years ago
Our area has "For sale, enquire within" stuck on things people want removed
Ma Fra 3 years ago
Where I live in Italy you can call and they come to collect large items. The only rule is to leave it on the street the day they come to pick it up and not earlier, but you never have to wait more than a week.
Wonderful 3 years ago
We have large trash pick up once a month. You know when it is cause everyone puts out everything the day before and you can find some nice stuff. I enjoy checking piles out while driving by. Seeing if there are any goodies.
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The one-child policy in China has led to a serious gender imbalance in the population.
SamanthaStillNotBoredPanda. 3 years ago
And a dwindling population, as nobody wants to have more than 2 children now . Most people are not having children in China , which is causing huge concern for the future
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
More like the majority decided their one and only child had to be a boy, to keep the family name alive, so now there aren’t enough girls to marry (or otherwise make babies with), so the boys—-now grown men—-will die single, along with their family name. Unless they marry a non-Chinese woman, that is. Yet another government mandate that was not thought through very well, if at all, F*****g moronic patriarchy, am I right?
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Carol Emory 3 years ago (edited)
The girls that were dumped in orphanages had other problems. Some were "adopted" by rich families to be raised and groomed as future wives for their son. Others were adopted by single men and women to be raised as nurse maids for the adoptive parent when they were too old to take care of themselves. The other issue was the number of international adoptions that took young girls out of the country. Now China is facing a shortage of girls. Many men are still bachelors.
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Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
There is also a huge strain on the adult children, as they are expected to care for their aged parents. Instead of having siblings pitching in, a married couple is now responsible for the care of four people as well as their own family.
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
As well as many infanticides of female children, traumatic pregnancies for millions of women, women being devalued, mutilations of babies, botched abortions...it has had many, many far-reaching consequences that are still being felt and dealt with today. So incredibly sad. I'll never forget the story I read of a young girl who has to have several metal pins removed from her head because her mother tried to induce a miscarriage by inserting them into HERSELF once she learned the child would be a girl. I can't imagine the horror or pressure one would have to be under to do something like that...
Gwen BoredPanda 3 years ago
Well, no. Misogyny has led to a serious gender imbalance because society as a whole values boys over girls, causing female fetuses to be aborted at disproportionately high rates.
Seán Baron 3 years ago
Yeah, this is what is goi g to cause China HUGE problems. The amount of single men in China is mind boggling, and the knock on effect will probably end in the China economic boom crashing down.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
I had a friend in college who was one of four sisters. Each of them had been sent to live with their grandparents in Pennsylvania because their parents in China wanted a boy.
#15
During prohibition, the US Government decided to add poison to industrial alcohol as a deterrent to people drinking it since booze was illegal. Except they didn’t tell anyone that they were doing it... so the public had no idea there was poison in the alcohol. AT LEAST 10,000 people passed away.
Beth S 3 years ago (edited)
People wonder why so many don't trust the US government... and just think this is ONE instance where they were actually caught hurting their citizens.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
This is misleading. The US gov't added methanol to industrial alcohols, most of which are toxic AF anyway. If you distill right, it's not an issue, so yell at the bootleggers who made crappy booze out of products everyone knew to be toxic. The US public would've known about it if they'd paid attention ------- The addition of methanol was in the papers. New York Times, etc. People wanted to be drunk, they drank, BTW, denatured alcohol you get at home imporvement stores has methanol added exactly for this reason ----- so people won't drink it. They still will.
Egg 3 years ago
The entirety of prohibition was f*****g stupid. People will use alcohol no matter what you do, it's been hammered into every culture in the world since we learned that rotten berries made us feel good. All prohibition did was make sources of alcohol more dangerous, as they weren't certified.
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Justme 3 years ago (edited)
They didn’t “pass away” - they were killed. Passing away is generally implied to be a peaceful death, and usually from natural causes. No one passes away from being poisoned.
Robert T 3 years ago
This is why methylated spirit has a dye added to it in the UK. Methanol is poisonous, and is added to ethanol to make it undrinkable.
mongo 3 years ago
Methanol doesn't make it undrinkable. It tastes ok. It's poisonous but that hasn't stopped people from drinking it. Denatonium is the stuff used to make it taste bitter.
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Or went blind or insane when that poisoned s**t hit their brains. Great idea, but one that would’ve been better to share than keep secret. Morons. Then again, Prohibition actually increased alcohol consumption. Forbidden fruit, you know.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
This is one of those stories that makes you believe the government actually wanted black neighborhoods infested with crack cocaine and provided it.
DC 3 years ago
This is so stupid ... I mean, I understand that every drug has a severe potential to cause damage, often even fatal, and that you can't just hand out Meth or Heroin to people, but history tells us that prohibition not only never worked, but every single time it was applied to the public and the result has been recorded, the result was more deadly incidents, even when total consumption had decreased. We should by now have learned our lesson, but we haven't.
Liz Orr 3 years ago
Certain countries hand out meth/heroin to their soldiers, won't name names
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Kelli Lindsay Boone 3 years ago
The even poisoned vanilla extract bc poor people who couldn't afford booze would drink that instead, resulting in paralysis from the waist down, and eventually, death. The condition was called "Jake Leg".
#16
Air pollution became a big problem in late-80's/early-90's Athens, mostly due to the number of old, heavily-polluting cars on the roads. So the Greek government made a law where only cars with odd-numbered final digits on their number plates (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, etc.) could be driven on odd-numbered days (1st, 3rd, 5th, etc.)- and only evenly-numbered cars could drive on evenly-numbered days. Sounds great doesn't it, they'll halve the number of cars on their roads right - nope, they doubled it - everyone bought one old, highly-polluting car that had an odd-numbered plate and another with an even-numbered plate - nobody could park and the air was worse than before.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
But We Had To Buy A Minimum ( In Connecticut ) So It Wasn't Rationing At All
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Will Cable 3 years ago
This reminds me of a local government who decided to bring in 20mph city limits (usually 30mph) they went mad with traffic calming, speed bumps, road width restrictions meaning that traffic was forming queues, introduced a tram system that has traffic standing causing tailbacks because no one thought of making it flow with the traffic light system...then some official has said there had been an INCREASE in traffic because the pollution had risen. They don't seem to realize that their actions has caused the pollution levels to rise. The air is so thick in some areas now you can almost chew it.
Philenzortia 3 years ago
We use this in the main cities of my country (Colombia) It is a freaking hell. But most people are too poor to afford a second car, so most of them buys motorcycles.
M Calad 3 years ago
So true! I was going to add a comment about Colombia and noticed you commented first 😊. Totally agree. Such law made things worse. Those who could afford a second car, got it, so traffic doubled. Those who couldn't, got motorcycles, so traffic doubled anyway. That plate number restriction backfired terribly. The traffic is getting worse and worse.
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Janet Graham 3 years ago
That will show them! I loved those pictures taken during the Covid lockdown that show clear air over cities you can't see a full city block on a normal day. Strong motivator to clean up our air and shut down pollution sources.
Blackstone 3 years ago
Nope. You gotta come back to the office. Better for our company culture and all that. How else am I going to pressure you into staying late with no overtime?
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A failing school district in Colorado last year decided to get rid of the recess so the students had more academic time which would hopefully increase test scores.
Except without recess, the kids had no outlet for their seemingly endless kid energy, and afternoons became a s**t show. Disruptive behavior increased, suspensions increased, and test scores remained incredibly low. It was a horrible idea.
Laugh or not 3 years ago
What kind of idiot think people, children at that, can work continuously without break and suffer no consequences?
Trillian 3 years ago
My son had teachers that thought it was a great idea to cancel outside recess when the kids were too unruly.
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Sue 3 years ago
In 6th grade on the first day, our teacher was giving us information on the school year & encouraging us to ask questions. I was pretty shy, but I got up the nerve to ask if we would still have recess instead of just PE. My teacher laughed & kind of sarcastically said, "Dont' you think you're too old for recess?" I was so embarrassed until the other kids all screamed "NO!" in unison. We got recess.
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
Elementary school (K-6) had recess but in 6th grade, the teacher limited it for us. I staged a walk out one day in protest of taking the recess away
#18
When Domino’s said all pizzas would be delivered in 30min. or less or your pizza was FREE.
All the delivery drivers kept getting in car accidents to get your pizza to you on time, so it wouldn’t come out of their paycheck. It was a short-lived venture.
Troux 3 years ago
I would think a delivery driver could make a killing in tips by delivering everything at 31 minutes and winking at the customer. Servers still encourage tips like this all the time with free drinks.
LH25 3 years ago
I worked for Dominos at the tail end of this policy. They no longer took it out of our checks, at least at my store. But you did get in trouble and had to explain why you were late, IE the pizza came out of the oven late or you got lost. Too many times, and you were fired. So nope, that wouldn't work. And we had lovely customers who wouldn't answer the door if you were close to that 30 minutes. Waiting until it was over and the pizza was free. Really bad policy.
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Tatiana Kouzmanoff 3 years ago (edited)
Totally false. I actually worked at domino's during this time. First, there were not huge numbers of accidents. Second, it did not come out of the drivers check. The policy lasted for YEARS. wrong on every point.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
hey if there going to deliver to my lazy ass, they're walking away with an extra $20-$50 for their own trouble along with a tip, one of my exes was a doordash {and while I have a problem with doordash} they always got like 5 bucks in tips is all, I respect everyone, I always give someone a lil extra
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
I agree with you, of course. And I think most people who have ever worked as a server or in customer service know just how thankless those jobs can be and always try to make sure they tip well. The problem is the people who have never had to do those jobs (or are so freaking wealthy that they're completely out of touch with reality). I'll never forget my Papa had done a boat repair for a guy who was a multi millionaire and this dude thought a FIVE DOLLAR tip on a job that ran into the tens of thousands of dollars was somehow this great gift he'd bestowed upon him. It's like they think "oh they're poor so $5 should be a lot to them!" 😒 Personally, I'd love it if folks were required to work a customer service job at some point in high school or college just so they realize how hard the work is, how nasty customers can be, and how little people are paid for it. Maybe then they'd all tip appropriately. But then again, I'd sooner see tipping culture abolished completely with decent wages.
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Rata Robinson 3 years ago
WTF - the free pizza should not have been coming out of the driver's pocket!
Bruce Ferrier 2 years ago
Maybe people would order pizza hours away from the nearest Domino's so it would always be free
Valley Girl 3 years ago
I got way worse than this. I used to work at a car wash. If I did not smile, the wash was free. Some people didn't see me smile because I couldn't hold the smile in place the whole while they dug 299 pennies out of their filthy ashtray. Some people didn't look, some people just lied to get a free car wash. Others were just impossible to smile while looking at. It absolutely sucked!
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
We would just say it’s been 35 minutes then give the driver all the cash for himself! Perfect
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
It wasn't that short lived. I remember years of that "guarantee", and many free pizzas because of it.
#19
I worked somewhere with a clean desk policy on Friday afternoons. The common way around this was that everyone would just sweep all their paperwork into an envelope, stick it in the internal mail, and then it would arrive back on your desk on Monday morning.
Nemo 3 years ago (edited)
That doesn't work if you have a flexible workplace. That is not the only thing people hate about flexible workplaces
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
The Pentagon, 1980's. Supervisors would check drawers on weekends. Locked drawers sealed to be opened on Monday with supe present. Waste of time.+
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Either the policy did not apply to bosses, or the bosses game their underlings all of their unfinished work 10 minutes before quitting time.
#20
December 3, 2018. No cellphones at work, company-wide policy. They have to be left in your vehicle. On December 3rd the boss asked me why I wasn't answering his calls. This rule lasted less than an hour.
DC 3 years ago
I would not comply. I have a very high chance of having to go home because of an emergency, and I will not risk missing THAT call. Fück everyone trying to pull such a stunt ... also - try that in europe, and you're n trouble. We have rights here that are enforcable AND taken seriously.
Scotira 3 years ago
Very much so, on that note let's also be said: there's a difference between having your private phone on you and you constantly beeing on your phone and getting no work done. Also my private cell is exactly that. I wouldn't hear my boss call anyway, bc it's muted during work.
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J. M. Montes 3 years ago (edited)
They tried this at my work but no one complied. I use it for my work, if I need to use it for personal reasons I do so on my break. If you don't allow me to use my personal phone at work for work purposes don't expect me to use my personal phone at home for work purposes.
Philenzortia 3 years ago
And if I don't have a car where should I leave my phone?? This really makes no sense.
Valerie Smart 3 years ago
I have to have my phone where I can least see if a call comes in due to taking care of an ailing mother . F**k that s**t and f**k anyone who says otherwise. Family comes before job in my case. Every time. Fire me f*****s
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Dumb rule. You could still kill time with personal calls on the business phone. That boss sounds like he does not have enough candle power.
#21
At one point in history, the president of Paraguay tried to eliminate racism by making it illegal to marry someone within your own ethnic group.
Needless to say, this was quite racist.
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago (edited)
How TF do people like this come into power?? I'm in the US, so I've had occasion to ponder this question over and over. Have yet to arrive at a satisfactory answer.
NsG 3 years ago
He won't have gotten into power with a batcrap crazy policy like that - the crazy becomes more apparent after they've gotten the power. In far too many cases these dangerous individuals run on what appears to be reasonable campaigns. Or, at worst, reasonable to a large number of dribbling morons who vote for them thus revealing the countries true nature to the rest of the world (and the ongoing embarrassment of those of a more central/left leaning nature). Fun fact, in the UK pre-Brexit the most frighteningly rightwing party was either UKIP or the BNP - overtly racist, borderline neo-Nazi. And yet... two of their proposed policies I actually agreed with! (I forget which ones now, I think they were green policies on increasing the production of renewable energy) Because if they base 100% of their policies on rabid rightwing bile it's too obvious what they are. Throw in a few policies that appeal across the aisle and they can fake the appearance of being a real and "sensible" option.
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🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
That old saying about how "s**t floats to the top" has never been truer than in the last 20 years or so. We have so many unqualified assholes running around and posturing like they're some kind of authority on how to govern and it truly makes me sick. We need some common sense qualifications for positions of power. If every other industry has them, so should working in government.
floof 3 years ago
In 1814 the "Supreme Dictator"José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia of Paraguay, in an effort to end discrimination and the stranglehold white European population, mainly of Spanish origins, had on the politics and economy of Paraguay, marriage between European men and women was banned. European men would only be allowed to marry indigenous, mixed-race or black Paraguayan women. By preventing the white elite from reproducing, Francia’s decree had the undeniable potential to allow the newly independent Paraguay to rise as a mixed-race nation.
#22
Infamous Barbados vs Grenada soccer match. The organizers of the 1994 Caribbean tournament cup had a rather odd change to the rules for extra time. If a game was still drawn at full time, it would go to extra time but the first goal scored would win - this is perfectly normal (the "golden goal" rule). What was different is that they ruled that winning this way would count as having won by two goals for the purpose of tournament qualification, instead of just one. Barbados went into a match against Grenada needing two goals to qualify for the main tournament. If they lost, or won by only one goal, Grenada would qualify instead. Under the regular rule, this would mean that if the match went to extra time, there would basically be no point Barbados playing because even if they scored, they would only win by one goal, and not qualify. But the two point rule would motivate them to play on. Sound good? Well, you might be able to guess what happened. The match looked like it was about to end with Barbados 2-1 Grenada - a win for Barbados, but not the two goals they needed. So Barbados deliberately scored an own goal in the last few minutes of the match, making the score 2-2, hoping to trigger extra time and a chance to score the magic 2-value goal. The Grenada players quickly realized they could do the same - score an own goal to make the match 3-2 to Barbados, which would have Barbados winning by only one goal, so Grenada would qualify. But the Barbados players realized that too.. and so they began to defend Grenada's goal. So for the last 7 minutes of the match, Grenada were trying to score a goal in either net (since scoring a goal against Barbados would give them 3-2 and they would win the match, and scoring in their own goal would make it 3-2 to Barbados so they would lose the match but win the qualification), and Barbados were defending both. Amazingly Barbados did actually manage to do so, successfully defending themselves while half of their team were defending Grenada's goal against Grenada, and then scored the golden goal in extra time and qualified!
Spencer McClure 3 years ago
This doesn't sound like a backfire at all. It created a legitimate strategy that caused a big shift in the way that the game was being played. If anything I bet it made the match far more interesting to watch and rather infamous in the sport.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
What's so confusing about cricket? Asking seriously.
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#23
At a preschool I worked at if we called out sick (even if we had sick time to use), we'd have to have a doctor's note when we came back or we'd be written up. Three write-ups equaled termination. So people would just come to work sick and then go homesick later in the morning since that wasn't considered calling out. Illnesses would spread like crazy and as far as I know, the policy still stands. There was a teacher who fainted on her way out the door because she was so sick. Then we got in trouble with corporate for calling an ambulance and not some emergency service vehicle we had on contract. Probably the worst place I've ever worked.
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
I got in trouble when I was long term ill for coming in on the days I felt well enough. I was taking sick leave too often. I left. I've often wondered if I could have sued (UK law) but it was my mental health and I just didn't have the energy to look into it.
Lucas 3 years ago
The answer is probably, yes, you could have sued. I have employed people with mental health issues and also been a person employed with mental health issues. So both sides of the fence and as my mental health issues came first I always aimed to be compassionate and supporting of my staff. It mattered a lot to me. The only consolation I can offer (having been involved in a few HR cases on both sides as well, supporting and disciplining) is that you probably spared yourself some greater toll on your health by not bothering. It takes far too long and is a painful process. Sorry that happened to you though. Hope you are doing well now.
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Gene Perry 3 years ago
I'm a grown ass adult. A doctor's note? I think not. Either you believe me or you don't.
Drea Benoit 3 years ago
Exactly. And most people don’t go to the hospital with common, contagious illnesses. And they shouldn’t, as it just spreads it to more people.
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CrazyCatLady 3 years ago (edited)
European here, I have to have a doctor's note every time I have to skip work for being sick. It is common practice in my country. But you can just call the doctor, explain situation and they will write an e-note and send it wherever it belongs so it is not a big inconveniece. If your doctor is sane.
🧶𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕂𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣🪡 3 years ago
This is par for the course with most hourly jobs in the USA. We are desperately in need of better labor laws 😔
Sonia Laxton 3 years ago
I was blessed to be able to donate sick leave to a phenomenal lady. No regrets!! She was a seat among folks taking care of others and her family. To bad policies change.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
I had a boss with the same rules. He was the sole reason we unionized. He did not believe that anyone could actually be sick more than 4 days per year. Even though we were allotted 12 sick days per year, we were written up for abusing sick leave if we crossed his arbitrary threshold. We all thought it was Karma when his blood pressure skyrocketed and he spent 5 days in the hospital and 2 weeks of at home rest.
Barbara Skolly 3 years ago
The Dr's note practice had had much pushback from Drs in my area so it is not as common as 10 years ago. Not only was it wasting resources it was also forcing sick people who could likely just rest and recover at home to now sit in a waiting room around others among other reasons.
#24
The utility I worked for hired a new Human Resources Manager. One of the first new rules she implemented to 'cut overtime' was if you worked over one day you came in late by the same amount the next day. Ex: work over 15 min on Monday you came in at 8:15 Tuesday. No un-pre-approved exceptions. The new rule went into effect Monday. Wednesday a tractor-trailer accident resulted in my whole department working over 6 hours. When the entire department came in at 3 pm the next day (yes I know that's 7 hours but lunch hour is noon), EVERYONE was freaking out. The head honcho-o looked like he was ready to have a heart attack. The Human Resources Manager was in his office getting a new asshole. The new rule was rescinded that day. Human Resources Manager didn't last a year.
M Calad 3 years ago
In Norway we have a common flexi-type contract, where you can work a bit extra some days and then work less whenever you need to run errands, go to medical appointments, attend school meetings, etc. The law (arbeidsmiljøloven) establishes limits of how much you are allowed to accumulate both in + and - on flexitime per day/week/month. It's partially based on trust, of course, but it's wonderful.
Pheebs 3 years ago
HR people sometimes have the least amount of common sense. Accounting too. All they see are numbers. One company I worked for, the head of HR decided she was an accountant too. Told the company the gift card bonus they we giving employees at Christmas needed to be taxed, so she got the brilliant idea to add the amount of the gift card to the employee’s paycheck the week they got the card, then take out the tax for the card, and then minus the amount of the card. In the end, the taxes taken out for the gift card took something like 30% of the value. Most people said to stop the GC. That same HR manager also tried to implement a policy that a team could not have both hourly and salary people on it. My boss took one look at that, mentally calculated the amount of overtime I’d be getting, and made me the supervisor of the team. Turns out, the HR manager was trying to make all but managers hourly and forcefully cut hours. My whole team was constantly working OT.
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
HR used to be called "personnel." In a rare fit of honesty, American corporations decided to refer to their employees "resources" rather than people. We all know what corporations do with resources.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
Cases similar to that have gone to court. In government circles, it was called comp time and you could accrue it and use it any way you wanted, with your boss's approval. It was great working like that because the comp time was time and a half of what you worked. aWe thought it was very fair. Unfortunately, the labor court didn't agree and sent us back to getting paid time and a half for overtime hours. Being a government job, they could not afford the tax dollars to pay us money, but they could afford to work around the time off. It was bad and they ended up hiring a couple more bodies which did not leave room for any raises for a few years.
Dave Hinckley 3 years ago
I think there's a part of federal labor law that says you can't change people's schedules to evade paying overtime. This idea would qualify.
Rand0m_Cat 3 years ago
who needs HR, in theory they're helpful but in reality it never seems like they really help
#25
Dry Counties were meant to reduce the use of alcohol in certain areas, but they result in people who want to get drunk driving further away from home to do so, increasing the odds and frequency of drunk driving accidents. Also, many attempts to rescind dry county laws end up getting countered by campaigns paid for by the bars and liquor stores that are set up on the edge of dry counties, typically under the guise of religious messages.
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
I'm a fan of our 1st amendment stating Congress shall not make any law respecting or prohibiting any religion; what I'm not a fan of is how it's been abused.
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Otto Maddox 3 years ago
Oddly enough, it was a religious college in Texas that was petitioning the city to be allowed to sell alcohol on campus, because their students were driving to the next county over to drink, and then driving back. There was actually a drunk driving accident that spurred the request. I think they were denied.
Dorothy Reiser 3 years ago
I went to school in NM in the early 70s where the drinking age was 21. Kids would go to the Texas border (where drinking age was 18) and drive back drunk. Idiotic.
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
Pennsylvania once levied an outrageous tax on liquor. All major highways out of the state acquired liquor stores just outside the border. Deaths from drunk driving skyrocketed. Pennsylvania's solution was to put up billboards counting the fatalities.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
US military base near the US/Mexican border, about the time the legal drinking age went from 18 to 21 in the state the base was in....Base Commander kept the on-base drinking age at 18, because he didn't want his troops crossing the border to get drunk in Mexico. He figured it was safer and better for them to have drinks on base where they could be looked after and gotten safely home by their buddies.....Army HQ was like " HELL NO, the drinking age must be the same as the state".....So cue entirely preventable DUIs, drunk GIs getting arrested and shaken down by Mexican cops, and other international incidents as GIs went to Mexico to get their drink on.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Actually, the best moonshine back home came from a dry county. Why bother with bars? They didn't outlaw *stills*! (for private use)
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Saudi took it a further step.. My French teacher spent the first five years of her marriage in Saudi. She said on the first day, the local guides took them to the daily executions. People were executed if they provided alcohol. It didn't stop her neighbors though. They were brewing booze out of their basement and selling it to locals. She said the wife was dripping with gold everywhere they went. Then the company the husband worked for came to their house in the middle of the night to tell them they had to leave quickly because the authorities were coming for them in the morning. She said they could only take what they could carry in suitcases. After that, she decided it was safer to raise her kids in France.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Why won't authorities let them do what is clearly illegal in that country? LE HORROR!
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"You have to eat whatever you touch" was a rule in my kindergarten which led to all the children touching all the food to call dibs on it.
Mazer 3 years ago
My friends sister is developmentally disabled easily in her 40s and always wanted to go shopping my friend said “no we can’t go shopping until the shampoo bottle is empty.” So her sister promptly emptied the entire full bottle of shampoo down the drain in the shower. I was laughing my ass off said to her my friend you know your sister is not a stupid she think she is. That was a genius move on her sisters part.
3 years ago
i know there would be at least one kid getting their meaty hands all over bugs whenever possible..i JUST KNOW IT..
John L 3 years ago
Never surprises me when adults think children are just miniature adults....they are immature.
#27
A Buddy of mine told me about a Happy Hour promotion a bar ran close to his campus. Apparently the special was something stupid like 50-cent beers that lasted until the first person went to the bathroom.
As he tells it, the first few weeks went without incident, but once it got more popular, people were going to extreme lengths to not be "that guy" including wearing adult diapers. Once people tried to covertly pee in corners and trash cans, the bar cancelled the promotion.
Kusotare 3 years ago
Those are commonly known as "Bladder Busters". Not only do people go to great lengths to avoid using the bathrooms, once somebody does, EVERYBODY tries to get in there because they've all been holding it for so long.
Paul Charlton 3 years ago
Saw the same deal in Australia in a tourist town, the second time a local beat up an unknowing tourist for heading to the bathroom 15 mins in cops shutdown the promo.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I can only imagine the building, and parking lot s Elle’s like a huge urinal. Believe me, that stench takes a load of effort to get rid of, because it just soaks in deep.
Scott 3 years ago
I used to frequent a bar that had a promotion on Wednesday nights that anyone who wore a skirt got free domestic draughts or well liquor mixed drinks for free from 9 pm to midnight. It was a wonderful promotion, and I promptly bought a skirt from the local thrift shop for something like $5 and it paid for itself in one evening. The bar staff wound up not getting tipped like they should have so it was switched to $0.50 domestics and $1.50 wells so at least the change could be tipped. It was such a fun night to go out.
Dennis Knickrehm 3 years ago
In Germany those are/were known as "Pipi Party", like "Pee pee party". I learnt that while I was inn job training for being a nurse; needless to say I went there with an urinal condom connected to a drainage bag. Those were the days :D
#28
Alcohol bans at college football games have led to increased intoxication problems because fans are loading up before going to the stadium.
S 3 years ago
My friends and I (females) would strap alcohol all over us because security only patted down the guys. We were loaded down with liquor and sometimes whole 6 packs of beer cans hidden with long flowy dresses or tops. It was both fun and frustrating but we left those games black out drunk every time. College in the south is a shitshow but it was a BLAST.
#29
Brazil in the 1980s (I think) had a massive debt problem, which they tried to solve by simply printing a bunch more money.
Any economist worth their salt would have told Brazil that would cause massive inflation, and that's exactly what happened. People found their life savings were barely enough to buy groceries for a week.
Eduardo Kraszczuk 3 years ago
Yeah, I remember that, I was a child back then. Prices in supermarkets changed (always up) sometimes more than once a day. My parents went to the supermarket as soon as they were paid to buy groceries for the whole month.
Commander OwO 3 years ago
I used to think this too, but only when I was a child, not a goddamn adult who has power over an entire country!
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
Never assume the powerful don't know the consequences of their actions. Never assume they actually believe what they say. To understand seemingly bad public policy, track the consequences for those who made the decisions. Billionaires, anyone?
#30
The military used to have a 2 beer lunch rule...they never specified the size of the beers.
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Queue the image of Thor drinking with Dr strange in that end scene!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Kinda reminds me of a line in an old song about freeloading relatives; “They eat one meal a day, that’s right. They start in the morning and finish at night”.
#31
I used to work at a semiconductor lab, looking for defects in computer chips with an electron microscope. The work is complicated, precise, and easy to f**k up. One wrong move, and the sample is toast (a LIP - Lost In Processing, as they say in the biz). Management got really angry at LIPs and started clamping down really hard on technicians who did them. If you f**ked up a sample, you got written up. The problem is that not all jobs are created equal. Some jobs are really easy, and other jobs are really hard and risky. So, the smart technicians started taking all of the easy jobs, and the idiots who didn't know any better started taking all of the hard jobs. The LIP rate then went up, and it created a really contentious atmosphere in the lab of people screwing each other over to take the easiest jobs. Morale plummeted, and people started leaving to go to other groups that weren't s**t sandwiches. This drove lab output down even further.
#32
"No cards game at school"
When I was in elementary/middle school Magic The Gathering and the Pokemon card game were pretty popular. Almost all of the guys played and would get together after lunch to play before classes started again.
Here is where it's important for me to mention that this was a Christian school. It probably didn't take long for a teacher, administrator, or helicopter parent to wonder what all the fuss was about. Sure enough, one of them probably got a hold of an MTG card, saw art depicting a demon, and decided that this had to be the work of Satan to warp our young minds.
Almost over night, all trading card games were banned from school. Any cards would be confiscated until the end of the school year.
Well, you now have several dozen pre-pubescent boys with about 30 minutes of free time and nothing to do. So we did boy s**t. Ran around, pushed each other, went places we weren't supposed to, just overall got into mischief. All this time they had a free babysitter that was keeping us all engaged, quiet, and civil, all while reinforcing quick math skills and teaching multi-level problem-solving.
The next year we got a new administrator and card games were allowed at school again.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
You’ve never been around children, especially adolescent boys, have you?
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#33
Worked for a marketing firm that often locked you out of the building if you weren’t back in your cubicle by the second your break was up. They revoked your break the next day as punishment. This is not legal here in New York State. They got into a lot of trouble.
#34
My company eventually blocked all the well-known music streaming sites, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeart Music, etc. However, they didn't block YouTube. So instead of the network having a bunch of employees streaming about 15 MB per song of music only now the same employees stream the same songs but with video on YouTube which can be 10 times as much give or take.
#35
A zero-tolerance "knife law" was implemented in Denmark a couple of years back to hinder knives from being carried in the city, and you would get fined even if it was in your car. This meant that carpenters, electricians, amateur fishermen, grocery store workers with box cutters, etc., were fined when leaving work/hobbies and having their equipment either on them or in their car. This law was fairly quickly changed.
NsG 3 years ago
This is one of those cases where, although it's a largely negative approach, a touch of whataboutism may actually be a sensible thing to apply! (As in "what about X thing(s) that the policy maker has clearly not thought of or even remotely considered, not how it's actually used to promote some crazy backwards ideas, obviously!)
Emiloy 3 years ago
I don’t think that would be “whataboutism” as those questions would be on topic for the issue, rather than bringing up an unrelated issue. Fully agree though that there needs to be space for considering the details. Too often blanket decisions are made without consulting the people involved, leading to wasted time and bad decisions
Load More Replies... Greta Denmark 3 years ago
Ah yes. I also remember discussing how, if we bought a carving knife, we were supposed to get it home.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
In Japan, you have to have a special permit to carry a knife over a certain length. It's to allow chefs, fishermen, etc the ability to own knives over 8 cm and transport them to and from work. Other than that, a knife under 6 cm is allowed for anyone.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
I work a desk job, and even I have a hard time imagining not carrying a pocket knife. Besides which, anything can be a weapon if you use it as one. Instead of outlawing knives, why don't we teach people respect of human life, and how to use tools responsibly?
#36
The infamous housing project Pruitt-Igoe had a policy of supplying housing to single mothers. However, if they stopped being single they would lose their tenancy to their homes. This meant that fathers or step-fathers of children in these poor homes had to stay away. Pruitt Igoe is a legendary social disaster and it was demolished after twenty years.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Then there is the problem in the USA of women that have food, shelter and medical benefits for themselves and their kids. But if they marry, they are suddenly disqualified from a lot of those programs because it is assumed the new husband can provide for the kids even though him supporting the family would make them worse off than having benefits. The loophole...just don't marry. I had a neighbor that had 4 kids with the same man..never married and he lived at a friends house. The day the youngest turned 16, she applied for disability and had it approved by the time the youngest aged out.
Jerry The Joker 3 years ago
In the US we have people that have been married 40+ years that actually divorce so in case one dies the other one doesn't inherit the medical debt.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
And the city actually paid people to do random checks of apartments to see if the husband and father was there to spend some time with his family. If discovered in residence, they would be kicked out and their wives threatened with loss of the apartment. Husbands just started staying away entirely. All because the city council wanted to clean up neighborhoods close to down town and the river, so they could “revitalize” the area and raise property values and taxes. The WHITE city council, that is. The neighborhoods they targeted were mostly black neighborhoods, with a few poor white streets thrown in. Oh, and then, once the blocks of apartments were full, and most of the poor white families had moved away, what did the city council do? Yanked every penny of funding for the upkeep and security of the buildings, to redirect it to some other pet project. So elevators failed, crime rose, water pipes burst, heat went out, etc. Should’ve just let those established neighborhoods the f**k alone.
Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago
The fathers and step fathers didn't stay away. They just didn't notify anyone that they were there.
GirlFriday 3 years ago
Pruitt-Igoe had "social workers" that would visit the tenants to see how many people were living in the apartments, if they had any "items of luxury" (including inventorying food in the fridge" and if they were found in violation, the family could be kicked out. There was a famous story of a woman whose boss let her take soda and chips home after a company picnic, and when the social worker stopped by and opened the fridge and saw the soda, the woman was placed on the eviction list for having luxury items. It wasn't until her boss got involved and declared his one-time gift did she get to stay. Then the boss was told absolutely no more gifts to the family if they were to keep their home.
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In Kenya, our governor in Nairobi banned public transport from getting to town so people had to walk long distances to work. And since we don’t have enough pavements, people ended up walking on the roads (like 3000) and there was a traffic jam that lasted for more than 5hrs. The next day the ban was removed.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
....and now we have an express way to reduce traffic that one has to pay toll fees for which means only rich folk will be able to avoid traffic while poor normal folk will be left on the f****d up road with crazy traffic.....f*****g Kenyan govt. from the high as f**k president and his criminal of a mom ruining the country....am so shocked as to how the international community thinks of Kenya as a very special little ass country in Africa without noticing its among the worst in making its own citizens suffer
SamanthaStillNotBoredPanda. 3 years ago
Wow . This is hard to read. We all know about the disinformation from around the world, and it really is shocking when you read the realities from the people on the ground.
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Worked for a warehouse four days a week. 11am-930pm Monday to Thursday. They reiterated many times during the interview process that overtime was optional. My first day my supervisor told me that overtime is indeed optional, but if you don't stay for overtime then everybody else has to stay even later. "So if you do leave on time, don't come back."
Eh whatever. I didn't mind the extra hours too much (although a 10.5 hour shift is already long) but the bonus was that we could go early if all the orders were done. As you can imagine, the good workers busted their a** from start to finish cutting as many corners (good and bad ones) as they could in order to get out early. Normally this ended up with us being able to leave around 15 mins early or on a really good day where the stars aligned (re:everybody showed up), we could leave as early as 7:30 or 8. However.. leaving that early only happened once or twice a year at most.
Overtime was every week. Every single Monday we would work until 2am. 11am-2am isn't ideal when you have no idea when you're off. At around 7pm we'd start to get an idea if we're in for another hour or another 6. One of the genius new hires mentioned to the boss in the office how he was hoping to get out by 6. Oh good. Apparently the boss was thinking us leaving early was a common occurance now and decided that nobody was going to be leaving early any more. Sweep or dust or whatever, but nobody leaves until 9:30.
All of a sudden we were late every single day without fail. Why? We were working our asses off to get out early but failing every day and ending up on time (or still late). By taking away our ability to leave early, everybody gave up working hard. "Slow down! We've got another hour left anyways. I'm not sweeping.". Went from about 45 hours a week to 55. 13 hours every day. Nobody ever left early anymore... but nobody left on time either. Losses for everybody involved because the boss didn't realize that us leaving early for 2 days out of a year actually gave us the daily motivation to work our asses off the other 360~.
tl;dr Boss put a stop to leaving early. No incentive to work our asses off anymore means paying overtime every day.
Beth S 3 years ago
I feel there should be a cap on how much overtime a company can force a person to work in a week. Some of these companies where I live are rolling 12+ hour shifts/7 days a week. Just because a person needs that job doesn't mean they should be worked into the ground.
Jihana 3 years ago
In my country you can't regularly work more than 10 hours a day. If it's more than 10 hours the company needs to show proof that they ordered the employee to stay longer, but under no circumstances you can stay longer than 12 hours. Of course there are exceptions and some fine print, but that's the general rule. If you work like half an hour longer 2 times per month no one will say anything, but if it's more often the company definitely will get some problems.
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#39
Well, Harvard implemented a rule that bars students who are members of single-sex campus organizations from being leaders in other student life aspects (captains of a sports team, student government, etc.) as well as stops them from being able to receive a letter of recommendation from a college dean for a post-graduate fellowship. Harvard claimed the reasoning behind the to curtail the power of secret societies (like the skull and bones group) and because all-male fraternities have issues with sexual assault. Except for the rule now discourages students from joining ANY single-sex organization. Panhellenic sororities, the multi-cultural Greek organizations (namely the Black fraternities and sororities), a "women in STEM" club, an all-male acapella group... those all count as single-sex organizations. Members of groups that have no outstanding issues are being punished for the poor behavior of a few (all-male) groups. They're now being sued by a number of sororities and fraternities.
Dillon 3 years ago
Yea that’s sexism. It now adays can’t you just say your something else? Wonder how much the rest of the world laughs at us? Hint alot
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Do you mean the existence of single-sex organizations is sexist? Or, do you mean Harvard's rule is sexist?
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
See, if they’d worded the ban to make it only apply to any organization that had sexual assault accusations, and especially proven cases, against them, there would’ve been no confusion. Of course, that would mean transparency about such issues, which—-oh no, don’t say it!—-would mean telling people your campus has “that” problem, so you cover it up and create vague rules so you don’t have to actually admit it. Damn it, I want to be able to expect better from a school that’s as hard to get into and as expensive to go to, as Harvard.
#40
Universities love to mess with alcohol-related things. My University decided to pull over campus busses on weekend nights and give out tickets to drunk passengers, as well as a lookout for walking drunks. The following month had more DUIs than the entire previous year. Everyone's excuse was they were scared to walk or take the bus, so they drove.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This reminds me of blue laws in the US. On Sundays and holidays, it was prohibited for liquor stores to be open. So, instead of going to get a six-pack and taking it home to watch football, people went to the bar instead. More drunk people on the road in the middle of the day. Brilliant. (My state has changed this law.)
Ernesto 3 years ago
Which state would that be? I'd say Utah, but I'm pretty sure the bars would be closed as well (Mormons may be weird, but they're not stupid). Seriously, why in God's name would a govt close liquor stores but not bars?
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 3 years ago
Our county had a college attached to it. There was little or no public transportation until the cops implemented a rule that, any police officer that worked overtime because of a DUI incident would have their overtime hours charged to the suspected drunk driver as further punishment in their case. Students, in turn, sued the city for not providing alternative ways to get home from the bars. Finally the University stepped in an provided a student run "drunk bus" to get students home safely and to get the lawsuits to stop. Unfortunately, that increased the number of drunk in public charges for students as they were more apt to get drunk when they knew they had a ride home. But for some, it also resulted in instant A**hole syndrome.
Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Making it illegal to walk after a beer or five? What a twatwaffle had THAT brilliant brain fart?
Candia Lee 3 years ago
It's called "public intoxication" and it's illegal around here.
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Back in the early 1990s, AOL banned offensive words on their service. You couldn't search for certain things on the internet. That's bad enough as it is, but one of the words they banned was "breast," and it massively backfired, as a number of breast cancer patients and the American Cancer Society took AOL to task for banning the word.
Pheebs 3 years ago (edited)
Did they ban all variations? Because then I’d be searching for chick ta-ta recipes, and how to check of you lumpy baps. Also, was penis and its variations included, cause I can only imagine how much fun looking up someone named D**k would have been. Edit: I love that BP censored D**k and not penis in this comment. AND THE CENSORSHIP CAN BE REMOVED IF YOU EDIT YOUR COMMENTS!! 😂
#42
The outgoing Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker implemented a stricter election law that candidates could only demand a recount if the candidate was losing by 1.0% or less of the vote. On election day this year, he lost by 1.2% of the vote. Had he not changed the law last year, he would've been able to ask for a recount.
Mobey Drunk 3 years ago
As a Wisconsin resident, I was glad to see that a*****e go. Most of the laws he implemented are just a f*****g shame.
#43
In Indiana, they stopped providing needles for druggies; bam, instant HIV outbreak.
#44
I had a friend in sales who had to fly a lot. The company decided that since they were paying for the tickets they should own the frequent flyer miles. He then decided to only fly during working hours, rather than catching an early flight out or coming home late, or even sometimes flying on a weekend. After his number of sales calls dropped by a third they reversed the policy.
#45
Spill-proof gas cans... I have spilled sooo much more gasoline by trying to figure out how to use the complicated spill-proof containers than I ever have with just your "old style" gas cans.....looking at you California!
Keller Worthen 3 years ago (edited)
Random object: *exists* California: ThiS pRodUCt mAy caUsE CaNceR
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#46
Not sure if it is still the case as I graduated many years ago. But where I went to college, the hospitals had a thing where if someone came in with alcohol poisoning, and they were underage, then they'd also call the cops. So of course what happened was when underage kids really should have gone to the hospital, their friends wouldn't call and ambulance because of fear the cops would punish people. Luckily, while I was there there weren't many deaths due to alcohol poising, but there were more than 0. Edit: For clarity, I wasn't saying the people calling would get punished by the cops. I was saying the person with alcohol poisoning would be punished. But people still didn't want to call for fear that their friend may get in legal trouble
AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
I think I'm Indiana, maybe other place too, there's something called the good Samaritan act that protects people from that exact situation. I'm not sure what year it was enacted though.
#47
I worked at a contract agency that works with Child Protective Services. CPS policy is to never tell the parent who called CPS on them, but my agency’s policy was to always inform the primary caretaker if one of our social workers called it in. Obviously, this irrevocably destroyed our rapport with our clients. Imagine telling a parent you called cps on them only to knock on their door the next week to “listen to their concerns.” The agency made an asshat out of us, and all potential for case progression was out the door. Stupid rule, if you ask me.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Social workers, who still need to work through their caseloads, should have rights to anonymity when reporting mistreatment of children to CPS. I mean, if social workers cannot enforce child safety laws by reporting someone when they see them breaking those laws, then how tf are we ever going to end the abuse and make the abusers pay?
#48
More of a minor thing, but a previous boss was extremely particular about everybody clocking in and out EXACTLY on time, not a minute before or after. Under threat of writing people up for not being on the minute. As a result, everybody completely ceased being productive towards the end of their shift and just stared at the clock. “Hey, can you go do X for me?” “Nope sorry, I only have 20 minutes left and that might take longer and push me over.”
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
How many people were attempting to clock in/out within the same single minute?
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Worked in a place with a similar rule. 5 minutes before End of Shift, there was a line of 20+ people at the time clock.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had a manager that said if you didn't take your lunch or break exactly when scheduled, you'd forfeit it completely. We worked at a call center that did sales. It's not easy to get off the phone when you are in the middle of a sale. Many forfeited lunches later and I quit sending a letter to the head office about the illegality of the policy. Some friends that stayed behind told me that the manager was replaced some weeks after I left. I had a new job by then....
Ernesto 3 years ago
Instead of sending a letter to the head office, you should have gone to a lawyer...
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Had a boss that did this too. Not one minute before or one minute after, but the exact minute. Only they forgot there were only two time clocks for the entire large building. Wasn’t a problem when people simply clocked in when they arrived. Was a real problem when everybody was lined up waiting for the exact minute they were allowed to clock in, which meant the people who actually got to work a minute or two early—-not a problem in the past—-ended up punched in late because, you know, a minute is only 60 seconds long, it takes a few seconds to clock in, and they were too far back in line. Dumb f**k idea to start enforcing it without providing an adequate number of time clocks.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
In my case, they were trying to avoid paying out the five or so minutes of overtime people accrued every day. Penny wise and pound foolish. Either install an adequate number of timeclocks, program our computers so we could clock in from them, let us just leave that same number of minutes early, or just get the f**k over yourself and pay out the 25 minutes, either in OT or extra accrued personal time, for f**k’s sake. When they started getting that Ana, retentive, people—-including longtime employees who had been there since the company started—-started leaving in droves. Myself included.
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#49
When I worked for immigration, some bright spark decided that we weren't going to remove people who had been caught smuggling drugs from certain countries. They believed it was too risky to deport people, who had failed to complete their jobs, back to pissed off gangs.
News traveled quickly and within a few weeks, there was a huge spike in smuggling. People were smuggling drugs and immediately handing themselves over to authorities to guarantee that they wouldn't get deported. In addition, dealers found it much easier to convince people to attempt to smuggle drugs because it was a win-win for all parties. The whole idea was scrapped pretty quickly.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
While I can see the logic of not wanting to send people back to face being murdered for not delivering the drugs, I also see an idea that was not thought through completely. There might be a way to do it with the loopholes closed. Possibly asylum, but then again, that can be taken advantage of as well. So you see, policy really must require long term thinking and loophole closing before it is put into effect—-not an excuse to “send it to,committee” and have it die there, btw. Just think s**t through more thoroughly, including every conceivable “what-if”, before making it a rule.
Display Name 3 years ago
Similar to California's reducing shoplifting to misdemeanor? If you want to truly be empathetic towards people suffering, do it in private. If you broadcast your empathy for optics, wrong people will obviously take advantage.
#50
My institute banned p**n sites from its WiFi. Most people weren't tech-savvy enough or bold enough to ask how to bypass it. Then the institute banned Facebook. Everyone learned to use proxy in a matter of days.
Let's just say the servers were under heavy pressure from then onwards.
Electric Mayhem 3 years ago
The censorship is getting insane, BP. Just because the word 'p0rn' refers to something that contains dirty content doesn't make 'p0rn' a dirty word.
Justme 3 years ago
Right!? Like reading the word Porn would make a bunch of porn pop-up on your screen.
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A hotel I used to work for decided they were having an alcohol-free holiday party. This didn't sit well with the people who'd been working there for years and were accustomed to a full bar at the party. The staff parking lot ended up being full of people drinking in their cars trying to get a good buzz to carry them through the party and most people ended up getting way drunker than they would have so the party was a s**t show.
Pheebs 3 years ago
I have a reverse of this. Company I work for has a party at Christmas, and serves wine. They trusted employees to behave like adults, and didn’t monitor intake. That ended the year employees got a DUI on the way home. Now the head of the department personally pours the wine at parties and limits people to no more than roughly 8-10 oz total. They didn’t completely kaibosh alcohol, but they’ve realized even adults are idiots.
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Only adults are idiots. Kids and adolescents do not know better. They haven't fully learned yet, so they are nooobs. But with those examples to observe...
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Per Arne Dahl 3 years ago
"drinking in their cars"... Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
#52
My old high school made a rule that whenever a Lockdown was initiated, everyone had to put their phones in a bag that the teacher kept locked up until it was over. This happened after some kids took pics of swat and texted about the situation to parents causing worry. The school was trying to be the only news source for parents to keep worried down but this only led to a huge backlash from parents, and the PTA told kids to hide their phones when they try to take it. It was rolled back after the first Lockdown test.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Yeah great. Make sure worried parents get no answer when they call their children, while the one school secretary is trying to contact hundreds of parents to tell them what’s going on—-and not getting through because the parents are panicked at not being able to reach their children. And exactly HOW MUCH do school board members make?
#53
At my old job, some people abused lunch so they made a few of em text in when they started and finished lunch. One guy specifically would text the start time, a place he got food, his order in detail, the address, price, etc. Even when he bought a snack while out. That stopped a week later.
Pheebs 3 years ago
Lol. My current job, my boss’s boss decided we needed to prove we were learning new things, increasing our skill sets regularly. So we were given a rather generic request to send a list of all new things we learned, issues we had to research etc, for a 7 month time period. As I’m a senior on my team, I’m constantly having to looking to weird issues to help the other team members. I’m also constantly getting interrupted, so my ability to learn new things while working is hindered, and I refuse to do more of my job outside working hours unless it relates to a personal project. I ended up grabbing my browser history and basically dumped it in to an email to my boss. He laughed.
#54
The school I go to has a rule that says if you come late 3 times, you get an unjustified absence, which lowers your grade quite a bit. So if someone is late they pretty much always skip class so they can get an absence that can be justified by simply signing it...
#55
My agency just implemented this yesterday. We had recycling wastebaskets at each desk for paper and a regular one for trash. My floor has about 75 people on it (on floor 25 of a 32-floor building), floors below us have about 170 people. So they removed the individual baskets from each desk, and now if I want to dispose of a sheet of paper, I have to walk to the lunchroom area or the copy room. This will be a huge waste of time, as people are just going to throw the paper out in the trash. This is their way of being "aggressive" in terms of recycling. I don't see how this makes things easier, or more conducive to recycling. People are going to just put more paper in the trash.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
But the prior way of doing it—-individual recycling cans at each desk—-actually WAS the aggressive method. Peter Principle in action.
Darla Taylor 3 years ago
Last place I worked, some of the custodial staff were emptying the recycling into the trash cans as well as it was too much trouble to properly recycle the recycling. Mgmt never caught on or cared.
Paul Richards 3 years ago
It was a better excuse to get up from your desk and take a walk and get paid
#56
So I go to a school that’s considered a pretty heavy partying school. We had our homecoming in September traditionally, and it was a huge party with much drinking. However one year the administration decided to move our homecoming into midterm season in an attempt to cut down on partying. Us being the smart students that we are decided instead to party on the old date of our homecoming and the new one. So now the admin has two parties on their hands instead of one.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Arizona State, perchance? I went to high school in California, and all the parties were applying to ASU because of its reputation as a party school.
#57
A salon I worked at one day decided to drug test the hairstylists. Out of 12 stylists, 11 failed. The manager texted everybody the next day and told them to come to work.
#58
My company had an injury (in a facility in a different country no less) that resulted in lost time. The guy was hammering on an adjustable wrench because the nut was too tight... instead of on banning stupidity, they decide to ban adjustable wrenches in every facility. All fine and dandy except we don't have wrenches at our machines because everyone just uses an adjustable wrench. About three weeks into buying thousands of wrenches they decided adjustable wrenches were safe again and stopped buying us regular wrenches.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Good. I’m glad that the f****d up idea of punishing everyone for one person’s stupidity blew up in the suits’ stupid faces.
Ernesto 3 years ago
Sure it can. It's just that no politician would vote for something that would cost them their job...
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Had a new manager, her first gig as the boss. One night we ran out of wine at the bar and it takes a while to restock, so someone was missing from the bar staff for almost an hour. Because I was bar manager she ripped me a new one and said the bar must he fully stocked as soon as I begin my shift. Well, on weeknights I was often the only bartender on duty. So before serving the wait staff I spent 30-45 Minutes stocking. She was livid! And she was too stupid to realize it makes far more sense to have the day shift do it in advance. The other manager said she got even madder because she had absolutely no basis to reprimand me for not serving the wait staff. B**ch didn't last too long there thank the gods.
Norma 3 years ago
I've been working around 45 years and I still can't figure out how some people get into management...barring nepotism, of course.
Question everything 3 years ago
Narcissistic or sociopathic people are pretty good bullshìtters and can easily manipulate a new "subject". Even smart people fall for them when they have no idea what they are dealing with. And some idiot bosses simply like aßkissing yesmen.
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China's Four Pest Campaign It turns out taking out all the sparrows isn't a good idea, probably contributed to the starvation of 25+ million Chinese
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Same thing happened with Europe and the Plague. There was a fear of witches back then and cats were considered mediums for witches resulting in thousands being killed. When the first plague rats showed up in Europe, there was not really anything to stop their spread and the disease ran rampant. Always good to have a cat in the house. Keeps the rodents at bay.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Take away the predators, and there’s nothing to control the prey—-which is usually also a pest—-population. Therefore, it just explodes, and the humans who eradicated the predators end up overrun by the prey/pests. Think, people. FFS.
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The Cute Cat 3 years ago
This one is very sad.. Ah, well.. We still get our supreme leader Mao..
Eastendbird 3 years ago (edited)
https://museumhack.com/black-cats-black-death/ Yeah, according to this article the link between a lack of cats and the plague is unlikely.
#61
The beach club I worked as a cabana boy at decided one summer to buy $40,000 worth of "club umbrellas". The old system was that you as a cabana boy had 30 to 60 families who you took care of in exchange for tips. One of your responsibilities was to carry whatever heavy beach equipment they bought (Tommy Bahama chairs and umbrellas) from the cabana to the ocean and set it up, and then carry it back up to the cabana at the end of the day. If you left chairs or umbrellas on the beach, the club supervisors would charge you a dollar per item because they would have to carry it to avoid the stuff from getting washed away, broken or stolen by locals. It was a pretty fair and workable system. The new system was that members still had their own chairs, but would request a number of umbrellas from the cabana boy. Obviously, they requested way more than they would ever need or buy themselves, and the club umbrellas were extra heavy and exhausting to set up. We complained to management about this and a lot of other stuff, but they basically just said "f**k you" to us. Well, that didn't exactly inspire us to do them any favors, considering most of our pay came from the members. Since all the umbrellas looked the same, we would just take the chairs and leave the umbrellas on the beach and no one would know who was supposed to be responsible for picking them up. The supervisors simply couldn't get them all and almost all of them wound up broken or missing by the end of the summer. Whoops. TLDR: Beach club got new equipment that caused a lot of extra work without giving us any additional compensation or tools to deal with the work. All the new equipment ended up getting trashed.
#62
Brother's friend works at a large company where safety is a "top priority", even in corporate offices, to the point of absurdity. After an employee fell down some stairs, the company instituted a rule that all employees must use the handrails at all times. Signs were posted in stairwells, and reminder emails were sent out. The idea was scrapped after a record number of employees came down with the flu.
#63
I worked as a researcher for a real estate software company. I had to call commercial tenants and find information on their properties. Instead of requiring us to quickly harvest the info, the company required us to keep them on the phone for 2 mins. This led to people just bulls**tting on the phones for 2 mins instead of harvesting quality data. My trick was to research the tenant's last name before calling them and talking to them about it. This worked until I talked to a man with an English name, and I asked "so were your ancestors from England?" He said, "the people that owned my ancestors were from England."
#64
My company went to a smoke-free campus. All ashtrays were removed and the smoking area was closed. You can only smoke off the property or in your car with the windows up. They don’t enforce the windows up a rule so now when anyone comes on site they a dozen people standing at the road smoking and then you have to walk through the parking lot and secondhand smoke to get into the building. Oh, and there are cigarette butts everywhere.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Beats the hell out of just saying they have to smoke outside, and having them huddle under the overhang right at the door—-thereby sucking all the exhaled cigarette smoke right inside the building every time the door opened. Brilliant. F*****g brilliant (/s, ffs).
Pheebs 3 years ago
Sounds like my old job. They stopped hiring smokers - legal because it was posted they were a smoke-free campus - and stopped allowing smokers who had already worked for them to smoke on property. Ended up with complaints from businesses around them that their employees were coming on other properties and using their employee break areas to smoke. Or they’d just lean against the entrance to the property smoking, looking so very classy to prospective clients. They ended up creating a smoking zone about 10 years after the policy went in to place, and still had issues with the smokers spending half their day out there.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Our local hospital also has a no smoking policy on the property. You have to go off property, meaning a busy street, to smoke. Imagine the sight of a patient, standing at the street in a hospital gown, dragging cart behind him with a dangling IV bag on it so he can stand on the corner and have a smoke. Hmmm.
Cordelia 3 years ago
I'm sorry but f*** all of you cigarette smokers destroying the soil and the world with your useless litter. Smoking serves no purpose other than an addiction that you feed and you're destroying our planet!
Keller Worthen 3 years ago (edited)
I lived in Vegas for a while, if you wanted to go to the movie theater, you almost certainly had to walk through a casino. That second hand smoke was awful for my asthma
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#65
My high school was laid out with the lunch area and offices in the center and long halls of classrooms shooting off from it in all directions. In order to reduce shenanigans, the already difficult 5 minutes between classes was reduced to 2.5 minutes. Your locker could be a total of 250 yards walk from your current class if you were unlucky. The same could be true for any two of your classes. Obviously, no running or leaving the school building. About 95% increase in student lateness and consequent shenanigans.
Abigail M Uken 3 years ago
We only have 2 minutes. Students carry everything with them. Only the freshman use the lockers but if I have a lunch and water bottle ill carry it with me if I have a project I better hope it fits in my bag. We have complained so many times but the principal wont give in
Nirdavo 3 years ago
And carrying bags will be banned next. Because... dangerous!
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Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
My school only allowed us 4 minutes and it was pretty spaced out too. Staff just said to bring multiple classes books with you
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Which can get really f*****g heavy to tote around, and can put real strain on your back. I swear the number of architects snorting coke and getting “artistic” with their f****d up designs, like this one, is on the upswing. That issue needs to be addressed—-along with the issue of whoever’s job it is to accept or reject designs needing to have some f*****g common sense.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 3 years ago
Carry all your morning class books in the morning, switch books at lunch.
#66
Work hours are restricted to 11 hours a day including overtime while traveling. That means if I drive 3 hours to the client, spent 6 hours there, and drive back for 3 hours, I need to get a hotel for the night 1 hour away from home. Don’t get me started about flights from Germany to Japan.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Hope to hell the company’s paying for those unnecessary hotel stays.
#67
Some municipality in the northern US decided they would save money by installing LED bulbs in the stoplights. Not only would they use less electricity, they would be changed much less frequently, saving a lot in labor Then it snowed. And it turned out that the incandescent bulbs melted the snow. But LED bulbs aren't hot enough to melt snow. So they needed to send work crews to clean every stoplight.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Then they fixed it with simple temperature activated heaters that still use a fraction of the energy the old lights did. People like to use this to argue against LED lights, but it's a bogus argument.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Didn't their stoplights have those curved "roofs" over them? All ours do in New England. The snow never gets on the actual lights.
#68
Not exactly a rule, but just last week my job thought it was a good idea to take away our electric cart pusher machine bc they felt that we didn't need it. The very next day, the place was absolutely packed and we couldn't get carts in fast enough.
Kelli Lindsay Boone 3 years ago
I worked VERY BRIEFLY at Lowe's. Nope, this 55 year old isn't doing f*****g cart duty. It's BRUTAL. People, for the love of god, park your carts in their designated places!
Batwench 3 years ago
For shopping trolley collection. When they collect trolleys and put them into the long snake, it becomes to heavy to push with out assistance, hence the use of the electronic cart pusher.
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I work in manufacturing and we get paid piece rate, so the more I run the more I get paid. We also have a base hourly pay rate of $10/hr, so whichever pays more (the hourly or the piece rate) is what we get paid for the day. On bad days sometimes they bump us to $12/hr for the day and when we train new people we get paid $15/hr to compensate for having to slow down or stop our machines to teach the new people. The big boss, my boss' boss' boss, came in last week. Now he used to work on the line like I do now, but you can tell he's living comfortably in his corporate life and has forgotten some of the bad parts of this job. He told my boss that we are to no longer receive training pay because, by his logic, if we are working with someone we should be making more than $15/hr, anyway. And these past 3 weeks or so we have been doing a LOT of training. So a few of us got together at the end of the day and agreed: if they aren't paying us, we won't train people. We will teach the new people enough to make us some money and leave the training to the designated trainers (2 people split between 15 or so new hires, but they make $17.50/hr) The policy lasted 4 days.
Keller Worthen 3 years ago
I have literally no experience in a job setting like that, but the original pay system sounds great
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
I'd think that would depend on the effort involved (physical and/or mental), skill required, demand for said skills, time to acquire those skills, etc, etc. $50/hour to drive a broom? Sweet! $50/hour to be a bomb disposal tech? Not so much...
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Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
Sounds almost like the cars saleman job I had where you'd get paid hourly or commission. Whichever was bigger
#70
One company we do security for changed their policies and decided we shouldn't be getting into conflicts physically with people anymore and will actively push termination on my company to violators because they want to keep their places of business family-friendly. This past week alone there's been 8 different instances of security staff being requested for termination by this because there was someone assaulting people be they guests or employees in their building and security did nothing because it would have cost them their jobs if they started fighting with them. The worst part is that when upper management is confronted with the paradoxical nature of their policy change and their requests they seem to think everything is working as intended Like have we really become this G rated that we can't see when s**t makes 0 Damon sense
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
And, once a business does nothing about offenders like that, they get a reputation as a place where you can pull s**t like that with impunity. Hope the place goes downhill and out of business because of it (the employees can find better jobs with companies that have a bit of sense). Hotel I used to work for cut out their overnight security protection to save a buck. To make it even worse, they didn’t allow the lobby to be locked after hours, in case of late check ins, and didn’t think to install a late check in window so no one could get inside to commit their crimes. Within a month, the night auditor was shot and killed while being robbed. Needless to say, the hotel had to pay a f*****g bundle his surviving spouse and children because they didn’t protect him. They filed bankruptcy not long after. This all happened after I had quit doing the night audit there, btw, so I wasn’t affected, thankfully. I shudder to think.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Violence doesn't solve everything. But it works dam well on some stuff. (yes, I deliberately used the wrong dam - to fake-out the BP censorbot)
#71
My work implemented a “no conference calls after 3pm” rule. It worked for one week, then people realized that everybody’s schedule was clear after 3 PM so they would set up these “one time only” calls. Enough people set up calls and pretty soon everyone’s schedules became jammed between 3p and 5p. Nothing like a full afternoon of conference calls at the end of your day....
#72
I guess laws count as rules, so here are a few good ones from the UK: The Poll Tax in the UK in the early 90's. It had massive opposition and riots on the streets and was culled in favour of the Council tax. In operation for a very short time. The Window Tax in the UK where the amount of tax you paid was dependent on how many windows your house had. As a result, people just bricked up their windows. In operation for ~150 years.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
The last one might have been a way to combat the Right to Light law. Basically says that if you have a window with an unobstructed source of sunlight for a certain period of time, you can have a Right to Light which means no one can build or change anything that would obstruct said natural light. Maybe the tax saw to get people to get rid of these windows so that buildings could be put up next door. Crappy way of doing that though.
Carolyn Hodgen 3 years ago
Window Tax started 1696. Right to Light began 1832, seems doubtful.
Load More Replies... Leodavinci 3 years ago
So... I guess Americans aren't the only ones who get riled up by unjust taxes?
#73
Super-injunctions. In the UK a few years back a famous person was rich enough to be able to take out an injunction, meaning that no one in the press could report on his affair. Not only that, but no one was allowed to talk about it, or even acknowledge that the injunction exists. Not the press, not the media, nor the average man in the street. It backfired when everyone just spread the person's identity on Twitter, and it caused a far bigger (we’re talking massive nationwide coverage) s**tstorm than your average kiss-and-tell tabloid affair would have done.
Kay blue 3 years ago
MPs have parliamentary privilege, so one footballer was named in Parliament because everyone was so annoyed that he took out a super injunction. So it cost him loads of money for nothing.
Seán Baron 3 years ago
Ryan Giggs. He'd been sleeping with his brother's wife.
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Jonathan Widdowson 3 years ago
It was funny because it only counted for the UK and therefore other countries all knew and could talk about it and post it on the internet.
#74
When roundabouts or traffic circles were created in the 30s the right of way was given to the person entering the circle. This obviously caused major problems. It took 30 years before it was switched so that the cars in the circle had the right of way. But since it took so long and the traffic that it caused was so bad, the US was resistant to adding in new ones which is one of the main reasons why here in the US roundabouts aren't very common.
Albo alt 3 years ago
There is one on our route to Ocean City NJ that would always freak me out because we didn't have any in PA and I always forgot how to use it. Now we're getting more of them in PA; in fact, there are three of them withint 5 miles of my house built in the past 5 years.
Load More Replies... Leodavinci 3 years ago
They're growing in acceptance here. Particularly in rural areas with 4-way stops. Makes them way safer. Some people don't like them because in said rural areas they were used to just blowing thru intersections late at night and they can't do that anymore.
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Roundabouts aren't common in your neck of the USA. They're all over the place here on the east coast.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
They're common in New England, all with the rule that those on the circle have the right of way.
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
They're SUPER common in South Florida, to the extent that one insane intersection is known far & wide as " Confusion Corner".
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
There's one in Houston that confuses the heck out of me and scares me. I never know which lane I'm supposed to be in, which exit to take... and I'm so scared of causing an accident, I usually just take the wrong exit and have to figure it out later.
Darla Taylor 3 years ago
Unfortunately there are several of those pieces of crap in the Cincinnati OH area and some of the suburbs
#75
This goes back 10 years, but at work, anything bad was based on a point system. Calling in sick = 1 point. If you called in a second day, still just the same 1 point. So, if you wanted to go on a weekend getaway, you take your 2 normal days off, were willing to get a point, and you had 4 days off in a row.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
same - plus had to call in 30 min. before shift to be absent. 30 min. max after shift starts to be late. we call in after shift starts and set our new "shift start" time and then call in for the full day 30 min. before the new start time. (if you missed the first window)
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, and you couldn’t just leave a voicemail to call in sick either. So, instead of just being able to rest and get better, you had to stay awake and wait for some a*****e to answer their phone. Yeah, stressing out someone who’s sick will magically make them get better faster—-NOT, you f*****g idiots! Not to mention how suspicious they always were about you being sick. I’m a grown up. You can trust me to do the job I’m required to do, and do it well. I also know when I’m sick long before the office opens up. So you should know you can trust that I actually am sick when I call in sick. I loved it when I worked a union job, and could call in sick the night before, by simply leaving the overnight answering service a message, including a voicemail if they were busy. I always got better faster being treated like a grown up that way, because I could just then go to sleep and stay asleep, instead of setting a f*****g wake up alarm to call in “on time”.
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My school implemented the rule that if you were late or didn't have your books with you, you weren't allowed in class. I don't know whose bright idea it was, but it resulted in a lot of kids chilling outside in the hallway because they would rather chill with their friends than/then learn about the difference between then and then. I still can't remember! Needless to say, that rule was fairly quickly lifted
NsG 3 years ago
I know OP won't read this, but: if you would rather chill instead of learning, use "than"; if you chill and learn afterwards, use "then". Or, if you prefer, consider the answer to When is Then. (And the answer to What is That, the answer to Where is There)
Carol Emory 3 years ago
We had a principal that made a rule that you could not eat in the hallways. He was concerned about the new carpet being ruined with spills and trash being left everywhere even though there were plenty of trash cans. Our lunchroom and common area was already overflowing, so many students of the straight A students ate in the hallways so they could read and study in peace. This resulted in detentions for the good students. When our principal requested a Q&A sessions with the senior class, he went into a speech about how much the school had accomplished only to have a voice from the back say during his pause "Yeah...we have clean hallways..whoopie." He promptly closed his briefcase and left. The teachers, who also didn't like his policies, had to hold back laughing out loud.
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
During exams sometimes if students didn’t know the answers they would leave blank spaces. The co-ordinator did not like that for some reason and started yelling at students. So when I didn’t know an answer I wrote a paragraph on why I didn’t know the answer and what not. I got punished and the teacher still hasn’t changed the rule.
Immortal Emperor Paradox 3 years ago
It seems you had not mastered the Art of Bullshietting when in school. My classmates were capable of writing such bullshiet that there was literally no topic under the heaven they couldn't write about.
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 3 years ago
There was one from the 80s, the LA Olympics of 1984. McDonalds had a promotion going for whenever a US athlete won a gold medal, they would give out free items every day. Well, because of the Eastern Bloc boycott (done in retaliation of the boycott of the Moscow 1980 Games), the USA were win ing go.d medals left, right and centre. Cost McDonalds millions.
Bruce Mills 3 years ago (edited)
Google ottawa student dies of asthma. It was a school rule that inhalers had to be kept in the nurses office. Nurse wasnt there when he needed it, student dies. Because Canada, as far as I know, noone was charged for his death. Policy remains in place.
Chancey 3 years ago
This is so sad and school should be charged with manslaughter.
Load More Replies... Rodney Bowie 3 years ago
I used to work in the frame shop of a popular arts & crafts store. One day, the regional manager came by and held a meeting with all of us. He was looking for ways to get sales up, and asked us what the biggest problem was. I piped up and said "EVERY customer complains that the prices are too high." He then went into a speech about how it's our job to TELL the customer what they want cuz they don't know, etc. Basically, he was trying to turn us into high-pressure salesmen. I didn't stay there long.
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
A lot of these policies are made with the assumption that the staff is comprised of dirtbags and if they do anything the company doesn't want them to do it's because they're bad people and need to be punished for it.
Glasia van Duivels 3 years ago
My text: China still mass quarantining people into quarantine camps (even separating little kids from their parents) due to COVID-19 when all other countries live with the virus (3x vaccinated, tests). 1. Shanghai has problems getting room for quarantining 20,000 people every day 2. Business and economy shut down 3. People don't get enough food 4. People don't get fast enough medical help for other diseases 5. Children will be traumatized because they were forcely separated from parents and more
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
During exams sometimes if students didn’t know the answers they would leave blank spaces. The co-ordinator did not like that for some reason and started yelling at students. So when I didn’t know an answer I wrote a paragraph on why I didn’t know the answer and what not. I got punished and the teacher still hasn’t changed the rule.
Immortal Emperor Paradox 3 years ago
It seems you had not mastered the Art of Bullshietting when in school. My classmates were capable of writing such bullshiet that there was literally no topic under the heaven they couldn't write about.
Load More Replies... Seán Baron 3 years ago
There was one from the 80s, the LA Olympics of 1984. McDonalds had a promotion going for whenever a US athlete won a gold medal, they would give out free items every day. Well, because of the Eastern Bloc boycott (done in retaliation of the boycott of the Moscow 1980 Games), the USA were win ing go.d medals left, right and centre. Cost McDonalds millions.
Bruce Mills 3 years ago (edited)
Google ottawa student dies of asthma. It was a school rule that inhalers had to be kept in the nurses office. Nurse wasnt there when he needed it, student dies. Because Canada, as far as I know, noone was charged for his death. Policy remains in place.
Chancey 3 years ago
This is so sad and school should be charged with manslaughter.
Load More Replies... Rodney Bowie 3 years ago
I used to work in the frame shop of a popular arts & crafts store. One day, the regional manager came by and held a meeting with all of us. He was looking for ways to get sales up, and asked us what the biggest problem was. I piped up and said "EVERY customer complains that the prices are too high." He then went into a speech about how it's our job to TELL the customer what they want cuz they don't know, etc. Basically, he was trying to turn us into high-pressure salesmen. I didn't stay there long.
Paul K. Johnson 3 years ago
A lot of these policies are made with the assumption that the staff is comprised of dirtbags and if they do anything the company doesn't want them to do it's because they're bad people and need to be punished for it.
Glasia van Duivels 3 years ago
My text: China still mass quarantining people into quarantine camps (even separating little kids from their parents) due to COVID-19 when all other countries live with the virus (3x vaccinated, tests). 1. Shanghai has problems getting room for quarantining 20,000 people every day 2. Business and economy shut down 3. People don't get enough food 4. People don't get fast enough medical help for other diseases 5. Children will be traumatized because they were forcely separated from parents and more
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