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30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created On almost every clothes iron in the United States there is a warning label to “not iron your clothes while wearing them.” I assume there’s a few stories behind that warning.

Final score:

143points

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Kira Okah 1 month ago

I have heard of a few stories online of people thinking that the warning is stupid, doing just that, and getting a nice burn.

32points

RhondaTheHonda , wayhomestudio / Freepik Report

The replies in this Reddit thread might have you doubting the existence of common sense, but they’re nothing short of entertaining. Bored Panda connected with the post’s creator, u/seequelbeepwell, to find out what inspired them to ask the question.

“I was watching YouTube videos about life in Japan and noticed how much trust they place in people to do the right thing,” they told us. “It got me thinking that maybe Western culture is different because we seem to have a few bad apples that end up creating most of the rules.”

To their surprise, the responses didn’t quite match their expectations. “I would’ve thought Florida would come up more, but Alabama seemed to take the crown,” they said. “A lot of people were venting about work-related rules. Reddit is on the side of the lady who spilled McDonald’s coffee on herself.”

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created I worked in an office where one numb nut decided to take his lunch break at 4pm everyday so he could leave early. Manager said to stop doing that. So he quit taking a lunch break Monday-Thursday. On Friday, he took all 5 lunch breaks at once and went home at noon. After that the manager assigned everyone a lunch break time. If you didn’t take it during your assigned hour you did not get a lunch break. It felt like the most Mickey Mouse middle school rule ever. Magically, that rule went away after numb nut was fired a couple of months later.

ETA: We were a customer-facing department. We had to ensure coverage for walk ins, appointments, phone calls, etc. if this wasn’t the case I doubt manager would have cared when we took lunch.

Final score:

121points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

The last part makes everything completely reasonable. I take my break whenever at work, because I'm not front-of-house staff, so whatever mayhem is going down on the sales floor, I can't come out and deal with it anyway. As long as I take my allowed time and come back, no one cares. If the person running the registers did that, there would be a problem.

43points

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created There was a rule against hanging off pipes at an old job because someone tried doing chin-ups on them. Pulled the pipes out of their bracketing and flooded the entire building.

No-Bad5781 , freepik Report

Final score:

116points

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Pedantic Panda 1 month ago

An exercise in idiocy.

52points

austintrotter , Felipe Sodré / Pexels Report

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Warning tags on Halloween costumes “this cape does not give the wearer the ability to fly”.

Final score:

111points

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Pandemonium 1 month ago

I have a scar over my eye proving that I was once 100% certain that a cape would give me the ability to fly. I think I was four years old.

76points

One Redditor, u/ribbediguana, shared a particularly funny story about her office banning post-its after someone missed an important message. She gave us the full scoop on what led to the unexpected rule change.

“It was a very small recruitment company,” she explained. “Honestly, the person who wrote the note could’ve just delivered the information directly. A client called in on a Friday, right before lunch, needing a temp for Monday. The person who was supposed to handle it—the one who received the post-it—was out at a client lunch. Back then, if you weren’t out drinking with clients on a Friday, you weren’t working hard enough!”

“The person who took the message left the post-it on her co-worker’s desk,” she continued. “But it wasn’t seen, the role didn’t get filled, and it made the company look bad. The business owner was furious on Monday, and a lot of passive aggression filled our tiny office of just five people.”

The fallout was intense. “The person who lost the message was demoted for a month, losing out on commission. The co-worker who missed the note quit shortly after. I didn’t last long either—the whole thing was a neon red flag for the emotional state of the business owner.”

Decades ago, I was shopping at a toy store, looking for a Lego table. I found a flat Lego table box, picture of two kids sitting at the table (fully constructed). The label read, I s**t you not, “children not included” .

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107points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago

Either it was a joke, or they got a complaint from a very disappointed pa3d0ph1le.

48points

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Employees must wear appropriate undergarments. As the manager at the time, I was involved in too many conversations that were part of what eventually led to this policy. No underwear with see through pants, bras showing, visibly lacking bras, underwear visible through clothes, strings pretending to be underwear that were visible above pants. I feel like I’ve seen it all. I counseled many employees on professional attire.

HotMess1909 , freepik Report

Final score:

107points

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Winnie the Moo 1 month ago

This stock photo is killing me 🤣

130points

xeryon3772 , Håkan Dahlström / flickr Report

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created My Alma mater now has a line in the student handbook that charcoal grills are not permitted in the dorm rooms.

Final score:

94points

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Passerby 1 month ago

Understandable. It's actually dangerous if you use charcoal grills in a closed room. You can die from lack of oxygen. People have actually died from it.

51points

After the post-it ban, the company’s solution was to use a carbon copy phone message pad and still leave the note on the desk, but follow it up with an email. “Yet, there were no changes to the rule about getting tipsy with clients on a Friday!” u/ribbediguana said.

“And that was only the beginning,” she added. “The business owner also told us we needed to ‘look more expensive’—this coming from someone who constantly had food on her shirt and stockings around her ankles.”

This rule was put in place thanks to a recruiter who dared to wear flat shoes to a client visit. “We were told we had to wear stilettos, suits, cufflinks, and jackets—even in 104-degree weather,” u/ribbediguana said.

In the end, it seemed the boss was the common problem. “She was a mess,” u/ribbediguana summarized. “I’ve worked at three recruitment firms, and they all had the same type of women running the show. Let’s just say, I’m not a fan of recruitment anymore!”

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created The "no drinking allowed at work" rule at my job is because of me back when I was an alcoholic.

Before that it wasn't an official rule because they just assumed everyone would realize it wasn't allowed.

Got it written in the handbook and everything! I'm a bringer of change.

SomethingClever42068 , pxhere Report

Final score:

92points

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sbj 1 month ago

Where I live it's against the law to drink out on the street and nobody seems to pay attention to this

16points

Kali Chaos 1 month ago (edited)

There's a comedian with a joke about this, getting arrested for being drunk in public after being kicked out of a bar. "I wasn't trying to be drunk in public, I was trying to be drunk in a bar! They PUT me in public!"

7points

Donna Peluda 1 month ago

Like many rules and laws. They are there for cases of abuse. Many people stand outside pubs with drinks. If they start getting rowdy then you apply the rule.

2points

Riley Quinn 1 month ago

Same in most places in the US, but if you put it in a paper bag, no one will be the wiser. /s

1point

Huddo's sister 4 weeks ago

My sister and her friends were sitting drinking in a park in Melbourne and a cop approached and said there was no drinking allowed. They only got that warning though. There are places you can drink in public here, so it's no wonder they didn't realise it was prohibited there.

0points

Kit Black 1 month ago

Bear in mind that the three martini lunch was not like a joke somebody made up... throughout the seventies and well into the eighties, it was not at all uncommon to expect someone to have a couple of drinks during lunch and then come back to work - and occasionally if things were going well, to have a celebratory drink *at* work - passed around by the boss, who of course, had a well stocked bar in his office

9points

nottheactualphoto 1 month ago

I worked at a place during the 1990s where my boss kept a bottle of good single-malt Scotch in his desk drawer. Occasionally he would get on the PA and page the office: "All Scotch drinkers, report to Dave's office!" Generally on a quiet afternoon when not many people were in the office, like Christmas Eve.

1point

Robert T 1 month ago

As opposed the place I worked in Denmark which had a vending machine that dispensed beer. I miss working there! :D

6points

Flopsy 1 month ago

When I studied in Italy you could get beer at the beverage dispenser, and sometimes a bottled beer instead of fruit or desert. Totally acceptable to have a drink with your lunch!

4points

Serial pacifist 1 month ago

Good to hear that you have changed in a positive way!

6points

UncleJohn3000 1 month ago

My nose is really sensitive to the smell of alcohol. Trust me, you were never alone.

3points

Cee Cee 1 month ago

I've lived in an alcohol free zone for years. Has it stopped street drinking? No, not really but the price increases seem to have had an effect.

3points

Bookworm 1 month ago (edited)

I don't know that most people with a drinking problem are in a state of mind to care whether they're in an 'alcohol free zone,' so I would expect that to be mostly a useless gesture.

3points

DC 1 month ago (edited)

When I was an intern, we had a dude at the factory always carrying stuff on those ... hand carriers for pallets. Every beverage vending machine had beer in them, I was told it was a compromise because the alcoholicians used to smuggle in hard stuff in water bottles after they revoked the beer from the machines, and there was talk about unproductive hours once they reached two digits, if not earlier, through till everybody went home. Anyway, Eugen, the dude mentioned above, always stopped at EVERY vending machine he came by, bought two bottles, downed one and put the other in his pocket, continued and, whenever he came by one again (there were 2 or 3 scattered around in a small factory consisting of several small and large buildings of different age and original designation, so it may very well happen to not cross one for hourse, or to basically oscillate in front of one), put in the empty bottle and bought another two. Directly afterwards, I was an intern in another company, and met a guy I knew from Uni. He said I might have met his uncle at the previous company, his name's Eugen, ... oh my, yes, I have, he tried to invite me to drink with him, but as I don't drink, ... well ... being drunk at school was funny, sort of. But got boring pretty ... pretty instantly.

1point

Aballi 1 month ago

Sounds like you're doing better now, so big congratulations!! Getting sober is no small feat (my experience is: been in recovery 8 years, worked for 6+years in treatment for SUD/co-occurring disorders/criminal justice). I hope you're able to be proud of yourself and are practicing kindness and gentleness towards yourself. If not, don't worry. You'll find your own version of self love and self-acceptance in your own time!

1point

TheGoodBoi 1 month ago

That's not water in your water bottle aye? ;D

1point

Papa 1 month ago

It was before I worked there, but at a former job a guy got fired because his supervisor caught him drinking beer during work hours. He couldn't understand why he got fired, and kept saying "But I was on break!"

1point

My O My 1 month ago

Well, what was in the contract?

1point

zatrisha 1 month ago

Congratulation!

1point

April Armstrong 3 weeks ago

You're still an alcoholic, just a smarter, sober one now. Atta boy.

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago

As a recorvering alcoholic myself, you will never be a "former" alcoholic. You may no longer drink (congrats) but you will always be an alcoholic.

0points

Cyndielouwhoo 1 month ago

I used to work at a newspaper that apparently had an anonymous whiskey bottle in a file cabinet for office consumption as needed...for 32 years!

0points

Slowdown 1 month ago

Weird flex but okay.

0points

Roland Nijveld 1 month ago

So a rule for something that was already forbidden

0points

Jessica SpeLangm 1 month ago

That's not exactly something I'd be "boasting" about. It's good that you changed, hopefully for the better.

0points

Slinkaste 1 month ago

Nothing to brag about

-1point

TheLadyLeanneREAL , Bureau of Reclamation Report

#10

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Man it makes my stomach hurt thinking about this - but all those signs at the Hoover Dam that tell you not to put your dog on the railing… How many puppies fell in the Hoover Damn for this sign to exist?!

Final score:

87points

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Kristal 1 month ago

This made me cry about the terror the little puppy felt falling down after trusting it's owner and then dying T.T

56points

#11

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created I worked in a place where post it notes were banned. Because a person once wrote something important, and stuck it on another persons desk but it fell off.

ribbediguana , freepik Report

Final score:

84points

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Passerby 1 month ago

Unfortunate, but I can understand why it was changed. A post-it note doesn't seem like a good way to convey something important anyway.

31points

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As for u/seequelbeepwell, they don’t think it’s the rules themselves that are ridiculous, but rather when people knowingly dismiss them. “For example, I ate expired salad dressing the other day,” they confessed. “I saw the expiration date and still went ahead with it. Let’s just say it was one of those bathroom moments that required a shower afterward.”

“On that note, I think my next post will be the opposite,” said u/seequelbeepwell. “What are some everyday goods and services that seem like they were created specifically for idiots?”

And we at Bored Panda can’t wait to see that one—stay tuned!

#12

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Label on engine oil: “not safe for human consumption.” Thanks, Fast and the Furious.

Final score:

83points

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Elchinero 1 month ago

"710" cap

39points

#13

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa. I love to know WHY IN THE HELL IS THAT A LAW.

Queen_Queenn , freepik Report

Final score:

83points

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Kira Okah 1 month ago (edited)

That is a very wacky-minded way of reading it. It's about where to not hitch animals so they don't damage any posts by gnawing on the wood - hydrants would have had wooden posts supporting the line - or by pulling against its hitch. The law: "Do not: Fasten, hitch, or tie any horse or other animal to any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or to any fence, tree, shrub or other property. Drive, stop, tie or place any horse, or other animal where it may bite, eat or in any way damage any fire hydrant, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other pole or any fence, tree, shrub or other property."

86points

#14

Where I used to work they sent round a company wide email (50 odd stores) banning carrier bags from the warehouse because someone slipped on one and broke their leg. She actually broke it because we were roller skating in the warehouse and put slipped on a bag in the accident book because we didn't know what else to say.

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81points

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Rachel Pelz 1 month ago

"we" ;)

43points

#15

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created We have to keep the loading dock doors closed at work because somebody decided it was a short cut. We have a long loading bay where the trucks back all the way inside by a couple truck lengths and some lady tried to drive all the way through. She hit the dock and destroyed her car and the dock plate, which was impressive because its a huge steel plate. So now we have to keep the doors closed no matter how hot it gets.

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Final score:

75points

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Bookworm 1 month ago

A short cut... to where?

40points

JojenCopyPaste , Shawn Harquail / Flickr Report

#16

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created You can't take pictures in the ossuary at Kutna Hora anymore because someone took pictures of themselves kissing and whatever else to the bones.

Final score:

69points

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Rachel Pelz 1 month ago

Ossuary are such a weid concept. "Come in, we used to be what you are and you will be what we are"

29points

#17

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created In our theater, we had to make the “no throwing tools” rule. Which you would think that’d be OBVIOUS, but no. Apparently common sense isn’t that common anymore

TheGummyCandyStars , freepik Report

Final score:

69points

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Javelina Poppers 1 month ago

Well there go my plans for the Saturday matinee.

44points

LeoMarius , cookie_studio / freepik Report

#18

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Climbing on the rail on a cruise ship can get you banned for life.

Final score:

68points

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Rachel Pelz 1 month ago

So that's really reason Jack died...

35points

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#19

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created An operator in the control room of a power plant was caught sleeping during his shift. The resulting rule was outlawing any napping/sleeping anywhere on site at any time. Not at breaks or lunchtime, at your desk, in your office or in your car in the parking lot at lunch. And to top it off, keep your office door open at all times to show that you’re working at your desk. They could have just said not to sleep in the control room, but that would be singling a person out.

Final score:

64points

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Jrog 1 month ago

They cannot mandate what you do on your lunch break, nor force you to stay on company premises without a good reason.

59points

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#20

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created One rule that stands out is the "no food in the computer lab" policy—thankfully, I wasn’t the one who spilled a soda all over the equipment! Sometimes, one person’s mistake leads to valuable lessons for everyone.

Final score:

60points

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Robert T 1 month ago

A very sensible policy. I was once presenting a training course and knocked a glass of coke all over my laptop. It didn't like it. I did eventually get it dried out and working again, but it had sticky keys permanently enabled!!

25points

#21

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created The abolishment of last meal requests in Texas because one guy had such a massive meal request.

Oyster_- , freepik Report

Final score:

57points

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Jrog 1 month ago (edited)

Abolished because Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a large and expensive last meal, but did not eat any of it, stating that he was not hungry. Concurrent but significant reason is that at the time the Governor of Texas was Republican Rick Perry, an all-around as**ole, religious nutjob and opponent to basic human rights. He actively fought battles against LGBT rights, freedom of religion, light dr*gs recreational and medical use, human treatment of prisoners, any basic regulations of firearms etc. He is the guy who greenlighted executions for mentally incapable inmates and refused to hold executions for prisoners whose guilt had became dubious from new evidence after the trial, at the same time favoring moving more money to private prisons while lowering living standards for inmates.

76points

#22

I used to work for a school district in the cafeteria. We got 10 days of PTO per year.

One year, a coworker decided that she was going to take an 8 day cruise the second to last week of the school year.

The following year? No taking time off except in medical emergencies the last month of school.

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56points

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Jrog 1 month ago (edited)

American workplace rules are insane, btw. 10 days PTO as a concession they can take away? No buddy, you deserve to have three times that, and PTO use should be mandatory to warrant employees' wellbeing.

97points

#23

I am a photographer. One of my new event photography clients gave me a list of instructions that included “Do not photograph close-ups of our employees’s low cut shirts” and I wondered which photographer had done this previously. Yikes.

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54points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago

Reminds me of the UK tory MP Christopher Chope who objected to, and delayed, legislation to make upskirting a criminal offence. He then did the same thing with legislation to tackle female genital mutilation. Didn't stop him from being re-elected though.

34points

#24

You know those warnings on hand sanitizer that say “do not drink”?

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53points

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Kira Okah 1 month ago

That is because alcoholic people would drink it or put it in other things for the alcohol content, due to cost.

49points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#25

We just had a mandate come down about our dress policy, we wear badge reels and because some idiot at one of the other hospitals had one that was inappropriate- instead of telling them to change it, they changed the policy that we can ONLY wear badges with the system name on it. Never mind that 99.9% of us wear cute, fun, and appropriate ones, we’re all punished because one dips**t displayed their dark humor where patients can see it. They should know the dark humor is for lockers outside of the public view LOL

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51points

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WindySwede 1 month ago

Similar in Office Space... tenor-2.gif

18points

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#26

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created The 'Do Not Put Your Hand Underneath The Lawn Mower When Running'. Some knucklehead back in the 90's wanted to trim his hedges and thought that his lawn mower would do the trick. So he fired it up and was going to lift it up by the deck and lost all of his fingers from the middle knuckle up. He successfully sued Toro Co. for not warning people not to put there body parts by a sharp metal blade spinning at 100's of rpm.

Final score:

50points

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Jrog 1 month ago (edited)

OP is confusing two separate cases. The lawnmower ones dates back to 1986 Mele vs. Turner, when 18 years old Charles Turner was injured while mowing a neighbor's lawn with a Sears Roebuck lawnmower. The mower did not evacuate grass properly and it kept accumulating, at which point Turner started cleaning the edge of the lawnmower with his hands without stopping it. After multiple times, he was injured. The plaintiff was definitely not the smartest tool in the shed (contrary to the mower's blade), but the mower design was effectively dangerous. The case was dismissed because the danger was evident to the plaintiff. Funnily enough, Sears&Roebuck already had a voluntary danger notice on not touching the blade while spinning, but this case made it a common occurrence on such products. .

64points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#27

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created I know a country that had full face covering bike helmets banned because shop breakers created a trend of using them to mask their face.

Just-a-naughty_boy01 , azerbaijan_stockers / Freepik Report

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47points

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Cee Cee 1 month ago

Lots of shops and petrol stations here won't let you in if you keep your helmet on.

51points

DopeCharma , azerbaijan_stockers /freepik Report

#28

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created Doritos have rounded edges due to some peoples’ insufficient chewing habits.

Final score:

44points

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Passerby 1 month ago

Even without that, I think they should be round anyway. Putting something with sharp edges inside your mouth is just asking for trouble, really. Accidents do happen.

57points

#29

How overtime was bid for.

A coworker figured out a way to game the system so he could maximize the available overtime, leading to complaints that there was very little left over for others to sign up for. The rules were changed 4 or 5 times and each time he found a way around the rules. Eventually they just started skipping over every other of his OT requests and put in a maximum number of OT hours someone could work in a calendar month and boy did he cry about that for months that he wasn't getting 20 hours a week of OT.

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39points

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Cee Cee 1 month ago

Should be paying decent wages so workers didn't have to depend on overtime. Hire enough staff too.

49points

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#30

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created At my local KPOT place, you have to verbally order your broth instead of on the tablet because someone managed to order 10 soups at once.

knockoutcharlie , jcomp / Freepik Report

Final score:

38points

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Panda Kicki 1 month ago

So if someone accidentally order 10 rice that is off the tablet as well? And so on until you scrap the tablet?

21points

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#31

There are a ton of state and federal regulations in the senior living facility business (and it is very much a business, but that's a whole 'nother topic) that are in place and enforced because of "one bad apple." SNFs are scared to use bladder catheters because it may look like they are used for the convenience of staff. Assisted living facilities ban side rails because 2 people out of several million have gotten their heads stuck in them. Psychotropic medications often cannot be used because it may seem like a chemical restraint. There are many other examples. All of these things can be very useful for enhancing quality of life for the residents, but a few "bad apples" have ruined it for everyone.

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20points

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Rachel Pelz 1 month ago

No side rails? Making people less independent and dependent on walkers and wheelchairs sooner than necessary...that's just sad.

9points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#32

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created The place I worked at posted instructions on how to go number 2. Because people were squatting on the toilet rim breaking the porcelain and injuring themselves.

Scared_Crazy_6842 , freepik Report

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20points

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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago

Some of the factories I deliver to have high proportion of immigrant workers coming from countries where squat toilets are the norm. These companies do the same thing, whinging that they have to keep replacing the western toilets, but never thinking they could just install some squat toilets to keep everyone happy. Squatting is better for your health, opens your bowels better, but since it's a weird 'foreign' habit it just gets dismissed and the foreign workers are seen as trouble makers or as stupid for not adjusting to western ways.

30points

#33

I stayed at a hotel where the ‘house rules’ included ‘No ATVs in Lobby’!

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19points

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Michael None 1 month ago

Must have been Alabama or Mississippi. Maybe Arkansas.

3points

#34

Remote jobs requiring clocking out for every single step away from the keyboard. Even if it's 1 min to refill coffee or grab water. Takes longer to log out and back in than I would have been gone.

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19points

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C B Jones 1 month ago

Is this because of previous cases of lazy employees, or is this the consequence of neurotic and paranoid micromanagers getting their way, though?

13points

undercover_ravioli , DC Studio / Freepik Report

#35

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created My old job banned headphones/earbuds for anyone who worked on the warehouse floor, because some moron had both earbuds in and walked in front of a forklift without looking.

I had a cubicle job inside the warehouse and the ban still applied to us. A few of us argued with management and they said they had to make it "fair" for everyone. It was the last straw after lots of s****y treatment (like remodeling the building and removing the windows for weeks in the dead of winter) so I peaced out.

Final score:

19points

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Jrog 1 month ago

Not using earbuds and headphones on the shop floor is the basic minimum in mandatory workplace safety. You need to hear alarms, machinery malfunctions and other people calls. The fact it was not banned BEFORE an accident is mind boggling. And yes, it applies to cubicle jobs too because warehouses are considered a high risk environment -especially for fires- so you must be in a condition to hear an evacuation order or fire alarm.

36points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#36

We nearly have to dynamite our way into a bottle of Motrin. All because some m**********r thought it would be a good idea to poison a few Tylenol bottles in 1982.

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17points

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Sand Ers 1 month ago

And to this day they don’t know who did it. They also don’t know if it was truly random mayhem, or cover for a specific murder.

10points

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#37

One guy poisons his kids Halloween candy, now every parent has to confiscate their kids Halloween candy and go through it for razor blades that aren’t there .

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14points

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Kira Okah 1 month ago

and for the purposes of half-inching a chunk of the goodies.

13points

TheyCallHimBabaYagaa Report

#38

The "Not suitable for flying" label on Halloween Superman costumes.

Final score:

14points

POST

Passerby 1 month ago

Darn. There goes my plan for Halloween.

5points

#39

Work: don't wear ragged jeans and a boob tube to a board meeting.

Timely_Egg_6827 Report

Final score:

14points

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Rachel Pelz 1 month ago

"And"...so either one at time is OK then, right?

12points

#40

Flash photography in museums because someone damaged artwork with their camera flash.

annawhittee Report

Final score:

13points

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flowingcomplexity 1 month ago

I really think it should be completely banned. I want to appreciate the artwork. This is sad

10points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

#41

Oh I have a good one. Worked at an aircraft manufacturer that's well known in the pacific Northwest part of USA. there is a sealant used that is flash frozen, so needs to be thawed at room temperature. In the specs it literally says you cant microwave the sealant because a guy absolutely destroyed a microwave AND sealant by doing just that. This stuff stains and is incredibly hard to remove from hair/skin. .

Sigbac Report

Final score:

12points

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WindySwede 1 month ago (edited)

So that's why the door fell off? 😅 /jk

15points

silversum1 , senivpetro / Freepik Report

#42

30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created When you buy a car most dealers have a tire chain disclosure informing you to check your owners manual to see what kind of chains or traction devices your vehicle takes. This is due to someone in the 90’s putting the wrong kind on their car and suing the dealer into the oblivion. Literally 1000’s of forms from one lawsuit.

Final score:

11points

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Jrog 1 month ago

They ask you to sign the waiver because it's a requirement from a poorly worded California Vehicle Code article (§ 11713.6). The law requires the seller to openly disclose if a vehicle is prohibited to safely operate while using snow chains, and is required to use different equipment to avoid damage to the road or the vehicle itself. The "suing the dealer into the oblivion" is b******t.

14points

#43

At my work we can't take a powered pallet jack out on the sales floor without an escort because somebody somewhere else in the company hit someone. Certainly lugging around a one+ ton pallet with a manual jack that needs at least a few feet to stop with people who don't look where they're going because they're glued to their phones at all times is so much safer.

DarthWoo Report

Final score:

9points

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Jrog 1 month ago (edited)

This is one instance of someone attributing sensibly designed safety procedures to "somebody somewhere hitting someone". No buddy, there are people whose job is PREVENTING accidents and if you move heavy loads in public cordoning off the area and having a spotter are an obvious advice (if not mandatory, depending on where you are)

13points

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#44

In the UK there aren’t power outlets in bathrooms.

Which means you have to dry your hair with your dryer plugged in the corridor or something. Because of some idiot.

alsotheabyss Report

Final score:

-6points

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Tevye 1 month ago

A higher level of safety standards - electricity and water together are highly dangerous. Walking a few feet from the bathroom to the bedroom is easily achieved by Brits. We also don't have light switches (apart from pull cords) inside the bathroom for the same reason.

9points

#45

Don't put Animals in microwaves after a lady gave her cat a bath and then tried to dry him in the microwave. She sued and won because there was no warning then.

ai-ui Report

Final score:

-16points

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Kira Okah 1 month ago

This is an urban legend that pre-dates microwaves to being about drying the cat on a wood stove. The nearest thing that I can find that actually happened irl is someone who purposely murdered a kitten this way, she was imprisoned for the crime.

23points

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What do you think ?

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Ben Stubbs 1 month ago

It is still illegal to carry a Salmon in a suspicious way along a high street in England. I assume along the back roads, it's fine? x

14points

Charlie the Cat 1 month ago

What if I carry the salmon in a non suspicious way along a high street. That's ok I suppose.

9points

Svenne O'Lotta 1 month ago

I once lived in an apartment building where the rules very explicitly stated that we weren't allowed to shoot pigeons from the balcony with neither a bow and arrow not an air rifle. I guess a semi automatic would be fine.

11points

T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago

In our school's diary, in the list of rules it states no smoking. Obviously - it's a primary school! I think the oldest kid we've ever had in Grade 7 was 14. So when kids were caught with vaping equipment, one parent got a lawyer who threatened to sue the school because vaping isn't mentioned in the diary. Every year we have to keep adding things that are prohibited because kids, their parents and lawyers look for loopholes to excuse their sh!tty behaviour.

8points

Zaach 1 month ago (edited)

I was 5 and my brother was 7 when we were busted for smoking - we smoked in combine hoppers, coal sheds, anywhere out of public view; we both had tonsillectomies shortly there after. Gerry did not start up again until he was 14, I did not start again until I was 19 (I quit when I was 40). The secret was that our dad bought his cigarettes by the carton from a local Native American res and stored them in the freezer - he quit smoking after we were caught *Edit: I mention the tonsillectomies b/c we think that is part of how we quit - we had been smoking for about a year by then

3points

BookFanatic 1 month ago

I don't know about the "because of stupid people" part, but there's a great book-- "You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant"--that looks at some truly bizarre rules in the US. https://shorturl.at/GcuiS

4points

Kira Okah 1 month ago

I hope that it actually explains them all in actual context, because these "wacky law" things are rarely actually wacky, just really badly out of context or in legalese that when cleared up makes perfect sense.

2points

El Dee 1 month ago

Some of these are misunderstood or exaggerated for effect..

3points

Mike F 1 month ago

Many of these were exaggerated!

0points

Damned_Cat 1 month ago

Our building instituted a "no microwaved popcorn" rule because people would frequently walk away from the microwave and severely burn their popcorn which would set off the fire alarms. There was also a "no balloons" policy because someone once lost control of a balloon bouquet that went high up in the lobby and lodged in the air system. That time, it set off the fire alarm and caused 7 floors of the building to evacuate.

2points

Petra Schaap 1 month ago

i once worked for a cleaning company that had to send letters to everyone that it was not allowed to wear high heels to work.....

2points

Mari 1 month ago

This reminds me why I became a loner.Pff people

2points

JoeKing 1 month ago

Humans are the smartest animals on Earth.... *Facepalm*

2points

Kombatbunni 1 month ago

If only that were true! 😂

0points

Pill Nathan Whitely 1 month ago

Worked at a place where the restrooms had signs up forbidding the washing of feet in toilets.

2points

Comment Deleted 1 month ago

Or sinks , because certain religions wash their feet before praying. I have seen these signs as well.

0points

tracy black 1 month ago

walmart sells christmas lights that say for indoor or outdoor use only is there another option

1point

ynyrhydref56 1 month ago

Sorry, I'm just cackling away at the quote they chose to feature in the intro image. "Employees must wear suitable undergarments. I feel like I've seen it all." Tell me I'm not the only one?

1point

Cyndielouwhoo 1 month ago (edited)

At my old workplace they had to make a rule against keeping your own name from the secret Santa hat and buying yourself a gift, leaving someone else giftless. (It was a manager who did it: He bought himself a strange, almost life-size, Newsboy statue which he then preceded to put on a dolly and wheel around the building during business hours. Would've been funny if he wasn't such a jerk to everyone as a boss. Also, a few of us chipped in so the other co-worker didn't remain giftless.)

0points

Rick Seiden 1 month ago

In my house we have a rule, "Do not cut open the arm of the couch to see what's in it." Someone who is now an adult and married with his very own couch did that when he was very young. Luckily I was able to fix it by slipping an iron on patch inside the cut, adhesive side out, and ironing it in place.

0points

Ms. Mack 1 month ago

You can't fix stupid.

0points

David Martin 1 month ago

At my father's job, there was a rule in place that only bottled water was allowed at meetings (We never knew the reasoning). My father was a Diet Coke drinker, and wasn't allowed to bring it to meetings, and was told bottles water was allowed because it had a resealable cap...despite him pointing out that his soda bottle did too. When he told me about that, I said "If the cap is the deciding factor here, pour your soda into an empty water." His face lit up so huge at that, and he said "As much fun as that would be to me, I don't think my manager would appreciate that loophole"

0points

Shelli Aderman 1 month ago

Rules are only ever reactive…

0points

Sue 1 month ago

Well, sometimes it's hard to realize people can be that stupid.

0points

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Ben Stubbs 1 month ago

It is still illegal to carry a Salmon in a suspicious way along a high street in England. I assume along the back roads, it's fine? x

14points

Charlie the Cat 1 month ago

What if I carry the salmon in a non suspicious way along a high street. That's ok I suppose.

9points

Svenne O'Lotta 1 month ago

11points

T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago

8points

Zaach 1 month ago (edited)

3points

BookFanatic 1 month ago

4points

Kira Okah 1 month ago

2points

El Dee 1 month ago

Some of these are misunderstood or exaggerated for effect..

3points

Mike F 1 month ago

Many of these were exaggerated!

0points

Damned_Cat 1 month ago

2points

Petra Schaap 1 month ago

i once worked for a cleaning company that had to send letters to everyone that it was not allowed to wear high heels to work.....

2points

Mari 1 month ago

This reminds me why I became a loner.Pff people

2points

JoeKing 1 month ago

Humans are the smartest animals on Earth.... *Facepalm*

2points

Kombatbunni 1 month ago

If only that were true! 😂

0points

Pill Nathan Whitely 1 month ago

Worked at a place where the restrooms had signs up forbidding the washing of feet in toilets.

2points

Comment Deleted 1 month ago

Or sinks , because certain religions wash their feet before praying. I have seen these signs as well.

0points

tracy black 1 month ago

walmart sells christmas lights that say for indoor or outdoor use only is there another option

1point

ynyrhydref56 1 month ago

Sorry, I'm just cackling away at the quote they chose to feature in the intro image. "Employees must wear suitable undergarments. I feel like I've seen it all." Tell me I'm not the only one?

1point

Cyndielouwhoo 1 month ago (edited)

0points

Rick Seiden 1 month ago

0points

Ms. Mack 1 month ago

You can't fix stupid.

0points

David Martin 1 month ago

0points

Shelli Aderman 1 month ago

Rules are only ever reactive…

0points

Sue 1 month ago

Well, sometimes it's hard to realize people can be that stupid.

0points