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30 Times Idiots Did Something That Wasn’t Against The Rules So A Rule Was Created
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If there’s one thing the world will never run short of, it’s human stupidity. Spend just a few minutes online and you’ll find plenty of evidence, but this recent Reddit thread might be the best example yet.
Here, people gathered to share the most ridiculous rules they’ve encountered, all of which exist because someone once made a shockingly dumb decision. Scroll down to enjoy these hilarious precedents, and don’t forget to upvote your favorites—they deserve some credit for making us all feel a little smarter!
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#1
Taking your shoes off going through airport security because one guy had a sneaker that contained a small explosive. Thank god he didn’t hide a bomb up his a*s.
#2
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.
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.”
#3
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.
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.
#4
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.
#5
Warning tags on Halloween costumes “this cape does not give the wearer the ability to fly”.
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.
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.”
#6
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” .
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago
Either it was a joke, or they got a complaint from a very disappointed pa3d0ph1le.
#7
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.
LizzieBoredom 1 month ago
He's sad because he can no longer see boobs and butts at work.
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Javelina Poppers 1 month ago
We had a well endowed young woman who not only went braless but wore a fishnet shirt to boot leaving nothing to the imagination. After about 3 hours she stormed into HR to file a complaint that everyone was staring at her and she felt violated. I don't think that meeting turned out the way she imagined it would.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 month ago
...... Jesus actual christ, what was she even /thinking/?!
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Talis 1 month ago
Did the "no visibly lacking bras" rule only apply to women? 😬
Load More Replies... Justanotherpanda 1 month ago
So you can't have the bra showing, but you must wear one, how does management check? I would leave the company that dictates my choice of underwear.
Scotira 1 month ago
I worked at a hospital where we were issued white pants and blue shirts as standart attire. Now those pants were old and some threadbare. At one point management decided to issue a new policy that only black or white underware and socks were allowed. I told my boss the first person to point out my "nonconform" underware would be reported for harrassment as the whole policy was against the law. Yeah, they never implemented the new policy. It sparked a new trend however: people from the ER and Radiology started to wear the most colorful socks they could find 🤣🤣 we compared 😁 I got fe Swiss and German socks, one guy from the ER had brown socks with eyes and pink socks with squirrels. 😇
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Cee Cee 1 month ago
Manager I knew wore short, low cut dresses with fishnet tights. Watched her walk across the car park with dress riding up far too high. It was not an edifying sight. Office was in a well known red light district. She fitted right in with the street ambience.
Robyn H 1 month ago
You can't force anyone to wear a bra. These things do more harm than good anyway.
Fire Singer 1 month ago
I was wondering how that would work. Me personally I'm more comfortable in a bra than not because of my size and the fact I've worn one most my life. But, I couldn't imagine telling someone they have to wear one. The only thing I could think of was for safety reasons like how you have to put your hair up or not wear jewelry in some jobs, maybe something like that then fine, but an office job? Go braless if you want. Just don't wear a see through top no matter your gender.
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Fire Singer 1 month ago
My moms old job had a dress code that said "no thongs" and she was like...who's checking for that?? Thinking it meant the underwear. She asked and found out they meant flip-flops. :P
Luna 1 month ago
U less you are forcing men to wear bras too the bra policy is sexist. We don't have to wear bras if we don't want to
Sven Grammersdorf 1 month ago
You also don't have to work at that company if you don't want to
Load More Replies... Breadcrumb. 1 month ago
There is a kind middle aged man who comes and plays music for the seniors at the home I work at but yah he bent over showing a bright red thong 😱
Rachel Pelz 1 month ago
Underwear with see through pants? If thoroughly covered with pants, why would that be a problem?
Miss Tinker 1 month ago
If the pants are see through, you could see the underwear.
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Nicole Weymann 1 month ago
Depends on the workplace. If we're talking about a job dealing with clients (outside of obvious exceptions like pr0stitution) I'd expect people to dress "properly". If we're talking cubicle sitting I'd apply far less strict rules. If coworkers are that obsessed with their colleagues' attires they're clearly not paying enough attention to their work (unless the would-be stripper hogs other people's desks, presenting their improperly dressed parts)
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Son of Philosoraptor 1 month ago
We're a relaxed place. Still, the shock in the eyes as I explain to a young person that the "fashion holes" just look like ripped jeans to everyone else and no you can't wear them to work despite the hundred buck price tag.
Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 1 month ago
You can't see them if they're not there.
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Immortal Emperor Paradox 1 month ago
I wish our world was like the isekai/fantasy/video game worlds, where people could wear whatever the hell they want, but there would be absolutely no problems.
Sunny Day 1 month ago
We had a young woman come to work (office) in a crop top that ended a few inches above her belt-width mini skirt, which in turn ended a couple inches above her fishnet thigh-high stockings. Let's call her Brandy. Brandy's boss, Sue, tightly told her that was not appropriate, and she needed to go home to change. Brandy went running to Sue's boss, Steve. Steve told Brandy that her outfit was fine, and that Sue was just jealous. And absolutely nothing happened to Steve.
Chris Landrum 1 month ago
I worked with a guy who was educated outside the US and they did not bath daily. His boss had to tell him to bathe and wear deodorant to work, otherwise this guy was fairly intelligent
shankShaw deReemer 1 month ago
I had to have a talk with an adjunct professor when I was her supervisor about how she couldn't come to teach a class with an enormous hickey visible on her neck. It was about the size of a saucer It was very awkward.
Bob Brooce 1 month ago
Very shortly after graduating from HS a friend and I ended up spending the night at the home of a female classmate. Her parents were away for a few days and another female class mate had been staying with her. We were all in a dark basement rec room so I couldn't see my, er, handwork at the time, but in the morning she wen toff to work with several very obvious, though not huge, hickeys. At the end of the day she went to her own home, so her parent new she'd had more company that just he friend she was staying with. Decades later I still feel a bit bad.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago
I've had to have that talk with employees. It's embarrassing as hell to have to tell a fully grown man he can't be "sagging" at work. I bought belts at Goodwill and gave them (guys on the production floor) a choice: pull your f*cking pants up and keep them up, or go home with no pay.
Owned-by-dogs 1 month ago
I used to work for a very small manufacturing/retail company. We were strictly online, no storefront. We did get the very rare walk-in customer. One of the owners would come in at the most 1 day every other week, otherwise we were supervised remotely. The other office worker was wearing a skirt that barely covered her bum and a sheer top (sports bra underneath) one day when the owner walked in. The next week the policy was put in place that office staff, there were just 2 of us, had to dress in business casual attire. The manufacturing staff, all male, were allowed to dress however even though if we had a walk-in customer they'd most likely be seen also.
Lyone Fein 1 month ago
Sounds like they weren't wearing appropriate clothes in the first place. Who wears see-through garments to work? Strippers.
Riley Quinn 1 month ago
Doesn't anyone own a full length mirror anymore or is this employees looking for a hook up at work?
#8
My Alma mater now has a line in the student handbook that charcoal grills are not permitted in the dorm rooms.
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!”
#9
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.
#10
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?!
#11
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.
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
Label on engine oil: “not safe for human consumption.” Thanks, Fast and the Furious.
#13
Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa. I love to know WHY IN THE HELL IS THAT A LAW.
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."
#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.
#15
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.
#16
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.
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"
#17
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
#18
Climbing on the rail on a cruise ship can get you banned for life.
#19
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.
#20
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.
#21
The abolishment of last meal requests in Texas because one guy had such a massive meal request.
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.
#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.
#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.
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.
#24
You know those warnings on hand sanitizer that say “do not drink”?
#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
#26
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.
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. .
#27
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.
#28
Doritos have rounded edges due to some peoples’ insufficient chewing habits.
#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.
#30
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.
What do you think ?
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
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.
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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.
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.
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
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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
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.
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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.
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.....
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 month ago
Worked at a place where the restrooms had signs up forbidding the washing of feet in toilets.
Comment Deleted 1 month ago
Or sinks , because certain religions wash their feet before praying. I have seen these signs as well.
Load More Replies... tracy black 1 month ago
walmart sells christmas lights that say for indoor or outdoor use only is there another option
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?
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.)
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.
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"
Sue 1 month ago
Well, sometimes it's hard to realize people can be that stupid.
Load More Replies... 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
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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.
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
Load More Replies... 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
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.
Load More Replies... 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.
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.....
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 month ago
Worked at a place where the restrooms had signs up forbidding the washing of feet in toilets.
Comment Deleted 1 month ago
Or sinks , because certain religions wash their feet before praying. I have seen these signs as well.
Load More Replies... tracy black 1 month ago
walmart sells christmas lights that say for indoor or outdoor use only is there another option
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?
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.)
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.
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"
Sue 1 month ago
Well, sometimes it's hard to realize people can be that stupid.
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