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Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories A video game company I worked for provided free snacks and sodas. One Friday HR had just done a shopping run and was bringing in a truck load of junk food. One employee was caught sneaking a case of soda out of the parking lot. He wasn't fired or disciplined, it was just made public why the perk was ended. He quit shortly afterward and attempted to sue for a hostile work environment. That went nowhere.

DarrenEdwards , I am R. Report

Final score:

151points

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Lem Johnson 2 years ago

The thing is, he should have been disciplined properly and formally. Turning all his colleagues against him and allowing "mob justice" is not good management - and it IS creating a hostile work environment, and in a lot of places is classed as workplace bullying. Did the guy deserve it? Yeah, probably. Does that make it the right thing to do? No.

103points

Ok-Reporter-2688 , Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos Report

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Well, I went to the Dr office the other day. At the bathroom there was a sign. It said "Due to misuse of hand soap, you will have to request soap from front desk". I'm weirded the f**k out. What the hell are they doing with the soap?! At the doctor's office??

I was just too afraid to ask.

Final score:

142points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

The mind boggles.

32points

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories We can’t use the wheelbarrow to carry all the equipment down, now we have to make multiple trips up and down a big hill with heavy equipment.

-F**k you Wyatt

Background: Wyatt decided to use the wheelbarrow as a ride down the hill and lost control. Almost slamming into a kid (the mom luckily pulled the kid out of the way in time) and now no more wheelbarrow. Oh and we all hate Wyatt and he swears it wasn’t his fault and it was everybody else’s fault. But he still works there cause we are short staffed thanks to covid.

And wait it gets better: I was the one who was supervising that shift, I was already at the bottom of the hill cause I was helping training some new people. So I didn’t see what Wyatt was doing, well he rode the wheelbarrow down and crashed and guess who got in trouble? Me. Cause apparently I have to train people while also watching out for idiots riding in wheelbarrows (why the f**k would I think anyones stupid enough to do that?!) well I got in trouble and almost demoted. And then the next day Wyatt tells my I should have been “doing my job” to stop him from riding in the wheelbarrow. Then he asked me out as his girlfriend (we never even went on a date, he just straight up asked me) and was shocked when I said no. He then said “oh you’re lesbian” and ya I am but even if I wasn’t I’m not going to date someone who almost got me demoted?!

Ok_Pressure_4462 , Matt Elsberry Report

Final score:

131points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

F**k you Wyatt!

124points

Interesting-Dance176 , Mike Schmid Report

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories No hands in your pockets.
We were rewaxing the floor and I slipped on a cord, and couldn't catch myself because my hands were in my pockets smashed my knee on the tile floor. The whole school district got that rule. (~40 schools)

Final score:

129points

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Kassiopeia 2 years ago

So THAT'S why pants for woman don't have pockets!

36points

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories We used to have casual Friday and people could wear jeans. One day a girl came in wearing sweatpants that had “Juicy” printed across the butt.

The CEO happened to be visiting our location that day and he saw her. Casual Friday was immediately abolished and it took years for them to forget Juicy Girl and reinstate it. But in the intervening years, they would have fundraisers where you could buy tickets for days that you could wear jeans.

AMerrickanGirl , Jett Brooks Report

Final score:

116points

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Nimues Child 2 years ago

"Juicy" butt sweatpants for work. Klassy.

42points

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories I was serving in the Army when a soldier made a video on TikTok of himself dancing and playing with a gun and the video went viral. They took the mobiles after that from everyone and I stayed for couple of weeks not even able to reach my family

_Medaly , Nordskov Media Report

Final score:

109points

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Thomas.Rudd 2 years ago

Oh, that's really sad

39points

luminescentbluedot , Céline Harrand Report

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Only one personal item in your office.

This was a financial institution so customers came into our offices. This was put in place because of one lady who had her office packed with trinkets including a handful of dolls.

Yes, creepy dolls. Come and get your auto loan also don't worry we have some dolls here to witness your transaction.

Final score:

107points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

I would've been very sad if my old job had done that. What I did was very high stress and having my little trinkets were soothing. The big boss asked about my "decorations" once and I said if it didn't have a little piece of happiness to get me through the day I'd go insane and quit. He just said thank you for not quitting

49points

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories I was hoping for employee's discount at a japanese grocery store. However, someone from the past has abused the employee discount in order to give low prices to their friends. Management found out, and they effectively just took the employment discount away.

Thanks a lot a*****e. You effectively deprived me the one thing I was hoping for in that stressful and boring job.

KeybladeWielder97 , Yuya Tamai Report

Final score:

103points

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Mad McQueen 2 years ago

Can't even get a discount at Home Depot when working there. Maybe just 10% off for you and spouse if you're there but nothing.

13points

#10

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Place i used to work gave out turkeys for thanksgiving, an employee accidently dropped his on his foot and tried to file a suit against them for some crazy amount of money. No more turkeys

Voshan008 , Logan Ingalls Report

Final score:

96points

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Mohsie Supposie 2 years ago

Tell me you are from USA without telling me you are from USA!

121points

#11

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories 1. All social media and streaming sites are now blocked on work computers, because someone spent all day on social media and watching movies while at work.

2. The Sick Room and Quiet Room are now locked because a certain slacker keeps hiding in it. They've been "hiding" in the glass meeting pods since.

LofiLorraine , English106 Report

Final score:

90points

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BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago

I'm guessing it was the same person... Who should probably be fired...

45points

#12

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Worked as a cashier and supposedly a superior or whatever came to look at the store one day and said us cashiers/floor employees having water bottles up front is not good. So we weren’t allowed to have water bottles out on the floor anymore; so if we wanted water, we’d have to go the back…. Us cashiers talk to many customers a day and we’re going to get thirsty of course, we all thought it was a stupid rule.

cnvs28 , Mark Doliner Report

Final score:

90points

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Benita Valdez 2 years ago

Yeah when I was a cashier they tried this. I told them sorry but my meds give me dry mouth so I need water. This prompted others to claim they had needs too. Frustrated, they relented but they couldn't be left out in the open; order register when not drinking and must be resealable

37points

#13

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories No eating in front of the customers on our break.

I worked fast food at the time and it wasn't uncommon for my coworkers and I to sit in our lobby, close to the registers so we could jump back into action if needed. One day, I was sitting at one of those tables, having my lunch break when a customer came in. He gave me a dirty look and when he went up to order, he told my manager that he didn't like seeing his employees being lazy and eating where the customers could see. My manager was very calm and polite while dealing with him and basically said, "Dude, wtf my employees aren't animals."

Come my next shift, my manager told us that corporate got a complaint about us eating in front of the customers and we were no longer allowed to take our lunch breaks in our lobby. We either had to sit in our crammed office or eat in our cars.

kataani-rae , cplbasilisk Report

Final score:

84points

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S. Mi 2 years ago

All people clearly have a vehicle at work...

39points

#14

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories No sneakers/

One manger was obsessed with this girl who was 30 years younger than him (50-20) and her commute was two hours long. She sometimes forgot to change them out and he must have got sick of her turning him down than he mandated a no sneaker clause.

The68Guns , Darien Library Report

Final score:

83points

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Daycare Attendant Sun 2 years ago

So, the creep couldn't get his way and took it out on her, and everyone else. Nice.

49points

#15

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Safety briefing at a job site explicitly stated that hardhats were not to be used as weapons.

Log23 , LongitudeLatitude Report

Final score:

80points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

I now want to use a hardhat as a weapon. Never occurred to me before.

50points

Quityurgriping , Pedro Ribeiro Simões Report

#16

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Everyone has to speak English, because one lady thought people were talking s**t about her in Spanish (they were!).

Final score:

73points

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LagoonaBlueColleen 2 years ago

This is surprisingly often a rule by default in some worksites. Usually suspicions ring true.

32points

#17

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories No popcorn.

I work at a financial company and not once, but twice, someone burned microwave popcorn during end of day processing and caused the building evac.

Every once in a while a new person is cooking some up and I just imagine the talking to they're about to get.

katrascythe , Daniel Mee Report

Final score:

72points

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LagoonaBlueColleen 2 years ago

This rule is at a lot of offices including the place I work at. We're not allowed to bring anything with a "smell".

30points

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#18

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories We used to get a free beer after our shifts at a pizza restaurant I worked at, until the manager’s little brother got in a car accident after work (he ran a red light or something). That was fun while it lasted

boi-juice , [puamelia] Report

Final score:

66points

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Kat O. 2 years ago

I will never understand why everyone gets punished for 1 person's stupidity. Almost all of these could have been solved if they had only punished the offender and not everyone else.

41points

#19

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories “You are welcome to wear comfortable clothing during the overnight shift. However you must wear pants at all time. No pajamas or *underwear*”

It predates all of us. The guess is someone did an overnight, took off their pants to relax and someone went in crisis.

mortuusanima , Mark Baylor Report

Final score:

62points

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Roxy Eastland 2 years ago

You're allowed underwear under your trousers, though, right?

30points

colobirdy85 , Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Report

#20

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Used to work as a server in an assisted living facility. After a server flipped out during breakfast one day, there was a sign put up in the kitchen that said "DO NOT THREATEN RESIDENTS"
That f****r still works there

Final score:

62points

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Potty pagan panda 2 years ago

That f****r should have been fired

53points

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#21

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Not allowed to fly paper planes in the office.

I work in finance and yes it was my fault. My aim is terrible and my plane "crashed" into a manager from another department who had no sense of humor. F**k that guy.

Expensive-Back-2092 , antjeverena Report

Final score:

62points

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Béatrice Gallet 2 years ago

You were unprofessional and blame another person on your act, A.H. !

36points

brakenbonez , StickerGiant Custom Stickers & Labels Report

#22

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Don't put stickers on people's backs.

Background:

I work in a warehouse that stores and ships products out to retail stores. We print labels out for the packages and pallets etc and some of us made a game out of "tagging" people with stickers without them noticing. I got really good at it. I did this trick where I'd put the top two corners together making a sort of cone shape so I could just let it rest on my finger then sort of throw my hand up at an angle so it flies off my finger and gently lands on their back without me having to apply any pressure to make it stick and risk them catching me. Even some of the supervisors got in on it.

One day someone decided to try it on one of the cooperates from one of the stores and was instantly caught, ruining the fun for everyone.

Final score:

61points

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Jordan Westall 2 years ago

Sounds like corporate are a bunch of d**k heads

14points

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#23

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories We had to get gps systems for the company cars because one guy took his company car on vacation. He also paid for gas with the company card so now we are required to write the current mileage at the top of the receipt so they can check miles driven vs. Gas bought. Its no big deal, just like what a loser.

Fairlybludgeoned , ines s. Report

Final score:

57points

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Miss Ann Thrope 2 years ago

Worked with a gal who's husband drove a company van. When he had to get gas, she would go with him in her car. He would gas up the company van, he'd move the van, she'd move up her car, and fill up her tank without returning the nozzle, so it would all be on one receipt. They never got caught.

20points

#24

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories all the plates and cutlery were thrown away in the staff restaurant because washing up was left dirty in the sink,its bring you own cutlery and plate in if you want to eat there now.

creamywhip , espensorvik Report

Final score:

56points

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Bec 2 years ago

Ugh. I worked in a billing center and decided to bring in real cutlery after I received a new set at Xmas. Just a week later I went into the kitchen and open the drawer to get a spoon for my yogurt and there was almost no silverware left. I asked, what happened. Oh people just throw it away because they don't want to wash it. WTF people.

28points

#25

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories We used to be able to pop in an ear bud at work with the offset being that we couldn't spend more than a few seconds here or there to switch podcasts or something. Naturally, some people took a mile and spent minutes on their phones. Since everyone was afraid of confronting these people, phones and earbuds were banned in work spaces altogether.

DYGTD , Mike P. Report

Final score:

52points

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madbakes 2 years ago

What kind of manager or supervisor is afraid of talking to their employees about an issue??

22points

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#26

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories One person complained that he wasn't 'trained properly.'

We all now have to do this massively long training workbook during our shift, along with morning weekly quizzes we have to do with training questions. Everyone. I'm pretty sure no other company does this. It's been weeks and i'm still not finished with it.

Blundering_Dragon , https://www.flickr.com/photos/kongharald/39996586964/in/photolist-23WmXQY-bbQwLt-e4f3Mg-293pFW2-39Z64V-e4kEYU-8Vg9Pt-21j7nfM-5XB4ti-2hfqwEV-2hXaMxm-2hf1ijR-4d99bK-nft2bQ-dzWM-SGbKuX-p3fVw-eyABJ-nfsNVP-7irP9-eyABK-nQspiq-2arAide-4qKVSd-dyjUaH-4qFRpH-nYDNtg-54eFXy-9t8Lr2-5tfcGF-PeMgr3-4eRZCz-6THk4f-6THjjb-6TDeGv-6TDdYt-6THmpj-6TDaST-6TDcVK-6TDdyz-6THdtJ-6TDfpH-4exHrh-6TDg3V-4fUcUr-4ezafm-6TDm2F-6TDgJi-6TDbxn-qDr8cQ Report

Final score:

45points

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Paula Divello 2 years ago

I have had this happen to me as a manager I just re-trained the complainant and had her sign off on the training syllabus each time and put it in her file.

12points

#27

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories HR Partner's husband got into a fight with someone at coat check. As punishment, HR decided to ban hard alcohol at all events for YEARS.

Thus began my hatred of HR.

bombayblue , alamosbasement Report

Final score:

44points

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LH25 2 years ago

It may have been punishment, but it well could have been an issue of liability as well. If someone got in an accident after drinking at an event, the company may have gotten into trouble.

36points

#28

Person Started A Thread Of People Sharing Dumb Rules They Have At Work Because Of An Idiot Coworker And Here Are 30 Of Their Best Stories Dress code

One guy once wore a Tupac middle finger hoodie into a meeting with the most important client ever for my firm and now we have the strictest dress code. Tie, dress shoes, tuxedo/suit and no grey or blue suits only black.

Player_12__ , Gil Agnew Report

Final score:

44points

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Trophy Husband 2 years ago (edited)

Trump's wife wore a hoodie that said "I don't care" to visit with the migrant children her husband had pulled from their families to punish them for wanting asylum. And she didn't get in trouble at all...

38points

Alex Taylor 2 years ago

In fairness, she's been pretty well vilified all over the internet for it. No OFFICIAL sanction, of course, just the well-deserved disgust of the world. And the photos of her will never go away, so it's a well-justified life sentence.

15points

RK Barbo 2 years ago

If I walked into a firm and they were wearing tuxedos, I would leave. Black tie is NOT appropriate business wear. Do the women have to wear ball gowns or cocktail dresses?

12points

Tim 2 years ago

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0points

Historyharlot93 2 years ago

Why would you wear a pretty offensive hoodie, or any hoodie, to a meeting with your most important client ever?

9points

Michael Fuhry 2 years ago

Moron?

8points

Michael Largey 2 years ago

If you find yourself married to Donald Trump, how much more trouble can you be in?

3points

Lazy Panda 2 years ago

I'm crossing my fingers for "prison for all involved"!

5points

Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 2 years ago

I worked for EDS for a while. EDS stood for "Everyone Dressed the Same". Yeesh...

2points

Azure Adams 2 years ago

A hoodie like that is unprofessional and likely offended the client that gave the company a lot of business WHICH IS WHAT GIVES YOU A PAYCHECK AND JOB!!!

1point

Cotton Candy 2 years ago

Just in case of unexpected wedding

0points

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#29

It was in third grade when pokemon was hot again some idiots traded cards and then there parents want to have the card back so they became illegal for everyone

Nyanmanu_ Report

Final score:

43points

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Doggo 2 years ago

I hate that they were banned when I collected/traded them the most

12points

#30

i work at a warehouse. someone cut their finger bad enough that now we have to use a plastic knife and scrapper. i feel like im back in elementary school lol

Gman198413 Report

Final score:

42points

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Cody 2 years ago

A safety razor would probably be the correct tool for the job. Sounds more like a cheap boss than anything.

12points