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If a boss ever puts me on a 2 glasses of water a day limit i would get every medical professional i know to contact him, to tell him how much liquid a human needs to consume a day to be healthy. And i'd report him to every organization dealing with human rights violations.
Sick Days: If you wake up sick, you have to come in to work. You should know the night before and call the office manager. She wouldn't give us her home phone number and there was no voicemail at the office.
Lol
I hope you can or could have gotten/get her charged with assault occasioning bodily harm at least if one of the employees is immunocompromised!
And here I am thinking that you are not supposed to come to work in case you are sick so you aren't infecting your colleagues...
But maybe I just don't get it.
We have the most obnoxious pens at work. They do not work, and the grip is completely uncomfortable. We're required to use them, and not allowed to have any other pens in client view. When I asked my manager if she required a doctor's note for my non-regulation pen, she just told me not to let her boss see. I told her I'd offer him a note, too. Pens are personal. Might as well dictate my underwear.
Story 9: that sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. people can complain about "ambulance chasing" lawyers, but in this case it could be justified.
Yeah. The turn left thing for UPS works because their job is going point to point along a route. Not turning left can save time waiting at lights etc.
NONE of that applies to an ambulance.
For the manager who timed bathroom breaks, I'd go ask for the key, go back to my desk and pee in a bottle, then go take the key back. 🤣
I'd just walk in, ask for a key walk ou for 15 seconds walk back in hand it back and repeat.
@@princessmarlena1359the janitors dint do anything to deserve that
@@xboxoneyes7734 ok, fair enough.
everyone must always close a freezer door bolted into the wall to prevent air from escaping between rooms. few feet away is a giant hole in the wall into the same room
Locking the first aid box... That would be a call to the safety board and a broken box if they didn't do anything about it: Oeps the first aid box in the basement fell down the stairs from the 5th floor 5 times in a row... Well shit happens i guess.
Right? I’d photograph it and file an anonymous complaint to OSHA.
I had a job that did this as well 🙄 actually two jobs. It was so stupid.
1st job. It was a burger place. Had a manager who would check our hands fir cuts and burbs and the end of our shift. If he didn't find any, you were written up for not doing any work. We went through a lot of cashiers.
My first job after graduating from high school was at an insurance company. My work hours were 8:45 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. A bell went off when work started; when our 15 minute coffee break in the morning began; when break ended; when lunch time started; when lunch time ended; the start and end of the 10 minute afternoon break, and finally when it was time to go home. It was like I was still in school! If we needed a break during non-break times, we had to raise our hand and ask the supervisor's permission to leave your desk. I didn't think anything was wrong with this, because it was my first job, and hadn't known better! I took a government job after two months of working for the insurance company. I was very surprised when I learned that I could leave my desk whenever I needed to! As long as we did our work, the bosses didn't care how many breaks we took!
I worked for a warehouse that programmed cell phones for customers. As a programmer, you had stools that you could sit on while programming. We did this for 12 to 16 hours a day. Yes, four day weeks made it where they could have you work 16 hour days. The warehouse manager read somewhere that standing would make workers more productive. He decided that we needed to be standing to program the phones quicker. Even though our job didn't have any impact on the output. Just get the workload done. Then, wait for the next load. When our productivity didn't go up, he didn't give the stools back. He just raised our quota. This was the same guy that, while interviewing me for a management position, if I was a cake eater or a meat eater. His partner just shook his head. My answer was "yeah, I read that book too. You're supposed to determine that yourself about me and not just ask." Needless to say, I didn't get, nor did I want, that management position.
I'm supposed to answer the phone on the first ring, despite the fact my desk is at least two rings from the nearest phone, and I'm client facing, so usually in the middle of a conversation.
Basically business casual, even in the home office, means the area that the camera can see must be business casual. Nobody tells me to wear trousers or underwear, maybe I'll even wear a traditional kilt.
Not the workplace directly but the property owners of a small business strip where I was working apparently saw complaints online about how difficult it was to find parking during peak hours for the popular restaurant on the strip and tried to enforce a policy that employees of any business on the strip had to park in a small parking garage that was only one level and held about 40 cars. The problem was that there was no signage that designated the parking garage as an "employees only" area so many spaces were taken up by customers anyway. I told my store manager I wasn't going to park there if I could avoid it and if the property owners towed my car I would be pressing charges for that reason. Apparently other people voiced the same sentiment directly to the property owners because we never heard about that policy again. By the way, part of the reason it was difficult to find parking on the strip was that a third of the spaces were "compact car only," in a relatively affluent part of town where most people drove Land Rovers and SUV's
i would told to the spoon queen "i bring my spoon from home because i don't want to deal with you
Story 27... no crying at your desk policy😂😂😂 that so fuck sad lol 😂😂😂😂 but i cant stop laughing that comedy GOLD
Be depressed on your own time not out time
Re: limiting water drinking most probably in a call center environment so that pee breaks will be limited too (for productivity)
Dumb rules I have to deal with at the clinic I work at as an RN:
1. Specimen bags “do not belong” on the counter. I tried putting empty specimen bags on the counter near my desk because I have to scan dozens of specimens every day between seeing patients and bag them up individually. The manager wants them kept 30 feet away in a locked cabinet. She also expects pregnancy tests to be kept in a different room than the other urine testing supplies. Considering most patients who need a pregnancy test need a urine or GC culture as well, this is pathetically ridiculous.
2. All staff must take a 30 minute unpaid lunch break if there are two people on staff with the same title. Every time I try to take said break, I get interrupted (while off the clock, mind you) or criticized for not being able to go through a 12-hour shift without eating.
3. No rock and roll. The manager wants music playing in all the exam rooms and most of the staff play music at their desks. Approved music genres are reggaeton, country, dance pop, hip-hop/rap, R&B, and club music. Basically all the genres of music commonly associated with racial minorities and country. Genres that are not allowed: Soundtracks, opera, instrumentals, rock (including classic stuff like Elvis and the Beatles), and metal. Why not? Because that’s all “devil music.” So, just so we’re on the same page: It’s 2024 and we’re allowed to listen to music that involves swearing, sexual themes, and politically incorrect themes…but The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and the soundtrack to Final Fantasy IX are all inappropriate?
Technically, most places that tell you that you can't dye your hair an unnatural color means no colors that people don't actually have naturally. E.g. purple, green, blue, etc. Colors like red, blonde, brown, black, grey, and white are natural. I would ask for the handbook that explains the hair color. If they left it vague, you can sue for wrongful termination.
Story 32 - My arm are, for no known reason, each about 1 1/2 inches longer than they should be. Research the height-to-wingspan formula for yourself, this is about 'fingertip length' and hemline placement. During costume creation for a play the costumer asked the director where he wanted my hemline. He referred to the classic fingertip rule and asked me to let my arms hang by my side. He gazed at me, said "Gorilla Arms" (We were long-time friends, it was funny) and told her to put the hem at my knuckles. 😅
I bought my own pens rather than ask the secretary for them. Their pens were worthless anyway.
3:50 sounds as if they believed the employees were inmates. If you have free time like a break, they cannot tell you what you can or cannot do with that time. Well they can tell you, but there's nothing they can do about it.
They didn't want employees to drink more than two glasses of water a day to try to cut down on employee bathroom breaks! As for the employer who timed bathroom breaks, I would have handed in my resignation! Most places I ever worked gave 15 minute coffee breaks in the morning, and ten minute breaks in the afternoon. I used those times for bathroom breaks.
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Story #5 - I have diagnosed IBS. I could ruin that man's day SO easily
The idea that UPS doesn't turn left is partially true. You can turn faster at intersections if you're turning right. You only need to worry about 1 lane and you can turn right on Red Lights unless the intersection has a sign saying it's not allowed. If possible, the routes are set up with the fewest lefts they can do.
I used to run a bookmobile. An edict came down from above stating “No emergency repairs without prior authorization.” Huh?
My old job working at grocery store. I work in the kitchen making pizza etc. Old job (at the time) requires you to only get only 30 minutes to clean the kitchen even and do everything last minute. Mind you at the time you only person in the kitchen doing the work of 6 people can't get it all done in 30 minutes and the next day management would write you up for not getting 3 hour work load in 30 minutes. I told my manager to do the work herself and prove herself that can be done in 30 minutes to better train me to help provide better customer service. (This was bluff on my part because i know it can't be done) She of course said made ever excuse under the sun to not do it but the district manager heard the hole conversion and said it was great idea to give the employee(me) more training and it heavily encouraged. Manger did it very next day and was proven wrong. Rule was changed the following day. Lol
story 19# I heard of one company that didn't even like the word "challenge" they preferred, "opportunity"
story#23 I'd get a cheap spoon from Dollar General and get it engraved with "property of, if found"
Or plastic, disposable spoons, if they are still legal in your area.
Spoon thing reminded me that an old boss of mine thought anything that came into his business belonged to him. Including your tools when you worked as a technician. This was about the only thing I pitied the technicians for.
Dear narrator,
I talked to your boss and they agreed that you’re only allowed two 8oz glasses of water per day.
I always found it weird my boss required naked photoes of me.
If a boss limited the use of the toilet and demanded that you get the key from him, I would be the type of person who follows the law of the wild just to see the world burn, meaning I and everyone who follows me will do our business wherever we want, just not in the toilet and of course in front of the boss's door. That's how you declare dominance and ownership of the entire office. Even if he were to throw out everyone who joined in, he could still just burn the office down afterwards.
As a ups driver myself we in fact do turn left
I actually have to be nice with the customers, outrageous
I know what you mean, I have to SMILE. 🙄
@@princessmarlena1359 thats horrible
A few years ago, I had this supervisor who was a real buzzkill - in fact, that was her nickname.
She had a lot of really dumb and inefficient rules she wanted us to follow.
One of them dealt with document storage.
For example, one person could file something, and then someone else could do... whatever, but that didn't go on the record.
Well, this happened to me once, someone took what I had filed and it was missing.
Buzzkill thought it was a good idea to have me search every file folder from the day before and after. About an hour later, I told her it wasn't there. She reluctantly allowed me to fax the client for a new copy, which took all of three minutes.
After all that had happened, she sent me a nasty, condescending e-mail asking why what had happened had happened.
We were all so glad when she retired a few months later.
Pretty sure the Court of Human Rights would want your head on a Silver platter,whilst you were STILL alive,if it got out you tried to limit someone's water intake..
I work breakfast at a hotel. I'm no longer allowed to ask guests to not touch the food with their hands or cross contaminate between meat/non meat. Wtf.
I worked a substance use rehab. The boss didn't want clients out of bed even if in crisis. Like tf
FedEx Ground employee here, we are not allowed our phones what so ever, i had to lock it in a locker be i go through security and then walk into the main building and then clock in
I am not allowed to ram garbage drivers off the road with my much larger vehicle. Preposterous.
I did that Kirby vacuum shit, that shit was a cult
Not me but there is a council office I think it’s Oxfordshire that has banned any non vegan food so no cheese or yogurt or anything
They restricted water?! Water is a basic need! Thats gotta be illegal!
Not at my work but the corner store. You cant buy lottery tickets on a debt card. I said ok . I need cash back on my purchase. Then paid cash for the lottery tickets. Haha
My work has a no phones/earbuds policy for the kitchen/sales postion. For April fools this year, will have to bring in my VR headset to watch youtube with, while I clean and what not. To be fair their is no rule against it atm....
My boss had me unplug the electric pencil sharpener every weekend and holiday to limit fire risk. When was the last time you saw a massive fire on the news blamed on a pencil sharpener?
One billion four hundred-seventy three millionth!
This is actually the first
A job cannot force you to wear business clothes at home as it’s your private property
Lawrence Needlemeyer :)
Pair Story 4 with a hot Summer and it might as well be assault... That could legitimately kill someone.
Im my homecountry companies are actually required by law to give out five liters in beverages per employee for free if their workspace is beyond 32°C for an extended amount of time. (And yes, of course the law is more vague than it needs to be and there are exceptions. You cannot really fault the postal service's bosses for the temperature of the city their deliveries are conducted in after all.)
What game is this being played in the background?
Why didn’t you put the story number? how am I supposed to find it??
How is everyone
Good
No cocaine
Some of these are facepalm worthy
I'm pretty sure you can't deny your employees water to control bathroom breaks, or deny bathroom breaks. Assuming that this is in the US.
Story #6 - I can actually understand this one. Getting dressed for the day can set your mind into a proper mindset. It's weird, but if the bosses had been reading articles about psychology, then I can definitely see why they decided to do this
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Too late pal
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@@ToonyTails no