What Stupid Rule At Your Work/School Backfired Beautifully? (r/AskReddit)
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Bro that first one wtf. I would have sued the clinic, forcing you to carry cash around on the street in a bank bag is like literally having a target painted on your back saying "Rob me!!!"
Yeah literally. Im pretty sure the guy who made her not drive is the one who robbed her
Ikr
@@EARLOBE999 Until she pulls out a rifle with hollow point ammo.
Exactly, I'd end up with a lawsuit against them, likely say I want to get away from the job or have the guy that told me that fired.
Years ago, I worked at a gas station that was right across the road from the bank. It took three times as long to drive there as it did to walk because the bank entrance was on a different street and left turns were slow as hell at the intersection. Corporate still demanded that the deposit ALWAYS be driven to the bank, to the point where the one day nobody at the station had a working car, the district manager drove an hour to us to run the deposit in her car. I didn't care for her for many reasons, but the fact that she did that and didn't complain, yell, or attempt to make someone walk the deposit did earn her some respect from all of us.
My school banned phones because the headteacher didn't like seeing them out at break and lunch so the whole school brought tablets, Nintendo Switches, iPads, laptops, one kid brought in a TV and plugged it into the Cafeteria socket. The rule didn't get removed but it did get reworded to "devices deemed unfit for a school environment"
😂
Everybody gangsta til some kid pulls up with a gucci smart fridge
A TV 💀
@@jonathanbachmeier5807 im sorry what
@Rhiannon Bartscht don't worry I fear him very much
I remember the whole "suspension/expulsion for skipping" nonsense. What a stypid rule. "You dare not come to school? I shall punish you by...making you not come to school."
My school was smart enough to implement an in school suspension.
@@Aznataku02 yeah that started becoming a thing as I was leaving school.
I see no problem here 🙂
@@Aznataku02 good ol' ISS
Because it will be kept in your files and if you ever go to another high school they are not gonna like you being suspended. That is bad news
The "banning kids from wearing pink" one got me flabbergasted. Was it really so hard for the staff to just stop one of the kids and ask "why is everyone suddenly wearing pink?"
some adults forget that kids have mouths and common sense
@@Magic-on4et its usually the ones that actually dont have any common sense. or any sense at all
@@twilightsparkle75 ??
@@theblaze5530 sadly a lot of adults atleast in the usa tend to lack in critical thinking, logic, and commom sense skills. and they tend to be the ones in charge or in higher positions
@@twilightsparkle75 Tbf kinder eggs are illegal in the USA
One year in grade school, we were not allowed to go to the restroom during classes- a no pass, no excuse, and absolutely no peeing two 4 hour torture. It was so bad, the teachers were literally locking us in the room.
One day, someone got pissed enough and pissed himself in the classroom. The teacher was disgusted. Others kids followed suit. The other grade levels caught wind (and smell) of it and started pissing themselves. It was as hilarious as it was hellish. Everything stank for the day. The restroom ban got lifted at the end. We still praise all of the pissing legends.
Thanks for the laugh mate.
Omg if i have a bad teacher (and covid is done) I'm sooo telling everyone to do this.
Literally sounds like a high school story my dad told me about. This teacher wouldn’t let his classmate use the bathroom and so he just stood up, pulled his pants down and peed on the floor. I think the teacher got fired if I remember the story correctly
@Thomas you should’ve peed on the teacher
@@ee214verilogtutorial2 truth
“No touching the snow”
In Canada. In the winter. If you were even standing on the snow you got in trouble, the rule didn’t stand for long 😂
Sounds like just getting into the school would be interesting.
This is basically like an artist is told to not pick up a Pencil, pen, brush, etc.
I live in canada and also had that rule but it lasted for a month and on the last day it was there me and my group of friends and some other people all took off there coats and winter stuff and just started dancing in the snow covered field and singing. I forget the song
The snow is lava
@@code_breaker3756 one word. Finger
Still ridiculous tho and I get what you mean.
I went to an all girl school. One year our school introduced the idea of a prom (in the UK so proms aren't as much of a thing as they are in the states) All the girls were excited and wanted to pick dresses and invite their boyfriends. However, the head then said that no boys were allowed. Prom was cancelled because everybody bailed and refunded their tickets after hearing there were no guys allowed.
Edit: I love how everyone's response is based around gayness. XD
Plot-twist: get all the boys to identify as girls
@@matthewmullin8168 STOP ASSUMING MY GENDER
@@luminescentpearl4126 bruh
@@matthewmullin8168 guess today is femboi friday
@The Phantom The school: "No PDA (Public Displays of Affection) at the prom"
Who the hell thought that the cigarette rule was a good idea? Suspending people for WITNESSING a smoker? There’s no way that’d sit well.
All of the sudden, you have less reports if smokers! Success! The lingering smoke is just a side effect from before.
@@alexanderthegreat6682 wouldn't be surprised if that was the actual target. Less reports, make the school look better, when in reality is the same or worse
@@strikeforce1500 could be. It's like a study I read by Levitt where teachers would cheat and bump student's test scores so that they wouldn't face the consequences of students failing
It would take _one_ smoker stepping out into the middle of an all-school assembly and lighting up to get it reversed. It's either that or suspend the entire school.
They should have realised that being a 'sneak' or 'grasss' would mean the tell-tale would get bullied.
"kids standing by smokers got punished too, so the kids actively protected the smokers from getting caught"
I'm just imagining some kids holding bushes and branches around the smoker to hide them from the teacher's view.
"I got eyes on the target."
"Be quiet, you son of a bitch, they'll hear us!"
"Right, right. Alright, target smoking at cafeteria,
initiate plan B!"
"Plan Bush, Got it."
*Child in ghillie suit proceeds to crawl towards*
*student with cigarette, blocking the view*
That rule's fucked up...
what about a comic
a he-
@Bazukin Belyugovich student 6 going dark
@@Mitsuri.Kanroji.. your username makes this even better. I love Nezuko
“No hoods”
It’s not dangerous, but the whole school spread a thing on how the whole school will wear hoods on the same day. They didn’t take the rule off though : (
should have kept it up. doesn't work if its only one day.
@@meepfanmeepster8620 middle schoolers don’t have enough brainpower for that thinking
@@ThatGuy-hy7tr fair enough
It’s not bc it’s harmful but becuase it’s informal. Come on guys just don’t wear a hoddy it’s not even that bad lol. You’re gonna make some sacrifices in life not every rule will be to your liking. It helps build discipline
@@jovannyc7158 how is not wearing a piece of clothing on a cold day discipline??
*"No shorts in summer? Ok"*
And that day two classes went with skirt, including guys
They were madlads they ain't joking
Just have everyone wear kilts
2 boys in my school did this a couple days ago and got suspended because "skirts are not part of the school uniform" but that rule apparently doesn't apply to girls
Plot Twist: they were Scottish.
Lol i always thought about doing something like that but with ripped jeans. "Oh i can't have a hole in my pants, even if its below my fingertips? -proceeds to grab scissors and cut off the legs of my pants at the hole- boom, problem solved. I'm showing more skin but hey, I'm not wearing holey pants 🤷"
My mom got a letter in the mail from my missing school for too many days due to illness. It said something about how I needed the principals permission to miss that many days and blah blah blah. Well, her response was to write a letter to the principal saying “the last I checked you weren’t there when he was made and you weren’t there when he was born. I’m his mother and I’ll give him permission if I feel like it, and if you have a problem with that then (principals name) can begin sending child support payments to the address on file.”
And that was the last we heard from the principal. But real talk, he was a jackass. Mishandled money. Mishandled school programs. The only reason anything got done was because of our vice principal.
similar thing happened to me. Mom fought with him for a year. "So what do I do if she's sick?" "have the school nurse look at her."
next time I'm sick we tried that and she looked at us like we were crazy because that wasn't something she could do anything about???
It came to a boiling point when he told my mom "Well the most important thing is her education." and my mom snapped "No! The most important thing is her well being! My job is to raise a happy, healthy, productive member of society. Your job is just to educate her!" She also refused to sit down in his office and started to have all there conversations standing over him with him sitting at his desk.
Also the time my brother's homework make him cry and start bashing his head on the tile floor. She reached over, snatched the worksheet up, ripped it in half, handed it back, and said "Tell your teacher your mother did that."
My mom did something similar. I still don't know what happened to my math teacher.
@@grungekitty77 i love your mom so much rn
Similar:
I didn't come to school for a month bc my dad had an major accident (he doing great now) but I still asked my friends to send me all the worksheets to complete I tried my best to do my work but I couldn't everyday my school begged my mom to send me to school bc I was the nerdy kid who got full marks finally my mom snapped and said "your changing schools" but my dad insisted not to do it I had to return to school and my whole class talked carp about our school even most of the teachers...
Sounds like any politician, except the vice principle doesn't exist
*"No tickling the janitor"*
I've never seen a janitor get tickled so many times.
😂
"Miss Crabapple and Principal Skinner were in the janitor closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me." - Ralphie Wiggum
Are you actually serious?! 😂
Okay, why the heck would they put up a rule like that? Was someone tickling the janitor before that? >w
"I'm not getting paid enough for this"
I got one that backfired BADLY. I worked at Food City and there was a no food/drinks allowed unless you’re on break, no exceptions(this included doctor orders btw). So here we have a cashier who is diabetic and a minor pass out from a sugar crash and got a slight concussion from hitting the tiled floor all because he was denied to eat a candy bar. Parents of that kid were very not happy. There was a whole investigation, there were other safety violations found, and that store was almost shut down. They instead got a huge fine and fired most of the employees for “disruptive behavior” when we aided the investigation(me included) and are still rehiring to this day (this happened 3 yrs ago). It was a toxic af place and was glad to leave.
Whelp, time for another investigation
....holy crap... that poor kid if I didn’t know my rights as a diabetic that may have happened to me.
Bro, they can't fire you for complying with authorities. That is, holy shit that is so massively illegal. Then doing that to JUST YOU ALONE could mean jail time for the gm. That's just you. Every single one of the employees they fired over that is a criminal, if not felony count. You really need to take this to the authorities, not CZcams.
They shouldn't be rehiring, they should be on trial for retaliation charges, holy shit. K-VA-T should be disowning the franchise for fear of being implicated in this business-destroying legal scandal.
@@michealdrake3421 i have brought it up and even other coworkers have reported them too. But in a right to work state like mine, no body up top cares not matter how illegal and unethical it all is
@@artimiss1238 The reputation will do them in or make getting revenue very hard to get due to employee turnover. There are fates worse than prison sometimes.
Ah yes. A “just say yes” policy. Out of an ingredient? “Yes! You can have that!”
Customer: This doesn’t taste right.
Worker: Oh yeah, we don’t have that ingredient.
“Can I have this for free?”
“Yep!”
Can I take all of the money and sell these drugs to you for 10 million dollars and bankrupt your company?
Yeeessssss.....?
I thought of that too, just saying yes but not doing anything.
"Can you refund this thing I obviously didn't even get here for $80?"
"Yes" *proceeds to do literally anything that doesn't involve that*
*THIS* is actually a japonese policy for EVERYTHING in Japan is considered a bad thing to say "no" so instead ANY japonese IN japan would do something like that.
Costumer: I want apple juice
Worker: You know, our pineapple juice is really good, you should try it
Costumer: Thanks but I want my apple juice please
Worker: If you don't like pineapple we have lemonade and ice tea.
Ans it can go on until the customer find out the worker wanted to say that they don't have apple juice.
"Can I have my drink for free today?"
"Yes. I can't say 'no.'"
There is a reason "the customer is always right" changed to "We have the right to refuse service to anyone"
Fekin Karens
"the customer" in that saying was never supposed to an individual, but customers as a collective. It meant that in matters of taste, you sold what they wanted to buy, not what you thought they should.
It doesn't matter that your market analyst is telling you that you should make your cars green, or that you really like blue cars. If all your customers are walking in and asking for red cars, guess which colour car you should be producing?
@@xerxeskingofking This is absolutely right, it's never about what the customers being right "at all costs", it's about being right about what they want. And you know what, after experiencing life in the broader world, it's a damn good policy to have. I've heard so, so many stories from friends, colleagues and acquaintences since I moved to Europe. It's a joke out here. You're lucky if you can even find what you need, much less something you actually want if it's even slightly out of bounds what companies here decide is the mainstream. Like one colleague told us about cafes in Spain. He just wanted to have warm milk to go with his espresso because for some reason the cafes didn't serve lattes or americanos, or whatever he usually ordered. They kept giving him cold milk, and it's not a language barrier because they get a ton of British tourists in Spain, one barista literally said "No. This is what I'm giving you." Some cafes didn't give him any milk on the side at all. The guy just wanted warm milk. Warm milk. For his coffee. They totally could have done it, they just didn't want to cater. It's the least thing a cafe is capable of. In contrast, in NA, you could get your choice of milks, dairy or otherwise, warmed on the side. Oh yeah that's another thing. Some places in Europe you're SOL if you're dairy intolerant.
Who says they are a customer??
The customer is NOT always right . . .
The customer IS often an Ahole . . . LoL . . .
My highschool suddently decided that all students should go up the stairs and to their classes in a clock-wise motion wich means if your next class was the one next to you on the right you could not walk that way and the teacher would stop you and make you go around the entire school corridors in a goddarn circle until you reached your classroom from the other side. Students would trample you if you dared to go agaisnt the force that was the "clock-wise" motion.
That stupid rule ended when many students got late to class for being forced to go clock-wise and were given detention for being late even after being told by the teacher to make another round.
I'm so glad that hellhole has ended, being an adult is so much better.
imagine being late because you didnt walk the "right" direction and a teacher saw
@@easysqweasy Oof
When did this take place? I was in high school from 2003-2007 and ky school had some doofy rules, but none like this.
@@dapperfan44 2014-2015
@@friendy-O Somebody was on a power trip.
In high school they made a rule against hugging. Hug and you get after school detention. Everyone proceeded to hug after that.
Remind me of this line from The Oatmeal: "Hug! Hug like you never hugged before!"
A rule against hugging. I can't even compute that in my mind... Hugging. 🤦♀️
@@neliaferreira9983 with COVID it makes a little more sense
@@zacharymogel9500 but this could be a story from 3 years ago but a no hug rule during covid is actually a good idea
The easiest way to get more kids in detention, ban certain things, they will most likely use/do the banned thing out of spite and they like to rebel
You can tell the supervisor in that second story was just waiting for the day that the bean counter lady would come down for a confrontation.
He's got a point, though, you buy cheap tools and they fall apart on you. You have to spend more if you want quality, otherwise in a shop where tools are being used heavily, you're going to piss more money away buying cheap Chinese crap that breaks, and that's also going to cost productivity. But bean counters can't understand that, only "why pay $50 for this tool when you can get the same thing for $20?
@@dx1450 Well then, they're not very good bean counters.
In fifth grade, we were treated very harshly as for we were preparing for 6th graders. In our 7th block (science class), we had to answer a question about our lesson to leave. One day, I got tired of this routine because I would always get called on last because of my lack of socializing skills. So the teacher said whoever answers this question gets to leave. So I threw a pen across the room. She asked who threw that. And I said, "Me! Now I can go!"
Story not mine
absolute madlad. respect.
Teacher: Wait, that's illegal.
Pure comedic genius.
u r an absolute genius
We need more people like you
Is it just me or some school admins are just there to be a pain in the a**?Or are always in their office and dont know their students at all
Probably both. If course, it's always the stuff that stands out from the norm that you hear about
Both
It's almost like those administrators were taught in a sucky school system and are just perpetuating the poor solutions they learned in that faulty structure instead of innovating new ones because they never learned how...🤔
@@Iwasonceanonionwithnolayers my school had that problem, even though the teachers were great at their job. The rules they created were asinine but the teachers knew that and never enforced them; also helps they lost face to the superintendent when they were asked how they teach critical thinking, didn't have an answer, and the teachers for the various sciences answered instead (the irony there was golden)
Becuase thats exactly what they are
Was I the only one that wasn’t aloud to fight back at school? Like if we were attacked we where told we couldn’t fight back or we (the person protecting themselves) would get suspended.
I remember one time a girl tried fighting me because she thought I snitched on her... I got the same punishment as her. All I did was push her away from me, she broke my nose, dragged me to the ground by my hair, almost suffocated me, and punched me multiple times in multiple places. Yet despite the fact that she BROKE my nose and all I did I was push her away (because that shit hurt) we got the same punishment.
Once in elementary school, I was playing with a girl and her friends at recess. I forget what they were doing, but her friends started pulling on her hoodie. She said she couldn't breathe, so I tried to unzip her hoodie to help her. I got in trouble.
Zero tolerance is actually pretty common for schools.
Free advice: Since you're going to get in trouble at school for being bullied, you might as well fight back. Most parents aren't going to pile on the punishment if their children are defending themselves.
Some similar bs happened to my nephew. He was told another kid wanted to fight him, he went to talked to the kid and got the real story. Turns out some other kids were trying to get them to fight. He and the other kid got suspended because they "were involved in the incident" even though they didn't do anything. This was not even 2 years ago.
Well whoever made up that rule is going to hell, then the devil will reject that person and they will forever wander the school in pain
I’ve been hit smack in the face with a jacket zipper, the person that hit me didn’t even get in trouble because his excuse (lie) was “he hit me first I was only defending myself plus, my friends made me do it” ......all I did was push him, and I got in trouble I was suspended and he was given a birdbuck (it was kind of a school currency for being good) FOR STANDING UP FOR HIMSELF!!!! That was my last week at that school. (Btw it was 3rd grade)
Ok so at my old school they made a rule where if you wore a shirt with words on it (usually along the lines of "do the best you can!") You had to do what it said on the shirt. Now i think you can where this is going.
One kid wore a shirt that said "never do your work" and they lifted the rule.
Idk how that kid got a shirt like that.
I would have loved that rule with my "whatever" shirt.
Its actually quite easy. On amazon you can find custom print shirts for cheap. If the kid couldn't find it in the store they probably made it on Amazon.
Then you got kids walking in with "do drugs" shirts, "your mom" shirts, and then finally "assassinate the sitting president of the United States without being detected by anyone" shirts.
Who are these adults?
That one kid with a "Be Gay Do Crimes" shirt:
My time has come
My high school in the rich suburbs of RI had a “no bathroom during class” policy for exactly a week until someone’s dad who is a lawyer sued the school department. Turns out denying girls on their cycle the chance to go to the bathroom is considered title IX discrimination 🤷🏼
As it should, because wearing a pad or tampon for too long can literally kill you. (Most common with tampons, look up Toxic Shock Syndrome)
guru sd w dulu pas 2007an kebanyakan gabolehin ke kamar mandi pas pelajaran 💀
Two stories for y'all; neither related to rules per se, but definitely applicable to the school setting.
Story 1:
My sister had a biased, egotistical douche for a teacher in HS. He showed up late often, but the classroom wasn't open until he arrived, so she and her classmates had to wait in the cold outdoors until the idiot got there. He once gave my sister a bad grade because he *disagreed* with her essay, despite the essay having good sources and writing. Not surprisingly, the class hated him. His name "Mr. Lynch" showed what the whole class wanted to do to him. He didn't hang, but my sister got together with some classmates and brought it to the principal. The principal was a cool guy and fired Mr. Lynch on the spot. I have doubts as to whether that sat well for his career, considering he had only been hired a few months before.
Story 2:
I myself also had a principal who was verbally abusive in elementary school. She was known to freak out and shout disciplinary rants at kids for reasons that didn't often require that kind of reaction. At the time, I was somewhat aggressive because I struggled with anxiety due to my autism. I forget the specific reason, but I was sent to the office. Her yelling agitated me severely, so I picked up a stapler and threw it. It hit her dead in the face, giving her a black eye that was visible for at least a week. If that wasn't karma enough for you, she later got fired for fraudulent behavior related to the school's fundraisers. Pretty sure she got arrested too.
Thanks for the stories and also yeah pretty sure that Principal had Mental issues
@@code_breaker3756 Perhaps.
Things like getting a lower grade just because your teacher won't have the same beliefs just get more common the older you get. In university/college it is horrendous., especially over in America. My friend had to write an essay. "women only make 80% the amount a man does, help fix this"(something like that). She did her essay saying women should work longer hours and be guided into more dangerous and life-threatening work. Her conclusion said that women getting paid less wasn't a problem and didn't need to be fixed because men and women have to make their own decisions in life. Her professor failed her and she appealed to the head of the department who gave it an A.
We had a sub fired because he
1. Physically fought a first grader and a preschooler
2. Didn’t really look after the kids, he would just put us outside sometimes
3. Verbally abused one of my friends in third grade because they couldn’t do the fifth grade level math that he was making us do, all in front of their mom
What happened to you after you threw the stapler?
i just remembered an old story i saw on a different site (now defunct):
a manager insisted that daily time-sheet reports be "more detailed", so one employee wrote out, in GREAT detail, exactly how much of his time was wasted by the SAME manager talking about Baseball scores, video games, etc.etc. LITERALLY HALF of what he wrote was about how much time that manager wasted on non-job activities...
that policy was terminated in a week, and i think that manager was too!
What does Defunct mean?
@@code_breaker3756 in this case, it means no longer available.
Malicious compliance, nice
@@ericb3157 which site?
@@asheep7797 is WAS called "tech support comedy".
Having a groomed or traditional haircut was suppose to be part of the dress code at the public highschool I went to. I was really into punk and emo rock at the time and thought having a mohawk was pretty cool, and it was. The administrators hated it and wanted me to cut it off and threatened to suspend or expel me over it. My mom hated my mohawk at first, but once she found out the school wanted to punish me for it, she totally had my back. We went to a meeting with the principal and she pointed out the fact that 3 of the male teachers had long hair they usually wore in ponytails and asked if they were gonna be forced to cut their hair as well. Long story short, they stopped pressing the situation and the mohawk trend is still going strong at that high school to this day 13 years after I graduated.
Moms will litterally support anything if the school is against it.
I'm a guy, and I've had long hair since I was 13. When I was applying to high school, a secretary suggested I should cut it. I was a very good student, with major accomplishments in a few competitions, so I replied: "Or maybe I should apply to a different school." She made no further comments. It was pretty satisfying.
I still hear inappropriate comments about my hairstyle from time to time. However, they always come from my bosses, and never from my patients. Apparently the latter care more about the care they receive rather than my appearance.
Mum, you know my mohawk?
Yeah, it's so stupid
The school wants to punish me for it
WHAT, PUNISH YOU FOR SUCH A BEAYTIFUL HAIRCUT
@@rivercape982
When I was in high school, my home was at the bottom of a valley, so we flooded a lot whenever there was heavy rain. Water in the living room, kitchen, garage, and laundry room. One day while in school my house starts flooding. My mom calls me out of class and tells me she's there to pick me up to help sandbag the front entry. She called the front desk and said it was an emergency. I leave class with permission from my English teacher after taking the third phone call in a row. She was understanding. I'm walking the hall still on the phone with my mom when I'm stopped by another teacher monitoring the hall. He says I needed a hall pass and I couldn't be on a phone call while wandering the halls. I try to explain. He won't hear it. I offer him the phone to talk to my mom who's still on the line. "It might be one of your friends." I offer to let him talk to my teacher. "No." I offer to let him escort me to the office. "If I'm lying, I'll gladly accept detention." Get to office. Give them my name. Sign the early release form in front of the assistant principal and the receptionist. That teacher did not bother me since.
That was very annoying...
Back In my highschool days. The principal hired his granddaughter as the School counselor. she was an excited youngwoman and continuously would yapper about wanting to make a change. she'd basically pull students into her office for any small reason and talk to them for hours about whatever. she wasn't bad but she was annoying and inconsiderate.
it was hard to tell her off, because not only is her grandpa the principle, who would give hell to anyone who gives her a hard time. but also because she was sincere and nice in her own way. despite being a constant headache, i really couldn't even be remotly mean to her.
One teacher i could be mean to however, was the statistics teacher. i hated the guy's guts. and it had nothing to do with me hating statistics. the guy was terrible at teaching, even the smart kids would complain about how they don't understand his class. he would try to be humorous and casual but comes off as uncomfortable and pushy which would make the class a test of patience for myself. but that behaviour was his good mood. when he was on his edge he'd send anyone out of class to go stand in the hallway for any trivial reason. (standing in the hall where I'm from means waiting until a prefect patrols the area, finds you, and then strike your hand with a wooden stick with all his force.)
One time, we were in his class and he was having one of his episodes. He announced a pop-quiz and he was sending kids to the board to solve equations. barely anyone contributed because as i said before *he was bad at his job.* he just sat on his chair. watching with crossed arms and a deadpan face. he had his feet on the eraser stand to take up half the space infront of the board, knowing that none of us would get that far in solving an equation that they'd need to use the other side. whenever a student failed he would shoo them towards their desk with his finger. and with the same finger, motion another student on to the board. whenever a student was about to say "i don't know how to solve this." he wouldn't even let them finish saying it. he'd cut them off mid sentence and shoo them.
i was frustrated from the enormous disrespect that i gave up going through my statistics book in hopes I'd pick up something and manage to solve. i just dropped the book on my desk and fell back. The book hit the wood with an unexpected loud bang that echoed even louder because the class was silent. the teacher was taken by surprise that his feet broke the eraser stand. he moved to look at my direction and marched towards it. while boiling he asked "who threw the book", turning to look at the opposite direction with pure hate.
i didn't want anyone to take the trouble because of me. i knew that even if no one snitched he won't let it go and would just punish the whole class. i stood up and said "Me, what'll you do about it?" he looked at me with lava shooting out of his eyes. he pulled me from my shirt and was going to throw me out. but I had enough all year and pushed him, saying "back the fuck off" (in my language). he then was gonna hit me, but i was faster and punched in the nose. he started to yell and curse in outrage. Prefects and teacher came running into class. his nose was bleeding. i thought this was it and i was to be expelled. but luckily the principal asked for the story from both of us.
After hearing from us both, he said nothing. he marched towards the white board looked at the broken eraser stand, then reached up to pull out a USB flashdrive. the school told us they'd installed cameras, but we didn't see them. so we thought it was a lie for us to behave when not watched. we watched the recording on the teacher's computer. i wasn't shown to be throwing a book like what the teacher said. but however he was shown dragging me by my shirt and trying to hit me first.
In that moment i had a lightbulb. a crazy plan that if worked would be phenomenal. i said: "no one threw a book. he's lying. he was resting his feet on the eraser stand and broke it. he tried to blame it on us, by making up a story that a book was thrown. i only said i did it because i did not want everyone to be punished. he's a horrible teacher. he always treats us like shit. and is mean and disrespectful. not to mention that no one understands anything he teaches."
The teacher was telling me to stop talking but the principal denied him and told me to go on. "ask the class. they'll tell you the same." as i had hoped. everyone hated the guy so they sided with my lie. that's when the school counsellor came in (the principal's daughter i had mentioned earlier). she suggested that the teacher is troubled and that she might be of help to that.
What happend then was, he was forced by the principle to go to his weekly appointment in her office for the rest of the year. i was moved to another statistics teacher's class (where i still didn't get shit) but atleast this lady was decent. we were separated from eachother and i was told to keep away from him.
And that's it. he didn't face consequences for anything he did. but i wasn't surprised considering the country i live in. but i was still satisfied because
1- The asshole for once faced consequences.
2- I got off with no punishment.
3- those he taught looked at me like a hero which felt good.
4- This became the highlight of my boring life. my best moment.
If you made it here, I'm sorry for the rant. i didn't mean to write a book, i just wanted to vent. i thank you for bothering to read this, and hope this was good in anyway to you.
Do you understand how important it is for a country to value individual rights?
This is so fucking immature from both sides that i cringed
Ok someone needs to make 30 minute long movie about this.
How strong are your fingers
I still wished he got fired, but at least you didn’t get in trouble.
My dads work said that they couldn’t say guys anymore while there was a woman is said group you were saying guys to. On the email explaining this, the woman boss who was enforcing this rules started the email by saying “hey guys”. She had to do a PowerPoint for everyone on why sexism against women is wrong as punishment for being “sexist”
Your dad's work has never heard of a woman addressing a group of other women as 'Guys'. In the '70s there was a comedy series in England called 'The Rag Trade'. It was about a clothes factory where the boss was male, but the workers female. There was always canned laughter when the shop-steward talked about 'The brothers.'
sexism is wrong. not just sexism against women. thats a disgusting mindset
@@twilightsparkle75 yeah, I know that, that’s just what the PowerPoint had to be on because saying “hey guys” was supposedly sexist against women
Was she the woman who made the video about how saying "hey guys" is offensive?
@@obinnanwakwue5735 no, I don’t think so, but the complaint about saying hey guys was anonymous so it could be but I doubt it
I taught at a school with the rule: Any students more than 20 mins late must do "quiet study" in the break room. This led to entire classes not bothering to turn up, because it was easier to read the coursebooks in bed than cram a few dozen students into a space for 5 and do it there.
But I was required to stay in the classroom the whole time, just in case someone turned up. So _I_ got all _my_ reading done too.
Sounds awesome. So you basically got paid to teach without having to actually teach.
I think the last response to the last comment is absolutely true. If you aren't the one doing it it's easy, but it's hard for the person that actually needs to have to deal with it.
common problem in a lot of fields. you often find it with people making changes to requirements that seem minor to them, but in actaulity require significant work on the back end to make that "tiny" change.
@@xerxeskingofking So true.
At school if we got call had to put on speaker. Guy got a call. "I am from the local hospital, I regret to inform you your mother has passed away. Can you get to the hospital". The teacher... Well did not go down well
Thats absolutely terrible D:
Did they take it away?
The teachers job. Yes. The phone no
I saw a CZcams video with a girl pranking her teacher that had a rule like this. She had a friend that was on break pretend to be an abortion clinic calling to confirm her booking for an abortion.
@@tom.bostockplease what happens next what did the teacher do
One rule I had was that we couldnt wear pants if we were girls *AT ALL* but one day it snowed and two whole classes got sick from being cold. Now we can wear normal clothes.
You were wearing normal clothes before though, just not appropriate for the situation clothes. Now you can do both.
And suddenly, every girl in the school comes in wearing nothing below the belt.
**Aneurysms ensue.**
"Well, you told us we couldn't wear pants. Also, my parents just *_might_* have called the Feds on you. Enjoy prison."
The reasons girls can't wear pants or jeans in schools is not because boys will be distracted, but the teachers will...
@@granda3649 true
Both of my schools had pants in our uniforms so there wasn't a thing like that in our schools
If you aren’t visibly bleeding you clearly aren’t having a medical emergency. The few teachers who DID enforce this regretted it every time I walked in lmao. Perks to being medically unwell all the time
There are literally more than a million ways this could go wrong, and all of them end with a lawsuit.
Someone could straight up have a stroke and that would not classify as a "medical emergency", goodluck in the lawsuit...
anytime someone says "oh this is easy, it's not worth an increase in pay or hours to add it to someone's duties" it should be added only to THEIR duties, because they have already asserted that it's easy and deserves no consideration for doing it
Sounds fair to me.
More like if they have time to make up new rules then clearly they don't have enough work to do so they can implement whatever idea that bounced into their otherwise empty noggin.
Exactly right! Greedy fux like Bezos and other CEOs that don't think their workers deserve a decent wage should be forced to do the same kind of work their employees have to do for a month. I wonder if they'd change their tune after that. Prob not because ppl like Bezos are such POS.
Our school tried to stop people from skipping class by locking the toilets after lunch was finished, literally every girl in the school be they student or teacher signed a protest and we even made the local news.
Why only the girls?
@@neliaferreira9983 periods
If I ever went to a school with zero tolerance, I’d probably have a story to share.
My middle school had zero tolerance and he got expelled because someone got three different people to attack him "we had a three strikes, your out thing going on". I felt really bad (and the kid who got expelled asked me to),so i beat up the person who got the three people to beat him up. I only got one strike even though it was horrible. I broke his nose and stomped on his face so it wasn't good. Just one strike. Sucks to suck.
@@pizzfungus6413 Do you know if the kid’s parents tried to sue the school? That *has* to be a violation of something. Even if it wasn’t they’d have a nearly guaranteed win in a court case. I know it’s pointless to dwell on past misery, but I guess I’m trying to say zero tolerance makes zero sense. In any environment.
I did, someone kicked me once and we were both suspended, I WAS LITTRALY WALKING ALONG DOING NOTHING
Zero tolerance is code for "might as well get my swings in".
I got into one school fight once and the guy hit me and I pushed him away we both got a week on ISS 6 months later some guy hit me and I just punched the shit out of him still got a week of detention🤷🏻♂️
A teacher in my high school implemented a policy where if you were late to class then you had to get a pass from the school office, no exceptions, because students began coming in later than was expected.
Keep in mind, this was an orchestra class. The philosophy of “if you arrive early, you are on time; if you arrive on time, you are late” is absolute, as it takes more time than a teacher wants for everyone to put down their bags, break out the instruments, and settle in.
The teacher did not believe many students when they explained to her that they are late because of the distance required to walk; passing period was 5 minutes, and the school is vaguely shaped like a sideways Wayside School. The corridor was a human sardine can in passing period, the T-intersection of which earning the nickname “The Suicide T,” and this regularly results in times longer than five minutes to get from _one end of the school to the other_ . She did not believe them until she attempted the walk herself during passing period, and arrived “late.”
The policy was immediately dropped.
I had a teacher last year who basically said "if you're not 15 minutes early, you're late." This was right after our hour long lunch after a 3hr long class so nobody was going to waste that 15 minutes. We never got punished.
The dress code at my school.
I grew up in a really conservative town, and the dress code at my school was as follows:
Girls were allowed to wear long-sleeve blouses, short-sleeve blouses and shirts, and sleeveless ones as long as they had a collar. They were allowed to wear pants, dresses which didn't come up farther than about an inch above the knee, shorts, and culottes. They could wear minimal jewelry, such as stud earrings and a small chain necklace. Make-up was not allowed in elementary school, and they could wear their hair just about any way they wanted _except_ for haircuts which would be traditionally considered a boy's haircut.
Boys were allowed to wear blue jeans or trousers and long sleeve shirts with collars. That's it. Long pants. Long-sleeve shirts with collars. They weren't allowed to wear any jewelry or make-up, weren't allowed to have their ears pierced, and were required to have their hair cut in one of half a dozen hairstyles shown on the "boys' haircuts" sign posted on the wall of the barbershop downtown. Their hair was not allowed to come down over their ears, nor was it allowed to touch the collars of their shirts.
And this was a problem because I lived in an area of the country where spring didn't mean temperatures in the upper seventies, maybe eighties on a hot day. It meant the temperature abruptly jumped from freezing to eighty and ninety degrees, with hundred degree days clocking in several times by the time school ended, and we had to do P.E. for an hour every day... outside... in that heat... running laps... in blue jeans and long-sleeve shirts.
There is not a deodorant in this world that could get rid of the stink emanating from the boys after P.E.
The teachers were quite mean about it. They'd regularly decide after P.E. was over that the boys weren't allowed to get a drink of water, to punish them for being so smelly. The girls didn't smell like that. Why didn't the boys learn to be more like them?
Because all the girls were running around in shorts and nearly sheer sleeveless shirts, not heavy denim and long-sleeve cotton shirts with starched collars on them. Duh. But they held it against us, nonetheless.
So we'd all have to go back to class, where the boys would sit, panting and trying desperately to work up some sort of moisture in their mouths, and that's when we passively took revenge, because that's when the trapped sweat _really_ started to smell. Pit stank... crotch stank... crack stank... all of them mixing together to fill the room with...
Well, have you ever been to a slaughterhouse? Try to imagine someone running a slaughterhouse inside a locker room that hasn't been cleaned in a month, and you'll get pretty close.
It was enough to make you gag if you were anything other than one of the boys producing the smell. Our teachers would open the windows, but it didn't really help. They spent every spring afternoon looking green at the gills, like they were on the edge of passing out from the smell, complaining about the stench, but no matter how much they suffered, the school never changed its dress code.
damn
@Pastel_doesdances -- Nah. I type about 120 words per minute. That's probably around five hundred words, so it took me four or five minutes.
Besides, I'm used to writing novels, so I don't really notice writing anything that short.
@Pastel_doesdances -- Yeah, but I've gone through a proper course to become a typist, which is about a two-year-long process involving pounding away on an actual typewriter day and night, rather than using a computer keyboard.
It's a lot more difficult to find those courses these days than it was when I was a kid.
Is that still the policy at that school? I can imagine some poor kid passing out from heat exhaustion after PE and NOT being allowed to drink water...
@@lazarushernandez5827 -- God only knows. I left home, and that town, when I was fifteen, and haven't been back to either one since.
Prime examples of
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it's broke, make damn sure you do it right and don't make more breaks you gotta fix."
At my school, the first day of 7th grade they introduced a new rule in my history class (just this teacher) that you couldn’t use I’m having a feminine issue as an excuse to leave. He would make you tell everyone what you were actually going to do. Let me be clear: this teacher was male. He only knew stuff about history. And he didn’t know what the phrase meant.
A girl came to him who was absent the day he had introduced the rule (it was like the 2nd or 3rd day of school when he told us I don’t remember), and she used that excuse. He proceeded to make a big scene out of it and made her stand at the front and had her say it very clearly what she was actually going to do. She proceeded to provide a more detailed description than necessary. She avoided naming the specific body parts but still made it more detailed than needed. The class went silent, the boys mainly in shock if they weren’t holding back laughter, and the girls just surprised by her answer. The teachers face went white. After about 30 seconds he meekly said “oh ok ms.____ you may use the restroom…” she said thank you, and left. Class continued, but he always stayed true to the rule, each girl using more graphic descriptions that the last until history became health class if you had your period. It was quite interesting to watch, but I chose not to participate. He pretended the rule didn’t exist and never did after the first two weeks but girls still were very loud when explaining to him what they were going to do. The majority of the boys brought it up during group work and got in giggling fits when talking about it. Most girls would come up with plans for then next “strike”. 7th grade was nice i guess
Oh my god, that's hilarious. He got what was coming to him, that's for sure!
I take he’s never been living with a woman before. But he got what was coming!
Its a long story:
It was in 4th grade my teacher Ms. Caffy give us surprise test and laid down her ground rules "No talking, No cheating, No making loud noises and etc". The test was easy for me because it was math. So I finish my test first, give it to her and she give me another one so I can still be preoccupied. I finished that one she give me another one and so on and so forth. (it kept going until I finished my fifth page).So she got pissed off at me and then she told me "Go help the others who is lacking on their test because there is only 15 min left for class". I ask her "Are you sure about that?" then I turn and count the amount of heads I saw in class it was 24 students plus me so it 25. She also reminded me about her rules. I told her "it wouldn't be possible to help 24 students without talking and in 15 mins". She replied with " I know you smart aleck that is why I wanna see what your gonna do?" (At my school there is always a sub teacher sits in a dark corner in class just there to help out. idk if yall elementary school also does that?) Ms. Pringles the sub teach heard what was going on and asked if I need help. I told her kindly "no I got this under control". So what I did is I asked for my test papers back and wrote every single answer on the chalk board. Ms. Caffy said that I couldn't do that that's called cheating. I replied with " No its not, remember you give me permission to help the other 24 students with out speaking, so I'm writing on the board so everyone could see the answers and they can write it down within the rest 10 mins of class then the rest of 5 min they can spend packing up. Also your the type of teacher that complains of how much work you got to do *cough cough* your fault * cough cough* and complains more about every student low scores. Also I keep the work for all of us smooth and steady. Finally I just wanna go home to sleep and not clock in over time for this." With all that said Ms. Caffy was trying to find another to let me stop I was doing and erase the work but Ms. Pringles told her (Something like the meme we have now) No no he does got a point there. So that day I knock down a lot of birds with one stone.
I love this
@Diamond Frieza I have never met a teacher like this. It must be a regional thing.
@Diamond Frieza Not all teachers, but unfortunately it's a thing.
@Diamond Frieza not all though.
I love that lmao
At my first base, ca. 2003, we got a shop chief that was a jerkball to everyone. He made a rule that we couldn't spend the whole day sitting around the shop. So we'd show up, do vehicle checks, then go out to the flightline, and wait for calls.
Then he decided we were spending too much time out on the flightline and not enough time in the shop (apparently his supervisor and the other shop chiefs didn't like the idea that we were hanging out on the flightline in the work trucks). So he made a rule that we couldn't spend all day on the flightline; so for the following week, unable to be on the flightline and unable to use our own shop,, we sat in a storage container in the parking lot with our radios, waiting for calls. When he flip-flopped back to letting us use our shop again (which we as the junior airmen cleaned & sweeped everyday and mopped 3x a week), he made a rule that we couldn't talk about anything AF-related. Your plans this weekend? Couldn't talk about that. The new car you just bought? Couldn't talk about that. But he'd come in and say, "How about that ball game last night?" Well, we COULDN'T discuss that with him.
That rule lasted until:
Shop chief: [walks in door]"Morning, everyone."
Us: [Silence. ]
Shop chief: (annoyed) "I said, GOOD MORNING. How's everyone doing?"
Ranking E4 in the shop: "I'm afraid neither the morning's condition nor ours is Air Force related, therefore, per your directive, we're not allowed to talk about that." (Returns to reading some tech data we were supposed to keep abreast of.)
Next day, shop-wide email came down relaxing the rule, but at the same time, we had to "maintain an atmosphere in-shop consistent with AF professionalism".
And that's how we broke a sullen, 11-year E7 with the silent treatment.
That's amazing, I love you and your coworkers.
My Air Force dad at Tan Son Nhut during the Vietnam warcrime. He had a new Lieutenant start to interfere with him and his crews' maintenance operations. One day my dad found that some large towed equipment he needed to hook up to newly arrived aircraft were not where they were normally--they were nowhere to be found. As my dad and his crew were looking for said equipment, the Lieutenant came out to the flight line and proudly announced that he had moved them, as per regs, to some fenced in area nearly behind the hangars, far away from the aircraft that they were for.
My dad told the Lieutenant to get off HIS flight line, stay off HIS flight line, and if he ever saw him again on HIS flight line, he'd pound the Lieutenant into pulp where he found him.
The Lieutenant tried to bring charges against my dad. The Colonel asked my dad if he'd told the Lieutenant to stay off HIS flight line. My dad answered in the affirmative. The Colonel then asked the Lieutenant if my dad had asked him to stay off HIS flight line. The Lieutenant answered in the affirmative. The Colonel then told the Lieutenant, _"Then you better stay off HIS flight line."_
Seems the Colonel did not like Butter-bars interfering with his Best in Country maintenance and turn around track record.
The Lieutenant avoided the flight line and my dad the rest of my dad's months in Vietnam.
When I was in 4th a weird rule was performed, which was "no phones in certain rooms" policy. Once when I got a phone call from my mom a supervisor (a really anoying lady) took it from me, started yelling at me for being a brat etc. while my mom was still on the call and heard all of it. When she noticed that the call was still going, she quickly tried to stop it and accidentally dropped my phone and broke it. It was old nokia so it was kinda surprising that it actually broke. After my mom came to school she yelled at her for being rude to me. The supervisor didn't like me much and sometimes she didn't let me leave for the bus and I couldn't get home (that's why I got a phone in 2nd grade).
Had a particular class whose teacher marked tardiness as "absent." When my mother got a call at work from the office demanding to know why I (honors student) was skipping class and the office worker was quite rude as well, my mom went into avenging mama bear mode, went off on the woman, left work and came to the school, forced the office staff to follow her to my class to prove that I was indeed in class, and proceeded to tell that teacher what exactly she thought of that policy, the school staff, and that she would certainly be attending the next school board meeting. That rule was changed after the weekend.
It was never lost on me that the stupidest rules I ever had to deal with came from the institutions that were supposed to be educating us.
"can't say no"
Robber: give me all the money in the registers and act like nothing happened
Employee: ok sir it shall be done right away *smiles*
*Confused robber face*
This can also be construed as the employer soliciting prostitution.
How the frick thinks it's a good idea to mess up with YOUR OWN PLANE?! A car already can easily kill you, a vehicle flying on the air clearly will have an easier time to do so, especiall when a part blows up
Ikr man, when a tool slipped into my motorcycle, I already freaked out because I was afraid it could damage the vehicle or harmed me when I used it.
Luckily, I found it and managed to take it out.
Eh, statistically, cars are way more likely to kill you, but when it comes to malfunctions, an airplane is much more deadly.
@@jonathanh.2483 technically, this is largely in part to the fact that we are around cars more often than planes
@@alexanderthegreat6682 indeed
I was half expecting that story to result in the death of the family mid flight. They're lucky as sin that they only had the accident on the ground when the engine failure had limited consequences compared to being in mid flight with only more air beneath you, or worse during LANDING.
My bosses asked me why it took me 40 minutes to make a silk screen, when another worker only took 20 minutes. I told them it was because he was doing it wrong. My screens lasted three weeks, his lasted only one week. I told them that something that cost twice as much but lasts three times as long is a bargain. They didn't get it. They couldn't handle the math. All they knew was that it took me 40 minutes when it only took the other guy 20. They went out of business shortly thereafter.
A classmate was talking with others and was not focusing on what the teacher is saying. Turns out he forgot to bring the book of that subject. Teacher told him to write "I will not forget to bring my book" 15 times.
My guy took 5 pens and held them together vertically so he could write 5 lines at once. He wrote them in like 10 secs and when he showed it to the teacher her jaw dropped.
That kid is going places.
That is pro-gamer move. I would've give him extra points for creativity.
I did that once
I'm surprised he would be able to write legibly while doing that.
I had a friend who got dress-coded for wearing leggings even though she had them on under a skirt. Apparently wearing the skirt over bare legs was a-okay though, which is exactly what she did.
My school had a policy regarding suspension, stating that when the suspension started, no school activities could be attended by the suspended student until it was over. When I got suspended (spit on the shirt of an older student who kept tackling me during no contact la crosse game, he whipped the stick right into my temple, no suspension for him...), my suspension was to start the next day, and I was allowed to go back to class, since I didn't cause any physical damage to the other student.
Well, I had a school activity that night (band trip to watch the state university concert), and I went. The principal called the teacher, and I read him the school's policy. We were hours away, so I couldn't go back, and the principal told the teacher to keep an eye on me, which he did at the mall beforehand, but he let me sit with friends at the concert (He knew me well, as he did with all the students in the band, one of my favorite teachers, especially considering this story). My suspension was one day, the day after the concert before the weekend, so I got to sleep in. My mother asked who the kid was (bullied me for years, enough said) and she said that I could have done worse to him, and was glad for my restraint. I did housework all that day, and didn't fall behind in classes.
Thanks for reading, hope you have a great day! 😊
I worked in a cleanroom where you had to “gown up” shoe covers, hair net, facial hair net, hood, polyester coverall suit with boots and gloves. The owner had gotten away with a rule where you had to gown up first, get to your station, then clock in. That stopped when I started there and showed the employees and supervisors that you need to be paid for that time you spent gowning up and backed by many class action lawsuits. That rule ended. So another was implemented. You needed to put your lunch away in the fridge and use the bathroom in the morning on your own time. So clock in, gown up and get to your station was the new rule. If you were late by 3 minutes clocking in you were written up. So if you we’re running a bit late which sometimes happens you encounter a line at the station where you punched in. So instead of wasting 5 minutes of the company time it became 15-20 minutes of wasting company time because you cannot restrict an employee from ever using the bathroom or getting water. So people would leave their lunches in coolers and leave them in the hallway where the punch in station was, punch in, gown up, go to their station, turn right back around to un-gown, go to the bathroom, go back re-gown then, start the day. It takes a minimum of 5-10 minutes gowning up depending on what clean-room you were going to. That rule stopped as well. Then they cancelled the last 15 minute break at the end of the day because the rule from OSHA was you needed to work 8 hours to get 2-15 minute break and a 30 minutes unpaid lunch. So the owner figured you were technically there for only 7-1/2 so he got rid of second break. Illegal, I quit after that and called OSHA. Funny thing is he had that rule printed on paper and posted at every employee entrance and the gowning area. He was a penny pinching, Mercedes driving, arrogant prick and got screwed by OSHA for it.
Janitor. One guy took lunch too early and somehow the manager found out. Technically you have to call in a report when you are taking either of your two breaks or lunch over the radio. So our manager thought to enforce that rule and...
Well, no one took it seriously. But I'm not one to get in trouble, so halfway through our ten minute break I called in. Our manager stated he was on channel (basically a 'I'm here check'), and I said I was on break, and he said have a good break.
Then the next guy called in. The manager said he was on channel, the guy said he was on break, the manager said have a good break.
... Then the next guy did the same, and the next, and the next. All our eighteen janitors on staff reported their break. We did this for our lunch too and for our last break.
Five minutes, three times a day of just acknowledging breaks might not seem like too much, but for a manager? We did it for two more days, I think mostly for kicks.
I don't even dislike our manager for having done that, but there was no way to... Explain, why his decision wasn't going to work. So instead I just complied.
Sounds like a sturdy back fire to me
Here’s mine. Work in a grocery store. We’re not allowed to have drinks or open food in our departments (I work cold deli) two days ago the store manager walked into the butcher department with a take ten of timmies and a 12 pack of donuts. Yea. Thank god there’s a Starbucks at the store
thank goddd
"Sorry , Store Manager; I had to throw away all of the open product in the deli cases due to contamination from your donuts. I called Corporate to report, as per company policy. Here's the bill for $10,000."
"!"
@@Lycanthromancer1 HAWHAWHAWHAW
Oh my god, I'd be in tears
My primary school banned pokemon cards when they were a fad. The reasoning was demonstrated by a role played example, where one teacher 'lent' his CREDIT CARD to another teacher, and then the other teacher refused to give it back.
Lol
I don't quite see how that backfired. It's a role play demonstrating that there's potential for arguments and fights about the cards. Like you showing your cards to someone and them not returning it then, thus resulting in a fight. Or lending a deck to play and it not being returned or cards missing.
I doubt the teacher actually refused to give it back. They were also banned in my primary school for various reasons. One reason being exactly that. There were countless people complaining about trades not being trades but just showing them to the other and then not getting their cards back (who knows whether they just didn't want to trade anymore afterward but that's beside the point).
Though it wasn't the only reason. People traded them during class, were late because they weren't finished with the game, and so on. But I also remember people getting into fights periodically because of allegedly damaging cards, stealing them, or because someone lost a game and betted a card they didn't want to lose.
The problem with some of these fads was their extreme potential for conflict. Especially in primary/elementary school where kids get into fights for weird reasons and then become best friends an hour later. Retrospectively, I understood the teachers. It was really becoming a problem. Parents called the teachers because their kids came home crying about lost or damaged cards (they are easy to damage after all), the emotions were hard to control at times and some people felt left out because their parents couldn't afford it but no one wanted to play with them anymore because they were busy with the cards.
It went so far that they eventually forbid toys to be taken to school except for small plushies. As someone who was never involved in any drama despite being an active part of the Pokémon fad, I was pretty upset when they did that but thinking back on it and working in a school made me think that sometimes, it's good to control these new fads.
Our school provided enough entertainment for breaks like balls for all manner of sports, ropes for jumping, a whole playground, even chalk for drawing on the pavement so an understandable argument was that there were enough means to enjoy themselves alone or in groups and won't need toys from home.
Toys just get broken easily at times, especially in that age group. And it's honestly a huge ordeal dealing with the parents on top.
Yeah, Pokemon cards were completely banned from my Primary School. I'm not completely sure why they banned them, maybe because people could scam others through trading them.
That example, despite a rather bit of flanderization, actually sounds pretty similar to a good chunk of trader bad times at the time though. Some kid trades a super rare card for a buncha duds, buyer's remorse kicks in, try to trade back and it leads to at least 'will not!' 'will toos!' and at worst a fistfight. Many of the schools that actually banned it was mostly tired of breaking up the fights.
@@Merilly too long didnt read, but your initial point was right. In my school, this kid was showing his pokemon cards, and another kid slapped them out of his hand. The owner of the cards was devastated, he had a holo scyther and it got damaged. It was probably his most valued possession (he was a poor white kid, just like kenny from south park) the guy cried the whole class even though the other kid apologized.
My principle demanded that men shaved, such a ridiculous rule for maturing young men.
Isnt that against the law you cant force people to do things to there body without their consent
Just shave the balls and goes with a beard and let the motion play
That was rule in our school too. No beards were allowed, not even small ones.
Wasn't expecting to see you here, love your vids man 😊
Same here. I was told multiple times to shave by a teacher who ironically had probably the biggest beard in the school
New principal at the school I work at a few years ago tried to implement a new dress code for teachers and students. She was trying to basically turn our public school into a private school. Well, you can imagine how the students reacted, but the teachers, being more wise, began looking at the contract carefully. She disliked the whole "dress down Friday" thing we had going on, though really it was all of us wearing school gear and jeans on Fridays. In the contract, there was a bit about dress code but within that was a single, very powerful, exception. It was stated that while we were to dress professionally every school day, there was a snippet that said if we were wearing school gear, we could not be penalized as long as it was appropriate. School shirt/pants sales went through the roof during this time period. We all purchased t-shirts/sweatshirts and some purchased sweatpants. We then began to wear the school gear every single day as opposed to just "dress down Fridays." Teachers couldn't wear jeans anymore, but they got to wear comfy sweatpants! She couldn't penalize anyone for it because of the exception in the contract, and as such, the Board of Ed would not back her up. Even now, I only wear school gear to school, as do other teachers. That part of the contract isn't being changed anytime soon either. After a little over a year, she was "told to resign."
I'm surprised her rule didn't get her promoted or at least get a raise given how it massively raised school gear sales.
My middle school had a rule against strapless tops, so one girl who didn't give a shit wore a strapless top, and when she was dress coded and told to change she stapled duck tape onto her shirt to make straps lol it was great and she was a legend. There was also a rule against shorts above mid-thigh. Eventually people started protesting it cuz the rule was clearly unfair against girls, and a bunch of boys joined the movement and rolled their shorts up to be above mid thigh in order to make a point. I never heard of any of the boys who did that being dress coded
Also a rule against PDA--my bff and I (both female) would hug and sit on top of each other ALL the time, no consequence at all for us. In fact, the principal literally stopped and had a nice conversation with us at lunch one day while we were sitting on top of each other. Our two guy friends, however, were immediately PDA'd at lunch when they were sitting on top of each other. You'd think the heart of liberal California would have gotten rid of these kinds of sexist rules/enforcements long ago but nope
Years ago I worked for a company that implemented a rule if she said if you was going to be sick you would have to give a two-day notice prior to being sick that didn't go over very well needless to say.
What kind of brain dead idiot thought this was a good idea for over 5 seconds ?
"Dang it, I can't have the flu now, I'll schedule it for next week." ???
Old school I went to had a rule that you had to wear your school uniform during gym, no matter how hot it was. This meant girls had to wear thick skirts whilst running laps, and boys had to wear long pants whilst running laps. Well, we had two uniforms: A short sleeve and a long sleeve version. There was also no rule that boys had to wear the long pants, the rule was “Females must wear khaki or navy skirts that fall 2 inches above the knee, pants are an *option* for male students.” Our grade set up a day where the girls went with the long sleeve shirts (In 102° F) and khaki pants, the boys went with the long sleeve shirts and navy skirts. A non-binary friend of mine wanted to participate, and went with both: Khaki pants with a navy skirt layered over, as well as the long sleeve shirt. The teachers couldn’t punish the boys, however all the girls were given lunch detention. We continued doing this for around a week, until the rule was changed.
The school a friend of mine went to had a very strict only 1 uniform per person.
But there was this other rule, which stablished that you could only come to school with a clean uniform. No stains, no nothing.
Needless to say, when everyone started to miss school because half of the parents can barely affort to clean their kids' clothes that fast, both rules were lifted.
The ones where they try to dictate who people hang out with on their free time is just weird 😅 They just don't have that right, you're not paying them for that time
"Why do *_all of you_* have 128 hours of overtime this week?"
"You're dictating what we're allowed to do while not in the building. That means it's work. Since your rules apply 24/7, we get paid 24/7."
"You can't do that!"
"Federal and state laws disagree."
"...Shit."
they are really desperate to stop employees from unionizing and otherwise united against the boss
@@ariadne0w1 all the more reason to unionize ✊
@@Fantallana VIVA LA REVOLUTION
My geometry teacher had a rule where you just have to know how to apply the concepts not memorize what they are. So she would right the formulas on the whiteboard for the tests. Well she also had a rule where you could do anything in class as long as it didn’t cause a disturbance. So we would exploit this in class. Every day we were on our phones listening to music or playing video games and we all had good grades because everything was written on the whiteboard. The rule never changed and this continued for the whole year
Before I start this story I am a girl who has been told the story as this isn’t happening to me
So my school had rules for the football players that you can’t have your shirt off (for boys even if it’s hot outside or football game) and one day it was like 106° outside and this kid was sweating majorly. They took a break for a few minutes and during that time he went to the showers and shirt then cooled off with water. While his shirt was sweaty and made him hot he didn’t wanna put it on til he had to. So he was leaving while his shirt was off and the gym coach (male) saw. He told the kid to put his shirt on while the kid tried to reason with him for a minute. When the kid didn’t put his shirt on the gym coach took the kid and slammed him into the lockers back and forth. Next year the boys got to leave without their shirts as long as it’s very hot and during a sports game but before they get to where the game is happening they have to put it back on. (There’s a really really really long hallway that’s like 5 minutes to run and we have a baseball field, gym for baseball and a long grass area that was usually marked for football. Oh and the teacher got fired and sent to jail. Good for him, never liked him anyways lmao
The story at 21:00 reminded me of my college.
Half way through my first year they banned any website to do with games to prevent kids from slacking off and playing games during class. However, they didn't just ban websites to play games on - anything that mentioned games, discussed them or had it in the website name was blocked. You couldn't even search anything to do with games.
My course was video game development.
For a couple of days we couldn't do any work that required us to look up anything on the Internet, until our tutor managed to convince the people in charge to reverse the block.
I had put in for vacation time for two weekends in a row 3 months in advance and had it approved because I had a theater production and the performances were happening. My boss called me in a month before the vacation time was supposed to be granted and told me I was to instead work every day of the weeks in question because we were shortstaffed after he fired half of my shift a week prior because he found out that they smoked Marijuana in their freetime.
After I told him there was no way I could give up my vacation, he told me he would fire me if I didn't give it up, so I gave him my 2 week notice on the spot and had both entire weeks for practicing my hobby and giving a great performance. I had spent the next day after giving my notice filling out applications and had a brand new job with a much more OSHA and USDA compliant policies lined up to start the next day after the final performance.
Note: I actually went back to work for that for company after the manager was removed and replaced. They also paid me 6 dollars more than when I left because I still knew my stuff and the new manager realized I was basically a second supervisor. Young people, know. Your. Worth.
High school,1993-1997.
Height of the spur posse and trench coat mafia.
Could not wear trench coats or san antonio anything.
Whole school wore leather dusters,and even the cool staff would greet everyone with.ALAMO!!
I’ve commented this on a video of the same premise before but it’s priceless: My High school had an “anti-bullying day.” Now by that point we didn’t have bullies, just some people who liked to be immature and annoying. Those people began lightly slapping each other and whining “ow, hey it’s anti bullying day” which would prompt more slapping. One of the bigger kids even grabbed the class troublemaker and started whipping him in a circle while everyone watched and laughed. TLDR: the Anti-bullying day inspired people who weren’t otherwise bullies to start bullying each other.
Wow what and irony.
3:40 "back in the early zeros" I'm gonna start using that
Have fun confusing people
oooo same i love chaos and i just... wont explain :3
"Everything is the easiest thing in the world for the guy who doesn't have to do it."
"The secret to a good command is to do every job at least once." - Col. Jack O'Neill, USAF
Back in high school an interim super intendant made a rule that late work had to be taken for full credit until the end of the term.
A friend of mine had a competition of who could procrastinate the most and went from A to F until the end lol. The funniest part was when a serious school girl I was friends with has the first out burst of her life (but so justifiable she got into no trouble lol) when she stood up in her desk slammed her hands down and yelled at the english teacher "they turned in that paper 3 months late, why should they get a better grade then me." I poured fuel on that fire by telling the class while laughing "well we had 3 months more lessons than you and Mrs. Fakeler had to take it for full credit"
The teachers actually had to start issueimg rewards and threats to get homework done.
The airplane one totally baffles me. This guy knowingly put his entire family at risk
next jobs i get if i get a "always say yes no exeptions" policy, if we get robbed, ill just give it to them like they buoght it. like, if i work at mcdonald,
"hey give me you money"
"ok, anything else sir?"
"??"
That's actually what you're supposed to do in a robbery. Just calmly do whatever they say. It's better you hand over the cash, instead of getting shot. Catching and stopping them is the police's job, not yours.
@@renakunisaki yea i was making a joke ;-;
@@renakunisaki There are places that will fire you (or treat you horribly until you quit, more like) for not laying down your life for their money.
@@Lycanthromancer1 There was an arcade that I worked for that had that same policy.
"Yeah, can I get a Quarter Pounder?"
I’m a teacher myself. Most of these attempts at (what essentially amounts to) crowd control are ridiculous. If I was called in for a meeting and had to leave work to talk to the principal about my child not walking the right direction, it would not be a pleasant meeting and my child would be rewarded with ice cream.
How to be a teacher (grade 1 to 7): Try to be the coolest. Don't get mad easily, and consider they're just kids. Students will hate you and try everything not to go to your class, and won't learn anything if they don't feel comfortable. Some of my old teachers would treat us like their kids, but like if she adopted us (all cool and comfy at the start, more friendly, relatable and funny on the halfway through). That really made us comfortable with them and we all got A+, or at least A.
My school gave everyone big ass long-sleeved shirts about the food pyramid to celebrate something (can't remember what), one kid took hers off, got punished in front of everyone and made fun of by the teachers.
having these in the background while playing ark survival on my ps5 is the life.
ok I didn't expect people to be mad XD. I just mean it's relaxing to have stories in the background while playing games.
NOBODY CARES
@@lazarusrex5015 Imao why u mad. Just saying it was relaxing XD
@@lazarusrex5015 U honestly shouldn't be talking, you have an Xbox XD
@@tokyo-rampage5602 I do and it didn't cost 1000 bucks. Also, sorry I'm a changed man. I was pissed and took it out on you. I'm.sorry.
@@lazarusrex5015 wha?
15:33 if my school did that, student would either riot, or start would’ve started purposely wetting themselves every day to prove a point, and I would’ve told everyone who’d listen that my school didn’t allow students to use the bathroom at all. It would make headlines and either the school would be shut down or the rule changed.
Dumbest rule at my workplace was probably the bathroom switch. So, basically I worked at this enormous outdoors complex, and they had maybe 9 shower houses/bathroom buildings. Six of which were split down the middle so one half was adults male/female and the other side was youth of the same gender(?) or something along those lines. One was male staff only, one was made of individual lockable rooms so anyone could use it, and the last one was in the rec building, so normal building guy and gal restrooms. There are no female staff only showers/toilets, and staff can't use the participant buildings(7 out of the nine), and the female staff only had access to 1.
Basically, one week the folks in charge of the rec building decide to switch the restrooms around so women had to use the men's room and vice versa. They had signs on the door with something cute like "the male/female staff ratio is 4/1 but male/female toilets don't reflect those numbers!" There was 1 stall in the guy's bathroom and everything else was urinals, which were roped off. Last I checked, women can't use urinals. On my way through the mess hall I literally didn't hear a single conversation that wasn't about the bathroom switch. Even all the guys were either entirely against it, or indifferent.
When I next got days off, the signs were gone and the restrooms were normal. But man, that was a weird week.
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At the beginning of my school year, we had the same thing. That one can only follow the arrows sprayed in the floor. And couldn't go against those arrows. If you passed your building, too bad. Take the necessary arrows to go around and come back. While teachers were at every corner. It was like that for like 3 months, until so many students were breaking the rule at once, they just gave up and let us do our thing. I mean. Not even THEM were following the rules.
My high school tried the wearing your ID policy starting mid year. The entire student body refused to use them. As a result they announced they would hold mass in school suspension for anyone who refused to use them the following day. While in there we would not be allowed to talk or do anything just sit there quietly for 8 hours(so they could punish you by refusing to teach you but still get their money because we were in school). Let's just say parents werent happy they get rid of the rule and no one got in trouble. They now have the same policy but it requires them to wear it during school hours on and off campus to if someone gets upset with a student theyvcan call and the school can punish them because the random stranger has their full name.
The same school also implemented a standard test to sophomore and freshman but not juniors or seniors that you had to pass in order to graduate. If you had the credits but failed that test you would be held back until you passed. Needless to say everyone refused to do anything other than write their name and an explanation on why this was stupid and wrong. The next year the test was magically gone. We did find out some parents got lawyers involved about its legality considering it was the school and not the district or state.
I remember there was a rule about not going to the bathroom during class hours and you had to go between the 5 minutes between class. I remember that ban got lifted when a girl told the teacher she came to class to ask her friend for a pad. The teacher said no and she literally swapped pads in class and threw it at the teacher. It was one hellish of a day
At Hogwarts (5th year), professor Umbridge made a rule about how teachers are banned from giving info that isn't related to the subject but Lee Jordan pointed out to umbridge that by the terms of the new rule she wasn't allowed to tell the weasley twins off for playing exploding snap since it isn't related to her subject
Yes, this is true, I love how well that backfired, she couldn't tell anyone anything unless it's related to defense against the dark arts
Isn't there a better example of rules backfiring in that book
@@mrcat4508 idk, it's been a while since I've read it...
@@mrcat4508 there is, and that was when Harry left her to her fate as a centaur punching bah
“Up the Down Staircase” is a great story (book and movie options). My dad talked about it all the time as a teacher in a school that tried “up only” and “down only” staircases. I suspect this idea is behind why my dad loved going in exits and out entrances at stores. Glad my school did the “walk on the right” policy for hallways and stairs.
The first one was absolute bullshit. Right off the bat I knew how it would end, with the lady getting mugged and everything. The company is lucky that she didn’t get full on assaulted or killed, otherwise there would have been no one else to blame but them, and boy would they have been in some deep shit for compensation payment
The school tried a system where classes and lunch groups were sort into things like height, age, club and school house.
I was year 7 5,1 I believe (I'm definitely wrong... Maybe) in no clubs and my house was the last to get school meals. I realized quickly that if I use my extremely small structure to my advantage is get lead on the (disadvantaged) system, basically if you had a disability or could be sustepcted with real reason to have one you essentially get the Disney fast past. People were always confused on the the smallest kid in school in the youngest year in the last house was getting the best food the school had to offer. Being a small kid being suspected of ADHE was cool. clearly didn't help my story telling skill though jeez this was a bad explanation
It was a good story, and it appears I have witnessed a rare sight, the rare British weeabo. How lucky am I?
@@alexanderthegreat6682 I rare sight indeed... they went extinct decades ago. Or so I thought.
do you mean adhd?
@@alexanderthegreat6682 indeed like the great bustard for which was thought all but mythical my species shall become a story of fact not fiction
@@aspwillow yup
And children, this is why I hate school and would rather be homeschooled for the rest of my life ✨
Not really a backfire, but my school had a policy that shirts had to be tucked in for decades. Class of 2009 was so ignorant of the rule they got rid of it by my sophomore year. They outright told us we were so bad that’s why they got rid of it.
At my old school, someone came to school wearing a shirt with a gun on it. They took him to the principal office to talk about it, and then the kid pointed out that the mascot had a gun, so why couldn’t he. About a week later the ENTIRE DISTRICT had to change there mascot lol
I worked at a Goodwill in a somewhat rural area. Apparently it was becoming a thing in some Goodwill stores to sort the clothes by color rather than by size. Our regional managers decided we were going to try this. I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever heard of. Who wants to look through ALL of the clothes on ALL of the racks instead of looking through just the clothes in your size? Our customers HATED it. They complained incessantly. We told them to call corporate because we thought it was stupid, too. We even gave them the number. Corporate got so many calls that they came back and told us we were no longer allowed to tell customers to call corporate about the color sorting because it wasn't going to change. Although it did last longer than I expected it would, they eventually switched back to sizing the clothes because the customers just didn't want to shop by rainbow.
Lol...my local Goodwill sorts the clothes by size AND color. So for example...all medium turquoise short sleeve tops go together on the rack...all large turquoise short sleeve tops go together on the rack after the medium turquoise tops...and so forth. Not sure why your Goodwill store couldn't figure out they should just do that lol!!!!
My school doesn’t allow anyone inside the school or out when a shooting is nearby (pretty normal) a few weeks ago no one in the school new we were in lockdown, not even the teachers. I was late by a few minutes so I went through the main office with about 4 other kids. It was locked and the woman inside said we were in lockdown and couldn’t let us in. I texted my friend confirming this and she said that no one knew. My admin then came outside to the main entrance where the woman was and opened the door for us. I walked in and said “it’s pretty sad that you would rather let us stay outside where a shooter could easily kill us instead of letting us inside” now every time I see her she gives me a look.
She did let you in though.
For years high school post-prom handed out commemorative champagne glasses. PTA said that wasn't allowed, as it encouraged underaged drinking. So the post-prom committee handed out commemorative beer steins. Next year was back to champagne glasses.
How would one way elevators work? They would still need to go back down to pick up the next group of people.
That’s the joke.
@@Salnax Oh, sometimes it's hard to tell since the robot voice doesn't have any inflection
The punchline in the book they mentioned (actually there are multiple _Wayside School_ books) said the elevators worked perfectly _once,_ and not at all after.
@@awfuldynne YOOOOO I REMEMBER THAT
Alternatively, there used to be something called a pater noster lift that is basically the elevator equivalent of a chainsaw. My modern standards, they are quite dangerous and are definitely not ADA complient
My engineering teacher in high school had a round up system with his big exams. The person with the highest grade would be rounded up to 100 and everyone else would have their scores rounded up by however many points it took to make the highest grade to 100. For example, highest grade was 80/100. That would turn into 100 and everyone else would have 20 added to their scores, so a 60/100 would turn into a 80/100. There's was also a rule of not working on the test during class. It was a test you take home and work on, class time was used for projects and assignments, but there's was no rule about discussing about the test and the deadline was the end of the 9 week semester. So what my class did for our first big exam was round up all the tests and make sure everyone had handed their tests over, and immediately turned in everyone's test. Since the highest score was 0/100, everyone got a 100 on the test. After grading our tests, the teacher started to rework his rules regarding his tests. The next test had a new rule of it can't being turned in blank and the answers were mixed up so everyone's tests were slightly different. You also couldn't discuss about it in class anymore. However we all noticed the questions were all the same, just in different orders and the answer choices were the same too on the multiple choice. We started this large group text and devised a plan to get 100s again. So we held a massive meeting outside of school and made sure everyone answered the same thing for every question. Everyone turned their tests in the same day and just like last time, everyone got 100s. After that he made sure everyone had different questions and answers. This kind of mind game went on for a while. We never got perfect 100s again but its always above 90. He probably still gets anxiety whenever multiple students hand in their tests on the same day.
Sounds like you guys "engineered" some good test results.
Pretty sure if an employee's schedule is changed, they have to be notified at least 24-hours prior to the new shift, and in most companies, getting called in (as that would legal be looked at as) would result in at least 4-hours show up pay.
The school suspending witnesses, that is a civil rights violation, and should have the entire district management rearranged, if not out right fired, and a massive lawsuit, and criminal charges.
In my last 2 years of HS we had a new principal. He decides it was a good idea to block all websites until they were approved by admin. Cue every single teacher cussing him out bc the CZcams video of a complicated math problem or a speech for social class was now blocked and it always took way to long to get approved. Not to mention any links in assignments were blocked as well so in class projects etc were pretty much undoable. Covid hit during that last year and he didn't last another 6 months so theres that.
He was also the same person to remove the couches upstairs, which had been special grade 11 and 12 privileges since the school opened, saying that they were 'dangerous' bc a student *might* hide drugs between the cushions 🙄
5:03 So technically if I were to say "Give me a empty cup with all the money from the cash register" It wouldn't legally be a robbery
From what I can tell, this dudes entire channel is made with the comment section. Genius way to get free content.
It might just be fully automated.