‘What’s the most pointless workplace policy you’ve come across’ – 17 corporate rules clearly made by an utter jobsworth
10.
‘You weren’t allowed to use the car park, even though a lot of the time it was half empty.’
-marktuk
11.
‘Mandatory hybrid policy. Have to go in 60% of the time each month.
‘I would go in sometimes, I actually like my team. I just don’t see why it’s a hardline policy.’
-Pink_Flash
12.
‘For overtime, part of the overtime approval process was justifying it by showing the work you carried out.
‘I had to show and justify it to the people who asked me if I wanted to do the work …’
-Sustainable_Twat
13.
‘As a nurse, until last year I had to wait to be given permission by the Chief Nurse of my hospital to remove my tights in hot weather. We are now permitted to be bare legged as we wish.’
-canihaveasquash
14.
‘They wanted to cut costs on cleaning. So they took our bins away so that the cleaners wouldn’t have to spend time emptying them. Everyone’s desks became their bins.’
-anabsentfriend
15.
‘You couldn’t have a beard but a moustache was fine’
-TheLifeof4D
16.
‘Every employee had to do every training module as mandatory, every 12 months. There were over 80 training modules, each taking 30-120 minutes. But hey ho, my minibus driving theory certification came in handy for my internal acting desk job during the pandemic.’
-DeceptiveRelish06
17.
‘At a previous bar job, only managers were allowed to change the kegs because one time someone did it wrong and ended up wasting a lot of beer. Thing is, it was a manager who had made that mistake so the reason for the rule made no sense.’
-holobolol
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