‘What’s a rule at your workplace that clearly exists because someone did something ridiculous?’ – 23 regulations created by idiots

13.

‘I was the cause of a change to vacation policy. I had a ton of PTO to use up going into the last quarter of the year, so I scheduled every Monday and Friday off for October, November and December. I had 3 months of 3-day work weeks, and it was glorious. After that, the company said no more back-to-back long weekends.’
–AtomicGrendel

14.

”Don’t Distract Dave’ was an unspoken rule. After I met Dave it was obvious why.’
–CalifOdysseus

15.

‘There’s a big typed-out list of specifications and measurements of precisely how short your sleeves can be and how much leg your shorts can show because there’s one old prude who has beef with one woman who wears tank tops and shorts (because she does manual labor in a warehouse in the summer). Everybody ignores it.’
–1stEmissaryElenwen

16.

”DO NOT PUT DRINKS ON YOUR WELDING MACHINES’, I would bet good money someone fried or damaged a $25,000 machine by knocking over a drink.’
–Waltzing_With_Bears

17.

‘I use to work at a major theme park on one of the rides. There’s a popular joke where we would say “See you in an hour” just as we push the button and send guests on the ride. One day the ride broke down and guests actually did get stuck for an hour. We weren’t allowed to use that joke anymore.’
–nowhereman136

18.

‘Don’t put cheese sandwiches through the laminator.’
–PipeGlum7768

19.

‘Cannot wear pyjamas in the office.’
–Canadian47

20.

‘Specifically must not put unopened cans of food into saucepans of boiling water. Officious, laminated notice complete with photo of burnt ceiling.’
–SnackyandSnarky

21.

‘Many years ago, someone left hardware in a plastic tote, and put the whole thing in an oven at 150C. The tote melted and ruined about $250,000 in space flight assemblies. Management was… displeased.

There are now 17 steps involving 3 people and a set of keys to put anything in an oven and 11 steps to remove it.’
–Walkingstardust

22.

‘I worked at a remote site. ‘Do not leave open doors unattended due to risk of bears entering the building.”
–denver989

23.

‘I worked for a large tech company nearly 20 years ago. We were told we can go anywhere we wanted for lunch, but not Hooters because there was an ‘incident’.’
–IntelligentMovie579

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